PROPER LESSONS
TO Ha BEAD AT
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SUNDAYS AND OTHER HOLY-DAYS
THROUGHOUT THE TEAK.
LONDON:
PEEfTED EY G. E. EYRE AND W. SPOTTISWOODE,
Printera to the Queen's Moat Excellent Majesty.
M.DCCC.fcXXI.
PEOPEE LESSONS
TO BE READ AT
MORXING AND EVENING PRAYER
ON THE
SUNDAYS THEOUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Z'i)c JFirst Suntias in ^trijcnt.
Morning. Isaiah i.
THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which
he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in
the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Heze-
kiah, kings of Judah. Hear, heavens, and
give ear, earth : for the Lord hath spoken, I
have nourished and brought up children, and
they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth
his owner, and the ass his master's crib : hut
Israel doth not know, my people doth not con-
sider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are
corrupters : they have forsaken the Lord, they
have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto
anger, they are gone away backward. Why
should ye be stricken any more 1 ye will revolt
more and more : the whole head is sick, and the
whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot
even unto the head there is no soundness in it ;
hut wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores :
they have not been closed, neither bound up,
neither mollified with ointment. Your country
is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your
land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it
is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the
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daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us
a Tery small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, and we should hare been like unto Go-
morrah. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers
of Sodom ; give ear unto the law of our God, ye
people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the
multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the
Lord : I am full of the burnt ofierings of rams,
and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in
the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he !
goats. When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread i
my courts ? Bring no more vain oblations ; j
incense is an abomination unto me ; the new i
moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I I
cannot away with ; it is iniquity, even the j
solemn meeting. Your new moons and your
appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a !
trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. |
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will |
hide mine eyes from you : yea, when ye make
many prayers, I will not hear : your hands are
full of blood. Wash you, make you clean ; put
away the evil of your doings from before mine
eyes ; cease to do evil ; learn to do well ; seek
judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the father-
less, plead for the widow. Come now, and let
us reason together, saith the Lord : though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall
eat the good of the land : but if ye refuse and
rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword : for
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the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. How is
the faithful city become an harlot ! it was full of
judgment ; righteousness lodged in it ; but now
murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy
wine mixed with water : thy princes are rebel-
lious, and companions of thieves : every one
loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards : they
judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause
of the widow come unto them. Therefore saith
the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of
Israel, Ah, I wiU ease me of mine adversaries,
and avenge me of mine enemies : and I wiU
turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
thy dross, and take away all thy tin : and I will
restore thy judges as at the first, and thy coun-
sellors as at the beginning : afterward thou shalt
be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful
city. Zion shaU be redeemed with judgment,
and her converts with righteousness. And the
destruction of the transgressors and of the sin-
ners shall be together, and they that forsake the
Lord shall be consumed. For they shall be
ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and
ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen. For ye shall be as an oak whose
leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker
of it as a spark, and they shall both burn to-
gether, and none shall quench them.
Evening. Isai. ii.
THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it
shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be estab-
lished in the top of the mountains, and shall be
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exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall
flo^Y unto it. And many people shall go and
say. Come ye, and let iis go up to the mountain
of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths : for out of Zion shall go forth
the law, and the word of the Lord from Jeru-
salem. And he shall judge among the nations,
and shall rebuke many people : and they shaU
beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks : nation shaU not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
"war any more. house of Jacob, come ye, and
let us walk in the light of the Lord. Therefore
thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
because they be replenished from the east, and
are sootlisayers like the Philistines, and they
please themselves in the children of strangers.
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither
is there any end of their treasures ; their land
is also full of horses, neither is there any end of
their chariots : then- land also is full of idols ;
they worship the work of their own hands, that
■which their own fingers have made : and the
mean man boweth down, and the great man
humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Enter into the rock, and liide thee in the dust,
for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his
majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be hum-
bled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed
down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in
that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts
shall he upon every one that is proud and lofty,
and upon every one that is lifted up ; and he
shaU be brought low : and upon all the cedars of
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Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon
all the oaks of Bashan, and upon all the high
mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted
up, and upon every high tower, and upon every
fenced wall, and upon aU the ships of Tarshish,
and upon all pleasant pictures. And the lofti-
ness of man shaU be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be made low : and the
Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. And
the idols he shall utterly abolish. And they
shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for
the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast
his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which
they made each one for himself to worship, to the
moles and to the bats ; to go into the clefts of the
rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for
fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his ma-
jesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nos-
trils : for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
Or, Isai. iv. v. 2.
IN that day shall the branch of the Lord be
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the
earth shall be excellent and comely for them that
are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass,
that he that is left in Zion, and he that remain-
eth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every
one that is written among the living in Jerusa-
lem : when the Lord shall have washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the
midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by
the spirit of burning. And the Lord will create
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upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and
upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for
upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there
shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-
time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and
for a covert from storm and from rain.
^J)t Stcontf Suntrag m <»ltibent.
Morning. Isai. v.
NOW will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of
_ my beloved touching his vineyard. My
wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful
hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the
stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest
vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and
also made a winepress therein : and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought
forth wild grapes. And now, inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have
been done more to my vineyard, that I have not
done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild
grapes ? And now go to ; I will tell you what I
will do to my vineyard : I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up ; and
break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down : and I will lay it waste : it shall
not be pruned, nor digged ; but there shall come
up briers and thorns : I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the
vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant :
and he looked for judgment, but behold oppres-
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sion ; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Woe
unto them that join house to house, that lay field
to field, till there be no place, that they may be
placed alone in the midst of the earth ! In mine
ears said the Lord of hosts. Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, even great and fair,
without inhabitant. Yea, ten acres of vineyard
shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer
shall yield an ephah. Woe unto them that rise
up early in the morning, that they may follow
strong drink ; that continue until night, till
wine inflame them ! And the harp, and the
viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their
feasts : but they regard not the work of the
Lord, neither consider the operation of his
hands. Therefore my people are gone into cap-
tivity, because they have no knowledge : and
their honourable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell
hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure : and their glory, and their
multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth,
shall descend into it. And the mean man shall
be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be hum-
bled : but the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in
judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified
in righteousness. Then shall the lambs feed after
their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones
shall strangers eat. Woe unto them that draw
iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
with a cart rope : that say. Let him make speed,
and hasten his work, that we may see it : and
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe
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unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;
that put darkness for light, and light for dark-
ness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their
own eves, and prudent in their own sight ! Woe
unto them that are mighty to drink wine,' and
men of strength to mingle strong drink : which
justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him ! There-
fore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the
flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be
as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as
dust : because they have cast away the law of
the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the anger of
the Lord kindled against his people, and he
hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath smitten them : and the hills did tremble,
and their carcases iccre torn in the midst of the
streets. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. And
he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far,
and will hiss unto them from the end of the
earth : and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly : none shall be weary nor stumble among
them ; none shall slumber nor sleep ; neither
shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the
latchet of their shoes be broken : whose arrows
are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses'
hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their -wheels
like a whirlwind : their roaring shall be like a
lion, they shall roar like young lions : yea, they
shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall
carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
And in that day they shall roar against them
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like the roaring of the sea : and if one look unto
the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the
light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Evening. Isai. xi. to v. 11.
AND there shall come forth a rod out of the
j\. stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of
his roots : and the spirit of the Lord shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understand-
ing, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the Lord ; and shall
make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the Lord : and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of
his ears : but with righteousness shall he judge
the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek
of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with
the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteous-
ness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithful-
ness the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall
dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid ; and the calf and the young
lion and the fatling together ; and a little child
shall lead them. And the cow and the bear
shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down to-
gether : and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of
the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth
shall be fuU of the knowledge of the Lord, as
the waters cover the sea. And in that day there
shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an
ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles
seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
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Or, Isai. xxiv.
BEHOLD, the Lord maketh the earth empty, I
and maketh it waste, and turneth it up-
side down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so
•with the priest ; as with the servant, so with his
master ; as with the maid, so with her mistress ;
as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with
the lender, so with the borrower ; as with the
taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly
spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world
languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people
of the ea-rth do languish. The earth also is de-
filed vmder the inhabitants thereof ; because they
have transgressed the laws, changed the ordi-
nance, broken the everlasting covenant. There-
fore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they
that dwell therein are desolate : therefore the in-
habitants of the earth are burned, and few men
left. The new wine mourneth, the vine lan-
guisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. The
mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that
rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
They shall not drink wine with a song ; strong
drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. The
city of confusion is broken down : every house
is shut up. that no man may come in. There is
a crying for wine in the streets ; all joy is dark-
ened, the mirth of the land is gone. In the city
is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with i
destruction. "When thus it shall be in the midst j
of the land among the people, there shall he as j
the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning j
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grapes when the vintage is done. They shall
lift up their voice, they shall sing for the ma-
jesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the
sea. Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires,
even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the
isles of the sea. From the uttermost part of the
earth have we heard songs, even glory to the
righteous. But I said, My leanness, my lean-
ness, woe unto me ! the treacherous dealers have
dealt treacherously ; yea, the treacherous dealers
have dealt very treacherously. Fear, and the pit,
and the snare, are upon thee, inhabitant of the
earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who
fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the
pit ; and he that cometh up out of the midst of
the pit shall be taken in the snare : for the win-
dows from on high are open, and the foundations
of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly
broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel
to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed
like a cottage ; and the transgression thereof
shall be heavy upon it ; and it shall fall, and not
rise again. And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the
high ones that are on high, and the kings of the
earth upon the earth. And they shall be ga-
thered together, as prisoners are gathered in the
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after
many days shall they be visited. Then the moon
shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when
the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion,
and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients glo-
riously.
Morning. Isai. xxv.
OLORD, thou art my God ; I will exalt thee,
I will praise thy name ; for thou hast done
wonderful tilings; thy counsels of old are faith-
fulness and truth. For thou hast made of a city
an heap ; of a defenced city a ruin : a palace of
strangers to be no city ; it shall never be built.
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,
the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge
from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when
the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against
the wall. Thou shalt bring down the noise of
strangers, as the heat in a dry place ; even the
heat with the shadow of a cloud : the branch of
the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in
this mountiiin shall the Lord of hosts make
unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of
wines on the lees, of fat things fuU of marrow,
of wdnes on the lees well refined. And he will
destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that is spread
over all nations. He will swallow up death in
victory ; and the Lord God will wipe away tears
from oflF all faces ; and the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth : for the
Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in
that day, Lo, this is our God ; we have waited
for him, and he will save us : this is the Lord ;
we have waited for him, we will be glad and re-
joice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall
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the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw is trod-
den down for the dunghill. And he shall spread
forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim :
and he shall bring down their pride together with
the spoils of their hands. And the fortress of
the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down,
lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the
dust.
Evening. Isai. xxvi.
IN that day shall this song be sung in the land
of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salvation
will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open
ye the gates, that the righteous nation which
keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in
the Lord for ever : for in the Lord JEHOVAH
is everlasting strength : for he bringeth down
them that dwell on high ; the lofty city, he lay-
eth it low ; he layeth it low, even to the ground ;
he bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall
tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the
steps of the needy. The way of the just is up-
rightness : thou, most upright, dost weigh the path
of the just. Yea, in the way of thy judgments,
O Lord, have we waited for thee ; the desire
of our soul is to thy name, and to the remem-
brance of thee. With my soul have I desired
thee in the night ; yea, with my spirit within me
will I seek thee early : for when thy judgments
are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world
will learn righteousness. Let favour be shewed
to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteouaness :
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in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly,
and will not behold the majesty of the Loed.
Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not
see : h.d they shall see, and be ashamed for their
envy at the people ; yea, the fire of tMne ene-
mies shall devour them. Lord, thou -svilt ordain
peace for us : for thou also hast wrought all our
works in us. Lord our God, other lords be-
side thee have had dominion over us : but by thee
only will we make mention of thy name. They
are dead, they shall not live ; they are deceased,
they shall not rise : therefore hast thou visited
and destroyed them, and made all their memory
to perish. Thou hast increased the nation, O
Lord, thou hast increased the nation : thou art
glorified : thou hadst removed it far unto all the
ends of the earth. Lord, lq trouble have they
visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy
chastening icas upon them. Like as a woman
with child, that draweth near the time of her de-
livery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs ;
so have we been in thy sight, Lord. We
have been with cMld, we have been in pain, we
have as it were brought forth wind ; we have not
wrought any deliverance in. the earth ; neither
have the inhabitants of the world fallen. Thy
dead men shall live, together with my dead body
shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell
in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and
the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my
people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for
a little moment, until the indignation be over-
past. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his
place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for
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their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her
blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Or, Isai. xxviii. v. 5 to v. 19.
IN that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a
crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty,
unto the residue of his people, and for a spirit of
judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and
for strength to them that turn the battle to the
gate. But they also have erred through wine,
and through strong drink are out of the way ;
the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,,
they are out of the way through strong drink ;
they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so
that there is no place clean. Whom shall he
teach knowledge ? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from
the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For pre-
cept must he upon precept, precept upon precept ;
line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, and
there a little : for with stammering lips and an-
other tongue will he speak to this people. To
whom he said. This is the rest whereivith ye may
cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refresh-
ing : yet they would not hear. But the word of
the Lord was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon
line ; here a little, and there a little ; that they
might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of
the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people
which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said,
We have made a covenant with death, and with
hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing
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scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves : there-
fore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner stone, a sure foundation : he that
believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also
will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the
plummet : and the hail shall sweep away the re-
fuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the
hiding place. And your covenant with death
shall be disannulled, and your agreement with
hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be
trodden down by it,
^f)c JFourtf) SunUag in ^trfatnt.
Morning. Isai. xxx. to f. 27.
WOE to the rebellious children, saith the
Lord, that take counsel, but not of me ; j
and that cover with a covering, but not of my
spirit, that they may add sin to sin : that walk
to go down into Eg.vpt, and have not asked at
my mouth ; to strengthen themselves in the
strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow
of Egypt ! Therefore shall the strength of Pha-
raoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion. For his princes were
at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
They were all ashamed of a people that could
not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a
shame, and also a reproach. The burden of the
beasts of the south : into the land of trouble
and anguish, from whence come the young and
old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they
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will carry their riches upon the shoulders of
young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches
of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no
purpose : therefore have I cried concerning this,
Their strength is to sit still. Now go, write it
before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever : that this is a rebellious people, lying chil-
dren, children that will not hear the law of the
Lord : which say to the seers, See not ; and to
the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits :
get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from
before us. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One
of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust
in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon :
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach
ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose
breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. And
he shall break it as the breaking of the potters'
vessel that is broken in pieces ; he shall not
spare : so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the
hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of
Israel ; In returning and rest shall ye be saved ;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength : and ye would not. But ye said, No ;
for we will flee upon horses ; therefore shall ye
flee : and. We will ride upon the swift ; there-
fore shall they that pursue you be swift. One
thousand shall fu at the rebuke of one ; at the
rebuke of five shall ye flee : till ye be left as a
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beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an en-
sign on an hill. And therefore will the Lord
wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore wiD. he be exalted, that he may have
mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judg-
ment : blessed are all they that wait for him.
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem :
thou shalt weep no more ; he will be very gra-
cious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; when
he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And though
the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and
the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers
be removed into a corner any more, but thine
eyes shall see thy teachers ; and thine ears shall
hear a word behind thee, saying. This is the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
and when ye turn to the left. Ye shall defile
also the covering of thy graven images of silver,
and the ornament of thy molten images of gold :
thou shalt cast them away as a menstnious cloth ;
thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Then
shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt
sow the ground withal ; and bread of the in-
crease of the earth, and it shall be fat and plen-
teous : in that day shall thy cattle feed in large
pastures. The oxen likewise and the young
asses that ear the ground shall eat clean pro-
vender, which hath been winnowed with the
shovel and with the fan. And there shall be
upon every high mountain, and upon every high
hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of
the great slaughter, when the towers fall. ]More-
over the light of the moon shall be as the light
of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be
sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day
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that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his
people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Evening. Isai. xxxii.
BEHOLD, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in judgment. And
a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of
water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great
rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them
that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
that hear shall hearken. The heart also of the
rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue
of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
The vile person shall be no more called liberal,
nor the churl said to he bountiful. For the vile
person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter
error against the Lord, to make empty the soul
of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of
the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the
churl are evil : he deviseth wicked devices to de-
stroy the poor with lying words, even when the
needy speaketh right But the liberal deviseth
liberal things ; and by liberal things shall he
stand. Rise up, ye women that are at ease ;
hear my voice, ye careless daughters ; give ear
unto my speech. Many days and years shall ye
be troubled, ye careless women : for the vintage
shall fail, the gathering shall not come. Tremble,
ye women that are at ease ; be troubled, ye care-
less ones : strip you, and make you bare, and
gird sackcloth upon your loins. They shall la-
ment for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
fruitful vine. L^'pon the land of my people shall
come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all the
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houses of joy in the joyous city : because the
palaces shall be forsaken ; the multitude of the
city shall be left ; the forts and towers shall be
for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of
flocks ; until the spirit be poured upon us from
on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and
the fruitful field be counted for a forest. Then
judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And
the work of righteousness shall be peace; and
the effect of righteousness quietness and assur-
ance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a
peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and
in quiet resting places ; when it shall hail, com-
ing down on the forest ; and the city shall be
low in a low place. Blessed are ye that sow be-
side all waters, that send forth thither the feet of
the ox and the ass.
Or, Isal xxxiii. v. 2 to v. 23.
OLORD, be gracious unto us ; we have
waited for thee : be thou their arm every
morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
At the noise of the tumult the people fled ; at
the lifting up of thyself the nations were scat^
tered. And your spoil shall be gathered like the j
gathering of the caterpiller : as the running to I
and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. The I
Lord is exalted ; for he dwelleth on high : he
hath filled Zion with judgment and righteous-
ness. And ^visdom and knowledge shall be the j
stability of thy times, and strength of salvation :
the fear of the Lord is his treasure. Behold, '
their valiant ones shall cry without : the ambas-
sadors of peace shall weep bitterly. The high-
ways lie waste, the wayfering man cease th : he I
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hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the
cities, he regardeth no man. The earth moum-
eth and languish eth : Lebanon is ashamed and
hewn down : Sharon is like a wilderness ; and
Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. Now
will I rise, saith the Lord ; now will I be ex-
alted ; now will I hft up myself. Ye shall con-
ceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble : your
breath, as fire, shall devour you. And the people
shall be as the burnings of lime : as thorns cut
up shall they be burned in the fire. Hear, ye
that are far off, what I have done ; and, ye that
are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners
in Zion are afraid ; fearfulness hath surprised
the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with
the devouring fire ? who among us shall dweU
with everlasting burnings ? He that walketh
righteously, and speaketh uprightly ; he that
despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh
his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth
his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his
eyes from seeing evil ; he shall dwell on high :
his place of defence shall he the munitions of
rocks : bread shall be given him ; his waters
shall he sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in
his beauty : they shall behold tlie land that
is very far off. Thine heart shall meditate terror.
Where is the scribe 1 where is the receiver ?
where is he that counted the towers ? Thou
shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive ; of a stammer-
ing tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities :
thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,'
a tabernacle that shall not be taken down : not
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one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
But there the glorious Lord icill be unto us a
place of broad rivers and streams ; wherein shall
go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship
pass thereby. For the Lord is our judge, the
Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king ; he
will save us.
Wi)t Jpirst SunUag after ©i^ristmas.
Morning. Isai. xxxv.
THE wilderness and the solitary place shall
be glad for them ; and the desert shall re-
joice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and sing-
ing : the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
it," the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they
shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excel-
lency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak
hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them
that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not :
behold, your God will come loith vengeance, even
God icith a recompence ; he will come and save
you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and
the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilder-
ness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert. And the parched ground shall become
a pool, and the tliirsty land springs of water : in
the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall
be grass %vith reeds and rushes. And an high-
way shall be there, and a way. and it shall be
called The way of holiness ; the unclean shall
not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the i
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wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast
shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there ;
but the redeemed shall walk there : and the ran-
somed of the Lord shall return, and come to
Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their
heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee awa3\
Evening. Isai. xxxviii.
IN those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.
And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz
came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith
the Lord, Set thine house in order : for thou
shalt die, and not live. Then Hezekiah turned
his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
Lord, and said, Remember now, Lord, I be-
seech thee, how I have walked before thee in
truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah
wept sore. Then came the word of the Lord to
Isaiah, saying. Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears :
behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the
hand of the king of Assyria : and I will defend
this city. And this shall be a sign unto thee
from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing
that he hath spoken ; behold, I will bring again
the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down
in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.
So the sun returned ten degrees, by which de-
grees it was gone down. , The writing of Heze-
kiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and
was recovered of his sickness : I said in the cut-
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ting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years.
I said, I shall not see the Lord, evtn the Lord,
in the land of the living : I shall behold man no
more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine
age is departed, and is removed from me as a
shepherd s tent : I have cut off like a weaver my
life : he will cut me off with pining sickness :
from day even to night wilt thou make an end of
me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so
will he break all my bones : from day even to
night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a
crane or a swallow, so did I chatter : I did mourn
as a dove : mine eyes fail with looking upward :
O Lord, I am oppressed ; undertake for me.
What shall I say ? he hath both spoken unto
me, and himself hath done it : I shall go softly
all my years in the bitterness of my soul. O
Lord, by these things men live, and in all these
things is the life of my spirit : so wilt thou re-
cover me, and make me to live. Behold, for
peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast in
love to my soul delivered it from the pit of cor-
ruption : for thou hast cast all my eins behind
thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee,
death can not celebrate thee : they that go down
into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The liv-
ing, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
day : the father to the children shall make known
thy truth. The Lord teas ready to save me :
therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed
instruments all the days of our life in the house
of the Lord. For Isaiah had said, Let them
take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon
the boilj and he shall recover. Hezekiah also
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had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to
the house of the Lord ?
Or, Isai. xl.
COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith
your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusa-
lem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accom-
plished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she
hath received of the Lord's hand double for all
her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make straight in the desert a highway for our
God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every
mountain and hill shall be made low : and the
crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain : and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together : for
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The
voice said. Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ?
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof
is as the flower of the field : the grass withereth,
the flower fadeth : iDccause the spirit of the Lord
bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the' flower fadeth : but the
word of our God shall stand for ever. Zion,
that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the
high mountain ; Jerusalem, that bringest good
tidings, lift up thy voice with strength ; lift it
up, be not afraid ; say unto the cities of Judah,
Behold your God ! Behold, the Lord God will
come with strong ha^id, and his arm shall rule
for him : behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before him. He shall feed his flock like a
shepherd : he shall gather the lambs with his
arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those that are with young. W^ho
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hath measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and
comprehended the dust of the earth in a mea-
sure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and
the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed the
Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath
taught him ? With whom took he counsel, and
who instructed him, and taught him in the path
of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and
shewed to him the way of understanding ? Be-
hold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and
are counted as the small dust of the balance :
behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little
thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offer-
ing. All nations before him are as nothing;
and they are counted to him less than nothing,
and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God ?
or what likeness will ye compare unto him ?
The workman melteth a graven image, and the
goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casfc-
eth silver chains. He that is so impoverished
that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will
not rot ; he seeketh unto him a cunning work-
man to prepare a graven image, that shall not
be moved. Have ye not known ? have ye not
heard ? hath it not been told you from the be-
ginning ? have ye not understood from the foun-
dations of the earth ? It is he that sitteth upon
the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants there-
of are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as
a tent to dwell in : that bringeth the princes to
nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as
vanity. Yea, they shall not be planted ; yea,
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tliey shall not be sown : yea, their stock shall
not take root in the earth : and he shall also
blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. To
whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?
saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high,
and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number : he calleth
them all by names by the greatness of his might,
for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O
Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my
judgment is passed over from my God ? Hast
thou not known 1 hast thou not heard, that the
everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the
ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
there is no searching of his understanding. He
giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have
no might he increaseth strength. Even the
youths shall faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall : but they that wait upon
the Lord shall renew their strength ; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall run,
and not be weary ; aiid they shall walk, and not
faint.
Cf)E Stcenti .Suntfas after CTfjristmas.
Morning. Isai. xlii.
BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold ; mine
elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have
put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor
lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and
the smoking flax shall he not quench : he shall
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bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not
fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment
in the earth : and the isles shall wait for his law.
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the
heavens, and stretched them out ; he that spread
forth the earth, and that -which cometh out of it ;
he that giveth breath unto the people upon it,
and spirit to them that walk therein : I the
Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will
hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give
thee for a covenant of the people, for a light
of the Gentiles ; to open the blmd eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from the prison, and them that
sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am
the Lord : that is my nara6 : and my glory will
I not give to another, neither my praise to graven
images. Behold, the former things are come to
pass, and new things do I declare : before they
spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto the
Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of
the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all
that is therein ; the isles, and the inhabitants
thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities there~
of lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar
doth inhabit : let the inhabitants of the rock
sing, let them shout from the top of the moun-
tains. Let them give glory unto the Lord, and
declare his praise in the islands. The Lord shall
go forth as a mighty man, he shtiJl stir up
jealousy like a man of war : he shall cry, yea-
roar ; he shall prevail against his enemies. I
have long time holden my peace ; I have been
still, and refrained myself: ?io?y will I cry like a
travailing woman ; I will destroy and devour at
once. I will make waste mountains and hills,
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and dry up all their herbs ; and I will make the
rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. And
I will bring the blind by a way that they knew
not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not
known : I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked things straight. These things will
I do unto them, and not forsake them. They
shall be turned back, they shall be greatly
ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say
to the molten images, Ye a?'6 our gods. Hear,
ye deaf ; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Who is blind, but my servant 1 or deaf, as my
messenger that I sent ? who is blind as he that
is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant ?
Seeing many things, but thou observest not ;
opening the ears, but he heareth not. The Lord
is well pleased for his righteousness' sake ; he
will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
But this is a people robbed and spoiled ; they are
all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in
prison houses : they are for a prey, and none de-
livereth ; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Who among you will give ear to this ? tvho will
hearken and hear for the time to come ? Who
gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers'?
did not the Lord, he against whom Ave have sin-
ned ? for they would not walk in his ways,
neither were they obedient unto his law. There-
fore he hath poured upon him the fury of his
anger, and the strength of battle : and it hath
set hun on fire round about, yet he knew not ;
and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Eveninxi. Isai. xliii.
BUT now thus saith tlie Lord that created
thee, Jacob, and he that formed thee,
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Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I
have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine.
"WTien thou passest through the waters, I ivill he
•with thee ; and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee : when thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I
gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba
for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight,
thou hast been honourable, and I have loved
thee : therefore will I give men for thee, and
people for thy life. Fear not : for I am with
thee : I wlQ briag thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west ; I will say to the
north, Give up ; and to the south, Keep not back :
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth ; eveji every one that is
called by my name : for I have cre<ited him for
my glory, I have formed him ; yea, I have made
hini. Bring forth the blind people that have
eyes, and the deaf that have ears. Let aU the
nations be gathered together, and let the people
be assembled : who among them can declare this,
and shew us former things ? let them bring forth
their witnesses, that they may be justified : or
let them hear, and say. It is truth. Ye are my
witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom
I have chosen : that ye may know and believe
me, and understand that I am he : before me
there was no God formed, neither shall there be
after me. I, even I, am the Lord ; and beside
me there is no saviour. I have declared, and
have saved, and I have shewed, when there was
no strange god among you : therefore ye are my
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witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. Yea,
before the day ivas I am he ; and there is none
that can deliver out of my hand : I wni work,
and who shall let it ? Thus saith the Lord, your
redeemer, the Holy One of Israel ; For your
sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought
down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose
cry is in the ships. I am the Lord, your Holy
One, the creator of Israel, your King. Thus
saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea,
and a path in the mighty waters ; which bring-
eth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
power ; they shall lie down together, they shall
not rise : they are extinct, they are quenched as
tow. Eemember ye not the former things, nei-
ther consider the things of old. Behold, I will
do a new thing ; now it shall spring forth ; shall
ye not know it '? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast
of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
owls : because I give waters in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen. This people have I formed
for myself ; they shall shew forth my praise.
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob ; but
thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Thou
hast not brought me the small cattle of thy
burnt offerings ; neither hast thou honoured me
with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to
serve with an ottering, nor wearied thee with in-
cense. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with
money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat
j of thy sacrifices : but thou hast made me to
serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with
] thine iniquities. I, even 1, am he that blotteth
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out thy transgressions for mine ovra sake, and
will not remember thy sins. Put me in remem-
brance : let us plead together : declare thou,
that thou may est be justified. Thy first father
hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
against me. Therefore I have profaned the
princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob
to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Or, Isai. xliv.
YET now hear, Jacob my ser^-ant ; and Is-
rael, whom I have chosen : thus saith the
Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the
womb, ichich will help thee ; Fear not, Jacob,
my servant ; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have
chosen. For I wiU pour water upon him that is
thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground : I will
pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing
upon thine oftspring : and they shall spring up
as among the grass, as willows by the water
courses. One shall say, I am the Lord's ; and
another shall call himself by the name of Jacob ;
and another shall subscribe ivith his hand unto
the Lord, and surname himself by the name of
Israel. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel,
and his redeemer the Lord of hosts ; I am the
first, and I am the last ; and beside me there is
no God. And who, as I, shall call, and shall de-
clare it, and set it in order for me, since I apH
pointed the ancient people ? and the things that
are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
them. Fear ye not, neither be afraid : have not
I told thee from that time, and have declared it ?
ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God be-
side me ? yea. there is no God ; I know not any.
They that make a graven image are all of them
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vanity ; and their delectable things shall not
profit ; and they are their own witnesses ; they
see not, nor know ; that they may be ashamed.
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven
image that is profitable for nothing ? Behold,
all his fellows shall be ashamed : and the work-
men, they are of men : let them all be gathered to-
gether, let them stand up ; yet they shall fear,
and they shall be ashamed together. The smith
with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
fashioneth it with hammers, and w^orketh it
with the strength of his arms : yea, he is hungry,
and his strength faileth : he drinketh no water,
and is faint. The carpenter stretcheth out his
rule ; he marketh it out with a line ; he fitteth
it with planes, and he marketh it out with the
compass, and maketh it after the figure of a
man, according to the beauty of a man ; that it
may remain in the house. He heweth him doAvn
cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,
which he strengtheneth for himself among the
trees of the forest : he planteth an ash, and the
rain doth nourish it. Then shall it be for a man
to burn : for he will take thereof, and warm him-
self ; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ; yea,
he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh
it a graven image, and faileth down thereto. He
burneth part thereof in the fire ; with part there-
of he eateth flesh ; he roasteth roast, and is sa-
tisfied : yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha,
I am warm, I have seen the fire : and the resi-
due thereof he maketh a god, even his graven
image : he faileth down unto it, and worshippeth
it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me ;
for thou art my god. They have not known nor
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understood : for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see ; and their hearts, that they can-
not understand. And none considereth in his
heart, neither is there knowledge nor understand-
ing to say, I have burned part of it in the fire ;
yea,, also I have baked bread upon the coals
thereof ; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it : and
shall I make the residue thereof an abomination '?
shall I fell down to the stock of a tree ? He
feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned
him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor
say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ? Re-
member these, Jacob and Israel ; for thou art
my servant : I have formed thee ; thou art my
servant : O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of
me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return
unto me ; for I have redeemed thee. Sing, ye
heavens ; for the Lord hath done it : shout, ye
lower parts of the earth : break forth into sing-
ing, ye mountains, forest, and every tree there-
in : for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and
glorified himself in Israel. Thus saith the Lord,
thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the
womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things ;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that
spreadeth abroad the earth by myself ; that frus-
trateth the toketis of the liars, and maketh di-
viners mad ; that turneth wise men backward,
and maketh their knowledge foolish ; that con-
firmeth the word of his servant, and performeth
the counsel of his messengers ; that saith to Je-
rusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited ; and to the
cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will
raise up the decayed places thereof ; that saith
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to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers :
that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall
perform all my pleasure : even saying to Jerusa-
lem, Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple,
Thy foundation shall be laid.
^e JFirst .SunUag after tl)c (l5pipJ)an2.
Mornmg. Isai. li.
HEARKEN to me, ye that follow after righ-
teousness, ye that seek the Lord : look
unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the
hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto
Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare
you : for I called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him. For the Lord shall comfort Zion :
he will comfort all her waste places ; and he will
make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert
like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the
voice of melody. Hearken unto me, niy people ;
and give ear unto me, my nation : for a law
shall proceed from me, and I will make my judg-
ment to rest for a light of the people. My
righteousness is near ; my salvation is gone
forth, and mine arms shall judge the people ; the
isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
they trust. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look upon the earth beneath : for the hea-
vens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth
shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner : but my salva-
tion shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall
not be abolished. Hearken unto me, ye that
know righteousness, the people in whose heart is
my law ; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither
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be re afraid of their revilings. For the motli ^
shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm [
shall eat them like wool : but my righteousness '
shall be for ever, and my salvation from genera-
tion to generation. Awake, awake, put on
strength, ann of the Lord ; awake, as in the
ancient days, in the generations of old. AH
thou not it that hath cut Eahab, and wounded
the dragon ? Art thou not it which hath dried
the sea, the waters of the great deep ; that hath
made the depths of the sea a way for the ran-
somed to pass over ? Therefore the redeemed
of the Lord shall return, and come with singing ,
unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon
their head : they shall obtain gladness and joy ;
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. I, '
even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou,
that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall
die, and of the son of man ichich shall be made
as grass ; and forgettest the Lord thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid
the foundations of the earth ; and hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of the '
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy ? and :
where is the fury of the oppressor ? The captive
exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that [
he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread
should Ml. But I am the Lord thy God, that ;
divided the sea, whose waves roared ; The Lord ;
of hosts is his name. And I have put my words '
in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the sha- I
dow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, 1
and lay the foundations of the earth, and say j
unto Zion, Thou art my people. Awake, awake, •
stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the [
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hand of the Lord the cup of his fury ; thou
hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling,
and wrung them out. There is none to guide
her amono; all the sons ivhom she hath brought
forth ; neither is there any that taketh her by
the hand of all the sons that she hath brought
up. These two things are come unto thee ; who
shall be sorry for thee ? desolation, and destruc-
tion, and the famine, and the sword : by whom
shall I comfort thee ? Thy sons have fainted,
they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild
bull in a net : they are full of the fury of the
Lord, the rebuke of thy God. Therefore hear
now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not
with wine : thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and
th}^ God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Be-
hold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury ;
thou shalt no more drink it again : but I will
put it into the hand of them that afflict thee ;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we
may go over : and thou hast laid thy body as the
ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Evening. Isai. lii. v. 13 and liii.
BEHOLD, my servant shall deal prudently,
he shall be exalted and extolled, and be
very high. As many were astonied at thee ; his
visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men : so shall he
sprinkle many nations ; the kings shall shut
their mouths at him : for that which had not
been told them shall they see ; and that which
they had not heard shall they consider.
Who hath believed our report 1 and to whom
is the arm of the Lord revealed ? For he shall
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grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor
comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him. He is
despised and rejected of men; a man. of sor-
rows, and acquainted with crrief : and we hid as
it were our faces from him ; he was despised,
and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath
borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows : yet we
did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
aflSicted. But he ivas wounded for our trans-
gressions, he u-as bruised for our iniquities : the
chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and
with his stripes we are healed. All we like
sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every
one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
mouth : he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth. He was taken from
prison and from judgment : and M'ho shall de-
clare his generation ? for he was cut off out of
the land of the living : for the transgression of
my people was he stricken. And he made his
grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his
death ; because he had done no violence, neither
was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief :
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for
sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his
soul, and shall be satisfied : by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many ; for he
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shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I di-
vide him a ])ortion with the great, and he shall
divide the siDoil with the strong ; because he
hath poured out his soul unto death : and he
was numbered with the transgressors ; and he
bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.
Or, Isai. liv.
SING, barren, thou that didst not bear ;
break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou
that didst not travail with child : for more are
the children of the desolate than the children of
the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the
place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thine habitations : spare not, lengthen
thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; for thou
shalt break forth on the right hand and on the
left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and
make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear
not ; for thou shalt not be ashamed : neither be
thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be put to
shame : for thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of
thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is
thine husband ; the Lord of hosts is his name ;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; The
God of the whole earth shall he be called. For
the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken
and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when
thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small
moment have I forsaken thee ; but with great
mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I
hid my face from thee for a moment ; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the Lord thy Eedeemer. For this is as
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the waters of Noah unto me : for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah should no more
go over the earth ; so have I sworn that I would
not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For
the mountains shall depart, and the hills be re-
moved ; but my kindness shall not depart from
thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be
removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on
thee. thou aflflicted, tossed with tempest, and
not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with
fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sap-
phires. And I will make thy windows of agates,
and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders
of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the
peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt
thou be established : thou shalt be far from op-
pression ; for thou shalt not fear : and from
terror ; for it shall not come near thee. Behold,
they shall surely gather together, but not by me :
whosoever shall gather together against thee
shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created
the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and
that bringeth forth an instrument for his work ;
and I have created the waster to destroy. No
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper ;
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their
righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
'^e Sstzontj Suntras afttr t^c (!?ptpl)an2.
Morniiig. Isai. Iv.
O, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money ; come
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ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. Wherefore
do ye spend money for that which is not bread 1
and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that
v:Mch is good, and let your soul delight itself
in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me :
hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make
an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David. Behold, I have given him
for a witness to the people, a leader and com-
mander to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a
nation that thou knowest not, and nations that
knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the
Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel ;
for he hath glorified thee. Seek ye the Lord
while he may be found, call ye upon him while
he is near : let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts : and let him
return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy
upon him ; and to our God, for he will abun-
dantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith
the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as
the rain cometh down, and the snow from hea-
ven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it
may give seed to the sower, and bread to the
eater : so shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper iyi the thing whereto I sent it.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth
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with peace : the mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you into singincr. and all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead
of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle
tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Evening. IsaL Ivii.
THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth
it to heart : and merciful men are taken
away, none considering that the righteous is
taken away from the evil to come. He shall
enter into peace : they shall rest in their beds,
each one walking in his uprightness. But draw
near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
the adulterer and the whore. Against whom do
ye sport yourselves ? against whom make ye a
wide mouth, and draw out the tongue ? are ye
not children of transgression, a seed of false-
hood, enflaming yourselves with idols under
every green tree, slaying the children in the val-
leys under the clifts of the rocks ? Among the
smooth stones of the stream is thy portion ; they,
they are thy lot : even to them hast thou poured
a drink ofiering, thou hast offered a meat offer-
ing. Should I receive comfort in these ? Upon
a loft}" and high mountain hast thou set thy bed :
even thither went€st thou up to offer sacrifice.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou
set up thy remembrance : for thou hast disco-
vered thyself to another than me, and art gone
up ; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
a covenant with them ; thou lovedst their bed
where thou sawest it. And thou wentest to the
king with ointment, and didst increase thy per- I
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fumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and
didst debase thyself even unto hell. Thou art
wearied in the greatness of thy way.; yet saidst
thou not, There is iio hope ; thou hast found the
life of thine hand ; therefore thou wast not
grieved. And of whom hast thou been afraid or
' feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remem-
{ be red me, nor laid it to thy heart ? have not I
I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me
I not ? I will declare thy righteousness, and thy
I works ; for they shall not profit thee. When
j thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee ; but
i the wind shall carry them all away ; vanity shall
: take them : but he that putteth his trust in me
' shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy
mountain ; and shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up,
, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out
j of the way of my people. For thus saith the
: high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
I whose name is Holy ; I dwell in the high and
j holy place, with him also that is of a contrite
I and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
I humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite
I ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither
j will I be always wroth : for the spirit should
fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,
and smote him : I hid me, and was wroth, and he
went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I
have seen his ways, and will heal hiin : I will
lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and
to his mourners. I create the fruit of the lips ;
Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him
that is near, saith the Lord ; and I will heal
him. But the wicked an like the troubled sea,
SECOXD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY.
when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire
and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to
the wicked.
Or, Isai. Ixi.
THE Spirit of tlie Lord God is upon me ; be-
cause the Lord hath anointed me to preach
good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me
to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty
to the captives, and the ojDcning of the prison to
th^m that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable
year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of
oui God ; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint
unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ;
that they might be allied trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, that he might be glo-
rified. And they shall build the old wastes,
they shall raise up the former desolations, and '
they shall repair the waste cities, the desola- '
tions of many generations. And strangers shall
stand and feed yoiu: flocks, and the sons of the
alien shall he your plowmen and your vine-
dressers. But ye shall be named the Priests of
the Lord : tnen shall Gill you the Ministers of
our God : ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.'
For your shame ye shall have double ; and for
confusion they shall rejoice in their portion :
therefore in their land they shall possess the
double : everlasting joy shall be unto them. For
I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for
burnt offering ; and I will direct their work in
truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them. And their seed shall be known
THIRD SU]S'DAY AFTER THE EPIPHAXT.
among the Gentiles, and their offspring among
the people : all that see them shall acknowledge
them, that they are the seed which the Lord
hath blessed. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
my soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath
clothed me with the garments of salvation, he
hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as
the garden causeth the things that are sown in it i
to spring forth ; so the I^rd God will cause
righteousness and praise to spring forth before
all the nations.
Z'^t ^Ijtrtf ^untfag after tf)t dFpip^ang.
Morning. Isai. Ixii.
FOR Zion's sake will I not hold my pea<;e,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
imtil the righteousness thereof go forth as bright-
ness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that
bumeth. And the Gentiles shall see thy righ-
teousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt
be called by a new name, which the mouth of
the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a
crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a
royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou
shalt no more be termed Forsaken ; neither shall
thy land any more be termed Desolate : but
thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land
Beulah : for the Lord delighteth in thee, and
thy land shall be married. For as a young man
marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee :
and as the bridegroom rejoice th over the bride, so
shall thy God rejoice over thee. I have set
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY.
watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem, which
shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye
that make mention of the Lord, keep not si-
lence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and
till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
The Lord hath s^vorn by his right hand, and by
the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more
give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies ; and
the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine,
for the which thou hast laboured : but they that
have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
Lord ; and they that have brought it together
shall drink it in the courts of my hohness. Go
through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the
way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ;
gather out the stones ; lilt up a standard for the
people. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto
the end of the world. Say ye to the diuighter of
Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh ; behold, his
reward is with him, and his work before him.
And they shall call them, The holy people. The
redeemed of the Lord : and thou shalt be called,
Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Evening. IsaL Ixv.
I AM sought of them that asked not /or me; 1
am found of them that sought me not : I said,
Behold me, behold me, unto a nation tlud was
not called by my name. I have spread out my
hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which
walketh in a way that icas not good, after their
own thoughts ; a people that provoketh me to
anger continually to my face ; that sacrificeth in
gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of
brick ; which remain among the graves, and
lodge in the monunients, which eat swine's flesh.
THIRD SUXDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY.
and broth of abominable ihings is in their ves-
sels ; which say, Stand by thyseK, come not near
to me ; for I am holier than thou. These are a
smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the
day. Behold, it is written before me : I will
not keep silence, but will recompense, even re-
compense into their bosom, your iniquities, and
the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the
Lord, which have burned incense upon the
mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills :
therefore will I measure their former work into
their bosom. Thus saith the Lord, As the new
wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, De-
stroy it not ; for a blessing is in it : so will I do
for my servants^ sakes, that I m,ay not destroy
them all. And I will bring forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my
mountains : and mine elect shall inherit it, and
my servants shall dwell there. And Sharon
shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor
a place for the herds to lie down in, for my
people that have sought me. But ye are they
that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy moun-
[ tain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that
furnish the drink oftering unto that number.
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and
ye shall all bow down to the slaughter : because
when I called, ye did not answer ; when I spake,
ye did not hear ; but did evil before mine ej'es,
and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my
servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry : be-
hold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be
thirsty : behold, my servants shall rejoice, but
ye shall be ashamed : behold, my servants shall
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sing for joy of heart, but re shall cry for sorrow
of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto
my chosen : for the Lord God shall slay thee,
and call his servants by another name : that he
who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless
himself in the God of truth ; and he that swear-
eth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth ;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and
because they are hid from mine eyes. For, be-
hold, I crciite new heavens and a new earth : and
the former shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever
ill that which I create : for, behold, I create Je-
rusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people:
and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard
in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be
no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man
that hath not filled his days : for the child shall
die an hundred years old ; but the sinner beiyig
an hundred years old shall be accui-sed. And
they shall build houses, and inhabit them ; and
they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of
them. They shall not build, and another in-
habit ; they shall not plant, and another eat :
for as the days of a tree are the days of my
people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands. They shall not labour in vain,
nor bring forth for trouble ; for they are the
seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their oflF-
spring with them. And it shall come to pass,
that before they call, I will answer ; and while
they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf
and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion
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shall eat straw like the bullock : and dust
shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the
Lord.
Or, Isai. Ixvi.
THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my
throne, and the earth is my footstool : where
is the house that ye build unto me ? and where
is the place of my rest ? For all those things
hath mine hand made, and all those things have
been, saith the Lord : but to this man will I
look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite
spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that kill-
eth an ox is as if he slew a man ; he that sacri-
ficeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck ; he
that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's
blood ; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed
an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring
their fears upon them ; because when I called,
none did answer ; when I spake, they did not
hear : but they did evil before mine eyes, and
chose tJiat in which I delighted not Hear the
word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word ;
Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out
for my name's sake, said. Let the Lord be glori-
fied : but he shall appear to your joy, and they
shall be ashamed. A voice of noise from the
city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord
that rendereth recompence to his enemies. Be-
fore she travailed, she brought forth ; before her
min came, she was delivered of a man child.
Who hath heard such a thing '? who hath seen
such things 1 Shall the earth be made to bring
THIRD SUXDAY AFTER THE EPIPHAXY.
forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at
once ? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth,
and not cause to bring forth ? saith the Lord :
shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb ?
saith thy God. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and
be glad with her, all ye that love her : rejoice
for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her : that
ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of
her consolations ; that ye may milk out, and be
delighted with the abundance of her glory. For
thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace
to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles
like a flowing stream : then shall ye suck, ye
shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled
upon her knees. As one whom his mother com-
forteth, so -svill I comfort you ; and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem. And when ye see this^
your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
flourish like an herb : and the hand of the Lord
shall be known toward his servants, and his in-
dignation toward his enemies. For, behold, the
Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots
like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire
and by his sword will the Lord plead with all
flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
They that sanctify themselves, and purify them-
selves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst,
eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and
the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the
Lord. For I hioiv their works and their
thoughts : it shall come, that I will gather all
nations and tongues ; and they shall come, and
see my glory. And I will set a sign among
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them, and I will send those that escape of tliem
unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that
draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles
afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither
have seen my glory ; and they shall declare my
glory among the Gentiles, And they shall bring
all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord
out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots,
and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift
beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saitli
the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offer-
ing in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
And I will also take of them for priests aiid for
Levites, saith the Lord. For as the new hea-
vens and the new earth, which I will make, shall
remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your
seed and your name remain. And it shall come
to pass, that from one new moon to another, and
from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come
to worship before me, saith the Lord. And
they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases
of the men that have transgressed against me :
for their M^orm shall not die, neither shall their
fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring
unto all flesh.
Zf)t J'ourti) Suntfag after t\)C CJpipfjang.
Morning. Job xxvii.
MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and
said, As God liveth, who hath taken away
my judgment ; and the Almighty, icho hath
vexed my soul ; all the while my breath is in
me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils ; my
lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue
utter deceit, God forbid that I should justify
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you : till I die I will not remove mine integrity
from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and
will not let it go : my heart shall not reproach
7)u so long as I live. Let mine enemy be as the
wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the
unrighteous. For what is the hope of the hypo-
crite, though he hath gained, when God taketh
away his soul ? Will God hear his cry when
trouble cometh upon him ? will he delight him-
seK in' the Almighty ? will he always call upon
God ? I will teach you by the hand of God :
that which is with the Almighty will I not con-
ceal. Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;
why then are ye thus altogether vain ? This is
the portion of a wicked man with God, and the
heritage of oppressors, ichich they shall receive
of the Almighty. If his children be multiplied,
it is for the sword : and his offspring shall not be
satisfied with bread. Those that remain of him
shall be buried in death : and his widows shall
not weep. Though he heap up silver as the
dust, and prepare raiment as the clay ; he may
prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver. He buildeth
his house as a moth, and as a booth that the
keeper maketh. The rich man shall lie down,
but he shall not be gathered : he openeth his
eyes, and he is not. Terrors take hold on him as
waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
The east wind carrieth him away, and he depart-
eth : and as a storm hurleth him out of his
place. For God shall cast upon him, and not
spare : he would fain flee out of his hand. Me7i
shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him
out of his place.
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Evening. Job xxviii.
SURELY there is a vein for the silver, and a
place for gold where they fine it. Iron is
taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of
the stone. He setteth an end to darkness, and
searcheth out all perfection : the stones of dark-
ness, and the shadow of death. The flood break-
eth out from the inhabitant ; even the ivaters
forgotten of the foot : they are dried up, they
are gone away from men. As for the earth, out
of it Cometh bread : and under it is turned up as
it were fire. The stones of it are the place of
sapphires : and it hath dust of gold. There is a
path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vul-
ture's' eye hath not seen : the lion's whelps have
not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; he
overturneth the mountains by the roots. He
cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; and his eye
seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the
floods from overflowing ; and the thing that is
hid bringeth he forth to light. But where shall
wisdom be found ? and where is the place of un-
derstanding ? Man knoweth not the price
thereof ; neither is it found in the land of the
living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and
the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be
gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for the price thereof. It cannot be valued with
the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the
sapphire. The gold and the crystal cannot equal
it : and the exchange of it shall not 6e /or jewels
of fine goldo No mention shall be made of coral,
or of pearls : for the price of wisdom is above
rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal
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it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom ? and where is the
place of understanding ? seeing it is hid from
the eves of all living, and kept close from the
fowls of the air. Destruction and death say,
We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
God understandeth the way thereof, and he
knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to
the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
whole heaven ; to make the weight for the
winds ; and he weigheth the waters by meiisure.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way
for the lightning of the thunder : then did he
see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and
searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold,
the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to de-
part from evil is understanding.
Or, Job xxix.
MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and
said, Oh that I were as in months past, as
in the days u-Jien God preserved me ; when his
candle shined upon my head, aiid ichcn by his
light I walked through darkness ; as I was in
the days of my youth, when the secret of God
was upon my tabernacle ; when the Almighty
was yet with me, when my children ivere about
me ; when I washed my steps with butter, and
the rock poured me out rivers of oil ; when I
went out to the gate through the city, when I
prepared my seat in the street ! The young men
saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose,
and stood up. The princes refrained talking,
and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles
held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the
roof of their mouth. When the ear heard me,
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then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me,
it gave witness to me : because I delivered the
poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that
had none to help him. The blessing of him
that was ready to perish came upon me : and I
caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put
on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judg-
ment was as a robe and a diadem. I Was eyes
to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was
a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew
not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the
wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall
multiply my days as the sand. My root was
spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all
night upon my branch. My glory was fresh in
me, and my bow was renewed in my hand
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept
silence at my counsel. After my words they
spake not again ; and my speech dropped upon
them. And they waited for me as for the rain ;
and they opened their mouth wide as for the
latter rain. If I laughed on them, they believed
it not ; and the light of my countenance they
cast not down. I chose out their way, and sat
chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one
that comforteth the mourners.
2C^c £iitl) Suntiag after tl)t CHpipl^ang.
Morning. Prov. i.
THE proverbs of Solomon the son of David,
king of Israel ; to know wisdom and in-
struction ; to perceive the words of understand-
ing ; to receive the instruction of wisdom,
justice, and judgment, and equity ; to give sub-
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tilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge
and discretion. A wise man will hear, and will
increase learning ; and a man of understanding
shall attain unto wise coimsels : to understand
a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of
the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of
the Lord is the beginning of knowledge : hut
fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son,
hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake
not the law of thy mother : for they shall be an
ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains
about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee,
consent thou not. If they say, Come with us,
let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk pri^aly
for the innocent Avithout cause : let us swallow
them up alive as the grave ; and whole, as those
that go down into the pit : we shall iind all pre-
cious substance, we shall fill our houses with
spoil : cast in thy lot among us ; let us all have
one purse : my son, walk not thou in the way
with them ; refrain thy foot from their path : for
their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed
blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the
sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their
oicii blood ; they lurk privily for their oicn lives.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of
gain ; u'hich taketh away the life of the owners
thereof. Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth
her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief
place of concourse, in the openings of the gates :
m the city she uttereth her words, saying. How
long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and
the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools
hate knowledge ? Turn you at my reproof : be-
hold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will
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make known my words unto yon. Because I
have called, and ye refused ; t have stretched
out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye
have set at nought all my counsel, and would
none of my reproof : I also will laugh at your
calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh ;
j when your fear cometh as desolation, and your
destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when dis-
tress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall
they call upon me, but I will not answer ; they
shall seek me early, but they shall not find me :
j for that they hated knowledge, and did not
choose the fear of the Lord : they would none
of my counsel : they despised all my reproof.
I Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own
way, and be filled with their own devices. For
the turning away of the simple shall slay them,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
I But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell
safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Evening. Prov. iii.
MY son, forget not my law ; but let thine
heart keep my commandments : for length
of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add
to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee :
bind them about thy neck ; write them upon
the table of thine heart : so shalt thou find
favour and good understanding in the sight of
God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart ; and lean not unto thine own under-
standing. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and
he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine
own eyes : fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to
thy bones. Honour the Lord with thy sub-
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stance, and with the firstfruits of all thine in-
crease : so shall thy bams be filled with plenty,
and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord ;
neither be weary of his oorrection : for whom
the Lord loveth he correcteth ; even as a Either
the son in vjhom he delighteth. Happy is the
man that findeth wisdom, and the man that get-
teth understanding. For the merchandise of it is
better than the merchandise of silver, and the
gain thereof than fine gold. She is more pre-
cious than rubies : and all the things thou canst
desire are not to be compared imto her. Length
of days is in her right hand ; and in her left
hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She
is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her :
and happy is evenj one that retaineth her. The
Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth ; by un-
derstanding hath he established the heavens.
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and
the clouds drop down the dew. My son, let not
them depart from thine eyes : keep sound wis-
dom and discretion : so shall they be life unto
thy soul, and grace to thy neck. Then shalt thou
walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not
stumble. When thou liest down, thou shalt not
be afraid : yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy
sleep shall be sweet. Be not afraid of sudden
fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked,
when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy
confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being
taken. Withhold not good from them to whom
it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand
to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and
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come again, and to morrow I will give ; when
thou hast it by thee. Devise not evil against
thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by
thee. Strive not with a man without cause, if
he have done thee no harm. Envy thou not the
oppressor, and choose none of his ways. For
the froward is abomination to the Lord : but
his secret is with the righteous. The curse of
the Lord is in the house of the wicked : but he
blesseth the habitation of the just. Surely he
scorneth the scorners : but he giveth grace imto
the lowly. The wise shall inherit glory : but
shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Or, Prov. viii.
DOTH not wisdom cry? and understanding
put forth her voice I she standeth in the
top of high places, by the way in the places of
the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry
of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto
you, O men, I call ; and my voice is to the sons
of man. ye simple, understand wisdom : and,
ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear ;
for I will speak of excellent things ; and the
opening of my lips shall be right things. For
my mouth shall speak truth ; and wickedness is
an abomination to my lips. All the words of my
mouth are in righteousness ; there is nothing
froward or perverse in them. They are all plain
to him that understandeth, and right to them
that find knowledge. Receive my instruction,
and not silver ; and knowledge rather than choice
gold. For wisdom is better than rubies ; and aU
the tilings that may be desired are not to be
compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence,
and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
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The fear of the Lord is to hate evil : pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil -w-ay, and the froAvard
mouth, cio I hat€. Counsel is mine, and sound
wisdom : I am understanding ; I have strength.
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
By me princes rule, and nobles, even aU the
judges of the earth. I love them that love me ;
audi those that seek me early shall find me.
Eiches and honour are with me ; yea, durable
riches and righteousness. My fruit is better
than gold, yea, than fine gold ; and my revenue
than choice silver. I lead in the way of righte-
ousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
that I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance ; and I will fill their treasures. The
Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old. I Avas set up from
everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth
was. When there icere no depths, I was brought
forth ; when there were no fountains abounding
with water. Before the mountains were settled,
before the hills was I brought forth : while as
yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor
the highest part of the dust of the world. When
he prepared the heavens, I was there : when he
set a compass upon the face of the depth : when
he established the clouds above : when he
strengthened the fountains of the deep : when
he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters
should not pa.ss his commandment : when he ap-
pointed the foundations of the earth : then I
was by him, as one brought up with him : and
I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before
him ; rejoicing in the habitable part of his
earth ; and my delights were with the sons of
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SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY,
men. Now therefore hearken unto me, ye
children : for blessed are theij that keep my ways.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching
daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my
doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and
shall obtain favour of the Lord. But he that
sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul : all
they that hate me love death.
2rf)c Sixt]^ Sunlfag after t\)z ^pipl^ang.
Morning. Prov. ix.
WISDOM hath builded her house, she hath
hewn out her seven pillars : she hath
killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ;
she hath also furnished her table. She hath
sent forth her maidens : she crieth upon the
highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let
him turn in hither : as for him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him, Come, eat of my
bread, and drink of the wine ivhich I have min-
gled. Forsake the foolish, and live ; and go in
the way of understanding. He that reproveth
a scorner getteth to himself shame : and he that
rebuketh a wicked ')nan getteth himself a blot.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee : rebuke
a wise man, and he will love thee. Give in-
struction to a wise man, and he will be yet
wiser : teach a just wan, and he will increase in
learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom : and the knowledge of the holy is
understanding. For by me thy days shall be
multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be in-
creased. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for
thyself : but r/thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear
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it A foolish woman is clamorous : she is simple,
and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the
door of her house, on a seat in the high places of
the city, to call passengers who go right on their
ways : whoso is simple, let him turn in hither :
and as for him that wanteth understanding, she
saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread
eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not
that the dead are there ; and that her guests are.
in the depths of hell.
Evening. ProY. xi.
A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord :
. but a just weight is his deUght. lllien,'
pride cometh, then cometh shame : but with the
lowly is wisdom. The integrity of the upright
shall guide them : but the perverseness of trans-
gressors shall destroy them. Eiches profit not
in the day of wTath : but righteousness deliver-
eth from death. The righteousness of the per-
fect shall direct his way : but the wicked shall
fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness
of the upright shall deliver them : but trans-
gressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall
perish : and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and
the wicked cometh in his stead. An hypocrite
with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour : but
through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
When it goeth well with the righteous, the city
rejoiceth : and when the wicked perish, there is
shouting. By the blessing of the upright the
city is exalted : but it is overthrown by the
mouth of the wicked. He that is void of wis-
dom despiseth his neighbour : but a man of
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understanding holdetli his peace. A talebearer
revealeth secrets : but he that is of a faithful
spirit concealeth the matter. Where no counsel
is, the people fall : but in the multitude of coun-
sellors there is safety. He that is surety for a
stranger shall smart for it : and he that hateth
suretiship is sure. A gracious woman retaineth
honour : and strong men retain riches. The
merciful man doeth good to liis own soul : but
he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. The
wicked worketh a deceitful work : but to him
that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
As righteousness tendeth to life : so he that pur-
sueth evil pursueth it to his own death. They
that are of a froward heart are abomination to
the Lord ; but such as are upright in their way
are his delight. Though hand join in hand, the
wicked shall not be unpunished : but the seed of
the righteous shall be dehvered. As a. jewel of
gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion. The desire of the righ-
teous is only good : hut the expectation of the
wicked is wrath. There is that scattereth, and
yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth
more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
The liberal soul shall be made fat : and he that
watereth shall be watered also himself. He that
withholdeth com, the people shall curse him :
but blessing shall be upon the head of him that
selleth it. He that diligently seeketh good pro-
cureth favour : but he that seeketh mischief, it
shall come unto him. He that trusteth in his
riches shall fall : but the righteous shall flourish
as a branch. He that troubleth his own house
shall inherit the wind : and the fool shall be
SIXTH SL^N'DAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY,
servant to the wise of heart. The fruit of the
righteous is a tree of life ; and he that winneth
souls is wise. Behold, the righteous shall be
recompensed in the earth : much more the wicked
and the sinner.
Or, Prov. XV.
A SOFT answer turneth away wrath : but griev-
. ous words stir up anger. The tongue of the
wise useth knowledge aright : but the mouth of
fools poureth out foolishness. The eyes of the
Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and
the good. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life :
but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction : but he
that regardeth reproof is prudent. In the house
of the righteous is much treasure : but in the re-
venues of the wicked is trouble. The lips of
the wise disperse knowledge : but the heart of
the foolish doeth not so. The sacrifice of the
wicked is an abomination to the Lord : but the
prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of
the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord :
but he loveth him that foUoweth after righteous-
ness. Correction is grievous unto him that for-
saketh the way : and he that hateth reproof
shall die. Hell and destruction are before the
Lord : how much more then the hearts of the
children of men ? A scorner loveth not one
that reproveth him : neither will he go unto the
wise. A merry heart maketh a cheerful coun-
tenance : but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is
broken. The heart of him that hath under-
standing seeketh knowledge : but the mouth of
fools feedeth on foolishness. All the days of the
aflaicted are evil : but he that is of a merry
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heart hath a continual feast. Better is little
with the fear of the Lord than great treasure
and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of
herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith. A wrathful man stirreth up strife :
but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns : but the way of the righteous is made
plain. A wise son maketh a glad father : but a
foolish man despiseth his mother. Folly is joy
to him that is destitute of Avisdom : but a man
of understanding walketh uprightly. Without
counsel purposes are disappointed : but in the
multitude of counsellors they are established. A
man hath joy by the answer of his mouth : and
a word spoken in due season, how good is it !
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may
depart from hell beneath. The Lord will de-
stroy the house of the proud : but he wiU estab-
lish the border of the widow. The thoughts of
the wicked are an abomination to the Lord : but
the words of the pure are pleasant words. He
that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house ;
but he that hateth gifts shall live. The heart of
the righteous studieth to answer : but the mouth
of the wicked poareth out evil things. The
Lord is far from the wicked : but he heareth
the prayer of the righteous. The light of the
eyes rejoiceth the heart : and a good report
maketh the bones ft\t. The ear that heareth the
reproof of life abideth among the wise. He that
refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul : but
he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wis-
dom ; and before honour is humility.
Sfphtagcsima Suntraj?.
Morning. Gen. i. and ii. to v. 4.
IN the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. And the earth was without form,
and void ; and darkness ivas upon the face of
the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. And God said, Let there
be light : and there was light. And God saw
the light, that it icas good : and God divided
the light from the darkness. And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first
day. And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters. And God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which v:ere
under the firmament from the waters which
were above tlie firmament : and it was so. And
God called the firmament Heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together unto one place, and let the
dry land appear: and it was so. And God
called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering to-
gether of the waters called he Seas : and God saw
that it was good. And God said, Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yield-
ing fruit, whose seed icas in itself, aft^r his
kind : and God saw that it ivas good. And
the evening and the morning were the third day.-
SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firma-
ment of the heaven to divide the day from the
night ; and let them be for signs, and for sear
sons, and for days, and years : and let them be
for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth : and it was so. And God
made two great lights ; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night :
he made the stars also. And God set them in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth, and to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness ;
and God saw that it ivas good. And the evening
and the morning were the fourth day. And
God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that
may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven. And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth, which the
waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and
God saw that it was good. And God blessed
them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in
the earth. And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day. And God said. Let the earth
bring forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind : and it was so. And God
made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God
saw that it was good. And God said, Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness : and
let them have dommion over the fish of the sea,
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and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God
created man in his own image, in the image oi
God created he him ; male and female created he
them. And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and re-
plenish the earth, and subdue it : and have do-
minion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold,
I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,
in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ;
to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast
of the eartli, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, where-
in there is life, I have given every green herb
for meat : and it was so. And God saw every
thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them. And on the seventh
day God ended his work which he had made ;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. And God blessed
the seventh day, and sanctified it : because that
in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
Second Lesson. Rev. xxi. to v. 9.
4 ND I saw a new heaven and a new earth :
J\. for the first heaven and the first earth -were
passed away ; and there was no more sea. And
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, com-
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ing down from God out of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a
great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the ta-
bernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell
with them, and they shall be his people, and
God himself shall be with them, and be their
God. And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes ; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain : for the former things are passed
away. And he that sat upon the throne said.
Behold, I make all things new. And he said
unto me, Write : for these words are true and
faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the foun-
tain of the water of life freely. He that over-
cometh shall inherit all things ; and I will be
his God, and he shall be my son. But the fear-
ful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part
in the lake which burnetii with fire and brim-
stone : which is the second death.
Evening. Gen. ii. v. 4.
THESE are the generations of the hea-
vens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the Lord God made the
earth and the heavens, and every plant of the
field before it was in the earth, and every herb
of the field before it grew : for the Lord God
had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till the ground. But
there went up a mist from the earth, and water-
ed the whole face of the ground. And the Lord
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God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and
man became a living soul. And the Lord God
planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there
he put the man whom he had formed. And out
of the ground made the Lord God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for
food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and
evil. And a river went out of Eden to water
the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and
became into four heads. The name of the first
is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole
land of Havilah, where ihtre, is gold ; and the
gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and
the onjx stone. And the name of the second
river is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth
the whole land of Ethiopia, And the name of
the third river is Hiddekel : that is it which
goeth toward the east of Ass}Tia. And the
fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God
took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord
God commanded the man, saying. Of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat : but of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it : for in the day that thou eat-
est thereof thou shalt surely die. And the Lord
God said, It is not good that the man should
be alone ; I will make him an help meet for
him. And out of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast of the field, and every fowl
of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see
what he would call them : and whatsoever
Adam called every living creature, that ivas the
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name thereof. And Adam gave names to all
cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every
beast of the field ; but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for him. And the Lord
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept : and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh instead thereof ; and the rib, which
the Lord God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man. And
Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man. Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one
flesh. And they were both naked, the man and
his wife, and were not ashamed.
Or, Job xxxviii.
THEN the Lord answered Job out of the
whirlwind, and said, Who is this that
darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge ?
Gird up now thy loius like a man ; for I will
demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where
wast thou when I laid the foundations of the
earth 1 declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou
knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon
it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened 1 or who laid the corner stone thereof ;
when the morning stars sang together, and all
the sons of God shouted for joy ? Or who shut
up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if
it had issued out of the womb ? When I made
the cloud the garment thereof, and thick daxk-
ness a swaddlingband for it, and brake up. for it
my decreed place, and set bars and do^rs,. and
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said. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further :
and here shall thy proud waves be staved ?
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy
days ; and caused the dayspring to know his
place ; that it might take hold of the ends of
the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out
of it ? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and
they stand as a garment. And from the wicked
their light is withholden, and the high arm shall
be broken. Hast thou entered into the springs
of the sea ? or hast thou walked in the search of
the depth ? Have the gat^s of death been
opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors
of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived
the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou know-
est it all. Where is the way where light dwell-
eth ? and as for darkness, where is the place
thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound
thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths
to the house thereof ? Knowest thou it, because
thou wast then born ? or because the number of
thy days is great ? Hast thou entered into the
treasures of the snow ? or hast thou seen the
treasures of the hail, which I have reserved
against the time of trouble, against the day of
battle and war ? By what way is the light
parted, u^hich scattereth the east wind upon the
earth ? Who hath divided a watercourse for
the overflowing of waters, or a way for the
lightning of thunder ; to cause it to rain on the
earth, ichere no man is; on the wilderness,
wherein there is no man ; to satisfy the desolate
and waste ground ; and to cause the bud of
the tender herb to spring forth ? Hath the rain
a father? or who hath" begotten the drops of
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dew ? Out of whose womb came the ice ? and
the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
The waters are hid as icith a stone, and the face
of the deep is frozen. Canst thou bind the
sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands
of Orion ? Canst thou bring forth INIazzaroth
in his season ? or canst thou guide Arcturus
with his sons 1 Knowest thou the ordinances of
heaven ? canst thou set the dominion thereof in
the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the
clouds, that abundance of waters may cover
thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they
may go, and say unto thee, Here we are ? Who
hath put wisdom in the inward parts ? or who
hath given understanding to the heart? Who
can number the clouds in wisdom ? or who can
stay the bottles of heaven, when the dust grow-
eth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast to-
gether ? Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion ?
or fill the appetite of the young lions, when they
couch in their dens, ayid abide in the covert to
lie in wait ? Who provideth for the raven his
food ? when his young ones cry unto God, they
wander for lack of meat.
Second Lesson. Rev. xxi. v. 9 to xxii. v. 6.
A ND there came unto me one of the seven
J\. angels which had the seven vials full of the
seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying,
Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the
Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the
spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed
j me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descend-
I ing out of heaven from God, having the glory of
! God : and her light luas like unto a stone most
] precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as
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crystal ; and had a wall great and high, and had
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and
names written thereon, which are the names of
the twelve tribes of the children of Israel : on
the east three gates ; on the north three gates ;
on the south three gates ; and on the west three
gates. And the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and in them the names of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that
talked with me had a golden reed to measure the
city, and the gates thereof, and the wall there-
of. And the city lieth foursquare, and the
length is as large as the breadth : and he mea-
sured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and the breadth and the
height of it are equal And he measured the
wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cu-
bits, according to the measure of a man, that is,
of the angeL And the building of the wall of
it was of jasper : and the city was pure gold,
like unto clear glass. And the foundations of
the wall of the city were garnished with all man-
ner of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper ; the second, sapphire ; the third, a
chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald ; the fifth,
sardonyx ; the sixth, sardius ; the seventh, chry-
solyte , the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz ;
the tenth, a chrvsoprasus ; the eleventh, a ja-
cinth ; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the
twelve gates were twelve pearls ; every several
gate was of one pearl : and the street of the city
was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And
I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Al-
mighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of
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the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God
did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
And the nations of them which are saved shall
walk in the light of it : and the kings of the
earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by
day : for there shall be no night there. And
they shall bring the glory and honour of the na-
tions into it. And there shall in no wise enter
into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever
worketh abommation, or maketh a lie : but they
which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
And he shewed me a pure river of water of
life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the
street of it, and on either side of the river, was
there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month : and
the leaves of the tree were for the heaUng of the
nations. And there shall be no more curse : but
the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in
it ; and his servants shall serve hira : and they
shall see his face ; and his name shall be in
their foreheads. And there shall be no night
there ; and they need no candle, neither light of
the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them hght :
and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Sexagesima SuniJag.
Morning. Gen. iii.
"VrOW the serpent was more subtil than any
-Ll beast of the field which the Lord God had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden ? And the woman said unto the serpent,
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We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the gar-
den : but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall
not surely die : for God doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open-
ed, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil And when the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and that it ivas pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her ; and
he did eat. And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked ;
and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of
the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool
of the day : and Adam and his wife hid them-
selves from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord
God called unto Adam, and said unto him,
Where art thou ? And he said, I heard thy
voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I
was naked ; and I hid myself. And he said,
Who told thee that thou loast naked ? Haat
thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the
man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be
with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the woman. What
is this that thou hast done ? And the woman
said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Be-
cause thou hast done this, thou art cursed above
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all cattle, and above every beast of the field ;
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou
eat all the days of thy life : and I will put en-
mity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed ; it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the wo-
man he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception ; in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth children ; and thy desire shall he to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto
Adam he said. Because thou hast hearkened unto
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt
not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth
to thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ;
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till
thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast
thou taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's
name Eve; because she was the mother of all
living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed
them. And the Lord God said, Behold, the
man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and
take also of the tree of Life, and eat, and live for
ever : therefore the Lord God sent him forth
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken. So he drove out the
man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of
Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which
turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of
life.
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Evening, Gen. vi.
A ND it came to pass, when men began to raul-
J\. tiply on the face of the earth, and daughters
were born unto them, that the sons of God saw
the daughters of men that they icere fair ; and
they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the Lord said. My spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet
his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
There were giants in the earth in those days ;
and also after that, when the sons of God came
in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children to them, the same became mighty men
which icere of old, men of renown. And God
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart iras only evil continually. And it
repented the Lord that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the
Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth ; both man,
and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls
of the air ; for it repenteth me that I have made
them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord. These are the generations of Noah :
Noah was a just man ayicl perfect in his genera-
tions, and Noah walked with God. And Noah
begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence. And God looked
upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ; for
all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is
come before me ; for the earth Ls filled with vio-
lence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy
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them with the earth. Make thee an ark of
gopher wood ; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with
pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt
make it of : The length of the ark shall be three
hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits,
and the height of it thirty cubits. A window
shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt
thou finish it above ; and the door of the ark
shalt thou set in the side thereof ; with lower,
second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every
thing that is in the earth shall die. But with
thee will I establish my covenant ; and thou
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and
thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And of
every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive
with thee ; they shall be male and female. Of
fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after
his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee,
to keej) them alive. And take thou unto thee of
all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to
thee ; and it shall be for food for thee, and for
them. Thus did Noah ; according to all that
God commanded him, so did he.
Or, Gen. viii.
A ND God remembered Noah, and every living
XjL thing, and all the cattle that was with him
in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the
earth, and the waters asswaged ; the fountains
also of the deep and the windows of heaven
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were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained ; and the waters returned from off the
earth continually : and after the end of the hun-
dred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the moun-
tains of Ararat. And the waters decreased con-
tinually until the tenth month : in the tenth
month, on the first day of the month, were the
tops of the mountains seen. And it came to
pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
the window of the ark which he had made : and
he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the
earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to
see if the waters were abated from off the face
of the ground ; but the dove found no rest for
the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him
into the ark, for the waters ivere on the face of
the whole earth . then he put forth his hand,
and took her, and pulled her in unto hhn into
the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days ;
and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ;
and the dove came in to him in the evening ; and,
lo, in her mouth icas an olive leaf pluckt off : so
Noah knew that the watei"s were abated from off
the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days ;
and sent forth the dove ; wliich returned not
again unto him any more. And it came to pass
in the six hundredth and first year, in the first
month, the first day of the month, the waters
were dried up from off the earth : and Noali re-
moved the covering of the ark, and looked, and,
behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in
the second month, on the seven and twentieth
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day of the month, Avas the earth dried. And
God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the
ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
sons' wives with thee. Brmg forth with thee every
living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both
of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that they
may breed abundantly in the earth, and be
fruitfid, and multiply upon the earth. And
Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and
his sons' wives with him : every beast, every
creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever
creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark. And Noah builded an
altar unto the Lord ; and took of every clean
beast, and of every clean fowl, and oflered burnt
offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled
a sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart,
I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart
is evd. from his youth ; neither wall I again
smite any more every thing living, as I have
done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.
^uinquagtstma Suntragr.
Morning. Gen. ix. to v. 20.
AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and
_ljL said unto them. Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth. And the fear of you
and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moveth upo7i the earth, and upon
aU the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are
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they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb
have I given you all things. But flesh with the
life thereof, luhich is the blood thereof, shall ye
not eat. And surely your blood of your lives
will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I
require it, and at the hand of man ; at the
hand of every man's brother will I require the
life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by
man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of
God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and
multiply ; bring forth abundantly in the earth,
and multiply therein. And God spake unto
Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I,
behold, I establish my covenant with you, and
with your seed after you ; and with every living
creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ;
from all that go out of the ark, to every beast
of the earth. And I will establish my covenant
with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut ofi" any
more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall
there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And God said, This is the token of the cove-
nant which I make between me and you and
every living creature that is with you, for per-
petual generations : I do set my bow in the
cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant
between me and the earth. And it shall come
to pass, wdien I bring a cloud over the earth,
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : and I
will remember my covenant, which is between
me and you and every living creature of all
flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a
flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall
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be in the cloud ; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that
is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah,
This is the token of the covenant, which I have
established between me and all flesh that is
upon the earth. And the sons of Noah, that
went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan.
These are the three sons of Noah : and of them
was the whole earth overspread.
Evening. Gen. xii.
NOW the Lord had said unto Abram, Get
thee out of thy country, and from thy kin-
dred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee
a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing :
and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all
families of the earth be blessed. So Abram de-
parted, as the Lord had spoken unto him ; and
Lot went with him : and Abram was seventy
and five years old when he departed oiit of Ha-
ran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his
brother's son, and all their substance that they
had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten
in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan
they came. And Abram passed through the
land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of
Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the
land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram,
and said. Unto thy seed will I give this land :
and there builded he an altar unto the Lord,
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who appeared unto him. And he removed from
thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el,
and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west,
and Hai on the east : and there he builded an
altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of
the Lord. And Abram journeyed, going on
still toward the south. And there was a famine
in the land : and Abram went down into Egypt
to sojourn there ; for the famine v:as grievous in
the iand. And it came to pass, when he was
come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto
Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art
a fair woman to look upon : therefore it shall
come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee,
that they shall say, This is his wife : and they
will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say,
I pray thee, thou art my sister : that it may be
well with me for thy sake ; and my soul shall
live because of thee. And it came to pass, that,
when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians
beheld the woman that she was very fair. The
princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended
her before Pharaoh : and the woman was taken
into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram
well for her sake : and he had sheep, and oxen,
and he asses, and menservants. and maidser-
vants, and she asses, and camels. And the
Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
?lagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. And
'haraoh called Abram, and said, "What is this
that thou hast done unto me ? why didst thou
not tell me that she ivas thy wife ? why saidst
thou. She is my sister ? so I mifrht have taken
her to me to wife : now therefore behold thy
wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh
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commanded his men concerning him : and they
sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Or, Gen. xiii.
A ND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and
JLJL his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with
him, into the south. And Abram ivas very rich
in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went
on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el,
unto the place where his tent had been at the be-
ginning, between Beth-el and Hai ; unto the
place of the altar, which he had made there at
the first : and there Abram called on the name
of the Lord. And Lot also, which went with
Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And
the land was not able to bear them, that they
might dwell together : for their substance was
great, so that they could not dwell together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of
Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle :
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let
there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and
thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd-
men ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole
land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee,
from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I
will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the
right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot
lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it ivas well watered every where, be-
fore the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of
Eg;\'pt, as thou comest unto Zoar. Then Lot
chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and Lot
journeyed east : and they separated themselves
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT.
the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the
land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of
the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
But the men of Sodom icere wicked and sinners
before the Lord exceedingly. And the Lord
said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from
the place where thou art northward, and south-
wa;rd, and eastward, and westward : for aU the
land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and
to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed
as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then shall thy
seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through
the land in the length of it and in the breadth of
it ; for I will give it imto thee. Then Abram re-
moved his tent, and came and dwelt in the
plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built
there an altar unto the Lord.
^c jrirst SunUag in Xtnt
Morning. Gen. xix. v. 12 to v. 30.
A ND the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here
J\. any besides ? son in law, and thy sons,
and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in
the city, bring them out of this place : for we
will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxen great before the face of the Lord ; and
the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot
went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which
married his daughters, and said, LTp, get you out
of this place ; for the Lord will destroy this
city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto
his sons in law. And when the morning arose,
then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take
FIRST SUNDAY IX LENT.
thy ■wife, and thy two daughters, which are
here ; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of
the city. And while he lingered, the men laid
hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his
wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters ;
the Lord being merciful unto him : and they
brought him forth, and set him without the city.
And it came to pass, when they had brought
them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy
life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in
all the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest thou
be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not
so, my Lord : behold now, thy servant hath
found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified
thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in
saving my life ; and I cannot escape to the
mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die : be-
hold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is
a little one : Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not
a little one ?) and my soul shall live. And he
said unto him, See, I have accepted thee con-
cerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow
this city, for the which thou hast spoken. Haste
thee, escape thither ; for I cannot do any thing
till thou be come thither. Therefore the name
of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen
upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out
of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all
the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground. But his
wife looked back from behind him, and she be-
came a pillar of salt. And Abraham gat up
early in the morning to the place where he stood
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before the Lord : and he looked toward Sodom
and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the
plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the
cities of the plain, that God remembered Abra-
ham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the over-
throw, when he overthrew the cities in the which
Lot dwelt.
Evening. Gen. xxii. to v. 20.
4 ND it came to pass after these things, that
jLjL God did tempt Abraham, and said unto
him, Abraham : and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said. Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the
land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt
offering upon one of the mountauis which I will
tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of
his young men with hhn, and Isaac his son, and
clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose
up, and went unto the place of which God had
told him. Then on the third day Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide
ye here with the ass ; and I and the lad will go
yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offer-
ing, and laid it upon Isaac his son ; and he took
the fire in his hand, and a knife ; and they went
both of them together. And Isaac spake unto
Abraham his father, and said. My father : and he
said, Here am I, my son. And he said. Behold
the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for
a burnt offering ? And Abraham said, My son,
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God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering : so they went both of them together.
And they came to the place which God had told
him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and
laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and
took the knife to slay his son. And the angel
of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and
said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said. Here am
I. And he said. Lay not thine hand upon the
lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for
now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in
a thicket by his horns : and Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham
called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh : as
it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord
it shall be seen. And the angel of the Lord
called unto Abraham out of heaven the second
time, and said. By myself have I sworn, saith
the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing,
and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son :
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multi-
plying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of
the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the na-
tions of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast
obeyed my voice. So Abraham returned unto his
young men, and they rose up and went together
to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
FIRST SUNDAY IX LENT.
Or, Gen. xxiii.
AND Sarah was an hundred and seven and
J\. twenty years old : these ivere the years of
the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjath-
arba ; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan :
and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to
weep for her. And Abraham stood up from be-
fore his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth,
i saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with
you : give me a possession of a burying|Dlace with
you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham,
saying unto him. Hear us, my lord : thou art a
mighty prince among us : in the choice of our
sepulchres bury thy dead ; none of us shall with-
hold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou may-
est bury thy dead. And Abraham stood up,
and bowed himself to the people of the land,
even to the children of Heth. And he com-
muned with them, saying, If it be your mind
that I should bury my dead out of my sight ;
hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son
of Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Mach-
pelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his
field ; for as much money as it is worth he shall
give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you. And Ephron dwelt among the
children of Heth : and Ephron the Hittit«
answered Abraham in the audience of the chil-
dren of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate
of his city, saying, Nay, my lord, hear me : the
field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I
give it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my
people give I it thee : bury thy dead. And
Abraham bowed down himself before the people
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of the land. And he spake unto Ephron in the
audience of the people of the land, saying, But
if thou icilt give it, I pray thee, hear me : I will
give thee money for the field ; take it of me,
and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron
answered Abraham, saying unto him, ISIy lord,
hearken unto me : the land is worth four hun-
dred shekels of silver ; what is that betwixt me
and thee ? bury therefore thy dead. And Abra-
ham hearkened luito Ephron ; and Abraham
weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had
named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four
himdred shekels of silver, current money with
the merchant. And the field of Ephron, which
was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the
field, and the Ciive which icas therein, and all the
trees that were in the field, that loere in all the
! borders round about, were made sure unto Abra-
ham for a possession in the presence of the chil-
dren of Heth, before all that went in at the gate
of his city. And after this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Mach-
pelah before Mamre : the same is Hebron in the
land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave
that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham
for a possession of a buryingplace by the sous of
Heth.
Cf)c Seconal ^untiag in Xcnt.
Morning. Gen. xxvii. to v. 41.
A ND it came to pass, that when Isaac was
Xjl old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could
not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said
unto him. My son : and he said unto him. Be-
hold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am
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old, I know not the day of my death : now
therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy
quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and
take me some venison ; and make me savoury
meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I
may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I.
die. And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to
Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to
hunt for venison, and to bring it. And Rebe-
kah spake unto Jacob her son, saying. Behold, I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother,
saying. Bring me venison, and make me savoury
meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the
Lord before my death. Now therefore, my son,
obey my voice according to that which I com-
mand thee. Go now to the flock, and fetch me
from thence two good kids of the goats ; and I
will make them savoury meat for thy father,
such as he loveth : and thou shalt bring it to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he may bless
thee before his death. And Jacob said to Re-
bekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a
hairy man, and I am a smooth man : my father
peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to
him as a deceiver ; and I shall bring a curse
upon me, and not a blessing. And his mother
said unto him. Upon me he thy curse, my son :
only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. And
he went, and fetohed, and brought them to his
mother: and his mother made savoury meat,
such as his father loved. And Rebekah took
goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put them upon
Jacob her younger son : and she put the skins of
the kids oi the goats upon his hands, and upon
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the smooth of his neck : and she gave the sa-
voury meat and the bread, which she had pre-
pared, into the hand of her son Jacob. And he
came unto his father, and said. My father : and
he said. Here avi I ; who art thou, my son ?
And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy
firstborn ; I have done according as thou badest
me : arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison,
that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac said
unto his son. How is it that thou hast found it
so quickly, my son ? And he said. Because the
Lord thy God brought it to me. And Isaac
said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I
I may feel thee, my son, whether thou he my very
! son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto
Isaac his father ; and he felt him, and said. The
voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, be-
cause his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's
hands : so he blessed him. And he said. Art
thou my very son Esau ? And he said, I am.
And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat
of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.
And he brought it near to him, and he did eat :
and he brought him wine, and he drank. And
his father Isaac said unto him. Come near now,
and kiss me, my son. And he came near, and
kissed him : and he smelled the smell of his rai-
ment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell
of my son is as the smell of a field which the
Lord hath blessed : therefore God give thee of
the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine : let people serve
thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord
over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons
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bow down to thee : cursed be every one that
curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
And it Ciime to pass, as soon as Isaac had made
an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet
scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his
father, that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting. And he also had made savoury meat,
and brought it unto his father, and said unto his
father. Let my fiither arise, and eat of his son's
venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac
his father said unto him. Who art thou I And
he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. And
Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, WTio ?
where is he tliat hath taken venison, and brought
it me, and I Imve eaten of all before thou earnest,
and have blessed him? ye-d,and he shall be blessed.
And when Esau heard the words of his father,
he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry,
and said unto his father. Bless me, even me also,
my father. And he said. Thy brother came
with subtilty, and hath taken away thy bless-
ing. And lie said, Is not he rightly named
Jacob ? for he hath supplanted me these two
times : he took away my birtliright ; and, behold,
now he hath taken away my blessing. And he
said. Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me ?
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold,
1 have made him thy lord, and ail his brethren
have I given to him for servants ; and with com
and wine have I sustained him : and what shall
I do now unto thee, my son ? And Esau said
unto his father. Hast thou but one blessing, my
father ? bless me, even me also, my father.
And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. And
Isaac his father answered and said mito him.
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Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the
earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ;
and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve
thy brother ; and it shall come to pass when thou
shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break
his yoke from off thy neck.
Evening. Gen. xxviii
A ND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and
J\. charged him, and said unto him. Thou shalt
not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel
thy mother's father ; and take thee a wife from
thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's bro-
ther. And God Almighty bless thee, and make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest
be a multitude of people ; and give thee the
blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed
with thee ; that thou mayest inherit the land
wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave
unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob :
and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of
Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Eebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother. When Esau saw
that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence ;
and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
sajdng. Thou shalt not take a wife of the daugh-
ters of Canaan ; and that Jacob obeyed his
father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-
aram ; and Esau seeing that the daughters of
Canaan pleased not Isaac his father ; then went
Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives
which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael
Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his
wife. And Jacob went out from Beer-eheba,
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SECOND SUNDAY IX LENT.
and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon
a certain place, and tarried there all night, be-
cause the sun was set ; and he took of the stones
of that place, and put them for his pillows, and
lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed,
and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the
top of it reached to heaven : and behold the
angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, ]
I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and |
the God of Isaac : the land whereon thou liest, to .
thee will I give it, and to thy seed ; and thy seed ;
shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt 1
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and '
to the north, and to the south : and in thee and \
in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be i
blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will \
keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and \
will bring thee again into this land ; for I will i
not leave thee, until I have done that which I
have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out
of his sleep, and he said. Surely the Lord is in '
this place ; and I knew it not. And he was i
afraid, and said. How dreadful is this place ! this j
is none other but the house of God, and this is j
the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in j
the morning, and took the stone that he had put i
for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and I
poured oil upon the top of it. And he called \
the name of that place Beth-el : but the name of
that city was called Luz at the first. And Jacob
vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me,
and will keep me in this way that I go, and will
give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so
that I come again to my father's house in peace;
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then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone,
which I have set for a pillar, shall be God^s
house : and of all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.
Or, Gen. xxxii.
AND Jacob went on his way, and the angels
XjL of God met him. And when Jacob saw
them, he said, This is God's host : and he called
the name of that place Mahanaim. And Jacob
sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
And he commanded them, saying. Thus shall ye
speak unto my lord Esau ; Thy servant Jacob
saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and
stayed there until now : and I have oxen, and
asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenser-
vants : and I have sent to tell my lord, that I
may find grace in thy sight. And the messen-
gers returned to Jacob, saying. We came to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometli to meet thee,
and four hundred men with him. Then Jacob
was greatly afraid and distressed : and he di-
vided the people that was with him, and the
flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands ;
and said, If Esau come to the one company, and
smite it, then the other company Avhich is left
shall escape. And Jacob said, O God of my
father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac,
the Lord which saidst unto me, Eeturn unto
thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal
well with thee : I am not worthy of the least of
all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou
hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff
I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am be-
come two bands. Deliver me, I pray thee, from
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the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau :
for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,
and the mother -with the children. And thou
saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy
seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude. And he lodged there
that same night ; and took of that which came
to his hand a present for Esau his brother ; two
hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two
hundred ewes, and twenty rams, thirty milch
camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,
twenty she asses, and ten foals. And he de-
livered theiii into the hand of his servants, every
drove by themselves ; and said unto his ser-
vants. Pass over before me, and put a space be-
twixt drove and drove. And he commanded
the foremost, saying. When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose
art thou ? and whither goest thou ? and whose
are these before thee ? then thou shalt say, TJiey
be thy servant Jacobus ; it is a present sent unto
my lord Esau : and, behold, also he is behind us.
And so commanded he the second, and the third,
and all that followed the droves, saying, On this
manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find
him. And say ye moreover. Behold, thy ser-
vant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will
appease him with the present that goeth before
me, and afterward I will see his face ; peradven-
ture he will accept of me. So went the present
over before liim : and himself lodged that night
in the company. And he rose up that night,
and took his two wives, and his two womenser-
vants, and his eleven sons, and parsed over the
ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent
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them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone ; and there wrestled a
man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against
him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and
the hollow of Jacobus thigh was out of joint, as
he wrestled with Mm. And he said. Let me go,
for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said
unto him, What is thy name? And he said,
Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called
no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast
thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said. Tell
me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Where-
fore is it that thou dost ask after my name 1
And he blessed him there. And Jacob called
the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen
God face to face, and my life is preserved. And
as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him,
and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the
children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh,
unto this day : because he touched the hollow of
Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Z\)c Z\)ix^ Suntiap in Xcnt, '
Morning. Gen. xxxvii.
AND Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his
J\. father was a stranger, in the land of
Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding
the Hock with his brethren ; and the lad was
with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of
Zilpah, his father's wives : and Joseph brought
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unto his father their evil report. Now Israel
loved Joseph more than all his children, because
he ivas the son of his old age : and he made
him a coat of majiy colours. And when his
brethren saw that their father loved him more
than all his brethren, they hated him, and could
not speak peaceably unto him. And Joseph
dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren :
and they hated him yet the more. And he said
unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I
have dreamed : for, behold, we ivere binding
sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and
also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves
stood round about, and made obeisance to my
sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou
indeed reign over us ? or shalt thou indeed have
dominion over us ? And they hated him yet
the more for his dreams, and for his words.
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it
his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a
dream more ; and, behold, the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren :
and his father rebuked him, and said unto him.
What is . this dream that thou hast dreamed ?
Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ?
And his brethren envied him ; but his father ob-
served the saying. And his brethren went to
feed their father's flock in Shechem. And Israel i
said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the
flock in Shechem ? come, and I will send thee ;
unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. j
And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether }
it be vrell with thy brethren, and weU with the :
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THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT,
flocks ; and bring me word again. So lie sent
him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to
Shechem. And a certain man found him, and,
behold, he was wandering in the field : and the
man asked him, saying, What seekest thou ? And
he said, I seek my brethren : tell me, I pray thee,
where they feed their fiocks. And the man
said, They are departed hence ; for I heard them
say. Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after
his brethren, and found them in Dothan. And
when they saw him afar off, even before he came
near unto them, they conspired against him to
slay him. And they said one to another. Behold,
this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and
let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and
we will say. Some evil beast hath devoured him :
and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
And Reuben heard it^ and he delivered him out
of their hands ; and said, Let us not kill him.
And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, hut
cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness,
and lay no hand upon him ; that he might rid
him out of their hands, to deliver him to his
father again. A nd it came to pass, when Joseph
was come unto his brethren, that they stript Jo-
seph out of his coat, his coat of many colours
that lyas on him ; and they took him, and cast
him into a pit : and the pit was empty, there was
no water in it. And they sat down to eat bread :
and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and,
behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gi-
lead with their camels bearing spicery and balm
and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit
is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his^
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blood? come, and let us sell idm to the Ishmeel-
ites, and let not our hand be upon him ; for he
is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren
were content. Then there passed by Midianites
merchantmen ; and they drew and lifted up Jo-
seph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ish-
meelites for twenty pieces of silver : and they
brought Joseph into Egypt. And Keuben re-
turned unto the pit ; and, behold, Joseph was
not in the pit ; and he rent his clothes. And he
returned unto his brethren, and said, The child
is not ; and I, whither shall I go ? And they
took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats,
and dipped the coat in the blood ; and they sent
the coat of many colours, and they brought it to
their father ; and said. This have we found :
know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat ;
an evil beast hath devoured him ; Joseph is
without doubt rent in pieces. And Jacob rent
his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and
mourned for his son many days. And all his
sons and aU his daughters rose up to comfort
him ; but he refused to be comforted ; and he said,
For I ^vill go down into the grave unto my son
mourning. Thus his father wept for him. And
the ]Midianites sold hira intoEg)T)t unto Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
Evening. Gen. xxxix.
A ND Joseph was brought down to Egypt ;
J\. and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, cap-
tain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of
the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought
him down thither. And the Lord was with Jo-
seph, and he was a prosperous man ; and he was
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in the house of his master the Egyptian. And
his master saw that the Lord was with him, and
that the Lord made all that he did to prosper
in his hand. And Joseph found grace in his
sight, and he served him : and he made him
overseer over his house, and all that he had he
put into his hand. And it came to pass from
the time that he had made him overseer in his
house, and over all that he had, that the Lord
blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake ;
and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that
he had in the house, and in the field. And he
left all that he had in Joseph's hand ; and he
knew not ought he had, save the bread which he
did eat. And Joseph was a goodly pe7'son, and
well favoured. And it came to pass after these
things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon
Joseph ; and she said, Lie with me. But he re-
fused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold,
my master wotteth not what is with me in the
house, and he hath committed all that he hath
to my hand ; there is none greater in this house
than I ; neither hath he kept back any thing
from me but thee, because thou art his wife :
how then can I do this great wickedness, and
sin against God ? And it came to pass, as she
spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened
not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
And it came to pass about this time, that Jo-
sej)h went into the house to do his business ;
and there was none of the men of the house there
within. And she caught him by his garment,
saying. Lie with me : and he left his garment in
her hand, and fled, and got him out. And it
came to pass, when she saw that he had left hia
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THIRD SUNDAY IX LENT.
garment in her hand, and was fled forth, that
she called unto the men of lier house, and spake
unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an
Hebrew unto us to mock us ; he came in unto
me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice :
and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted
up my voice and cried, that he left his garment
with me, and fled, and got him out. And she
laid up his garment by her, until liis lord came
home. And she spake unto him according to
these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which
thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to
mock me : and it came to pass, as I lift€d up
my voice and cried, that he left his garment with
me, and fled out. And it came to pass, when
his master heard the words of his wife, which
she spake unto him, saying. After this manner
did thy servant to me ; that his wrath was km-
dled. And Joseph's master took him, and put
him into the priiion, a place where the king's
prisoners ivere bound : and he was there in the
prison. But the Lord was with Joseph, and
shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the
sight of the keeper of the prison. And the
keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's
hand all the prisoners that ivere in the prison ;
and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer
of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to
any thing that was under his hand ; beaiuse the
Lord was with him, and that which he did, the
Lord made it to prosper.
Or, Gen. xl.
A ND it came to pass after these things, that
jl\. the butler of the king of Ej^ypt and his
J)aker had oflended their lord the king of Egypt.
THIRD SUNDAY IX LENT.
And Pharaoh was wroth agaiust two of his offi-
cers, against the chief of the butlers, and against
the chief of the bakers. And he put them in
ward in the house of the captain of the guard,
into the prison, the place where Joseph was
bound. And the captain of the guard charged '
Joseph with them, and he served them : and
they continued a season in ward. And they
dreamed a dream both of them, each man hiSj
dream in one night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the butler and the
baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound
in the prison. And Joseph came in unto them
in the morning, and looked upon them, and, be-
hold, they were sad. And he asked Pharaoh's
officers that ivere with him in the ward of his
lord's house, saying. Wherefore look ye so sadly
to day 1 And they said unto him. We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of
it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not inter-
pretations belong to God ? tell me them, I pray
you. And the chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said to him. In my dream, behold, a
vine icas before me ; and in the vine were three
branches : and it was as though it budded,
and her blossoms shot forth ; and the clusters
thereof brought forth ripe grapes : and Pha-
raoh's cup was in my hand : and I took the
grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and
I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. And Jo-
seph said unto him, This is the interpretation of
it : The three branches are three days : yet
withm three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine
head, and restore thee unto thy place : and thou
sbalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after
FOURTH SUNDAY IX LENT.
the former manner when thou wast his butler.
But think on me when it shall be well with thee,
and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and
make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring
me out of this house : for indeed I was stolen
away out of the land of the Hebrews : and here
also have I done nothintr that they should put
me into the dungeon. When the chief baker
saw that the interpretation was good, he said
unto Joseph, I also v:as in my dream, and, be-
hold, I had three white baskets on my head :
and in the uppermost basket there was of all
manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh ; and the
birds did eat them out of the basket upon my
head. And Joseph answered and said, This is
the interpretation thereof : The three baskets
are three days : yet Mithin three days shall Pha-
raoh lift up thy head from otf thee, and shall
hang thee on a tree ; and the birds shall eat thy
flesh from off thee. And it came to pass the
third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that
he made a feast unto all his servants : and he
lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the
chief baker among his servants. And he re-
stored the chief butler unto liLs butlei"ship again ;
and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand : but
he hanged the chief baker : as Joseph had in-
terpreted to them. Yet did not the chief butler
remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Cf)c JTourtf) SuntJag i" TZtnL
Morning. Gen. xlii.
NOW when Jacob saw that there was com in
Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons. Why do ye
look one upon another ? And he said, Behold, X
FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT.
have heard that there is corn in Egypt : get
you down thither, and buy for us from thence ;
that we may live, and not die. And Joseph^s
ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not
with Ills brethren ; for he said, Lest peradven-
ture mischief befall him. And the sons of
Israel came to buy corn among those that came :
for the famine was in the land of Canaan, And
Joseph xvas the governor over the land, and he
it teas that sold to all the people of the land : and
Joseph's brethren came, and bo\Ted down them-
selves before him ivith their faces to the earth.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew
them, but made himself strange unto them, and
spake roughly unto them ; and he said unto
them. Whence come ye ? And they said, From
the land of Canaan to buy food. And Joseph
knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he
dreamed of them, and said unto them. Ye are
spies ; to see the nakedness of the land ye are
come. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord,
but to buy food are thy servants come. We are
all one man's sons ; we are true men, thy ser-
vants are no spies. And he said unto them,
Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are
come. And they said. Thy servants are twelve
brethren, the sons of one man in the laud of
Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day
with our father, and one is not. And Joseph
said unto them. That is it that I spake unto you,
saying. Ye are spies : hereby ye shall be proved :
By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth
hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
FOURTH SUXDAY IX LENT.
Send one of you, and let him fetch your bro-
ther, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your
words may be proved, whether there he any
truth in you : or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely ye are spies. And he put them all to-
gether into ward three days. And Joseph said
unto them the third day, This do. and live ; for
I fear God : If ye he true men, let one of your
brethren be bound in the house of your prison :
go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses :
but bring yoiu- youngest brother unto me; so
shall your words be verified, and ye shall not
die. And they did so. And they said one to
another, We are verily guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul,
when he besought us, and we would not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us. And
Eeuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto
you, saying. Do not sin against the child : and ye
would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood
is required. And they knew not that Joseph
understood them; for he spake unto them by an
interpreter. And he turned himself about from
them, and wept ; and returned to them again,
and communed with them, and took from them
Simeon, and bound him before their eyes. Then
Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn,
and to restore every man's money into his sack,
and to give them provision for the way: and
thus did he unto them. And they laded their
asses with the com, and departed thence. And
as one of them opened his sack to give his ass
provender in the inn, he espied his money ; for,
behold, it was in his sack's mouth. And he said
unto his brethren, My money is restored ; and,
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lo, it is even in my sack : and their heart failed
them, and they were afraid, saying one to an-
other, What is this that God hath done unto us?
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the
land of Canaan, and told him all that befell
unto them ; saying, The man, who is the lord of
the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for
spies of the country. And we said unto hira. We
are true men; we are no spies : we be twelve
brethren, sons of our father ; one is not, and the
youngest is this day with our father in the land
of Canaan. And the man, the lord of the coun-
try, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye
are true 7)ien; leave one of your brethren here
with me, and take food for the famine of your
households, and be gone : and bring your young-
est brother -unto me: then shall I know that ye
are no spies, but that ye are true men : so will I
deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in
the land. And it came to pass as they emptied
their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of
I money was in his sack : and when both they and
' their father saw the bundles of money, they were
afraid. And Jacob their father said unto them,
Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph
is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Ben-
jamin away: all these things are against me.
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay
my two sons, if I bring him not to thee : deliver
him into my hand, and I wOl bring him to thee
again. And he said, My son shall not go down
with you ; for his brother is dead, and he is left
alone : if mischief befall him by the way in the
which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave.
A^
FOURTH SUXDAY IN LENT.
Evening. Gen. xliii.
it came to pass, when they had eaten up the
corn -which they had brought out of Egypt, their
father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little
food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The
man did solemnly protest unto us, saying. Ye
shall not see my face, except your brother be
with you. If thou wilt send our brother with
us, we will go down and buy thee food : but if
thou wilt not send him, we will not go down :
for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my
face, except your brother be with you. And Israel
said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, 05 to
tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
And they said. The man asked us straitly of our
state, and of our kindred, saying, Js.your father
yet alive ? have ye another brother ? and we
told him according to the tenor of these words :
could we certainly know that he would say,
Bring your brother down ? And Judah said unto
Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we
will arise and go ; that we may live, and not
die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
I will be surety for him ; of my hand shalt thou
require him : if I bring him not unto thee, and
set him before thee, then let me bear the blame
for ever : for except we had lingered, siurely now
we had returned this second time. And their
father Israel said unto them. If it must be so
now. do this ; take of the best fruits in the land
in your vessels, and carry down the man a pre-
sent, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and
myrrh, nuts, and almonds : and take double
money in your hand ; and the money that was
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brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry
it again in your hand ; peradventure it was an
oversight : take also your brother, and arise, go
again unto the man: and God Almighty give
you mercy before the man, that he may send
away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be
bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. And
the men took that present, and they took double
money in their hand, and Benjamin ; and rose up,
and went down to Egypt, and stood before
Joseph. And when Joseph saw Benjamin with
them, he said to the ruler of his house. Bring
these men home, and slay, and make ready ; for
these men shall dme with me at noon. And the
man did as Joseph bade ; and the man brought
the men into Joseph's house. And the men
were afraid, because they were brought into
Joseph's house ; and they said. Because of the
money that was returned in our sacks at the
first time are we brought in ; that he may seek
occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take
us for bondmen, and our asses. And they came
near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house,
and said, sir, we came indeed down at the
first time to buy food : and it came to pass,
when we came to the inn, that we opened our
sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the
mouth of his sack, our money in full weight : and
we have brought it again in our hand. And other
money have we brought down in our hands to
buy food : we cannot tell who put our money in
our sacks. And he said, Peace be to you, fear
not : your God, and the God of your father, hath
given you treasure in your sacks : I had your
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money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
And the man brought the men into Joseph's
house, and gave them water, and they washed
their feet ; and he gave their asses provender.
And they made ready the present against Joseph
came at noon : for they heard that they should
eat breiid there. And -when Joseph came home,
they brought him the present which luas in their
hand into the house, and bowed themselves to
him to the earth. And he asked them of their
welfare, and said. Is your father well, the old
man of whom ye spake ? Is he yet alive ? And
they answered. Thy servant our father is in good
health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down
their heads, and made obeisance. And he lifted
up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
mothers son, and said, Is this your younger bro-
ther, of whom ye spake unto me ? And he said,
God be gracious unto thee, my son. And Joseph
made haste ; for his bowels did yearn upon his
brother : and he sought ivhere to weep ; and he en-
tered into his chamber, and wept there. And he
washed his face, and went out, and refrained him-
self, and said. Set on bread. And they set on for
him by himself, and for them by themselves, and
for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by them-
selves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread
with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination
unto the Egyptians. And they sat before him, the
firstborn according to his birthright, and the
youngest according to his youth : and the men
marvelled one at another. And he took and sent
messes unto them from before him : but Benja-
min ^s mess was five times somuch as any of theiPs.
And they drank, and were merry with hinu
FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT.
Or, Gen. xlv.
THEN Joseph could not refrain himself be-
fore all them that stood by him ; and he
cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And
there stood no man with him, while Joseph made
himself known unto his brethren. And he wept
aloud : and the Egyptians and the house of Pha-
raoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren,
I am Joseph ; doth my father yet live ? And his
brethren could not answer him ; for they were
troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto
his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And
they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now there-
fore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves,
that ye sold me hither : for God did send me be-
fore you to preserv^e life. For these two years
hath the famine hcen in the land : and yet there
are five years, in the which there shall neither he
earing nor harvest. And God sent me before
you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and
to save your lives by a great dehverance. So
now it was not you that sent me hither, but God:
and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and
lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all
the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my
father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son
Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt :
come down unto me, tarry not : and thou shalt
dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be
near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy
children's children, and tliy flocks, and thy herds,
and all that thou hast : and there will I nourish
thee ; for yet there are five years of famine ; lest
thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast,
FOURTH SUNDAY IX LENT.
come to poverty. And. behold, your eyes see,
and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is
my mouth that speaketh unto you. And ye shall
tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of
all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste and
bring down my father hither. And he fell upon
his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
Benjamin Wept upon his neck. ISIoreover he
kissed all liis brethren, and wept upon them ;
and after that his brethren talked with him.
And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's
house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come : and
it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. And
Phamoh said unto Joseph. Say unto thy breth-
ren, This do ye ; lade your beasts, and go, get you
unto the land of Canaan ; and take your father
and your households, and come unto me : and I
will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and
ye shall eat the fat of the land. Now thou art
commanded, this do ye ; take you wagons out
of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for
your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Also regard not your stuff ; for the good of all
the land of Eg}^t is yours. And the cliildren
of Israel did so : and Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and
gave them provision for the way. To all of them
he gave each man changes of raiment ; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver,
and five changes of raiment. And to his father he
sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the
good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden
with command bread and meat for his father by
the way. So he sent his brethren away, and they
departed : and he said unto them, See that ye
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fall not out by the way. And they went up out
of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto
Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph
is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land
of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he be-
lieved them not. And they told him all the
words of Joseph, which he had said unto them :
and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father
revived : and Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph
my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before
I die.
€I)e iFfftI; Suntrag tit lEent.
Morning. Exod. iii.
n^rOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his fa-
J3I ther in law, the priest of Midian : and he
led the flock to the backside of the desert, and
came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush :
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned
with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And
Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And
when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see,
God called unto him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said.
Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither :
put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place
whereon thou standest is holy ground. More-
over he said, I am the God of thy father, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob. And Moses hid his face ; for he was
afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said,
FIFTH SUXDAY IN LENT.
I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their
sorrows ; and I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring
them up out of that land unto a good land and a
large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey ;
unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hit-
tites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and
the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now therefore,
behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
unto me : and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come
now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pha-
raoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the
children of Israel out of Egypt. And ]NIoses said
unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pha-
raoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egjrpt ? And he said, Ceilainly I
will be with thee ; and this shall he a token unto
thee, that I have sent thee : When thou hast
brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall
j serve God upon this mountain. And IVIoses said
I unto God, Behold, when I come unto the chil-
dren of Israel, and shall say unto them. The God
of your fathers hath sent me unto you ; and
they shall say to me, What is his name ? what
shaU. I say unto them ? And God said unto
Moses, I AM THAT I AM : and he said. Thus
shalt thou say imto the children of Israel, I AM
hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover
unto ]Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the chil-
dren of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath sent me unto you : this is my
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FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT,
name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations. Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them. The Lord God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and
of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and seen that which is done to you
in Egypt : and I have said, I will bring you up
out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Je-
busites, unto a land flowing wdth milk and honey.
And they shall hearken to thy voice : and thou
shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto
the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him,
The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us:
and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days'
journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice
to the Lord our God. And I am sure that the
king of Eg}^t will not let you go, no, not by a
mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand,
and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will
do in the midst thereof : and after that he will
let you go. And I will give this people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians : and it shall come
to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
but every woman shall borrow of her neighbour,
and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment : and
ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your
daughters ; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Evening. Exod. v.
A ND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and
J\. told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a
feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh
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said, "V\Tio is the Lord, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go ? I know not the Lord,
neither will I let Israel go. And they said, The
God of the Hebrews hath met with us : let us
go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the
desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God ; lest
he fall upon us with pestilence, or vrith. the
sword. And the king of Egypt said unto them.
Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the peo-
ple from their works ? get you unto your bur-
dens. And Pharaoh said. Behold, the people of
the land now are many, and ye make them rest
from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded
the same day the taskmasters of the people, and
their officers, saying. Ye shall no more give the
people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let
them go and gather straw for themselves. And
the tale of the bricks, which they did make here-
tofore, ye shall lay upon them ; ye shall not di-
minish ought thereof: for they be idle ; therefore
they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our
God. Let there more work be laid upon the
men, that they may labour therein ; and let them
not regard vain words. And the taskmasters of
the people went out, and their officers, and they
spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh,
I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw
where ye can find it : yet not ought of your work
shall be diminished. So the people were scat-
tered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to
gather stubble instead of straw. And the task-
masters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works,
your daily tasks, a^ when there was straw. And
the officers of the children of Israel, which Pha-
raoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten,
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and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled
your task in making brick both yesterday and
to day, as heretofore 1 Then the ofiicers of the
children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh,
saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy
servants I There is no straw given unto thy ser-
vants, and they say to us, Make brick : and, be-
hold, thy servants are beaten ; but the fault is in
thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye
are idle : therefore ye say, Let us go arid do sa-
crifice to the Lord. Go therefore now, ajid work;
for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall
ye deliver the tale of bricks. And the officers of
the children of Israel did see that they ivere in
evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish
ought from your bricks of your daily task. And
they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the
way, as they came forth from Pharaoh : and they
said unto them. The Lord look upon you, and
judge ; because ye have made our savour to be
abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to
slay us. And Moses returned unto the Lord,
and said. Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil en-
treated this people ? why is it that thou hast sent
me ? for since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy
name, he hath done evil to this people ; neither
hast thou delivered thy people at all.
Or, Exod. vi. to v. 14.
THEN the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt
thou see what I will do to Pharaoh : for
with a strong hand shall he let them go, and
with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his
land. And God spake unto Moses, and said unto
him, I am the Lord : and I appeared unto Abni-
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ham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name
of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
■was I not known to them. And I have also es-
tablished my covenant with them, to give them
the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage,
wherein they were strangers. And I have also
heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage ; and I
have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say
unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bond-
age, and I will redeem you with a stretched out
arm, and with great judgments : and I will t<ike
you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God :
and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God,
which bringeth you out from under the burdens
of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto
the land, concerning the which I did swear to
give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob ; and
I will give it you for an heritage: I am the
Lord. And Moses spake so unto the children
of Israel : but they hearkened not unto Moses
for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. And
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Go in, speak
unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the chil-
dren of Israel go out of his land. And Moses spake
before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of
Israel have not hearkened unto me ; how then
.shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised
lips ? And the Lord spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the
children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt.
Wi)z Sixti^ .Suntias in TLtnt
Morning. Exod. ix.
THEN the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto
Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord
God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they
may serve me. For if thou refuse to let them go,
and wilt hold them still, behold, the hand of the
Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field,
upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels,
upon the oxen, and upon the sheep : there shall
be a very grievous murrain. And the Lord shall
sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle
of Egypt : and there shall nothing die of all that
is the children's of Israel. And the Lord ap-
pointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord
shall do this thing in the land. And the Lord
did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle
of Egypt died : but of the cattle of the children
of Israel died not one. And Pharaoh sent, and,
behold, there was not one of the cattle of the
Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was
hardened, and he did not let the people go. And
the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take
to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let
Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight
of Pharaoh. And it shall become small dust in
all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil break-
ing forth with blains upon man, and upon beast,
throughout all the land of Egypt. And they took
ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh ;
and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven ; and
it became a boil breaking forth ivith blains upon
man, and upon beast. And the magicians could
not stand before Moses because of the boils : for
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the boil -was upon the magicians, and upon all
the Egyptians. And the Lord hardened the
heart of Pliaraoh, and he hearkened not unto
them ; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in
the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say
unto him. Thus saith the Lord God of the He-
brews, Let my people go, that they may serve
me. For I will at this time send all my plagues
upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon
thy people ; that thou mayest know that there is
none like me in all the eiirth. For now I will
stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and
thy people with pestilence ; and thou shalt be cut
off from the earth. And in very deed for this
cause have I raised thee up, for to shew iji thee
my power ; and that my name may be declared
throughout all the earth. As yet exaltest thou
thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let
them go 1 Behold, to morrow about this time I
will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as
hath not been in Egypt since the foundation
thereof even until now. Send therefore now,
and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in
the field ; for upon every man and beast which
shall be found in the field, and shall not be
brought home, the hail shall come down upon
them, and they shall die. He that feared the
■word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh
made his servants and his cattle flee into the
houses : and he that regarded not the word of
the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the
field. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may
be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and
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upon beast, and upon every herb of the field,
throughout the land of Egj^pt. And Moses
stretched forth his rod toward heaven : and the
Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran
along upon the ground ; and the Lord rained
hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail,
and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous,
such as there was none like it in all the land of
Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail
smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that
was in the field, both man and beast ; and the
hail smote every herb of the field, and brake
every tree of the field. Only in the land of
Goshen, where the children of Israel vjere, was
there no hail. And Pharaoh sent, and called for
Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have
sinned this time : the Lord is righteous, and I
and my people are wicked. Intreat the Lord
(for it is enough) that there be no more mighty
thunderings and hail ; and I will let you go, and
ye shall stay no longer. And Moses said unto
him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will
spread abroad my hands unto the Lord ; and
the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any
more hail ; that thou may est know how that the
earth is the Lord's. But as for thee and thy
servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the
Lord God. And the flax and the barley was
smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the
flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rie were
not smitten : for they were not grown up. And
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and
spread abroad his hands unto the Lord : and the
thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not
poured upon the earth. And when Pharaoh saw
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that the rain and the hail and the thunders were
ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants. And the heart of
Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the
children of Israel go ; as the Lord had spoken
by Moses.
Second Lesson. Matt. xxvi.
A ND it came to pass, when Jesus had finished
X\_ all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the
passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be
crucified. Then assembled together the chief
priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the
people, unto the palace of the high priest, who
was -called Caiaphas, and consulted that they
might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. But
they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an
uproar among the people. Now when Jesus was
in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there
came unto him a woman having an alabaster box
of very precious ointment, and poured it on his
head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples
saw it, they had indignation, saying. To what
purpose is this waste ? for this ointment might
have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them,
"WTiy trouble ye the woman ? for she hath wrought
a good work upon me. For ye have the poor
always with you ; but me ye have not always.
Por in that she hath poured this ointment on
my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I
say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be
preached in the whole world, there shall also this,
that this woman hath done, be told for a memo-
rial of her. Then one of the twelve, called Judas
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Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said
unto them, What will ye give me, and I will de-
liver him unto you ? And they covenanted with
him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that
time he sought opportunity to betray him. Now
the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the
disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where
wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pass-
over? And he said, Go into the city to such a
man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My
time is at hand ; I will keep the passover at thy
house with my disciples. And the disciples did
as Jesus had appointed them ; and they made
ready the passover. Now when the even was
come, he sat down with the twelve. And as they
did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one
of you shall betray me. And they were exceed-
ing sorrowful, and began every one of them to
say unto him. Lord, is it I ? And he answered
and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in
the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of
man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto
that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed !
it had been good for that man if he had not been
born. Then Judas, which betrayed him, answer-
ed and said, Master, is it I ? He said unto him,
Thou hast said. And as they were eating, Jesus
took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave
it to the disciples, and said. Take, eat ; this is my
body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks,;
and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it ;
for this is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many for the remission of sins. But
I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of
this fruit of the vine, until that day when I
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drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
And when they had sung an hymn, they went
out into the mount of Olives. Then saith Jesus
unto them, All ye shall be offended because of
me this night : for it is written, I will smite the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be
scattered abroad. But after I am risen again, I
will go before you into Galilee. Peter answered
and said unto him, Though all men shall be
offended because of thee, yet will I never be
offended. Jesus said unto him. Verily I say
unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him,
Though I should die with thee, yet will I not
deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called
Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye
here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took
with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then
saith he unto them. My soul is exceeding sorrow-
ful, even unto death : tarry ye here, and watch
with me. And he went a little farther, and fell
on his face, and prayed, saying, my Father, if
it be possible, let tliis cup pass from me : never-
theless not as I will, but as thou wilt And he
cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them
asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not
watch with me one hour ? Watch and pray, that
ye enter not into temptation : the spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away
again the second time, and prayed, saying, my
Father, if this cup may not pass away from me,
except I drink it, thy will be done. And he
came and found them asleep again : for their
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eyes were heavy. And he left them, and went
away again, and prayed the third time, saying
the same words. Then eoraeth he to his dis-
ciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and
take your rest : behold, the hour is at hand, and
the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of
sinners. Rise, let us be going : behold, he is at
hand that doth betray me. And while he yet
spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and
with him a great multitude with swords and
staves, from the chief priests and elders of the
pe«ple. Now he that betrayed him gave them
a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that
same is he : hold him fast. And forthwith he
came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master ; and kissed
him. And Jesus said unto him, Friend, where-
fore art thou come ? Then Ciime they, and laid
hands on Jesus, and took him. And, behold,
one of them which were with Jesus stretched out
his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a ser-
vant of the high priest's, and smote otf his ear.
Then said Jesus unto him. Put up again thy
sword into his place : for all they that take the
sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest
thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and
he shall presently give me more than twelve
legions of angels ? But how then shall the scrip-
tures be fulfilled, that thus it must be ? In that
same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye
come out as against a thief with swords and staves
for to take me ? I sat daily with you teaching
in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But
all this was done, that the scripture-s of the pro-
phets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples
forsook him, and fled. And they that had laid hold
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on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high
priest, where the scribes and the elders were as-
sembled. But Peter followed him afar off unto
the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with
the servants, to see the end. Now the chief
priests, and elders, and all the council, sought
false witness against Jesus, to put him to death ;
but found none : yea, though many false witnesses
came, yet found they none. At the last came two
false witnesses, and said, This fellow said, I am
able to destroy the temple of God, and to build
it in three days. And the high priest arose, and
said unto him, Answerest thou notliing ? what is
it u-Jiich these witness against thee ? But Jesus
held his peace. And the high priest answered and
said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God,
that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the
Son of God. Jesus saith unto him. Thou hast
said : nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall
ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand
of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying. He
hath spoken blasphemy ; what further need have
we of witnesses ? behold, now ye have heard his
blasphemy. What think ye ? They answered
and said, He is guilty of death. Then did they
spit in his face, and buffeted him ; and others
smote him with the palms of their hands, saying,
Prophesy unto us, thou Clu-ist, Who is he that
smote thee? Now Peter sat without in the
palace : and a damsel came unto him, saying.
Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. But he
denied before thejn all, saying, I know not Avhat
I thou sayest. And when he was gone out into
i the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto
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them that were there, This felloiv was also with
Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with
an oath, I do not know the man. And after a
while came unto him they that stood by, and
said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them ;
for thy speech bewrayeth thee. Then began he
to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the
man. And immediately the cock crew. And
Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said
unto him. Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny
me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Evening. Exod. x.
A ND the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto
XjL Pharaoh : for I have hardened his heart,
and the heart of his servants, that I might shew
these my signs before him : and that thou mayest
tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son,
what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my
signs which I have done among them ; that ye
may know how that I am the Lord. And Moses
and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto
him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews,
How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself
before me? let my people go, that they may
serve me. Else, if thou refuse to let my people
go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into
thy coast : and they shall cover the face of the
earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth :
and they shall eat the residue of that which is
escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail,
and shall eat every tree Avhich groweth for you
out of the field : and they shall fill thy houses,
and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses
of all the Egyptians ; which neither thy fathers,
nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
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that they were upon the earth unto this day.
And he turned himself, and went out from
Pharaoh. And Pharaoh's servants said unto
him. How long shall this man be a snare unto
us ? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord
their God : knowest thou not yet that Egypt is
destroyed ? And ISIoses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharaoh : and he said unto them, Go,
serve the Lord your God : but who are they that
shall go ? And Moses said, We will go with our
young and with our old, with our sons and with
our daughters, with our iiocks and with our herds
will we go ; for we must hold a feast unto the
Lord. And he said unto them, Let the Lord be
so with you, as I will let you go, and your little
ones : look to it ; for evil is before you. Not so :
go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord ;
for that ye did desire. And they were driven
out from Pharaoh's presence. And the Lord
said unto jNIoses, Stretch out thine hand over the
land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come
up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb
of the land, even all that the hail hath left. And
Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of
Egypt, and tlie Lord brought an east wind upon
the land all that dav.and all that night ; and when
it Wcis morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
And thelocusts went upoverall the land of Egypt,
and rested in all the coasts of Egypt : very griev-
ous were they ; before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
For they covered the foce of the whole earth, so
I that the land was darkened ; and they did eat
j every herb of the land, and all the frait of the
trees which the hail had left : and there remained
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not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs
of the field, through all the land of Egypt. Then
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste ;
and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your
God, and against you. Now therefore forgive, I
pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the
Lord your God, that he may take away from me
this death only. And he went out from Pharaoh,
and intreated the Lord. And the Lord turned
a mighty strong west wind, which took away the
locusts, and cast them into the Red sea ; there
remained not one locust in all the coasts of
Egypt. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine
hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness
over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may
be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand j
toward heaven ; and there was a thick darkness ;
in all the land of Egypt three days : they saw ;
not one another, neither rose any from his place
for three days : but all the children of Israel hjid
light in their dwellings. And Pharaoh called
unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord ;
only let your flocks and your herds be stayed :
let your little ones also go with you. And Moses
said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord
our God. Our cattle also shall go with us ; there
shall not an hoof be left behind ; for thereof
must we take to sen^e the Lord our God ; and
we know not with what we must serve the Lord,
until Ave come thither. But the Lord hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me,
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take heed to thyself, see my face no more ; for in
that day thou seest my face thou shalt die. And
]Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy
face again no more.
Or, Exod. xi.
A ND the Lord said unto INIoses, Yet will I
JIJL bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and
upon Egj'pt ; afterwards he will let you go hence :
when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrtist
you out hence altogether. Speak now in the
ears of the people, and let every man borrow of
his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour,
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold. And the
Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very
great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pha-
raoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About
midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt :
and ail the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall
die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth
upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the
maidservant that is beliind the mill ; and aU the
firstborn of beasts. And there shall be a great
cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as
there M'as none like it, nor shall be like it any
more. But against any of the children of Israel
shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or
beast : that ye may know how that the Lord
doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel. And aU these thy servants shall come
down unto me, and bow down themselves unto
me, saying. Get thee out, and all the people that
follow thee : and after that I will go out. And
he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger. And
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the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not
hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multi-
plied in the land of Egypt. And Moses and Aaron
did all these wonders before Pharaoh : and the
Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would
not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Second Lesson. Luke xix. v. 28.
A KD when he had thus spoken, he went before,
Xjl ascending up to Jerusalem. And it came
to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage
and Bethany, at the mount called the mou7it of
Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying, Go ye
into the village over against you ; in the which at
your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon
yet never man sat : loose him, and bring him
hither. And if any man ask you. Why do ye loose
him ? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the
Lord hath need of him. And they that were sent
went their way, and found even as he had said unto
them. And as they were loosing the colt, the
owners thereof said unto them. Why loose ye the
colt ? And they said, The Lord hath need of
him. And they brought him to Jesus : and they
cast their garments upon the colt, and they set
Jesus thereon. And as he went, they spread
their clothes in the way. And when he was come
nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of
Ohves, the whole multitude of the disciples began
to rejoice and j)raise God with a loud voice for
all the mighty works that they had seen ; saying,
Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of
the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the
highest. And some of the Pharisees from among
the multitude said unto him. Master, rebuke thy
disciples. And he answered and said unto them,
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I tell you that, if these should hold their peace,
the stones would immediately cry out. And when
he was come near, he beheld the city, and wejDt
over it, saying, 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 shaU come upon thee, that
thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and
compass thee round, and keep thee in on every
side, and shall lay thee even with the ground,
and thy children within thee ; and they shall not
leave in thee one stone upon another ; because
thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
And he went into the temple, and began to cast
out them that sold therein, and them that bought ;
saying unto them. It is written, My house is the
house of prayer : but ye have made it a den of
thieves. And he taught daily in the temple.
But the chief priests and the scribes and the
chief of the people sought to destroy him, and
could not find what they might do : for all the
people were very attentive to hear him.
Or, Luke xx. v. 9 to v. 21.
THEN began he to speak to the people this
parable ; A certain man planted a vineyard,
and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a
far country for a long time. And at the season
he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they
should give him of the fruit of the vineyard : but
the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away
empt3\ And agam he sent another servant :
and they beat him also, and entreated him shame-
fully, and sent him away empty. And again he
sent a third : and they wounded him ako, and
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cast him out. Then said the lord of the vineyard.
What shall I do ? I will send my beloved son :
it may be they will reverence him when they see
him. But when the husbandmen saw him, they
reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the
heir : come, let us kill him, that the inheritance
may be our's. So they cast him out of the vine-
yard, and killed him. What therefore shall the
lord of the vineyard do unto them? He shall
come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall
give the vineyard to otherS. And when they
heard it, they said, God forbid. And he beheld
them, and said, What is this then that is written,
The stone which the builders rejected, the same
is become the head of the corner? Whosoever
shall fall upon that stone shall be broken ; but
on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder. And the chief priests and the scribes the
same hour sought to lay hands on him ; and they
feared the people : for they perceived that he had
spoken this parable against them. And they
watched him, and sent forth apiea, which should
feign themselves just men, that they might take
hold of his words, that so they might deliver him
unto the power and authority of the governor,
©aster Dag.
Morniwj. Exod. xii. to v, 29.
A ND the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron
-^\. in the land of Egypt, saying, This month
shall he unto you the beginning of months : it
shall he the first month of the year to you. Speak
ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth day of this month they shall take to
them every man a lamb, according to the house
of their fathers, a lamb for an house ; and if the
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household be too little for the lamb, let him and
his neighbour next unto liis house take it accord-
ing to the number of the souls ; every man accord-
ing to his eatuig shall make your count for the
lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male
of the first year : ye shall take it out from the
sheep, or from the goats : and ye shall keep it up
until the fourteenth day of the same month : and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take
of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and
on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they
shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread ; and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it
raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast ivith
fire ; his head with his legs, and with the purte-
nance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it
remain until the morning ; and that Avhich re-
maineth of it until the morning ye shall bm-n
with fire. And thus shall ye eat it ; ivith your loins
girded, yoiu? shoes on your feet, and your sti^ff" in
your hand ; and ye shall eat it in haste : it is the
Lord's passover. For I ^dll pass through the laijd
of Eg}'^)t this night, and will smite all the firstborn
in the land of Eg}^)t, both man and beast ; and
against all the gods of Eg}^pt I will execute
judgment : I am the Lord. And the blood shall
be to you for a token upon the houses where ye
are : and when I see the blood, I will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial ;
and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord through-
out your generations ; ye shall keep it a feast
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by an ordinance for ever. Seven day» shall ye
eat unleavened bread ; even the first day ye shall
put away leaven out of your houses : for whoso-
ever eateth leavened bread from the first day
until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off
from Israel. And in the first day there shall he
an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there
shall be an holy convocation to you ; no manner
of work shall be done in them, save that which
every man must eat, that only may be done of
you. And ye shall observe the feast of unleaven-
ed bread ; for in this selfsame day have I brought
your armies out of the land of Egypt : therefore
shall ye observe this day in your generations by
an ordinance for ever. In the first months on
the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall
eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth
day of the month at even. Seven days shall
there be no leaven found in your houses : for
whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even
that soul shall be cut off from the congregation
of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the
land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened ; in all your
habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. Then
Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them. Draw out and take you a lamb accord-
ing to your families, and kill the passover. And
ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in
the blood that is in the bason, and strike the
lintel and the two side posts with the blood that
is in the bason ; and none of you shall go out at
the door of his house until the morning. For the
Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians ;
and when he seeth the blood uix>n the lintel, and
on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over
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the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come
in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall
observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and
to thy sons for ever. And it shall come to pass,
when ye be come to the land which the Lord
will give you, according as he hath promised, that
ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to
pass, when your children shall say unto you,
What mean ye by this service ? that ye shall say,
It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who
passed over the houses of the children of Israel
in Eg^'pt, when he smote the Egyptians, and
delivered our houses. And the people bowed the
head and worshipped. And the children of Israel
went away, and did as the Lord had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Second Lesson. Rev. i. v. 10 to v. 19.
I WAS in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and
heard behind me a great voice, as of a trum-
pet, saying. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and
the k\st : and, What thou seest, write in a book,
and send it unto the seven churches which are in
Asia ; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, j
and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And \
I turned to see the voice that spake with me.
And being turned, I saw seven golden candle- ;
sticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks
0716 like unto the Son of man, clothed with a ;
garment down to the foot, and girt about the ;
paps with a golden girdle. His head and his \
hairs ivere white like wool, as white as snow ; ;
and his eyes ivere as a flame of fire ; and his feet |
like unto' fine brass, as if they burned in a fur- |
nace ; and his voice as the sound of many waters, i
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And he had in his right hand seven stars : and
out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword :
and his countenance was as the sun shineth in
his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his
feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon
me, saying unto me. Fear not ; I am the first and
the last : I am he that liveth, and was dead ;
and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen ; and
have the keys of hell and of death.
Evening. Exod. xii, v. 29.
AND it came to pass, that at midnight the
XJl. Lord smote all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that
sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the
captive that was in the dungeon ; and all the
firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the
night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyp-
tians ; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for
there was not a house where there was not one
dead. And he called for Moses and Aaron by
night, and said, Kise up, and get you forth from
among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel ; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said.
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have
said, and be gone ; and bless me also. And the
Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that
they might send them out of the land in haste ;
for they said. We 6e all dead men . And the people
took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes
upon their shoulders , And the children of Israel
did according to the word of Moses ; and they
borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment : and the Lord gave
the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians,
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SO that they lent unto them such things as they
required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. And
the children of Israel journeyed from Eameses
to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot
that luere men, beside children. And a mixed
multitude v>'ent up also with them ; and flocks,
and herds, even very much cattle. And they
baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leaven-
ed ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and
could not tarry, neither had they prepared for
themselves any victual. Now the sojourning of
the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, icas
four hundred and thirty years. And it came to I
pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty \
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that
all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land i
of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed
unto the Lord for bringing them out from the
land of Egypt : this is that night of the Lord to
be observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations. And the Lord said unto Moses
and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover :
There shall no stranger eat thereof : but every
man's servant that is bought for money, when
thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat
thereof. A foreigner and an hired servant shall
not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten ;
thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh
abroad out of the house ; neither shaU ye break
a bone thereof. All the congregation of Israel
shall keep it. And when a stranger shall sojourn
with thee, and will keep the passover to the
Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then
let him come near and keep it ; and he shall be
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as one that is born in the land : for no uncircum-
cised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be
to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger
that sojoumeth among you. Thus did all the
children of Israel ; as the Lord commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to
pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt
by their armies.
Or, Exod. xiv.
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
XJL Speak unto the children of Israel, that they
turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between
Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon :
before it shall ye encamp by the sea. For Pha-
raoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut
them in. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
that he shall follow after them ; and I will be
honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host ;
that the Egyptians may know that I arti the
Lord. And they did so. And it was told the
king of Egypt that the people fled : and the
heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned
against the people, and they said, Why have we
done this, that we have let Israel go from serving
us ? And he made ready his chariot, and took
his people with him : and he took six hundred
chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt,
and captcxins over every one of them. And the
Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Is-
rael : and the children of Israel went out with
an high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after
them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and
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his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before
Baal-zephon. And when Pharaoh drew nigh,
the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and,
behold, the Egyptians marched after them ; and
they were sore afraid : and the children of Israel
cried out unto the Lord. And they said unto
Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt,
hast thou taken us aw^ay to die in the wilderness ?
wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry
us forth out of Egj^t ? Is not this the word that
we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone,
thai we may serve the Egyptians ? For it had
been better for us to sen^e the Egyptians, than
that we should die in the wilderness. And
Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand
still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he
will shew to you to day : for the Egyptians whom
ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no
more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you,
and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord
said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me ?
speak unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward : but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch
out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and
the children of Israel shall go on dry ground
through the midst of the sea. And I, behold, I
will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall follow them : and I will get me honour
upon Pharaoh, and upon aU his host, upon his
chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the Egyp-
tians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have
gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his cha-
riots, and upon his horsemen. And the angel
of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
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removed and went behind them ; and the pillar
of the cloud went from before their face, and
stood behind them : and it came between the
camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ;
and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it
gave light by night to these : so that the one
came not near the other all the night. And Moses
stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the
Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east
wind all that night, and made the sea dry land,
and the waters were divided. And the children
of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the
dry ground : and the waters ivere a wall unto
them on their right hand, and on their left. And
the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them
to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses,
his chariots, and his horsemen; And it came to
pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked
unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar
of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of
the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels,
that they drave them heavily : so that the Egyp-
tians said. Let us flee from the face of Israel ; for
the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine
hand over the sea, that the waters may come
again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots,
and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched
forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned
to his strength when the morning appeared ; and
the Egyptians fled against it ; and the Lord
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
And the waters returned, and covered the cha-
riots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pha-
raoh that came into the sea after them ; there
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remained not so much as one of them. But the
children of Israel walked upon dry land in the
midst of the sea ; and the waters icere a wall
unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the
hand of the Egyptians ; and Israel saw the
Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. And Israel
saw that great work which the Lord did upon
the Egyptians : and the people feared the Lord,
and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.
Second Lesson. John xx. v. 11 to v. 19.
BUT ;Mary stood without at the sepulchre
weeping : and as she wept, she stooped
down, and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth
two angels in white sitting, the one at the head,
and the other at the feet, where the body of Je-
sus had loin. And they say unto her. Woman,
why weepest thou ? She saith unto them, Be-
cause they have taken away my Lord, and I
know not where they have laid him. And when
she had thus said, she turned herself back, and
saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was
Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why weep-
est thou ? whom seekest thou 1 She, supposing
him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, it'
thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou
hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus
saith unto her. IMary. She turned herself, and
saith unto hiui, Eabboni ; which is to say, Master.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I am not
i yet ascended to my Father : but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father,
and your Father ; and to my God, and your God.
Mary ^Magdalene came and told the disciples that
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she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken
these things unto her.
Or, Rev. v.
A ND I saw in the right hand of him that sat
Jl\. on the throne a book written within and
on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And
I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud
voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to
loose the seals thereof ? And no man in heaven,
nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to
open the book, neither to look thereon. And T
wept much, because no man was found worthy
to open and to read the book, neither to look
thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me,
Weep not : behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda,
the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And
I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and
of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
^tood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven
horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spi-
rits of God sent forth into all the earth. And
he came and took the book out of the right hand
of him that sat upon the throne. And when he
had taken the book, the four beasts and four and
twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps, and golden vials full of
odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they
sung a new song, saying. Thou art worthy to take
the book, and to open the seals thereof : for thou
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and peo-
ple, and nation ; and hast made us unto our God
kings and priests : and we shall reign on the
earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of
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many angels round about the throne and the
beasts and the elders : and the number of them !
was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thou-
sands of thousands ; saying with a loud voice,
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive
power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength,
and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every
creature which is in heaven, and on the earth,
and under the earth, and such as are in the sea,
and all that are in them, heard I saying. Blessing,
and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb
for ever and ever. And the four beasts said,
Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell
down and worshipped him that liveth for ever
and ever.
€I)C JFtrst SuntJag after Caster.
Morning. Num. xvi. to v. 36.
"VTOW Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Ko-
JAl hath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abi-
ram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth,
sons of Reuben, took men ; and they rose up be-
fore Moses, with certain of the children of Israel,
two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly,
famous in the congregation, men of renown : and ;
they gathered themselves together against Moses '
and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take ;
too much upon you, seeing all the congregation '
are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is \
among them : wherefore then lift ye up yourselves |
above the congregation of the Lord ? And when I
Moses heard "i"f, he fell upon his face : and he \
spake unto Korah and unto all his company,
saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who
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are his, and who is holy ; and will cause him to
come near unto him : even him whom he hath
chosen will he cause to come near unto him. This
do ; Take you censers, Korah, and all his com-
pany ; and put fire therein, and put incense in
them before the Lord to morrow : and it shall
be that the man whom the Lord doth choose,
he shall he holy : ye take too much upon you, ye
sons of Levi. And Moses said unto Korah, Hear,
I pray you, ye sons of Levi : seemeth it but a
small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath
separated you from the congregation of Israel, to
bring you near to himself to do the service of
the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before
the congregation to minister unto them ? and
he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy
brethren the sons of Levi with thee : and seek
ye the priesthood also ? for which cause both
thou and all thy company are gathered together
against the Lord : and what is Aaron, that ye
murmur against him ? And Moses sent to call
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab : which
said, We will not come up : is it a small thing
that thou hast brought us up out of a land
that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in
the wilderness, except thou make thyself alto-
gether a prince over us ? Moreover thou hast
not brought us into a land that floweth with
milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields
and vineyards : wilt thou put out the eyes of
these men 1 we will not come up. And Moses
was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect
not thou their offering : I have not taken one ass
from them, neither have I hurt one of them. And
Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy com-
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pany before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron,
to morrow : and take every man his censer, and
Eut incense in them, and bring ye before the
lORD every man his censer, two hundred and
fifty censers ; thou also, and Aaron, each of you
his censer. And they took every man his censer, '
and put fire in them, and hiid incense thereon,
and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation with IMoses and Aaron, And Korah
gathered all the congregation against them unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation :
and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the
congregation. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and unto Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from
among this congregation, that I may consume
them in a moment. And they fell upon their
faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of
all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be
wroth with all the congregation ? And the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the con-
gregation, saying. Get you up from about the
tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And
Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abi-
ram ; and the elders of Israel followed him. And
he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart,
I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men,
and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed
in all their sins. So they gat up from the taber-
nacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every
side : and Dathan and Abiram came out, and
stood in the door of their tents, and their wives,
and their sons, and their little children. And
Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord
hath sent me to do all these works ; for I have
not done them of mine own mind. If these men
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die the common death of all men, or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men; then
the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord
make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth,
and sAvallow them up, with all that apjjertain
unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ;
then ye shall understand that these men have
provoked the Lord. And it came to pass, as he
had made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground clave asunder that ivas under
them : and the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the
men that cq^i^ertained unto Korah, and all their
goods. They, and all that appertained to them,
went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed
upon them : and they perished from among the
congregation. And all Israel that icere round
about them fled at the cry of them : for they said.
Lest the earth swallow us up also. And there
came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed
the two hundred and fifty men that offered in-
cense.
Second Lesson. 1 Cor. xv. to v. 29.
MOREOVER, brethren, I declare unto you
the gospel which I preached unto you,
which also ye have received, and wherein ye
stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in
memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first
of all that which I also received, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures ; and
that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures : and that
he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve : after
that, he was seen of above five himdred bretlu-en
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at once ; of whom the greater part remain unto •
this present, but some are fallen asleep. After '
that, he was seen of James ; then of all the |
apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, j
as of one born out of due time. For I am the j
least of the apostles, that am not meet to be call- i
ed an apostle, because I persecuted the church
of God. But by the grace of God I am what I [
am : and his grace which was bestowed upon me
was not in "v-ain ; but I laboured more abun-
dantly than they all : yet not I, but the grace of \
God which was with me. Therefore whether it I
were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believ- i
ed. Now if Christ be preached that he rose |
from the dead, how say some among you that |
there is no resiu'rection of the dead ? But if |
there be no resurrection of the dead, then is ■
Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, j
then is our preacliing vain, and yoiu: faith is also ;
vain. Yea, and we are found folse witnesses of ;
God ; because we have testified of God that he
raised up Christ : whom he raised not up, if so
be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise
not, then is not Christ raised : and if Christ
be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in
your sins. Then they also which are foUen asleep
in Christ are perished. If in this life only we
have hope in Christ, we are of all men most mi-
serable. But now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, by man ca/me also
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in liis own order : Christ the
firstfruits ; afterward they that are Christ's at
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his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the
Father ; when he shall have put down all rule
and all authority and power. For he must reign,
till he hath put all 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 mani-
fest that he is excepted, which did put all things
under him. And when all things shall be sub-
dued 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.
Evening. Num. xvi. v. 36.
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
. Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, that he take up the censers out of the burn-
ing, and scatter thou the fire yonder ; for they are
hallowed. The censers of these sinners against
their own souls, let them make them broad plates
for a covering of the altar : for they offered them
before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed :
and they shall be a sign unto the children of Is-
rael. And Eleazar the priest took the brasen
censers, wherewith they that were burnt had
offered ; and they were made broad plates for a
covering of the altar : to be a memorial unto the
children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not
of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense
before the Lord ; that he be not as Korah, and
as his company : as the Lord said to him by the
hand of Moses. But on the morrow all the con-
gregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron, saying. Ye
have killed the people of the Lord. And it
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came to pass, when the congregation was gathered
against JMoses and against Aaron, that they look-
ed toward the tabernacle of the congregation :
and. behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory
of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aarou
came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Get
you up from among this congregation, that I may
consume them as in a moment. And they fell
upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron,
Take a censer, and put fire therein from oflf the
altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto
the congregation, and make an atonement for
them : for there is wrath gone out from the Lord ;
the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses
commanded, and ran into the midst of the con-
gregation ; and, behold, the plague was begun
among the people : and he put on incense, and
made an atonement for the people. And he
stood between the dead and the living ; and the
plague was stayed. Now they that died in the
plague were fourteen thousand and seven hun-
dred, beside them that died about the matter of
Korah. And Aaron returned unto Moses unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation :
and the plague was stayed.
Or, Num. xvii. to v. 12.
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
. Speak unto the children of Israel, ' and
take of every one of them a rod according to
the house of their fathers, of all their princes
according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods : write thou every man's name upon his
rod. And thou shalt write Aaron^s name upon
the rod of Levi : for one rod shaU he for the
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head of the house of their fathers. And thou
shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the con-
gregation before the testimonj'-, where I will
meet with you. And it shall come to pass, that
the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blos-
som : and I will make to cease from me the mur-
murings of the children of Israel, whereby they
murmur against you. And Moses spake unto
the children of Israel, and every one of their
princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince
one, according to their fathers^ houses, even twelve
rods : and the rod of Aaron ^vas among their
rods. And Moses laid up the rods before the
Lord in the tabernacle of witness. And it came
to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
tabernacle of witness ; and, behold, the rod of
Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and
brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and
yielded almonds. And Moses brought out all
"the rods from before the Lord unto all the chil-
dren of Israel : and they looked, and took every
man his rod. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony,
to be kept for a token against the rebels ; and
thou shalt quite take away their murmurings
from me, that they die not. And Moses did so :
as the Lord commanded him, so did he.
Second Lesson. John xx. v. 24 to v. 30.
BUT Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didy-
mus, was not with them when Jesus came.
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We
have seen the Lord. But he said unto them,
Except I shall see in his hands the print of the
nails, and put my finger into the print of the
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nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will
not believe. And after eight days again his dis-
ciples were within, and Thomas with them : then
came Jesus, the doors bemg shut, and stood in
the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then
saith he to Thomas, Eeach hither thy finger, and
behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand,
and thrust it into my side : and be not faithless,
but believing. And Thomas answered and said
unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith
unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me,
thou hast believed : blessed are they that have
not seen, and yd have believed.
V^l)C Secontr Suntias afttr ((faster.
Morning. Kum. xx. to v. 14.
THEN came the children of Israel, even the
whole congregation, into the desert of Zin
in the first month : and the people abode in
Kadesh ; and Miriam died there, and was buried
there. And there was no water for the congre-
gation : and they gathered themselves together
against jMoses and against Aaron. And the
people chode with Moses, and spake, saying.
Would God that we had died when our brethren
died before the Lord ! and why have ye brought
up the congregation of the Lord into this wil-
derness, that we and our cattle should die there ?
and wherefore have ye made us to come up out
of Egypt^ to bring us in unto this evil place ? it
is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates ; neither is there any water to
drink. And ^Moses and Aaron went from the
presence of the assembly unto the door of the taber-
nacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their
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faces : and the glory of the Lord appeared unto
them. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly toge-
ther, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye
unto the rock before their eyes ; and it shall give
forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them
water out of the rock : so thou shalt give the
congregation and their beasts drink. And Mo-
ses took the rod from before the Lord, as he
commanded him. And Moses and Aaron ga-
thered the congregation together before the rock,
and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels ;
must we fetch you water out of this rock ? And
Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he
smote the rock twice : and the water came out
abundantly, and the congregation drank, and
their beasts also. And the Lord spake unto
Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not,
to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of
Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congre-
gation into the land which I have given them.
This is the water of Meribah ; because the chil-
dren of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was
sanctified in them.
Evening. Num. xx. v. 14 to xxi. v. 10.
AND Moses sent messengers from Kadesh
unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy
brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travel that
hath befallen us : how our fathers went down
into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egj'pt a long
time ; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
fathers : and when we cried unto the Lord, he
heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath
brought us forth out of Egypt : and, behold, we
are in Kiidesh, a city in the uttermost of thy
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border : let us pass I pray thee, through thy coun-
try : we will not pass through the fields, or
through the vineyards, neither ■will we drink of
the water of the wells : we will go by the king's
high way, we will not turn to the right hand
nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass
by me, lest I come out against thee with the
sword. And the children of Israel said unto
him. We will go by the high way : and if I and
my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for
it : I will only, without doing any thing the. go
through on my feet. And he said. Thou shalt
not go through. And Edom came out against
him with much people, and with a strong liand.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through
his border : wherefore Israel turned away from
him. And the children of Israel, eun the whole
, congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came
unto mount Hor. And the Lord spake unto
I Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of
the land of Edom. saying. Aaron shall be gather-
ed unto his people : for he shall not enter into
the land which I have given unto the children
of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word
at the water of jSIeribah. Take Aaron and Elea-
zar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor :
and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them
upon Eleazar his son : and Aaron shall be ga-
thered unto his people, and shall die there. And
Moses did as the Lord commanded : and they
went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the
congregation. And Moses stripped Aaron of his
garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son ;
and Aaron died there in the top of the mount :
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and Moses and Eleazar came down from thB
mount. And when all the congregation saw
that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron
thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
And loheji king Arad the Canaanite, which
dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came
by the way of the spies ; then he fought against
Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And
Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If
thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my
hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel,
and delivered up the Canaanites ; and they ut-
terly destroyed them and their cities ; and he
called the name of the place Hormah. And they
journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the
Red sea, to compass the land of Edoni : and the
soul of the people was much discouraged because
of the way. And the people spake against God,
and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought
us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? for
there is no bread, neither is there any water ; and
our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord
sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people ; and much people of Israel died.
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said. We
have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord,
and against thee ; pray unto the Lord, that he take
away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed
for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole :
and it shall come to pass, that every one that is
bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And
Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon
a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had
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bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of
brass, he lived.
Or, Num. xxi. v. 10.
A ND the children of Israel set forward, and
JLJL pitched in Oboth. And they journeyed
from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the
wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sun-
rising. From thence they removed, and pitched
in the valle}^ of Zared. From thence they re-
moved, and pitched on the other side of Arnon,
which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the
coasts of the Amorites : for Arnon is the bor-
der of jSIoab, between jSIoab and the Amorites.
"Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the
Lord, What he did in the Eed sea, and in the
brooks of Arnon, and at the stream of the brooks
that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth
upon the border of ]\Ioab. And from thence they
went to Beer : that is the well whereof the Lord
spake unto IVIoses, Gather the people together,
and I will give them water. Then Israel sang
this song. Spring up, well ; sing ye unto it :
the princes digged the well, the nobles of the peo-
ple digged it, by the direction o/the lawgiver, with
their staves. And from the wilderness they irent
to JMattanah : and from Mattanah to Nahaliel :
and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: and from Rimoth
i)i the valley, tliat is in the country of Moab, to
the topof Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of
the Amorites, saying. Let me pass through thy
land : we will not turn into the fields, or into the
vineyards ; we will not drink of the waters of
the well : hut we will go along by the king's high
way, untd we be past thy borders. And Sihon
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would not suffer Israel to pass through his border :
but Sihon gathered all his people together, and
■went out against Israel into the wilderness : and
he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. And
Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and
possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even
unto the children of Amnion : for the border of
the children of Amnion loas strong. And Israel
took all these cities : and Israel dwelt in all the
cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all
the villages thereof. For Heshbon ivas the city
of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had
fought against the former king of Moab, and
taken all his land out of his hand, even unto
Arnon. Wherefore they that speak in proverbs
say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be
built and prepared : for there is a fire gone out
of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon : it
hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the
high places of Arnon. Woe to thee, Moab ! thou
art undone, people of Chemosh : he hath given
his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into
captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. We
have shot at them ; Heshbon is perished even
unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even
unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba. Thus
Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. And
Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the
villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that
were there. And they turned and went up by
the way of Bashan : and Og the king of Bashan
■went out against them, he, and all his people, to
the battle at Edrei. And the Lord said unto
Moses, Fear him not : for I have delivered him
into thy hand, and all his people, and his land ;
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and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon
king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
So they smote him, and his sons, and all his
peoj^le, until there was none left hun alive : and
they possessed his land.
CIjc ^irtf Suntiao after eastrr.
Morning. iS^um. xxii.
A ND the children of Israel set forward, and
J\. pitched in the plains of Moab on this side
Jordan by Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor
saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
And ^loab was sore afraid of the people, because
they were many : and IMoab was distressed be-
cause of the children of Israel. And jVIoab said
unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this com-
pany lick up all that are round about us, as the
ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak
the son of Zippor u-as king of the INIoabites at
that time. He sent messengers therefore unto
Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by
the river of the land of the children of his people,
to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come
out from Egypt : behold, they cover the face of
the earth, and they abide over against me : come
now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people ;
for they are too mighty for me : peradventure I
shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that
I may drive them out of the land : for I wot
that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he
whom thou cursest is cursed. And the elders
of uSIoab and the elders of INtidian departed
with the rewards of divination in their hand ;
and they came unto Balaam, and spake un-
to him the words of Balak. And he said
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unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will
bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak
unto me : and the princes of Moab abode with
Balaam. And God came unto Balaam, and said,
AYhat men are these with thee ? And Balaam
said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, hath sent unto me, saijing, Behold, there
is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth
the face of the earth : come now, curse me them ;
peradventure I shall be able to overcome them,
and drive them out. And God said unto Balaam,
Thou shalt not go with them ; thou shalt not curse
the people: for they are blessed. And Balaam
rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes
of Balak, Get you into your land : for the Lord
refuseth to give me leave to go with you. And
the princes of JMoab rose up, and they went unto
Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with
us. And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and
more honourable than they. And they came to
Balaam, and said to him. Thus saith Balak the
son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder
thee from coming unto me : for I will promote
thee unto very great honour, and I will do what-
soever thou sayest unto me : come therefore, I
pray thee, curse me this people. And Balaam
answered and said unto the servants of Balak,
If Balak would give me his house full of silver
and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the
Lord my God, to do less or more. Now therefore,
I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I
may know what the Lord will say unto me more.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said
unto him. If the men come to call thee, rise up,
and go with them ; but yet the word which I
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shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. And
Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his
ass, and -vrent with the princes of Moab. And
God's anger was kindled because he went : and
the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an
adversary against him. Now he was riding upon
his ass, and his two servants uere with him . And
the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in
the way, and his sword drawn in his hand : and
the ass turned aside out of the way, and went
into the field : and Balaam smote the ass, to turn
her into the way. But the angel of the Lord
stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on
this side, and a wall on that side. And when
the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust
herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot
against the wall : and he smote her again. And
the angel of the Lord went further, and stood
in a narrow place, where teas no way to turn
either to the right hand or to the left. And
when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell
down under Balaam : and Balaam's anger was
kindled, and he smote the ass with a staif. And
the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she
said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee,
that thou hast smitten me these three times ?
And Balaam said unto the ass. Because thou hast
mocked me : I would there were a sword in mine
hand, for now would I kill thee. And the ass
said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon
which thou hast ridden ever since I icas thine
unto this day ? was I ever wont to do so unto
thee ? And he said, Nay. Then the Lord open-
ed the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of
the Lord standing in the way, and his sword
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drawn in his hand : and he bowed down his
head, and fell flat on his ftice. And the angel of
the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou
smitten thine ass these three times ? behold, I
went out to withstand thee, because thy way is
perverse before me : and the ass saw me, and
turned from me these three times : unless she
had turned from me, surely now also I had slain
thee, and saved her alive. And Balaam said
unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned ; for
I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against
me : now therefore, if it displease thee, I will
get me back again. And the angel of the Lord
said unto Balaam, Go with the men : but only
the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou
shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes
of Balak. And when Balak heard that Balaam
was come, he went out to meet him unto a city
of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which
is in the utmost coast. And Balak said unto
Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to
call thee ? wherefore camest thou not unto me ?
am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour ?
And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come
unto thee : have I now any power at all to say
any thing? the word that God putteth in my
mouth, that shall I speak. And Balaam went
with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath-huzoth.
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to
Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak
took Balaam, and brought him up into the high
places of Baal, that thence he might see the
utmost part of the people.
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Evening. Num. xxiii.
AND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
X\_ seven altars, and prepare me here seven
oxen and seven rams. And Balak did as Balaam
had spoken ; and Balak and Balaam offered on
every altar a bullock and a ram. And Balaam
said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt oftering,
and I will go : peradventure the Lord will come
to meet me : and whatsoever he sheweth me I
will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
And God met Balaam : and he said unto him, I
have prepared seven altars, and I have offered
upon evei-y altar a bullock and a ram. And the
Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said,
Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by
his burnt sacrifice, he, and all tlie princes of
Moab. And he took up his parable, and said,
Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from
Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,
Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed ?
or how shall I defy, ivhom the Lord hath not
defied ? For from the top of the rocks I see him,
and from the hills I behold him : lo, the people
shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned
among the nations. Who can count the dust of
Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of
Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and
let my last end be like his ! And Balak said unto
Balaam, What hast thou done unto me ? I took
thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
blessed them altogether. And he answered and
said, ;Must I not take heed to speak that which
the Lord hath put in my mouth ? And Balak
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said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto
another place, from whence thou mayest see
them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of
them, and shalt not see them all : and curse me
them from thence. And he brought him into
the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and
built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a
ram on evenj altar. And he said unto Balak,
Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet
the LORD yonder. And the Lord met Balaam,
and put a word in his mouth, and said. Go again
unto Balak, and say thus. And when he came
to him, behold, he stood by his burnt ofiering,
and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak
said unto him. What hath the Lord spoken ?
And he took up his parable, and said. Rise lip,
Balak, and hear ; hearken unto me, thou son of
Zippor : God is not a man, that he should lie ;
neither the son of man, that he should repent :
hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he
spoken, and shall he not make it good ? Behold,
I have received commandment to bless : and he
hath blessed ; and I cannot reverse it. He hath
not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he
seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is
with him, and the shout of a king is among
them. God brought them out of Egypt ; he
hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
neither is there any divination against Israel :
according to this time it shall be said of Jacob
and of Israel, What hath God wrought ! Behold,
the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift
up himself as a young lion : he shall not lie
down until he eat of the prey, and drink the
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blood of the slain. And Balak said unto Balaam,
Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told
not I thee, saying. All that the Lord speaketh,
that I must do \ And Balak said unto Balaam,
Come, I prav thee, I will bring thee unto another
place ; peradventure it %vill please God that thou
mayest curse me them from thence. And Balak
brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that look-
eth toward Jeshimon. And Balaam said unto
Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And
Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a
bullock and a ram on tmry altar.
Or^ Num. xxiv.
AND when Bakam saw that it pleased the
_ Lord to bless IsraeL he went not, as at
other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set
his face toward the wilderness. And Balaam
lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in
his tents according to their tribes ; and the spirit
of God came upon him. And he took up his
parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath
said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said :
he hath said, which heard the words of God,
which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling
into a trance, but having his eyes open ; how
goodly are thy tents, Jacob, and thy taber-
nacles, Israel ! As the valleys are they spread
forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees
of lign aloes wliich the Lord hath planted, and
as cedar trees beside the waters. He shall pour
the water out of his buckets, and his seed shail
be in many waters, and his king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
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God brought hini forth out of Egypt ; he hath
as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall
eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break
their bones, and pierce them through with his
arrows. He couched, he lay down as a lion, and
as a great lion : who shall stir hiin up ? Blessed
is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that
curseth thee. And Balak's anger was kindled
against Balaam, and he smote his hands together :
and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to
curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast alto-
gether blessed them these three times. Therefore
now flee thou to thy place : I thought to promote
thee unto great honour ; but, lo, the Lord hath
kept thee back from honour. And Balaam said
unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers
which thou sentest unto me, saying, If Balak
would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord,
to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; bid
what the Lord saith, that will I speak ? And
now, behold, I go unto my people : come there-
fore, and I will advertise thee what this people
shall do to thy people in the latter days. And
he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son
of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are
open hath said : he hath said, which heard the
words of God, and knew the knowledge of the
most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty,
falling into a trance, but having his eyes open :
I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him,
but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of
Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and
shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all
the children of Sheth. And Edom shall be a
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possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his
enemies ; and Israel shall do valiantly. Out of
Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion,
and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his
parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the
nations ; but his latter end shall be that he perish
for ever. And he looked on the Kenites, and
took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy
dwellineplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a
rock. Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted,
until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. And
he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall
live when God doeth this ! And ships shall
cortu from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict
Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall
perish for ever. And Balaam rose up, and went
and returned to his place : and Balak also went
his way.
Wi)z JFourt^ 5untraw after (irasttr.
Morning. Deut. iv. to v. 23.
l^rOW therefore hearken, Israel, unto the
_Ll statutes and unto the judgments, which I
teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and
go in and possess the land which the Lord God
of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add
unto the word which I command you, neither shall
ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of the Lord your God which I
command you. Your eyes have seen what the
Lord did because of Baal-peor : for all the men
that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath
destroyed them from among you. But ye that
did cleave unto the Lord your God avQ alive
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every one of you this day. Behold, I have
taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do
so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep
therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom
and your understanding in the sight of. the
nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and
say, Surely this great nation is a wise and under-
standing people. For what nation is there so
great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the
Lord our God is in all things that we call upon
him for? And what nation is there so great,
that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as
all this law, which I set before you this day ?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine
eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy
heart all the days of thy life : but teach them
thy sons, and thy sons' sons ; specially the day
that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in
Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me
the people together, and I will make them hear
my words, that they may learn to fear me all the
days that they shall live upon the earth, and
that they may teach their children. And ye came
near and stood under the mountain ; and the
mountain burned with lire unto the midst of
heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick dark-
ness. And the Lord spake unto you out of the
midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words,
but saw no similitude ; only ye heard a voice.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which
he commanded you to perform, even ten com-
mandments ; and he wrote them upon two tables
of stone. And the Lord commanded me at that
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time to teach you statutes and judfj^ments, that
ye mi^ht do them in the land whither ye go over
to possess it. Take ye therefore good heed unto
yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude
on the day that the Lord spake unto you in
Horeb out of the midst of the fire : lest ye cor-
rupt yourselves, and make you a graven image,
the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male
or female, the likeness of any beast that is on |
the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that
flieth in the air, the likeness of any thing that
creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the waters beneath the earth : and lest
thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when
thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars,
even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to
worship them, and serve them, which the Lord
thy God hath divided unto all nations under the
whole heaven. But the Lord hath taken you,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace.
even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
inheritance, as" ye are this day. Fiu-thermore
the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and
sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that
I should not go in unto that good land, which the
Lord thy God giveth thee/or an inheritance : but
I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan :
but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Evening. Deut. iv. v. 23 to v. 41.
TAKE heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget
the covenant of the Lord your God, which
he made with you, and make you a graven image,
or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy
God hath forbidden thee. For the Lord thy
God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God,
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When thou shalt beget children, and children's
children, and he shall have remained long in
the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make
a graven image, or the likeness of any thing,
and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy
God, to provoke him to anger : I call heaven and
earth to witness against you this day, that ye
shall soon utterly perish from off the land where-
unto ye go over Jordan to possess it ; ye shall
not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly
be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you
among the nations, and ye shall be left few in
number among the heathen, whither the Lord
shall lead you. And there ye shall serve gods,
the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if
from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God,
thou shalt find him,, if thou seek him with all
thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art
in tribulation, and all these things are come upon
thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the
Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his
voice ; (for the Lord thy God is a merciful God ;)
he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor
forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware
unto them. For ask now of the days that are
past, which were before thee, since the day that
God created man upon the earth, and ask from
the one side of heaven unto the other, whether
there hath been any such thing as this great
thing is, or hath been heard like it 1 Did ever
people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live ? Or
hath God assayed to go and take him a nation
from the midst of another nation, by temptations,
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by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a
mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by
great terrors, according to all that the Lord your
God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ?
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest
know that the Lord he is God ; there is none
else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to
hear his voice, that he might instruct thee : and
upon earth he shewed thee his great fire ; and
thou heardest his words out of the midst of the
fire. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore
he chose their seed after them, and brought thee
out in his sight with his mighty power out of
Egypt ; to drive out nations from before thee
greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee
in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as
it is this day. Know therefore this day, and con-
sider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God
in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath :
there is none else. Thou shalt keep therefore
his statutes, and his commandments, which I
command thee this day, that it may go well with,
thee, and with thy children aft€r thee, and that
thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth,
which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Or, Deut. V.
AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto
- them. Hear, Israel, the statutes and judg-
ments which I speak in your ears this day, that
ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. The
Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
The Lord made not this covenant with our fa-
thers, but with us, evenus, who are all of us here
alive this day. The Lord talked with you face
to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
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(I stood between the Lord and you at that time,
to shew 3^011 the word of the Lord : for ye were
afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into
the mount ;) saying, I am the Lord thy God,
which brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage. Thou shalt hare none
other gods before me. Thou shalt not make
thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath
the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself
unto them, nor serve them : for I the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me, and
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love
me and keep my commandments. Thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain:
for the Lord will not hold Mm guiltless that
taketh his name in vain. Keep the sabbath day
to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath com-
manded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and
do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sab-
bath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor
thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy
manservant and thy maidservant may rest as
well as thou. And remember that thou w^ast a
servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord
thy God brought thee out thence through a
mighty hand and by a stretched out arm : there-
fore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep
the sabbath day. Honour thy father and thy
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motlier, as the Lord thy God hath commanded
thee ; that thy days may be prolonged, and that
it may go well with thee, in the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery. Keither
shalt thou steal. Neither shalt thou bear false
witness against thy neighbour. Neither shalt
thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt
thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his
manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his
ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. These
words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in
the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the
cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice :
and he added no more. And he wrote them in
two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice
out of the midst of the darkness, (for the moun-
tain did burn with fire,) that ye came near imto
me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your
elders ; and ye said. Behold, the Lord our God
hath shewed us his gloiy and his greatness, and
we have heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire : we have seen this day that Go<i doth talk
with man, and he liveth. Now therefore why
should we die ? for this great fire will consume
us : if we hear the voice of the Lord our God
any more, then we shall die. For who is there
0/ all fle^h, that hath heard the voice of the
living God speaking out of the midst of the fire,
as we have, and lived ? Go thou near, and hear
all that the Lord our God shall say : and speak
thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall
speak unto thee ; and we will hear it, and do it.
And the Lord heard the voice of your words,
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when ye spake unto me ; and the Lord said
unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of
this people, which they have spoken unto thee :
they have well said all that they have spoken.
that there were such an heart in them, that
they would fear me, and keep all my command-
ments always, that it might be well with them,
and with their children for ever ! Go say to them,
Get you into your tents again. But as for thee,
stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto
thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and
the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that
they may do them in the land which I give them
to possess it. Ye shall observe to do therefore as
the Lord your God hath commanded you : ye shall
not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your
God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and
that it may be well with you, and that ye may pro-
long your days in the land which ye shall possess.
^f)c Mt\) Suntiag after CHaster.
Morning. Deut. vi.
n^TOW these are the commandments, the sta-
J31 tutes, and the judgments, which the Lord
your God commanded to teach you, that ye might
do them in the land whither ye go to possess it :
that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to
keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and
thy son's son, all the days of thy life ; and that
thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O
Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well
with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as
the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee,
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in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Hear, Israel : The Lord our God is one Lord :
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy might. And these words, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou
shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon
thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the
posts of thy house, and on thy gates. And it
shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have
brought thee into the land which he sware unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaiic, and to Jacob,
to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou
buildedst not, and houses full of all good things,
which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which
thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees,
which tiiou plantedst not ; when thou shalt have
eaten and be full ; then beware lest thou forget
the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou
shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and
shalt swear by his name. Ye shall not go after
other gods, of the gods of the people which are
round about you ; (for the Lord thy God is a
jealous God among you) lest the anger of the
Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and de-
stroy thee from off the foce of the earth. Ye
shall not tempt the Lord your God, a^ ye tempt-
ed him in Massah. Ye shall diligently keep the
commandments of the Lord your God, and his
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testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath com-
manded thee. And thou shalt do that which is
right and good in the sight of the Lord : that it
may Toe well with thee, and that thou mayest go
in and possess the good land which the Lord
sware unto thy fathers, to cast out all thine
enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath
spoken. And when thy son asketh thee in time
to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and
the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord
our God hath commanded you ? Then thou shalt
say unto thy son. We were Pharaoh's bondmen
in Egypt ; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand : and the Lord shewed signs
and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our
eyes : and he brought us out from tihence, that
he might bring us in, to give us the land which
he sware unto our fathers. And the Lord com-
manded us to do all these statutes, to fear the
Lord our God, for our good always, that he
might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe
to do all these commandments before the Lord
our God, as he hath commanded us.
Evening. Deut. ix.
HEAR, Israel : Thou art to pass over Jordan
this day, to go in to possess nations greater
and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced
up to heaven, a people great and tall, the chil-
dren of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and
of whom thou hast heard say. Who can stand
before the children of Anak ! Understand there-
fore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which
goeth over before thee ; as a consuming fire he
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shall destroy them, and he shall bring thera down
before thy face : so shalt thou drive them out,
and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said
unto thee. Speak not thou in thine heart, after
that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from
before thee, saying, For my righteousness the
Lord hath brought me in to possess this land :
but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord
doth drive them out from before thee. Not for
thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine
heart, dost thou go to possess their land : but for
the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy
God doth drive them out from before thee, and
that he may perform the word which the Lord
sware unto thy fethers, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. Understiind therefore, that the Lord
thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess
it for thy righteousness ; for thou art a stiff-
necked people. Eemember, and forget not, how
thou provokedst the Lord thy God to A^Tath in
the wilderness : from the day that thou didst
depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came
unto this place, ye have been rebellious against
the Lord. Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord
to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you
to have destroyed you. When I was gone up into
the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the
tables of the covenant which the Lord made with
you, then I abode in the mount forty days and
forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink
water : and the Lord delivered unto me two
tables of stone \\Titten with the finger of God ;
and on them was ivritten according to all the
words, which the Lord spake ^vith you in the
mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of
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the assembly. And it came to pass at the end
of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord
gave me the two tables of stone, ei'e?i the tables
of the covenant. . And the Lord said unto me,
Arise, get thee down quickly from hence ; for
thy people which thou hast brought forth out
of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are
quickly turned aside out of the way which I
commanded them ; they have made them a
molten image. Furthermore the Lord spake
unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people : let me alone,
that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
from under heaven : and I will make of thee a
nation mightier and greater than they. So I
turned and came down from the mount, and the
mount burned with fire : and the two tables of
the covenant were in my two hands. And I
looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the
Lord your God, and had made you a molten
calf : ye had turned jiside quickly out of the
way which the Lord had commanded you. And
I took the two tables, and cast them out of
ray two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights : I did neither eat
bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins
which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight
of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. For I
was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure,
wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to
destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me
at that time also. And the Lord was very
angry with Aaron to have destroyed him : and
I prayed for Aaron also the same time. And I
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took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and
burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground
it very small, even until it was as small as dust :
and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that
descended out of the mount. And at Taberah,
and at jSIassah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye pro-
voked the Lord to wrath. Likewise when the
Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go
up and possess the land which I have given you ;
then ye rebelled against the commandment of
the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor
hearkened to his voice. Ye have been rebellious
against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and
forty nights, as I fell down at the first ; because
the Lord had said he would destroy you. I
prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, Lord
God, destroy not thy people and thine inherit-
ance, which thou hast redeemed through thy
greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of
Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember thy ser-
vants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ; look not unto
the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin : lest the land
whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the
Lord was not able to bring them into the land
which he promised them, and because he hated
them, he hath brought them out to slay them
in the wilderness. Yet they are thy people and
thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by
thy mighty power and by thy stretched out
arm.
Or, Deut. x.
AT that time the Lord said unto me. Hew
. thee two tables of stone like unto the first,
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and come up unto me into the mount, and make
thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the
tables the words that were in the first tables
which thou brakes t, and thou shalt put them in
the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood,
and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first,
and went up into the mount, having the two
tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables,
according to the first writing, the ten command-
ments, which the Lord spake unto you in the
mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of
the assembly : and the Lord gave them unto
me. And I turned myself and came down from
the mount, and put the tables in the ark which
I had made ; and there they be, as the Lord
commanded me. And the children of Israel
took their journey from Beeroth of the children
of Jaakan to Mosera : there Aaron died, and
there he was buried ; and Eleazar his son minis-
tered in the priest's office in his stead. From
thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah ; and
from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of
waters. At that time the Lord separated the
tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of
the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister
unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this
day. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inherit-
ance with his brethren ; the Lord i& his inherit-
ance, according as the Lord thy God promised
him. And I stayed in the mount, according to
the first time, forty days and forty nights ; and
the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also,
ancl the Lord would not destroy thee. And the
Lord said unto me. Arise, take thy journey be-
fore the people, that they may go in and possess
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the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give
unto them. And now, Israel, what doth the
Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the
Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with
all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the
commandments of the Lord, and his statutes,
which I command thee this day for thy good ?
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens
is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all
that therein is. Only the Lord had a delight
in thy fothers to love them, and he chose their
seed after them, even you above all people, as it
is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. For the
Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of
lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible,
which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward :
he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless
and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving
him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the
stranger : for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God ; him
shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave,
and swear by his name. He is thy praise, and
he is thy God. that hath done for thee these great
and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore
and ten persons ; and now the Lord thy God hath
made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Suntran after ^scmsion^Bag.
Morning. Deut xxx.
XD it shall come to pass, when all these
things are come upon thee, the blessing
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and the ciirse, which I have set before thee, and
thou shalt call them to mind among all the
nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven
thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God,
and shalt obey his voice according to all that I
command thee this day, thou and thy children,
with all thine Leart, and with all thy soul ; that
then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity,
and have compassion upon thee, and will return
and gather thee from all the nations, whither the
Lord thy God hath scattered thee. If any of
thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of
heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God
gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee :
and the Lord thy God will bring thee into the
land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt
possess it ; and he will do thee good, and mul-
tiply thee above thy fathers. And the Lord thy
God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of
thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with aU
thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou
mayest live. And the Lord thy God will put
all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them
that hate thee, which persecuted thee. And thou
shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and
do all his commandments which I command thee
this day. And the Lord thy God will make thee
plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the
fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
and in the fruit of thy land, for good : for the
Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he
rejoiced over thy fathers : if thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are "written
in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the
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Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul. For this commandment which I com-
mand thee this day, it is not hidden from thee,
neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that
thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to
heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it,
and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou
shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us,
and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and
do it ? but the word is very nigh unto thee, iu
thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest
do it. See, I have set before thee tliis day life
and good, and death and evil ; in that I com-
mand thee this day to love the Lord thy God,
to walk in his ways, and to keep his command-
ments and his statutes and his judgments, that
thou mayest live and multiply : and the Lord
thy God shall bless thee in the land whither
thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn
away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve
them ; I denounce unto you this day, that ye
shall surely i)erish, and that ye shall not prolong
your days upon the land, whither thou passest
over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven
and earth to record this day against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and
thy seed may live : that thou mayest love the
Lord thy God, aiid that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him :
for he is thy life, and the length of thy days :
that thou mayest dwell in the land which the
Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION-DAY.
Evening, Deut. xxxiv.
A ND Moses went up from the plains of Moab
J\^ unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of
Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the
Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto
Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim,
and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto
the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of
the valley of Jericho, the city of palmtrees, unto
Zoar. And the Lord said unto him. This is the
land which I swareunto Abraham, unto Isaac, and
unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed : I
have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but
thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the
servant of the Lord died there in the land of
Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And
he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab,
over against Beth-peor : but no man knoweth of
his sepulchre unto this day. And Moses ivas an
hundred and twenty years old when he died :
his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the
plains of Moab thirty days : so the days of weep-
ing and mourning for Moses were ended. And
Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of
wisdom ; for Moses had laid his hands upon him :
and the children of Israel hearkened unto him,
and did as the Lord commanded Moses. And
there arose not a prophet since in Israel like
unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in
all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord
sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh,
and to all his servants, and to all his land, and in
all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror
which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION-DAY.
Or^ Josh. i.
"VTOW after the death of Moses the servalit
-Ll of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord
spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' mi-
nister, saying, Moses my servant is dead ; now
therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all
this people, unto the land which I do give to
them, even to the children of Israel. Every-
place that the soul of your foot shall tread upon,
that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even
unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the
land of the Hittites, and imto the great sea to-
ward the going down of the sun, shall be your
coast. There shall not any man be able to stand
before thee all the days of thy life : as I was with
Moses, so I will be with thee : I will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good
courage : for unto tliis people shalt thou divide
for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong
and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to
do according to all the law, which Moses my ser-
vant commanded thee : turn not from it to the
right hand or to the left, that thou mayest pros-
per whithersoever thou goest. This book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth ; but thou
shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all that is
written therein : for then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good
success. Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong
and of a good courage ; be not afraid, neither be
thou dismayed : for the Lord thy God is with
thee whithersoever thou goest. Then. Joshua
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commanded the officers of the people, saying, Pass
through the host, and command the people, say-
ing. Prepare you victuals ; for within three days
ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess
the land, which the Lord your God giveth you
to possess it. And to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake
Joshua, saying, Remember the word which Mo^
ses the servant of the Lord commanded you,
saying. The Lord your God hath given you rest,
and hath given you this land. Your wives, your
little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the
land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan ;
but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all
the mighty men of valour, and help them ; until
the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he
hath givc7i you, and they also have possessed the
land which the Lord your God giveth them :
then ye shall return unto the land of your pos-
session, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord's
servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising. And they answered Joshua, saying,
All that thou commandest us we will do, and
whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. Ac-
cording as we hearkened unto Moses in all things,
so will we hearken unto thee : only the Lord thy
God be with thee, as he was with Moses. Who-
soever he he that doth rebel against thy com-
mandment, and will not hearken unto thy words
in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put
to death : only be strong and of a good courage.
Saijit=SuntJfi2-
Morning. Deut. xvi. to v. 18.
OBSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the
passover unto the Lord thy God : for in the
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month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt there-
fore sacrifice the passorer unto the Lord thy God,
of the floclv and the herd, in the pkice which the
Lord shall choose to place his name there. Thou
shalt eat no leavened bread with it ; seven days
shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even
the bread of affliction ; for thou earnest forth out
of the land of Egj'pt in haste : that thou mayest
remember the day when thou camest forth out
of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life, i
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with !
thee in all thy coast seven days ; neither shall |
there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacri- i
ficedst the first day at even, remain all night j
until the morning. Thou mayest not sacrifice
the passover within any of thy gate-s, which the !
Lord thy God giveth thee: but at the place
which the Lord thy God shall choose to place
his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the pass-
over at even, at the going down of the sun, at
the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place
which the Lord thy God shall choose : and thou
shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread : and
on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to
the Lord thy God : thou shalt do no work there-
in. Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee :
begin to number the seven weeks from such time
0/6 thou begin nest to put the sickle to the corn.
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the
Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill
offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give
imto the LOUD thy God, according as the I^kd
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thy God hath blessed thee : and thou shalt re-
joice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son,
and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy
gates, 'and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, that are among you, in the place
which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place
j his name there. And thou shalt remember that
thou wast a bondman in Egypt : and thou shalt
observe and do these statutes. Thou shalt ob-
serve the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy
wine : and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-
servant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite,
the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt
thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God
in the place which the Lord shall choose : be-
cause the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all
thine increase, and in all the works of thine
hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. Three
times in a year shall all thy males appear before
the Lord thy God in the place which he shall
choose ; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in
the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles :
and they shall not appear before the Lord empty :
every man shall give as he is able, according to
the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath
given thee.
Second Lesson. Eom. viii. to v. 18.
rpHERE is therefore now no condemnation to
tL them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the
law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
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made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh : that the righteous-
ness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For
they that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh ; but they that are after the Spirit
the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally
minded is death ; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace . Because the carnal mind is
enmity ag-iiinst God : for it is not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they
that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye
are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be
that the Spirit- of God dwell in you. Now if
any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none
of his. And if Christ he in you, the body is dead
because of sin ; but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he
that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that
dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall 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 sons of God. For ye
have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God : and if children, then heirs ;
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heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ ; if so
be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together.
Evening. Isai. xi.
AND there shall come forth a rod out of the
_ stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out
of his roots : and the sj^irit of the Lord shall
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and under-
standing, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord ;
and shall make him of quick understanding in
the fear of the Lord : and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after
the hearing of his ears : but with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for
the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouthy and with the breath
of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righ-
teousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The wolf
also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together ; and a little
child shall lead them. And the cow and the
bear shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down
together : and the lion shall eat straw like the
ox. And the sucking child shall play on the
hole of the asp, and the w^eaned child shall put
his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for
the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters cover the sea. And in that
day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the
Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
Lord shall set his hand again the second time to
recover the remnant of his people, which shall
be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from
Pathros, and from Cush, and from Ekm, and
from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea. And he shall set up an
ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the out-
casts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed
of Judah from the four comers of the earth. The
envy also of Epliraim shall depart, and the adver-
saries of Judah shall be cut off : Ephraim shall
not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex E-
phraim. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of
the Philistines toward the west ; they shall spoil
them of the east together : they shall lay their
hand upon Edom and Moab ; and the children
of Ammon shall obey them. And the Lord
shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
sea ; and with his mighty wind shall he" shake
his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the
seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
And there shall be an highway for the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria ;
like as it was to Israel in the day that he came
up out of the land of Egypt.
Or, Ezek. xxxvi. v. 25.
THEN will i sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean : from all your filthi-
ness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit
wiU I put within you : and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you
an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit
within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes,
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and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to
your fathers ; and ye shall be my people, and I
will be your God. I will also save you from all
your uncleannesses : and I will call for the corn,
and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the field, that ye shall receive no
more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and
your doings that were not good, and shall lothe
yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities
and for your abominations. Not for your sakes
do I this^ saith the Lord God, be it known unto
you : be ashamed and confounded for your own
ways, house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord
God ; In the day that I shall have cleansed you
from all your iniquities I will also cause you to
dwell in the cities, and tlie wastes shall be builded.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it
lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
And they shall say. This land that was desolate
is become like the garden of Eden ; and the
waste and desolate and ruined cities are become
fenced, and are inhabited. Then the heathen
th-at are left round about you shall know that I
the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that
that was desolate : I the Lord have spoken it,
and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord God ;
I wUl yet for this be enquired of by the house
of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them
with men like a flock. As the holy flock, as the
flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts ; so shall
the waste cities be filled with flocks of men : and
they shall know that I a,m the Lord.
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Second Lesson. Gal. v. v. 16,
THIS I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye
shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh : and these are contrary the one
to the other : so that ye cannot do the things
that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit,
ye are not under the law. Now the works of
the flesh are manifest, which are these ; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like : of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you in
time past, that they which do such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. And they that are
Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affec-
tions and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous
of vain glory, provoking one another, envying
one another.
Or, Acts xviii. v. 24 to xix. v. 21.
AND a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
_ Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty
in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man
was instructed in the way of the Lord ; and
being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught
diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only
the baptism of John. And he began to speak
boldly in the synagogue : whom when Aquila
and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them,
and expounded unto him the way of God more
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perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass
into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exliorting the
disciples to receive him : who, when he was come,
helped them much which had believed through
grace : for he mightily convinced the Jews, and
that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that
Jesus was Christ.
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at
Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper
coasts came to Ephesus : and finding certain
disciples, he said unto them. Have ye received
the Holy Ghost since ye believed ? And they
said unto him. We have not so much as heard
whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said
unto them. Unto what then were ye baptized '?
And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said
Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto the people, that they
should believe on him which should come after
him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard
this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon
them, the Holy Ghost came on them ; and they
spake with tongues, and prophesied. . And all
the men were about twelve. And he went into
the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of
three months, disputing and persuading the
things concerning the kingdom of God. But
when divers were hardened, and believed not,
but spake evil of that way before the multitude,
he departed from them, and separated the dis-
ciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyran-
nus. And this continued by the space of two
years ; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard
the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and
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Greeks. And God wrought special miracles by
the hands of Paul : so that from his body were
brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons,
and the diseases departed from them, and the
evil spirits went out of them. Then certain of
the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to
call over them which had evil spirits the name
of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by
Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there Avere
seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and cliief of the
priests, which did so. And the evil spirit an-
swered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know ;
but who are ye ? And the man in whom the
evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame
them, and prevailed against them, so that they
fled out of that house naked and woimded. And
this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also
dwelling at Ephesus ; and fear fell on them all,
and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
And many that believed came, and confessed,
and shewed their deeds. Many of them also
which used curious arts brought their books to-
gether, and burned them before all Tnen : and
they counted the pric« of them, and found it fifty
thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the
word of God and prevailed.
^rinit2=Suntia2.
Morning. Isai. vi. to v. 11.
IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also
the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted
up, and his train filled the temple. Above it
stood the seraphims : each one had six wings ;
with twain he covered hLs face, and with twain
he covered liis feet, and with twain he did fly.
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And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is
full of his glory. And the posts of the door
moved at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe
is me ! for I am undone ; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a peo-
ple of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen the
King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the
seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar : and he laid it upon my mouth, and said,
Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and thine ini-
quity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also
I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall
I send, and who will go for us ? Then said I,
Here am I ; send me. And he said, Go, and tell
this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not ;
and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the
heart of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and under-
stand with their heart, and convert, and be
healed.
Second Lesson. Rev. i. to v. 9.
THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants
things which must shortly come to pass ; and he
sent and signified it by his angel unto his ser-
vant John : who bare record of the word of God,
and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all
things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth,
and they that hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are written therein:
for the time is at hand.
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JOHN to the seven churches which are in
Asia : Grace he unto you, and peace, from bim
which is, and which was, and which is to come ;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his
throne ; and from Jesus Christ, v:ho is the faith-
ful witness, and the fii^t begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, and hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father ; to him be glory
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Behold,
he Cometh with clouds ; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him : and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which
is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty.
Evening. Gen. xviil
AND the Lord appeared unto him in the
J\. plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent
door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his
eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by
him : and when he saw them, he ran to meet
them from the tent door, and bowed himseK to-
ward the ground, and said, My Lord, if now I
have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I
pray thee, from thy servant: let a little water, I
pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and
rest yourselves under the tree : and I will fetch
a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts ;
after that ye shall pass on : for therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they said, So do, as
thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the
tent unto Sarah, and said, ISIake ready quickly
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three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make
cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto
the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and
gave it unto a young man ; and he hasted to
dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the
calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ;
and he stood by them under the tree, and they
did eat. And they said unto him, Where is
Sarah thy wife ? And he said, Behold, in the
tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto
thee according to the time of life ; and, lo, Sarah,
thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it
in the tent door, which was behind him. Now
Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken
in age ; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the
manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed
within herself, saying, After I am w^axed old
shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also ?
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore
did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear
a child, which am old 1 Is any thing too hard for
the Lord 1 At the time appointed I will return
unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah
shall have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I
laughed not ; for she was afraid. And he said.
Nay ; but thou didst laugh. And the men rose
up from thence, and looked toward Sodom : and
Abraham went with them to bring them on the
way. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do ; seeing that
Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him ? For I know him, that he will
command his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord,
JrTo '
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to do justice and judgment ; that the Lord may
bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken
of him. And the Lord said, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and
see whether they have done altogether according
to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and
if not, I will know. And the men turned their
faces from thence, and went toward Sodom : but
Abraham stood yet before the Lord. And
Abraham drew near, and said. Wilt thou also
destroy the righteous with the wicked ? Perad-
venture there be fifty righteous within the city :
wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for
the fifty righteous that are therein ? That be far
from thee to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked : and that the righte-
ous should be as the wicked, that be far from
thee : Shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right ? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom
fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare
all the place for their sakes. And Abraham
answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am hut
dust and ashes : peradventure there shall lack
five of the fifty righteous : wilt thou destroy all
the city for lack of five] And he said. If I
£nd there forty and five, I will not destroy it
And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Per-
adventure there shall be forty foimd there. And
he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. And he
,'' said v.nto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry,
I and I will speak : Peradventure there shall
I hirty be found there. And he said, I will not
' <^^ ity if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold
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now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the
Lord : Peradventure there shall be twenty found
there. And he said, I will not destroy it for
twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the
Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this
once : Peradventure ten shall be found there.
And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had
left communing with Abraham : And Abraham
returned unto his place.
Or, Gen. i. and ii. to v. 4.
IN the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. And the earth was without form,
and void ; and darkness was upon the face of
the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. And God said. Let there
be light : and there was light. And God saw
the light, that it was good : and God divided the
light from the darkness. And God called the
light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first
day. And God said. Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters. And God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were
above the firmament : and it was so. And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day. And God
said, Let the waters under the heaven be ga-
thered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear : and it was so. And God called
the dry larid Earth ; and the gathering together
of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that
it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring
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forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
in itself, upon the earth : and it was so. And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itseK, after his kind ; and j
God saw that it icas good. And the evening
and the morning were the third day. And God
said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night ; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years : and let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth : and it was so. And God made two
great lights ; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night : he made i
the stars also. And God set them in the firma- \
ment of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night, and
to divide the light from the darkness : and God
saw that it icas good. And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day. And God said,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the mov-
ing creature that hath life, and fowl that may
fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven. And God created, great whales, and
every living creature that moveth, which the
■waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl aft^r his kind : and
God saw that it icas good. And God blessed
them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in
the earth. And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth
bring forth the living creature after his kind,
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cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
I after his kind : and it was so. And God made
i the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that
it was good. And God said, Let us make man
in our image^ after our likeness : and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. So God created man
in his ovm image, in the image of God created
he him ; male and female created he them. And
God blessed them, and God said unto them. Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said. Behold, I have given you e very-
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be
for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and
to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I
have given every green herb for meat : and it was
so. And God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, it ivas very good. And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them. And on the seventh
day God ended his work which he had made ;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. And God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it : because that Id
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it he had rested from all his work -which God
created and made.
Second Lesson. Ephes. iv. to v. 17.
I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, be-
seech you that ye walk worthy of the voca-
tion wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness
and meekness, with longsuflfering, forbearing one
another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one
I body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in
j one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faitli, one
i baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above
all, and through all, and in you all. But unto
every one of us is given grace according to the
measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he
saith, When he ascended up on high, he led
captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he
also desceuded first into the lower parts of the
earth ? He that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above all heavens, that he might
fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles ;
and some, prophets ; and some, evangelists ; and
some, pastors and teachers ; for the perfecting
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ : till we all
come in the unity of the faith, and of the know-
ledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness
of Christ : that we henceforth be no more chil-
dren, tossed to and fro, and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait
to deceive ; but speaking the truth in love, may
grow up into him in all things, which is the
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head, even Christ : from whom the whole body-
fitly joined together and compacted by tliat
which every joint supplieth, according to the
efiectual working in the measure of every part,
maketh increase of the body unto the edifying
of itself in love.
Or, Matt. iii.
IN those days came John the Baptist, preaching
in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Re-
pent ye : for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet
Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight. And the same John
had his raiment of camePs hair, and a leathern
girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts
and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusa-
lem, and all Judsea, and all the region round
about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jor-
dan, confessing their sins. But when he saw
many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to
his baptism, he said unto them, O generation
of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from
the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits
meet for repentance : and think not to say within
yourselves, We have Abraham to our father :
for I say unto you, that God is able of these
stones to raise up chOdren unto Abraham. And
now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees :
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repent-
ance : but he that cometh after me is mightier
than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear :
be shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and
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with fire : whose fan is in his hand, and he will
throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat
into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff
with unquenchable fire. Then cometh Jesus
from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized
of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have
need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to
me ? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer
it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil
all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And
Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight-
way out of the water : and, lo, the heavens were
opened imto him, and he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove, and lighting upon him :
and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
^^)C i^irst SunUag aftrr Zxmitv.
Morning. Josh. iii. u 7 to iv, v. 15.
AN D the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will
jlJl. I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all
I Israel, that they may know that, as 1 was with
Moses, so I wiU be with thee. And thou shalt
command the priests that bear the ark of the
covenant, saying. When ye are come to the brink
of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in
Jordan. And Joshua said unto the children of
Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the
Lord your God. And Joshua said, Hereby ye
shall know that the living God is among you,
and that he wiU without fail drive out from
before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
the Hivit€s, and the Perizzites, and the Gir-
gashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of
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all the eartli passeth over before you into Jordan.
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the
tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. And
it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the
feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord,
the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters
of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut
off from the waters that come down from above ;
and they shall stand upon an heap. And it
came to pass, when the people removed from their
tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing
the ark of the covenant before the people ; and
as they that bear the ark were come unto Jordan,
and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were
dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan
overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
that the waters which came down from above
stood a7id rose up upon an heap very far from
the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan : and those
that came down toward the sea of the plain, even
the salt sea, failed, and were cut off : and the
people passed over right against Jericho. And
the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of
the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst
of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on
dry ground, until all the people were passed
clean over Jordan.
And it came to pass, when all the people were
clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake
unto Joshua, saying. Take you twelve men out
of the people, out of every tribe a man, and com-
I mand ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the
midst of Jordan, out of the place where the
priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye
shall carry them over with you, and leave them
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in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this
night. Then Joshua called die twelve men,
whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out
{ of every tribe a man : and Joshua said unto them,
Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God
into the. midst of Jordan, and take you up every
man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according
unto the number of the tribes of the children of
Israel : that this may be a sign among you, that
when your children ask their fathers in time to
come, saying, What mean ye by these stones ?
then ye shall answer them, That the waters of
Jordan were cut off before the ark of the cove-
nant of the Lord ; when it passed over Jor-
dan, the waters of Jordan were cut off : and
these stones shall be for a memorial unto the
children of Israel for ever. And the children of
Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up
twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the
Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number
of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried
them over with them unto the place where they
lodged, and laid them down there. And Joshua
set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in
the place where the feet of the priests which
bare the ark of the covenant stood : and they
are there unto this day. For the priests which
bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until
every thing was finished that the Lord com-
manded Joshua to speak unto the people, accord-
ing to all that Moses commanded Joshua : and
the people hasted and passed over. And it came
to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and
the priests, in the presence of the people. And
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the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad,
and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed
before the children of Israel, as Moses spake
unto them : about forty thousand prepared for war
passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the
plains of Jericho. On that day the Lord magnified
Joshua in the sight of all Israel ; and they feared
him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
Evening. Josh. v. v. 13 to vi. v. 21.
AND it Ciime to pass, when Joshua was by
_ Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked,
and, behold, there stood a man over against him
with his sword drawn in his hand : and Joshua
went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for
us, or for our adversaries ? And he said, Nay ;
but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now
come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
and did worship, and said unto him. What saith
my lord unto his servant ? And the captain of
the LoRD^s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe
from ofi" thy foot ; for the place whereon thou
standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of
the children of Israel : none went out, and none
came in. And the Lord said unto Joshua, See,
I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the
king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war,
and go round about the city once. Thus shalt
thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear
before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns :
and the seventh day ye shall compass the city
seven times, and the priests shall blow with the
trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when
they make a long blast with the rani's horn, and
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■when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the
people shall shout -with a great shout ; and the
wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the
people shall ascend up every man straight before
him. And Joshua the son of Nun called the
priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of
the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
triunpets of rams' horns before the ark of the
Lord. And he said unto the people, Pass on,
and compass the city, and let him that is armed
pass on l)efore the ark of the Lord. And it
came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the
people, that the seven priests bearing the seven
trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the
Lord, and blew with the trumpets : and the ark
of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
And the armed men went before the priests that
blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came
after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing
with the trumpets. And Joshua had commanded
the people, saying. Ye shall not shout, nor make
any noise with your voice, neither shall any
word proceed out of your mouth, until the day
I bid you shout ; then shall ye shout. So the
ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about
it once : and they Ciime into the camp, and
lodged in the camp. And Joshua rose early in
the morning, and the priests took up the ark of
the Lord. And seven priests bearing seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the
Lord went on continually, and blew with the
trumpets : and the armed men went before them ;
but the rereward came after the ark of the Lord,
the priests going on, and blowing with the trum-
pets. And the second day they compassed the
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city once, and returned into the camp : so they
did six days- And it came to pass on the
seventh day, that they rose early about the dawn-
ing of the day, and compassed the city after the
same manner seven times : only on that day
they compassed the city seven times. And it
came to pass at the seventh time, when the
priests blew with the tnmipets, Joshua said unto
the people, Shout ; for the Lord hath given you
the city. And the city shall be accursed, even it,
and all that are therein, to the Lord : only
Eahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are
with her in the house, because she hid the mes-
sengers that we sent. And ye, in any wise keep
yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make
yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed
thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and
trouble it. But all the silver, and gold, and
vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto
the Lord : they shall come into the treasury of
the Lord. So the people shouted when the
priests blew with the trumpets : and it came to
pass, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, and the people shouted with a great
shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the
people went up into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city.
Or, Josh. xxiv.
A ND Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel
J\. to Shechem, and called for the elders of
Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges,
and for their officers ; and they presented them-
selves before God. And Joshua said unto all
the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood
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in old time, tvcn Terah, the father of Abraham,
and the father of Nachor : and they served other
gods. And I took your father Abraham from
the other side of the flood, and led him through-
out all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his
seed, and gave him Isaiie. And I gave unto
Isaac Jacob and Esau : and I gave unto Esau
mount Seir, to possess it ; but Jacob and his
children went down into Egypt. I sent Moses
also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according
to that which I did among them : and afterward
I brought you out. And I brought your fathers
out of Egypt : and ye came unto the sea ; and
the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with
chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. And
when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness
between you and the Egyptians, and brought the
sea upon them, and covered them ; and your
eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt : and
ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. And
I brought you into the land of the Amorites,
which dwelt on the other side Jordan ; and they
fought with you : and I gave them into your
hand, that ye might possess their land ; and I
destroyed them from before you. Then Balak the
son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred
against Israel, and sent and Ciilled Balaam the
son of Beor to curse you : but I would not
hearken unto Balaam ; therefore he blessed you
still : so I delivered you out of his hand. And
ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho :
and the men of Jericho fought against you, the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites ; and I delivered them into
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your hand. And I sent the hornet before you,
which drave them out from before you, even the
two kings of the Amorites ; but not with thy
sword, nor with thy bow. And I have given
you a land for which ye did not labour, and
cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them ;
of the vineyards and oHveyards which ye planted
not do ye eat. Now therefore fear the Lord,
and serve him in sincerity and in truth : and put
away the gods which your fathers served on the
other side of the flood, and in Egypt ; and serve
ye the Lord. And if it seem evil unto you to
serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye
will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers
served that were on the other side of the flood,
or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye
dwell : but as for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord. And the people answered and
said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord,
to serve other gods ; for the Lord our God, he
it is that brought us up and our fathers out of
the land of Egjrpt, from the house of bondage,
and which did those great signs in our sight,
and preserved us in all the way wherein we went,
and among all the people through whom we
passed : and the Lord drave out from before us
all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in
the land : therefore will we also serve the Lord ;
for he is our God. And Joshua said unto the
people, Ye cannot serve the Lord : for he is an
holy God ; he is a jealous God ; he will not for-
give your transgressions nor your sins. If ye
forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then
he will turn and do you hurt, and consume
you, after that he hath done you good. And the
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people said unto Joshua, Nav ; but -we will serve
the Lord. And Joshua said unto the people,
Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have
chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they
said. We are witnesses. Now therefore put away,
said he, the strange gods which are among you,
and incline your heart unto the Lord God of
Israel. And"^ the people said unto Joshua, The
Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will
we obey. So Joshua made a covenant with the
people that day, and set them a statute and an
ordinance in Shechem. And Joshua wrote these
words in the book of the law of God, and took
a great stone, and set it up there under an oak,
that v:as by the sanctuary of the Lord. And
Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone
shall be a witness unto us ; for it hath heard all
the words of the Lord which he spake unto us :
it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye
deny your God. So Joshua let the people depart,
every man unto his inheritance. And it came to
pass after these things, that Joshua the son of
Nun. the ser^-ant of the Lord, died, being an
hundred and ten years old. And they buried
him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-
serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north
side of the hill of Gaash. And Israel served the
Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of
the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had
known all the works of the Lord, that he had
done for Israel. And the bones of Joseph, which
the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt,
buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground
which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the |
father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver : j
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and it became the inheritance of the children of
Joseph. And Eleazar the son of Aaron died ;
and they buried him in a hill that pertained
to Phinehas his son, which was given him in
mount Ephraim.
'^\)t ^ccontf Suntiag after ZITrinitg.
Morning. Judg. iv.
AND the children of Israel again did evil in the
J\. sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin
king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor ; the cap-
tain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in
Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of
Israel cried unto the Lord : for he had nine
hundred chariots of iron ; and twenty years he
mightily oppressed the children of Israel. And
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she
judged Israel at that time. And she dwelt under
the pahn tree of Deborah between Eamah and
Beth-el in mount Ephraim : and the children of
Israel came up to her for judgment. And she
sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out
of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him. Hath not
the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go
and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with
thee ten thousand men of the children of Naph-
tali and of the children of Zebulun? And I
will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera,
the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots
and his multitude ; and I will deliver him into
thine hand. And Barak said unto her. If thou
wilt go with me, then I will go : but if thou
wilt not go with me, then I will not go. And
she said, I . will surely go with thee : notwith-
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standing the journey that thou takest shall not
be for thine honour ; for the Lord shall sell
Sisera into the hand of a \7oman. And Deborah
arose, and went with Bi\rak to Kedesh. And
Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh ;
and he went up with ten thousand men at his
feet : and Deborah went up with him. Now
Heber the Kenite, ichich was of the cliildren of
Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed
himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent
unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of
Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. And
Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even
nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people
that icere with him, from Harosheth of the Gen-
tiles unto the river of Kishon. And Deborah
said unto Barak, Up ; for this is the day in
which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hand : is not the Lord gone out before thee ?
So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and
ten thousand men after him. And the Lord dis-
comfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his
host, with the edge of the sword before Barak ;
so that Sisera lighted down ofi" his chariot, and
fled away on his feet. But Barak pursued after
the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth
of the Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell
upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not
a man left. Howbeit Sisera fled away on his
feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the
Kenite : for there v:as peac« between Jabin the
king of Hazor and the house of Heber the
Kenite. And Jael went out to meet Sisera,
and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in
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to me ; fear not. And when he had turned in
unto her into the tent, she covered him with a
mantle. And he said unto her, Give me, I pray
thee, a little water to drink ; for I am thirsty.
And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him
drink, and covered him. Again he said unto her,
Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when
any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say,
Is there any man here ? that thou shalt say, No.
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent,
and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly
imto him, and smote the nail into his temples,
and fastened it into the ground : for he was fast
asleep and w^eary. So he died. And, behold,
as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew
thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he
came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and
the nail was in his temples. So God subdued
on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the
children of Israel. And the hand of the chil-
dren of Israel prospered, and prevailed against
Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had de-
stroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Evening. Judg. v.
THEN sang Deborah and Barak the son of
Abinoam on that day, saying. Praise ye
the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly oflFered themselves. Hear, O ye
kings ; give ear, O ye princes ; I, even I, will
sing unto the Lord ; I wiU sing praise to the
Lord God of Israel. Lord, when thou wentest
out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the
field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the
heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
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The niountams melted from before the Lord,
even that Sinai from before the Lord God of
Israel. In the days of Shamgar the son of
Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were
unoccupied, and the travellers walked through
byways. The iiihabitants of the villages ceased,
they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose,
that I arose a mother in Israel. They chose new
gods ; then was war in the gates : was there a
shield or spear seen among forty thousand in
Israel ? My heart is toward the governors of
Israel, that offered themselves willingly among
the people. Bless ye the Lord. Speak, ye that
ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment,
and walk by the way. TTiey that are delivered
from the noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the
righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous
acts tou-ard the inhabitants of his villages in
Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go
down to tbe gates. Awake, awake, Deborah:
awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and
lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoani.
Then he made him that remaineth have domi-
nion over the nobles among the people : the
Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
Out of Ephraim icas there a root of them against
Amalek ; after thee, Benjamin, among thy peo-
ple ; out of ]Machir came down governors, and
out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the
writer. And the princes of Issachar ivere with
Deborah ; even Issachar, and also Barak : he
was sent on foot into the valley. For the
divisions of Reuben there ivere great thoughts of
heart. Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds,
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to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the
divisions of Reuben there were great searchings
of heart. Gilead abode beyond Jordan : and
why did Dan remain in ships ? Asher continued
on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Zebulun and Naphtali ivere a people that jeo-
parded their lives unto the death in the high
places of the field. The kings came and fought,
then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by
the waters of Megiddo ; they took no gain of
money. They fought from heaven ; the stars in
their courses fought against Sisera. The river of
Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the
river Kishou. my soul, thou hast trodden
down strength. Then were the horsehoofs broken
by the means of the pransings, the pransings of
their mighty ones. Curse ye Meroz, said the
angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the in-
habitants thereof ; because they came not to the
help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord
against the mighty. Blessed above women shall
Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed
shall she be above women in the tent. He
asked water, and she gave him milk ; she brought
forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand
to the nail, and her right hand to the work-
men's hammer ; and with the hammer she smote
Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had
pierced and stricken through his temples. At
her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her
feet he bowed, he fell : where he bowed, there
he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked
out at a window, and cried through the lattice,
Why is his chariot so long in coming ? why tarry
the wheels of his chariots? Her wise ladies
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answered her, yea, she returned answer to her-
self, Have they not sped ? have they not divided
the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to
Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers
colours of needlework, of divers colours of
needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of
them that take the spoil ? So let all thine enemies
perish, Lord : but kt them that love him be
as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
And the land had rest forty years.
Or, Judg. vi. V. 11.
AND there came an angel of the Lord, and sat
jtjL under an oak which icas in Ophrah, that
pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite : and his
son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to
hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of
the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him,
The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of
valour. And Gideon said unto him. Oh my
Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all
this befallen us ? and where be all his miracles
which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the
Lord bring us up from Egypt ? but now the
Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the
hands of the Midianites. And the Lord looked
upon him, and said. Go in this thy might, and
thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the
Midianites : have not I sent thee? And he said
unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save
Israel ? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh,
and I am the least in my fathers house. And
the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with
thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one
man. And he said unto him, If now I have
found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign
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that thou talkest with me. Depart not hence, I
pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring
forth my present, and set it before thee. And
he said, I will tarry until thou come again. And
Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and un-
leavened cakes of an ephah of flour : the flesh
he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a
pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak,
and presented it. And the angel of God said un-
to him. Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes,
and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the
broth. And he did so. Then the angel of the
Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in
his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleaven-
ed cakes ; and there rose up fire out of the rock,
and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes.
Tlien the angel of the Lord departed out of
his sight. And when Gideon perceived that he
was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O
Lord God ! for because I have seen an angel of
the Lord face to face. And the Lord said unto
him, Peace be unto thee ; fear not : thou shalt
not die. Then Gideon built an altar there unto
the Lord, and called it Jehovah-shalom : unto
this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
And it came to pass the same night, that the
Lord said unto him, Take thy father's young
bullock, even the second bullock of seven yaars
old, and throw down the altar of Baiil that thy
father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it :
and build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon
the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and
take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacri-
fice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt
cut down. Then Gideon took ten men of his
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servants, and did as the Lord had said unto
him : and so it was, because he feared his father's
household, and the men of the city, that he could
not do it by day, that he did it by night. And
when the men of the city arose early in the
morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down,
and the grove was cut down that was by it, and
the second bullock was offered upon the altar
that was built. And they said one to another,
Who hath done this thing ? And when they en-
quired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of
Joash hath done this thing. Then the men of
the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that
he may die : because he hath cast down the altar
of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove
that icas by it. And Joash said unto all that
stood against him. Will ye plead for Baal ? will
ye save him ? he that will plead for him, let him
be put to death whilst it is yet morning : if he 6e
a god, let him plead for himself, because on^ hath
cast down his altar. Therefore on that day he
called him Jerubbaal, saying. Let Biial plead
against him, because he hath thrown down his
altar. Then all the ^Midianites and the Amalek-
ites and the children of the east were gathered
together, and went over, and pitched in the
valley of Jezreel. But the Spirit of the Lord
came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet ; and
Abi-ezer was gathered after him. And he sent
messengers throughout all Manasseh ; who also
was gathered after him : and he sent messengers
unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naph-
tali ; and they came up to meet them. And
Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel
by mine hand, as thou hast said, behold, I will
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put a fleece of wool in the floor ; and if the dew
be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the
earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt
save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
And it was so : for he rose up early on the
morrow, and thrast the fleece together, and
wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full
of water. And Gideon said unto God, Let not
thine anger be hot against me, and I wiU speak
but this once : let me prove, I pray thee, but
this once with the fleece ; let it now be dry only
upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let
there be dew. And God did so that night : for
it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was
dew on all the ground.
C|c Z\)ix'a ^untrag after ^rinitg.
Morning. 1 Sam. ii. to v. 27.
AN D Hannah prayed, and said. My heart re-
Xjl joiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted
in the Lord : my mouth is enlarged over mine
enemies ; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
There is none holy as the Lord : for there is none
beside thee : neither is there any rock like our
God. Talk no more so exceeding proudly ; let
not arrogancy come out of your mouth : for the
Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions
are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are
broken, and they that stumbled are girded with
strength. They that were full have hired out
themselves for bread ; and they that were hungry
ceased : so that the barren hath bom seven ;
and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
The Lord killeth, and maketh alive : he bringeth
I down to the grave, and bringeth up. The Lord
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maketh poor, and maketh rich : he bringeth
low, and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor
out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from
the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to
make them inherit the throne of glory : for the
piUars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath
set the world upon them. He will keep the feet
of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in
darkness ; for by strength shall no man prevail.
The adversaries of the Lord shaU be broken to
pieces ; out of heaven shall he thunder upon
them : the Lord shall judge the ends of the
earth ; and he shaU give strength unto his king,
and exalt the horn of his anointed. And Elka-
nah went to Ramah to his house. And the child
did minister unco the Lord before Eli the priest.
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they
knew not the Lord. And the priest's custom
with the people was, that, when any man offered
sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh
was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth
in his hand ; and he struck it into the pan, or
kettle, or caldron, or pot ; all that the fleshhook
brought up the priest took for himself. So they
did in SMloh unto all the Israelites that came
thither. Also before they burnt the fat, the
priest's servant came, and said to the man that
sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest ; for
he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
And if any man said unto him, Let them not
fail to burn the fat presently, and theyi take as
much as thy soul desireth ; then he would answer
him, iVa?/ ; but thou shalt give it vie now : and
if not, I will take it by force. Wherefore the
sin of the young men was very great before the
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Lord : for men abhorred the offering of the
Lord. But Samuel ministered before the Lord,
being a child, girded with a linen ephod. More-
over his mother made him a little coat, and
brought it to him from year to year, when she
came up with her husband to offer the yearly
sacrifice. And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife,
and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman
for the loan which is lent to the Lord. And
they went unto their own home. And the Lord
visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
three sons and two daughters. And the child
Samuel grew before the Lord. Noav Eli was
very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel ; and how they lay with the women that
assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation. And he said unto them, Why do
ye such things ? for I hear of your evil dealings
by all this people. Nay, my sons ; for it is no
good report that I hear : ye make the Lord's
people to transgress. If one man sin against
another, the judge shall judge him : but if a man
sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him ?
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the
voice of their father, because the Lord would slay
them. And the child Samuel grew on, and was
in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.
Evening. 1 Sam. iii.
A ND the child Samuel ministered unto the
jljL Lord before Eli. And the word of the
Lord was precious in those days ; there was no
open vision. And it came to pass at that time,
when Eli was laid down in his place, and his
eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see ;
and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of
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the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel
was laid dovm. to sleep ; that the Lord called
Samuel : and he answered, Here am I. And he
ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I ; for thou
calledst me. And he said, I called not ; lie
down again. And he went and lay down. And
the Lord called j-et again, Samuel. And Samuel
arose and went to Eli, and said. Here am I ; for
thou didst call me. And he answered, I called
not, my son ; lie down again. Now Samuel did
not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of
the Lord yet revealed unto him. And the Lord
called Samuel again the third time. And ihe
arose and went to Eli, and said. Here am I ; for
thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the
Lord had called the child. Therefore Eli said
unto Samuel, Go, lie down : and it shall be, if
he call thee, that thou shalt say, SjDeak, Lord ; for
thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay
down in his place. And the Lord came, and
stood, and called as at other times, Samuel,
Samuel. Then Samuel answered. Speak ; for
thy servant heareth. And the Lord said to
Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at
which both the ears of every one that heareth it
shall tingle. In that day I will perform against
Eli aU things which I have spoken concerning
his house ; when I begin, I will also make an
end. For I have told him that I will judge his
house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ;
because his sons made themselves vile, and he
restrained them not. And therefore I have
sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of
Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
oflfering for ever. And Samuel lay until the
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morning, and opened the doors of the house of
the Lord. And Samuel feared to shew Eli
the vision. Then Eli called Samuel, and said,
Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.
And he said, What is the thing that the LORD
hath said unto thee ? I pray thee hide it not from
me : God do so to thee, and more also, if thou
hide any thing from me of all the things that he
said unto thee. And Samuel told him every
whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said.
It is the Lord : let him do what seemeth him
good. And Samael grew, and the Lord was
with him, and did let none of his words fall
to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even to
Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to
he a prophet of the Lord. And the Lord appeared
again in Shiloh : for the Lord revealed himself
to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.
Or, 1 Sam. iv. to v. 19.
A ND the word of Samuel came to all Israel.
JLjL Now Israel went out against the Philistines
to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer : and the
Philistines pitched in Aphek. And the Philis-
tines put themselves in array against Israel :
and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten
before the Philistines : and they slew of the
army in the field about four thousand men.
And when the people were come into the camp,
the elders of Israel said. Wherefore hath the
Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines 1
Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord
out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among
us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might
bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the
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Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the che-
rubims : and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant
of God. And when the ark of the covenant of
the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted
with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
And when the Philistines heard the noise of the
shout, they said. What meaneth the noise of this
great shout in the camp of the Hebrews ? And
they understood that the ark of the Lord was
come into the camp. And the Philistines were
afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp.
And they said, Woe unto us ! for there hath not
been such a thing heretofore. Woe unto us ! who
shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty
Gods ? these are the Gods that smote the Egyp-
tians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, ye
Pliilistines, that ye be not servants unto the He-
brews, as they have been to you : quit yourselves
like men, and fight. And the Philistines fought,
and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man
into his tent : and there was a very great slaugh-
ter ; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand
footmen. And the ark of God was taken ; and
the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were
slain. And there ran a man of Benjamin out of
the army, and came to Shiloh the same* day with
his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by
the wayside watching : for his heart trembled
for the ark of God. And when the man came
into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he
said. What meaneth the noise of this tumult ?
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And the man came in hastily, and told Eli. Now
Eli was ninety and eight years old ; and his eyes
were dim, that he could not see. And the man
said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army,
and I fled to day out of the army. And he said.
What is there done, my son ? And the messen-
ger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great
slaughter among the people, and thy two sons
also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark
of God is taken. And it came to pass, when he
made mention of the ark of God, that he fell
from off the seat backward by the side of the
gate, and his neck brake, and he died : for he
was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged
Israel forty years.
ST^c JFourt^ Suntfat) after ^rinitg.
Morning. 1 Sam. xii.
AND Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I
-ZjL have hearkened unto your voice in all that
ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
And now, behold, the king walketh before you :
and I am old and grayheaded ; and, behold, my
sons are with you : and I have walked before
you from my childhood unto this day. Behold,
here I am : witness against me before the Lord,
and before his anointed : whose ox have I taken ?
or whose ass have I taken ? or whom have I de-
frauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose
hand have I received any bribe to blind mine
eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And
they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor op-
pressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any
man's hand. And he said unto them, Tlie Lord
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is witness against you, and his anointed is wit-
ness this day, that ye have not found ought iu
my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the
Lord that advanced ]Moses and Aaron, and that
brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with
you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of
the Lord, which he did to you and to your
fathers. \\Tien Jacob was come into Egypt, and
your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord
sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your
fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in
this place. And when they forgat the Lord
their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera,
captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand
of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king
of IVIoab, and they fought against them. And
they cried unto the Lord, and said. We have
sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and
have served Baalim and Ashtaroth : but now
deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and
we will serve thee. And the Lord sent Jerub-
baal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and
delivered you out of the hand of your enemies
on every side, and ye dwelled safe. And when
ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of
Amnion came against you, ye said unto me, Nay ;
but a king shall reign over us : when the Lord
your God ivas your king. Now therefore behold
the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye
have desired ! and, behold, the Lord hath set a
king over you. If ye will fear the Lord, and
serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel
against the commandment of the Lord, then
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shall both ye and also the king that reigneth
over you continue following the Lord your God :
but if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord,
but rebel against the commandment of the Lord,
then shall the hand of the Lord be against you,
as it was against your fathers. Noav therefore
stiind and see this great thing, which the Lord
will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest
to day ? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall
send thunder and rain ; that ye may perceive
and see that your wickedness is great, which ye
have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking
you a king. So Samuel called unto the Lord ;
and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day :
and all the people greatly feared the Lord and
Samuel. And all the people said unto Samuel,
Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God,
that we die not : for we have added unto all our
sins this evil, to ask us a king. And Samuel
said unto the people, Fear not : ye have done all
this wickedness : yet turn not aside from follow-
ing the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your
heart ; and turn ye not aside : for then should ye
go after vain things, which cannot profit nor de-
liver ; for they are vain. For the Lord will not
forsake his people for his great name's sake : be-
cause it hath plejised the Lord to make you his
people. Moreover as for me, God forbid that I
should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray
for you : but I will teach you the good and the
right way : only fear the Lord, and serve him
in truth with all your heart : for consider how
gi-eat things he hath done for you. But if ye
shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed,
both ye and your king.
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Evening. 1 Sam. xiii.
SAUL reigned one year; and when he had
reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose
him three thousand men of Israel ; whereof two
thousand were with Saul in ISIichmash and in
mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jona-
than in Gibeah of Benjamin : and the rest of
the people he sent every man to his tent. And
Jonathan smote the garrison of the Phihstines
that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of
it. And Said blew the trumpet throughout all
the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. And
all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a
garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also
was had in abomination with the Philistines.
And the people were called together after Saul
to Gilgal. And the Philistines gathered them-
selves together to fight with Israel, thirty thou-
sand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
people as the sand which is on the sea shore in
multitude : and they came up, and pitched in
Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. When
the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait,
(for the people were distressed,) then the people
did hide themselves in Ciives, and in thickets,
and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to
the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he
was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed
him "trembling. And he tarried seven days,
according to the set time that Samuel had
appointed : but Samuel came not to GOgal ;
and the people were scattered from him. And
Saul said. Bring hither a burnt offering to me,
and peace oiferings. And he offered the burnt
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oflFering. And it came to pass, that as soon as he
had made an end of offering the burnt offering,
behold, Samuel came ; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might salute him. And Samuel said,
What hast thou done ? And Saul said, Because
I saw that the people were scattered from me,
and that thou earnest not within the days ap-
pointed, and that the Philistines gathered them-
selves together at Michmash ; therefore said I,
The Philistines will come down now upon me to
Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto
the Lord : I forced myself therefore, and offered
a burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, Thou
ha.st done foolishly : thou hast not kept the com-
mandment of the Lord thy God, which he com-
manded thee : for now would the Lord have esta-
blished thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. But
now thy kingdom shall not continue : the Lord
hath sought him a man after his own heart, and
the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over
his people, because thou hast not kept that which
the Lord commanded thee. And Samuel arose,
and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Ben-
jamin. And Saul numbered the people that ivere
present with him, about six hundred men. And
Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that
were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Ben-
jamin : but the Philistines encamped in Mich-
mash. And the spoilers came out of the camp
of the Philistines in three companies : one com-
pany turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah,
unto the land of Shual : and another company
turned the way to Beth-horon : and another com-
pany turned to the way of the border that looketh
to the valley of Zeboun toward the wilderness.
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Now there was no smith found throughout all
the land of Israel : for the Philistines said, Lest
the Hebrews make them swords or spears : but
all the Israelites went down to the Philistines,
to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter,
and his ax, and his mattock. Yet they had a
file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and
for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen
the goads. So it came to pass in the day of
battle, that there was neither sword nor spear
found in the hand of any of the people that
ivere with Saul and Jonathan : but with Saul
and with Jonathan his son was there found. And
the garrison of the Philistines went out to the
passage of Michmash.
Or, Paith i.
"T^TOW it came to pass in the days when the
JLi judges ruled, that there was a famine in
the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-
judah went to sojourn in the country of ISIoab, he,
and his wife, and his two sons. And the name
of the man icas Elimelech, and the name of his
wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons
Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-
judah. And they came into the country of
Moab, and continued there. And Elimelech
Naomi's husband died ; and she was left, and
her two sons. And they took them wives of the
women of Moab ; the name of the one was
Orpah, and the name of the other Euth : and
they dwelled there about ten years. And Mah-
lon and Chilion died also both of them ; and the
woman was left of her two sons and her hus-
band. Then she arose with her daughters in
law, that she might return from the country of
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Moab : for she had heard in the country of Moab
how that the Lord had visited his people in
giving them bread. Wherefore she went forth
out of the place where she was, and her two
daughters in law with her ; and they went on
the way to return unto the land of Judah. And
Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go,
return each to her mother's house : the Lord
deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the
dead, and with me. The Lord grant you that
ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her
husband. Then she kissed them ; ' and they
lifted up their voice, and wept. And they said
unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto
thy people. And Naomi said, Turn again, my
daughters : why will ye go with me ? are there
yet amj more sons in my womb, that they may
be your husbands ? Turn again, my daughters,
go your icay ; for I am too old to have an hus-
band. If 1 should say, I have hope, if I should
have an husband also to night, and should also
bear sons ; would ye tarry for them till they were
grown? would ye stay for them from having
husbands ? nay, my daughters ; for it grieveth
me much for your sakes that the hand of the
Lord is gone out against me. And they lifted
up their voice, and wept again : and Orpah
kissed her mother in law ; but Kuth clave unto
her. And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is
gone back unto her people, and unto her gods :
return thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth
said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return
from following after thee : for whither thou goest,
I will go ; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge :
thy people shall be my people, and thy God my
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j God : where thou diest, will I die, and there will
i I be buried : the Lord do so to me, and more
; also, if ought but death part thee and me. When
she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go
with her, then she left speaking unto her. So they
two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And
it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-
lehem, that all the city was moved about them,
and they said, Is this Naomi ? And she said unto
them, Call me not Naomi, call me ]\Lara : for the
Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I
went out flill, and the Lord hath brought me
! home again empty : why then call ye me Kaomi,
i seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and
I the Almighty hath afflicted me ? So Naomi re-
' turned, and Ruth the jNIoabitess, her daughter in
law, with her, which returned out of the country
: of Moab : and they came to Beth-lehem in the
beginning of barley harvest
^$c SHii^ SunUag after ^rinitg.
Morning. 1 Sam. xv. to v. 34.
SAMUEL also said unto Saul, The Lord sent
me to anoint thee to he king over his people,
' over Israel : now therefore hearken thou unto the
' voice of the words of the Lord. Thus saith the
Lord of hosts. I remember that which Amalek
did to Israel, how he laid icait for him in the
I way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go
I and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that
' they have, and spare them not ; but slay both
I man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and
i sheep, camel and ass. And Saul gathered the
I people together, and numbered them in Telaim,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thou-
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sand men of Judah. And Saul came to a city
of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. And
Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you
down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy
you with them : for ye shewed kindness to all
the children of Israel, when they came up out of
Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among
the Amalekites. And Saul smote the Amalek-
ites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur,
that is over against Egypt. And he took Agag
the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the
sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag,
and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and
of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was
good, and would not utterly destroy them : but
every thing that was vile and refuse, that they
destroyed utterly. Then came the word of the
Lord unto Samuel, saying. It repenteth me that
I have set up Saul to he king : for he is turned
back from following me, and hath not performed
my commandments. And it grieved Samuel ;
and he cried imto the Lord all night. And
when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the
morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came
to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place,
and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down
to Gilgal. And Samuel came to Saul : and
Saul said unto him, Blessed he thou of the
Lord : I have performed the commandment of
the Lord. And Samuel said. What nneaneth
then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and
the lowing of the oxen which I hear '? And Saul
said, They have brought them from the Amale-
kites : for the people spared the best of the
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sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord
thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will
tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this
night. And he said unto him, Say on. And
Samuel said, When thou v:ast little in thine own
sight, least thou not made the head of the tribes
of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over
Israel ? And the Lord sent thee on a journey,
and said. Go and utterly destroy the sinners the
Amalekites, and fight against them until they be
consumed. "Wherefore then didst thou not obey
the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the
spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord ?
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed
the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way
which the Lord sent me, and have brought
Agag the king of Ainalek, and have utterly de-
stroyed the Amalekites. But the people took
of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the
things which should have been utterly destroyed,
to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gil gal.
And Samuel said. Hath the Lord as great de-
light in burnt ofi'erin^ and sacrifices, as in
obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken
than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the
sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity
' and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the
I word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee
I from being king.
j Evening. 1 Sam. xvi.
A ND the Lord said unto Samuel How long
I JLl_ wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have
I rejected him from reigning over Israel ? fill thine
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horn ■with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesee
the Beth-lehemite : for I have provided me a
king among his sons. And Samuel said, How-
can I go ? if Saul hear it, he wall kill me. And
the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say,
I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. And call
Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what
thou shalt do : and thou shalt anoint unto me
him whom I name unto thee. And Samuel did
that which the Lord spake, and came to Beth-
! lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at
his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
And he said, Peaceably : I am come to sacrifice
unto the Lord : sanctify yourselves, and come
with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse
and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
And it came to pass, when they were come, that
he looked on Eliab, and said. Surely the Lord's
anointed is before him. But the Lord said unto
Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the
height of his stature ; because I have refused
him : for the LORD seeth not as man seeth ;
for man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh on the heart. Then Jesse
called Abinadab, and made him pass before
Samuel. And he said. Neither hath the Lord
chosen this. Then Jesse made Shammah to pass
by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen
this. Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to
pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto
Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these. And
Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy chil-
dren ? And he said. There remaineth yet the
youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch
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him : for we will not sit down tUl he come
I hither. And he sent, and brought hiin in. Now
he v:as ruddy, and withal of a beautiful coun-
tenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord
said, Arise, anoint him ; for this is he. Then
Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed hiiu
in the midst of his brethren ; and the Spirit of
the ['Lord came upon David from that day for-
ward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul,
and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now,
an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. Let our
lord now command thy servants, ichich are be-
fore thee, to seek out a man, ivho is a cunning
player on an harp : and it shall come to pass,
when the evd spirit from God is upon thee, that
he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be
well. And Saul said unto his servants. Provide
me now a man that can play well, and bring
him to me. Then answered one of the servants,
and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the
Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a
mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and
prudent in matters, and a comely person, and
the Lord is with him. Wherefore .; Saul sent
messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David
thy sou, which is with the sheep. And Jesse took
an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and
a kid, and sent them by David his son unto SauL
And David came to Saul, and stood before him :
and he loved him greatly ; and he became his
armourbearer. And Saul sent to Jesse, saying,
I Let David. I pray thee, stand before me ; for he
j hath found favour in my sight. And it came to
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pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon
Saul, that David took an harp, and played with
his hand : so Saul was refreshed, and was well,
and the evil spirit departed from him.
Or, 1 Sam. xviL
l^OW the Philistines gathered together their
_L^ armies to battle, and were gathered to-
gether at Shochoh, which belong eth to Judah,
and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in
Ephes-dammim. And Saul and the men of
Israel were gathered together, and pitched by
the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array
against the Philistines. And the PhiUstines
stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel
stood on a mountain on the other side : and
there was a valley between them. And there
went out a champion out of the camp of the
Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height
was six cubits and a span. And he had an
helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed
with a coat of mail ; and the weight of the coat
was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had
greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of
brass between his shoulders. And the staff of
his spear icaslike a weaver^s beam ; and his spear's
head weighed six hundred shekels of iron : and
one bearing a shield went before hira. And he
stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and
said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your
battle in array ? am not I a Philistine, and ye
servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and
let hmi come down to me. If he be able to fight
with me, and to kill me. then Avill we be your
servants : but if I prevail against him, and kill
him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
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And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of
Israel this day ; give me a man, that we may
fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard
those words of the Philistine, they were dis-
mayed, and greatly afraid. Now David was the
son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah,
whose name icas Jesse ; and he had eight sons :
and the man went among men for an old man
in the days of Saul. And the three eldest sons
of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle :
and the names of his three sons that went to
the battle icere Eliab the firstborn, and next
unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
And David ivas the youngest: and the tliree
eldest followed Saul. But David went and re-
turned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at
Beth-lehem. And the Philistine drew near
morning and evening, and presented himself
forty days. And Jesse said unto David his son.
Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this
parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to
the camp to thy brethren ; and carry these ten
cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and
look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel,
ivere in the valley of Elah, fighting with the
Philistines. And David rose up early in the
morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and
took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him ;
and he came to the trench, as the host was going
forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
For Israel and^he Philistines had put the battle
in array, army against army. And David left
his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the army, and came and
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saluted his brethren. And as he talked with
them, behold, there came up the champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the
armies of the Philistines, and spake according
to the same words : and David heard them. And
all the men of Israel, when they saw the man,
fled from him, and were sore afraid. And the
men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that
is come up 1 surely to defy Israel is he come up :
and it shall be, that the man who killeth him,
the king will enrich him with great riches, and
will give him his daughter, and make his father's
house free in Israel. And David spake to the
men that stood by him, saying, What shall be
done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and
taketh away the reproach from Israel ? for who
is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should
defy the armies of the living God ? And the
people answered him after this manner, saying.
So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he
spake unto the men ; and Eliab's anger was
kindled against David, and he said, Why earnest
thou down hither ? and with whom hast thou
left those few sheep in the wilderness ? I know
thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart ;
for thou art come down that thou mightest see
the battle. And David said. What have I now
done 1 Is there not a cause ? And he turned
from him toward another, and spake after the
same manner : and the people answered him
again after the former manner. And when the
words were heard which David spake, they re-
hearsed them before Saul : and he sent for him.
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail
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because of him ; thy sen-ant will go and fight
with this Philistine. And Saul said to David,
Thou art not able to go against this Philistine
to fight with him : for thou art but a youth, and
he a man of war from his youth. And David
said unt-o Saul, Thy servant kept his father's
sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and
took a lamb out of the flock : and I went out
after him, and smote him, and delivered it out
of his mouth : and when he arose against me, I
caught him by his beard, and smote him, and
slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and
the bear: and this uncircumclsed Philistine shall
be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the
armies of the living God. David said moreover,
The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of
the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will
deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord
be with thee. And Saul armed David with his
armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his
head ; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
And David girded his sword upon his armour,
and he assayed to go ; for he had not proved it.
And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with
these ; for I have not proved them. And David
put them off him. Aid he took his staff in his
hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of
the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag
which he had, even in a scrip ; and his sling was
in his hand : and he drew near to the Philistine.
And the Philistine came on and drew near unto
David ; and the man that bare the shield icent
before him. And when the Philistine looked
about, and saw David, he disdained him : for he
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was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair coun-
tenance. And the Philistme said unto David,
Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with
staves ? And the Philistine cursed David by
his gods. And the Philistine said to David,
Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the
fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest
to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with
a shield : but I come to thee in the name of the
Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord
deliver thee into mine hand ; and I will smite
thee, and tiike thine head from thee ; and I will
give the carcases of the host of the Philistines
this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the
wild beasts of the earth ; that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel. And all this
assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not
with sword and spear : for the battle is the
Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose,
and came and drew nigh to meet David, that
David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet
the Philistine. And David put his hand in his
bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and
smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the
stone sunk into his forehead ; and he fell upon
his face to the earth. So David prevailed over
the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and
smote the Philistine, and slew him ; but there
was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore
David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and
took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath
thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
therewith. And when the Philistines saw their
champion was dead, they fled. And the men of
Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the
valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the
wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way
to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
And the children of Israel returned from chasing
after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
And David took the head of the Philistine, and
brought it to Jerusalem ; but he put his armour
in his tent. And when Saul saw David go forth
against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the
captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this
youth ? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth,
king, I cannot telL And the king said, Enquire
thou whose son the stripling is. And as David
returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
Abner took him, and brought him before Saul
with the he^d of the Philistine in his hand.
And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou
young man ? And David answered, I am the
son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemit€.
^l)t ^ixi^ Sunuag after ^rinitg.
Morning. 2 Sam. i.
l^rOW it came to pass after the death of Saul,
_Ll when David was returned from the slaugh-
ter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two
days in Ziklag ; it came even to pass on the third
day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp
from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon
his head : and so it was, when he came to David,
that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
And David said unto him, From whence comest
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
thou ? And he said unto him, Out of the camp
of Israel am I escaped. And David said unto
him, How went the matter ? I pray thee, tell me.
And he answered, That the people are fled from
the battle, and many of the people also are fallen
and dead ; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead
also. And David said unto the young man that
told him, How knowest thou that Saul and
Jonathan his son be dead 1 And the young man
that told him said, As I happened by chance
upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon
his spear ; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen
followed hard after him. And when he looked
behind him, he saw me, and called unto me.
And I answered, Here am I. And he said unto
me, Who art thou 1 And I answered him, I am
an Amalekite. He said unto me again, Stand,
I pray thee, upon me, and slay me : for anguish
is come upon me, because my life is yet whole
in me. So I stood upon him, and slew him, be-
cause I was sure that he could not live after that
he was fallen : and I took the crown that icas upon
his head, and the bracelet that icas on his ann,
and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent
them ; and likewise all the men that were with
him : and they mourned, and wept, and fasted
until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son,
and for the people of the Lord, and for the house
of Israel ; because they were fallen by the sword.
And David said imto the young man that told
him. Whence art thou ? And he answered, I
am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. And
David said unto him. How wast thou not afraid
to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord's
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anointed ? And David called one of the young
men, and said, Go near, ami fall upon liini. And
he smote him that he died. And David said
unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head ; for thy
mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have
slain the Lord's anointed. And David lamented
with this lamentation over Saul and over Jona-
than his son : (also he bade them teach the chil-
dren of Judah the use of the bow : behold, it is
written in the book of Jasher.) The beauty of
Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the
mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it
not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters
of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of
the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of
GUboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be
rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there
the shield of the mighty is vdely cast away, the
shield of Saul, as though he had not been anoint-
ed with oil. From the blood of the slain, from
the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned
not back, and the sword of Saul returned not
empty. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and
pleiisant in their lives, and in their death they
were not divided : they were swifter than eagles,
they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of
Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scar-
let, with other delights, who put on ornaments of
gold upon your apparel. How are the mighty
fallen in the midst of the battle ! Jonathan, thou
wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed
for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant
, hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was won-
I derful, passing the love of women. How are the
1 mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished !
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SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Evening. 2 Sam. xii. to v. 24.
AND the Lord sent Nathan unto David.
_ And he came unto him, and said unto him,
There were two men in one city ; the one rich,
and the other poor. The rich man had exceed-
ing many flocks and herds : but the poor man
had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he
had bought and nourished up : and it grew up
together with him, and with his children ; it did
eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup,
and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a
daughter. And there came a traveller unto the
rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock
and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring
man that was come unto him ; but took the poor
man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was
come to him. And David's anger was greatly
kindled against the man ; and he said to Nathan,
As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this
thing shall surely die : and he shall restore the
lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and
because he had no pity. And Nathan said to
David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel,
and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul ;
and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy
master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee
the house of Israel and of Judah ; and if that
had been too little, I would moreover have given
unto thee such and such things. Wherefore hast
I thou despised the commandment of the Lord,
! to do evil in his sight ? thou hast killed Uriah
the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his
■wife to he thy wife, and hast slain him with the
sword of the children of Ammon. Now there-
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fore the sword shall never depart from thine
house ; because thou hast despised me, and hast
taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy
wife. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise
up evil against thee out of thine own house, and
I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give
them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with
thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou
didst it secretly : but I will do this thing before
aU Israel, and loefore the sun. And David said
unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.
And Nathan said unto David, The Lord
also hath put away thy sin ; thou shalt not
die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hjist
given great occasion to the enemies of the
Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is
born unto thee shall surely die. And Nathan
departed unto his house. And the Lord
struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto
David, and it was very sick. David therefore
besought God for the child ; and David fasted,
and w*ent in, and lay all night upon the earth.
And the elders of his house arose, a7id went to
him, to raise him up from the earth: but he
would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the
child died. And the servants of Da\id feared to
tell him that the child was dead : for they said,
Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake
unto him, and he would not hearken unto our
voice : how will he then vex himself, if we tell
him that the child is dead ? But when David
saw that his servants whispered, David perceived
that the child was dead : therefore David said
unto his servants. Is the child dead ? And they
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said, He is dead. Then David arose from the
earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and
changed, his apparel, and came into the house of
the Lord, and worshipped : then he came to liis
own house ; and when he required, they set
bread before him, and he did eat. Then said his
servants unto him, What thing is this that thou
hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the
cliild, lohile it was alive ; but when the child was
dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. And he
said, Wliile the child was yet alive, I fasted and
wept : for I said. Who can tell tvhether God will
be gracious to me, that the child may live ? But
now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I
bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he
shall not return to me.
Or, 2 Sam. xviii.
A ND David numbered the people that were
JlJl with him, and set captains of thousands
and captains of hundreds over them. And David
sent forth a third part of the people under the
hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand
of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother,
and a third part under the hand of Ittai
the Gittite. And the king said unto the peo-
ple, I will surely go forth with you myself
also. But the people answered, Thou shalt not
go forth : for if we flee away, they will not care
for us ; neither if half of us die, will they care
for us : but now thou art worth ten thousand of
us : therefore now it is better that thou succour
us out of the city. And the king said unto
them, What seemeth you best I will do. And
the king stood by the gate side, and all the peo-
ple came out by hundreds and by thousands.
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And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and
Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the
young man, even with Absalom. And all the
people heard when the king gave all the captains
charge concerning Absalom. So the people went
out into the field against Israel : and the battle
was in the wood of Ephraim ; where the people
of Israel were slaia before the serv'ants of David,
and there was there a great slaughter that day of
twenty thousand men. For the battle w;is there
scattered over the face of all the country . and
the wood devoured more people that day than
the sword devoured. And Absalom met the
servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a
mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs
of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the
oak, and he was taken up between the heaven
and the earth ; and the mule that was under him
went away. And a certain man saw it, and told
Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged
in an oak. And Joab said unto the man that
told him, And, behold, thou sawest him. and why
didst thou not suiite him there to the ground ?
and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver,
and a girdle. And the man said unto Joab,
Though I should receive a thousand shekels of
silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth
mine hand against the king^s son : for in our
hearing the king charged thee and Abi:5hai and
Ittai, saying. Beware that none touch the young
man Absalom. Otherwise I should have wrought
falsehood against mine own life : for there is no
matter hid from the king, and thou thyself
wouldest have set thyself against me. Then said
Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he
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took three darts in his hand, and thrust them
through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet
alive in the midst of the oak. And ten young
men that bare Joab^s armour compassed about
and smote Absalom, and slew him. And Joab
blew the trumpet, and the people returned from
pursuing after Israel : for Joab held back the
people. And they took Absalom, and cast him
into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very
great heap of stones upon him : and all Israel
fled every one to his tent. Now Absalom in his
lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a
pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I
have no son to keep my name in remembrance :
and he called the pillar after his own name : and
it is called unto this day, Absalom's place. Then
said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run,
and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord
hath avenged him of his enemies. And Joab
said unto him. Thou shalt not bear tidings this
day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day :
but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because
the king's son is dead. Then said Joab to Cushi,
Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And
Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. Then
said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to
Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also
run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt
thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings
ready ? But howsoever, said he, let me run. And
he said unto him, Run. Then Aliimaaz ran by
the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. And
David sat between the two gates : and the watch-
man Avent up to the roof over the gate unto the
wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
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behold a man runriing alone. And the watchman
cried, and told the kinf^. And the king said, If
he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And
he came apace, and drew near. And the watch-
man saw another man running: and the watchman
called unto the porter, and said, Behold another
man running alone. And the king said, He also
bringeth tidings. And the watchman said, Me
thinketh the running of the foremost is like the
running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And
the king said, He is a good man, and cometh
with good tidings. And Ahiniiiaz called, and
said unto the king. All is well. And he fell
dovm to the earth upon his face before the king,
and said, Blessed he the Lord thy God, which
hath delivered up the men that lifted up their
hand against my lord the king. And the king
said. Is the young man Absalom safe ? And
Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's
servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult,
but I knew not what it ivas. And the king said
unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he
turned aside, and stood still. And, behold, CXishi
came ; and Cushi said. Tidings, my lord the king:
for the Lord hath avenged thee this day of all
them that rose up against thee. And the king
said unto Cushi, is the young man Absalom safe?
And Cushi answered. The enemies of my lord
the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee
hurt, be as that young man is. And the king
was much moved, and went up to the chamber
over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus
he said, 6 my son Absalom, my son, my son
Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O
Absalom, my son, my son !
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2:!)c Scbent]^ Suntrag after S^rinitg.
Morning. 1 Chron. xxi.
ND Satan stood up against Israel, and pro-
voked David to number Israel. And David
said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go,
number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan ;
and bring the number of them to me, that I
may know it And Joab answered, The Lord
make his people an hundred times so many more
as they be : but, my lord the king, are they not
all my lord's servants ? why then doth my lord
require this thing ? why will he be a cause of
trespass to Israel ? Nevertheless the king's word
prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab de-
parted, and went throughout all Israel, and came
to Jerusalem. And Joab gave the sum of the
number of the people unto David. And all they
of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hun-
dred thousand men that drew sword : and Judah
ivas four hundred threescore and ten thousand
men that drew sword. But Levi and Benjamin
counted he not among them : for the king^s word
was abominable to Joab. And God was dis-
pleased with this thing ; therefore he smote
Israel. And David said unto God, I have sinned
greatly, because I have done this thing : but
now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy
servant ; for I have done very foolishly. And
the Lord spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
I offer thee three things : choose thee one of
them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came
to David, and said unto him. Thus saith the
Lord, Choose thee either three years' famine ;
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or three months to be destroyed before thy foes,
while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh
thee ; or else three days the sword of the Lord,
even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel
of the LoPwD destroying throughout all the coasts
of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what
word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait:
let me fiill now into the hand of the Lord ; for
very great are his mercies : but let me not fall
into the hand of man. So the Lord sent pesti-
lence upon Israel : and there fell of Israel seventy
thousand men. And God sent an angel unto
Jerusalem to destroy it : and as he was destroy-
ing, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of
the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It
is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel
of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of
Oman the Jebusite. And David lifted up his
eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand be-
tween the earth and the heaven, having a drawn
sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Then David and the elders of Israel, v:ho ivere
clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their fiices. And
David said unto God, Is it not I that com-
manded the people to be numbered ? even I it
is that have sinned and done evil indeed ; but
as for these sheep, what have they done ? let
thine hand, I pray thee, Lord my God, be on
me, and on my father's house ; but not on thy
people, that they should be plagued. Then the
angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to
David, that David should go up. and set up an
altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jebusite. And David went up at the
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saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of
the Lord. And Ornan turned back, and saw
the angel ; and his four sons with him hid them-
selves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. And
as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw
David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and
bowed himself to David with his face to the
ground. Then David said to Ornan, Grant me
the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build
an altar therein unto the Lord : thou shalt grant
it me for the full price : that the plague may be
stayed from the people. And Ornan said unto
David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king
do that which is good in his eyes : lo, I give thee
the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the thresh-
ing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the
meat offering; I give it all. And king David
said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for
the full price : for I will not take that which is
thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings
without cost. So David gave to Ornan for the
place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
And David built there an altar unto the Lord,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings,
and called upon the Lord ; and he answered hun
from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt
offering. And the Lord commanded the angel ;
and he put up his sword again into the sheath
thereof. At that time when David saw that the
Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses
made in the wilderness, and the altar of the
burnt offering, ivere at that season in the high
place at Gibeon, But David could not go before
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it to enquire of God : for he was afraid because
of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
Evening. 1 Chron. xxiL
THEN David said, This is the house of the
Lord God, and this is the altar of the
burnt offering for Israel And David command-
ed to gather together the strangers that were in
the land of Israel ; and he set masons to hew
wrought stones to build the house of God. And
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails
for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings ;
and brass in abundance without weight ; also
cedar trees in abundance : for the Zidonians and
they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
And David said, Solomon my son is young and
tender, and the house that is to be builded for
the Lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame
and of glory throughout all countries : I wiU
therefore now make preparation for it. So David
prepared abundantly before his deuth. Then he
called for Solomon his son, and charged him to j
build an house for the Lord God of Israel. And j
David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was j
in my mind to build an house unto the name of i
the Lord my God : but the word of the Lord
came to me, saying. Thou hast shed blood abun-
dantly, and hast made great wars : thou shalt
not build an house unto my name, because thou ;
hast shed much blood upon the earth in my j
sight. Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who ;
shall be a man of rest ; and I will give him rest |
from all his enemies round about : for his name
shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet- '
ness unto Israel in his davs. He shall build an
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house for my name ; and he shall be my son,
and I will be his father ; and I will establish
the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
Now, my son, the Lord be with thee ; and
prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord
thy God, as he hath said of thee. Only the Lord
give thee wisdom and understanding, and give
thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest
keep the law of the Lord thy God. Then shalt
thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the
statutes and judgments which the Lord charged
Moses with concerning Israel ; be strong, and of
good courage ; dread not, nor be dismayed. Now,
behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the
house of the Lord an hundred thousand talents
of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver ;
and of brass and iron without weight ; for it is in
abundance : timber also and stone have I pre-
pared ; and thou mayest add thereto. Moreover
there are workmen with thee in abundance,
hewers and workers of stone and timber, and
all manner of cunning men for every manner of
work. Of the gold, the silver, and the brass,
and the iron, there is no number. Arise there-
fore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.
David also commanded all the princes of Israel
to help Solomon his son, saying, Is not the Lord
your God with you ? and hath he not given you
rest on every side? for he hath given the in-
habitants of the land into mine hand ; and the
land is subdued before the Lord, and before his
people. Now set your heart and your soul to
seek the Lord your God ; arise therefore, and
build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God, to
bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and
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the holy vessels of God, into the house that is
to be built to the name of the Lord.
Or^ 1 Chron. xxviii. to v. 21.
A ND David assembled all the princes of Israel,
J\. the princes of the tribes, and the captains
of the companies that ministered to the king bv
course, and the captains over the thousands, and
captains over the hundreds, and the stewards
overall the substance and possession of the king,
and of his sons, with the officers, and with the
mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto
Jerusalem. Then David the king stood up upon
his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and
my people : As for me, I had in mine heart to
build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God,
and had made ready for the building : but God
said unto me. Thou shalt not build an house for
my name, because thou hast been a man of war,
and hast shed blood. Howbeit the Lord God
j of Israel chose me before all the house of ray
j father to be king over Israel for ever : for he
I hath chosen Judah to he the ruler ; and of the
i house of Judah, the house of my father ; and
I among the sons of my father he liked me to
j make mc king over all Israel : and of all my
j sons, (for th6 Lord hath given me many sons,)
he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the
throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall
build my house and my courts : for I have chosen
him to he my son, and I will be his father.
Moreover I will estiiblish his kingdom for ever, '
if he be constant to do my commandments and j
my judgments, as at this day. Now therefore j
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! in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the
■ Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and
I seek for all the commandments of the Lord
' your God : that ye may possess this good land,
and leave it for an. inheritance for your children
j after you for ever. And thou, Solomon my son,
i know thou the God of thy father, and serve him
I with a perfect heart and with a willing mind :
' for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and under-
j standeth all the imaginations of the thoughts :
! if thou seek him, he will be found of thee ; but
! if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
I Take heed now ; for the Lord hath chosen thee
to build an house for the sanctuary : be strong,
and do it. Then David gave to Solomon his
son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses
thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of
the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner
parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy
seat, and the pattern of all that he had by
the spirit, of the courts of the house of the
Lord, and of all the chambers round about, of
the treasuries of the house of God, and of the
treasuries of the dedicated things : also for the
courses of the priests and the Levites, and for
all the work of the service of the house of the
Lord, and for all the vessels of service in the
house of the Lord. He gave of gold by weight
; for things of gold, for all instruments of all
i manner of service ; silver also for all instru-
ments of silver by weight, for all instruments
j of every kind of service : even the weight for
I the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of
' gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the
I kmps thereof : and for the candlesticks of silver
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I hj weight, both for the candlestick, and also for
the lamps thereof, according to the use of every
i candlestick. And by "weight he gave gold for
i the tables of shewbread, for every table ; and
likewise silver for the tables of silver : also pure
gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the
cups : and for the golden basons he gave gold by
"weight for every bason ; and likewise silver by
weight for every bason of silver : and for the
altar of incense refined gold by weight ; and
gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cheru-
bims, that spread out their icings, and covered
the ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this,
said David, the Lord made me understand in
"writing by his hand upon me, even all the works
of this pattern. And David said to Solomon
his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do
it : fear not, nor be dismayed : for the Lord God,
even my God, will be with thee ; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished
all the work for the service of the house of the
Lord.
^^c ^igljt^ Suntiag after STrinitg.
Morning. 1 Chron. xxix. v. 9 to v. 29.
THEN the people rejoiced, for that they
offered willingly, because with perfect heart
they ofiered willingly to the Lord : and David
the king also rejoiced with great joy. WTierefore
David blessed the Lord before all the congrega-
tion : and David said. Blessed be thou. Lord God
of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O
Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the
glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all
ihai is in the heaven and in the earth is thine;
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thine is the kingdom, Lord^, and thon art ex-
alted as head above all. Both riches and honour
come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in
thine hand is power and might ; and in thine
hand it is to make great, and to give strength
unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank
thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who
am I, and what is my people, that we should be
able to offer so willingly after this sort 1 for all
things come of thee, and of thine own have we
given thee. For we are strangers before thee,
and sojourners, as ivere all our Withers : our days
on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none
abiding. O Lord our God, all this store that
we have prepared to build thee an house for
thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all
thine own. I know also, my God, that thou triest
the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As
for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have
willingly offered all these things : and now have I
seen with joy thy people, which are present here,
to offer willingly unto thee. O Lord God of
Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep
this for ever in the imagination of the tlioughts
of the heart of thy people, and prepare their
heart unto thee : and give unto Solomon my son
a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy
testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these
things, and to build the palace, for the which I
have made provision. And David said to all
the congregation. Now bless the Lord your God.
And all the congregation blessed the Lord God
of their fathers, and bowed down their heads,
and worshipped the Lord, and the king. And
they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord, and
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offered burnt offerings unto the Lord, on the
morrow after that day. even a thousand bullocks,
a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with
their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance
for all Israel : and did eat and drink before the
Lord on that day with great gladness. And
they made Solomon the son of David king the
second time, and anointed him unto the Lord
to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as
king instead of David his father, and prospered ;
and all Israel obeyed him. And all the princes,
and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise
of king David, submitted themselves unto Solo-
mon the king. And the Lord magnified Solo-
mon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and
bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had
not been on any king before him in Israel. Thus
David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
And the time that he reigned over Israel was
forty years ; seven years reigned he in Hebron,
and thirty and three years reigned he in Jeru-
salem. And he died in a good old age, full of
days, riches, and honour : and Solomon his son
reigned in his stead.
Evening. 2 Chron, i.
AND Solomon the son of David was strength-
_ ened in his kingdom, and the Lord his
God was with him, and magnified him exceed-
ingly. Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to
the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and
to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel,
the chief of the fathers. So Solomon, and all
the congregation with him, went to. the high
place that was at Gibeon ; for there was the
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tabernacle of the congregation of God, which
Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the
wilderness. But the ark of God had David
brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place
which David had prepared for it : for he had
pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. Moreover
the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, had made, he put before the
tabernacle of the Lord : and Solomon and the
congregation sought unto it. And Solomon
went up thither to the brasen altar before the
Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the con-
gregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings
upon it. In that night did God appear unto
Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall
give thee. And Solomon said unto God, Thou
hast shewed great mercy unto David my father,
and hast made me to reign in his stead. Now,
O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my
father be established : for thou hast made me
king over a people like the dust of the earth in
multitude. Give me now wisdom and know-
ledge, that I may go out and come in before
this people : for who can judge this thy people,
that is so great? And God said to Solomon,
Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast
not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life
of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long
life ; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for
thyself, that thou may est judge my people, over
whom I have made thee king : wisdom and
knowledge is granted unto thee ; and I will
give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such
as none of the kings have had that have been
before thee, neither shall there any after thee
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hare the like. Then Solomon came from his
journey to the high place that ivas at Gibeon to
Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the
congregation, and reigned over Israel. And
Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen :
and he had a tliousand and four hundred
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which
he placed in the chariot cities, and with the
king at Jerusalem. And the king made silver
and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones,
and cedar trees made he as the sjcomore trees
that are in the vale for abundance. And So-
lomon had horses brought out of Eg^-pt, and
linen yarn : the king's merchants received the
linen yarn at a price. And they fetched up,
and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for
six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for
an hundred and fifty : and so brought they out
Jwrscs for all the kings of the Hittites, and lor
the kings of Syria, by their means.
Or, 1 Kings iii.
AND Solomon made afl&nity with Pharaoh
_ king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter,
and brought her into the city of David, until he
had made an end of building his own house,
and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jeru-
salem round about. Only the people sacrificed
in high places, becimse there was no house built
unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
And Solomon loved the Lord, Avalking in the
statutes of David his father : only he sacrificed
and burnt incense in high places. And the
king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there ; for that
icas the great high place : a thousand burnt ,
oflerings did Solomon ofter upon that altar. In |
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Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a
dream by night : and God said, Ask what I
shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast
shewed unto thy servant David my father great
mercy, according as he walked before thee in
truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness
of heart with thee ; and thou hast kept for him
this great kindness, that thou hast given him a
son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. And
now, Lord my God, thou hast made thy ser-
vant king instead of David my father : and I
am but a little child : I know not how to go out
or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of
thy people which thou hast chosen, a great
people, that cannot be numbered nor counted
for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy people, that I
may discern Ijetween good and bad : for who is
able to judge this thy so great a people? And
the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had
asked this thing. And God said unto him,
Because thou hast asked this thing, and hiist
not asked for thyself long life ; neither hast
asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life
of thine enemies ; but hast asked for thyself
understanding to discern judgment ; behold, I
have done according to thy words : lo, I have
given thee a wise and an understanding heart ;
so that there was none like thee before thee,
neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
And I have also given thee that which thou
hast not asked, both riches, and honour : so that
there shall not be any among the kings like
unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk
in my ways, to keep my statutes and my com-
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mandraents, as thy father David did walk, then
I will lengthen thy days. And Solomon awoke ;
and, behold, it was a dream. And he Ciime to
Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the cove-
nant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings,
and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to
all his servants. Then came there two women,
that ivere harlots, unto the king, and stood
before him. And the one woman said, my
lord, I and this Avoman dwell in one house ; and
1 was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And it came to pass the third day after that I
was delivered, that this woman was delivered
also : and we were together ; there was no
stranger with us in the house, save we two in
the house. And this woman's child died in the
night ; because she overlaid it. And she arose
at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her
bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
And when I rose in the morning to give my
child suck, behold, it was dead : but when I
had considered it in the morning, behold, it was
not my son, which I did bear. And the other
woman said. Nay ; but the living is my son,
and the dead is thy son. And this said, No ;
but the dead is thy son, and the living is my
son. Thus they spake before the king. Then
said the king. The one saith. This is my son that
liveth, and thy son is the dead : and the other
saith. Nay : but thy son is the dead, and my
son is the living. And the king said, Bring me
a sword. And they brought a sword before the
kincT. And the king said, Divide the living
child in two, and give half to the one, and half
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to the other. Then spake the woman whose the i
living child ivas unto the king, for her bowels i
yearned upon her son, and she said, ray lord, |
give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.
But the other said. Let it be neither mine nor
thine, but divide it. Then the king answered
and said, Give her the living child, and in no
wise slay it : she is the mother thereof. And
all Israel heard of the judgment which the king
had judged ; and they feared the king : for they
saw that the wisdom of God ivas in him, to do
judgment.
S^I)c i^intf) Suntfat? after ^rinitg.
Morning. 1 Kings x. to v. 25.
AND when the queen of Sheba heard of
XjL the fame of Solomon concerning the name
of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard
questions. And she Ciime to Jerusalem with a
very great train, with camels that bare spices,
and very much gold, and precious stones : and
when she was come to Solomon, she communed
with him of all that was in her heart. And
Solomon told her all her questions : there was
not any thing hid from the king, which he told
her not. And when the queen of Sheba had
seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that
he had built, and the meat of his tiible, and the
sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers,
and his ascent by which he went up unto the
house of the Lord ; there was no more spirit in
her. And she said to the king. It was a true
report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts
and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the
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■VTords, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it:
and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wis-
dom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I
heard. Happy are thy men, happy are these thy
servants, which stand continually before thee,
a7icl that hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord
thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on
the throne of Israel : because the Lord loved
Israel forever, therefore made he thee king, to do
judgment and justice. And she gave the king an
hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices
very great store, and precious stones : there came
no more such abundance of spices as these which
the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. And
the navy also of Hii-am, that brought gold from
Opliir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of
almug trees, and precious stones. And the king
made of the almug trees pillars for the house
of the Lord, and for the king's house, harps
also and psalteries for singers : there came no
such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
And king Solomon gave unto the queen of
Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked,
beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned and went to her own
countr3% she and her servants. Now the weight
of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
beside that he had of the merchantmen, and
of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all
the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the
country. And king Solomon made two hundred
targets of beaten gold : six hundred shekels of
gold went to one target. And he made three
hundred shields of beaten gold ; three pound of
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gold went to one shield : and the king put them
in the house of the forest of Lebanon. More-
over the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with the best gold. The throne had
six steps, and the top of the throne was round |
behind : and there ivere stays on either side on
the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside I
the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the !
one side and on the other upon the six steps : j
there was not the like made in any kingdom.
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were
of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the
forest of Lebanon tvere of pure gold ; none were i
of silver : it was nothing accounted of in the
days of Solomon, For the king had at sea a
navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram :
once in three years came the navy of Tharshish,
bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and
peacocks. So king Solomon exceeded all the
kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his
wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
Evening. 1 Kings xi. to v. 15.
BUT king Solomon loved many strange wo-
men, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,
women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edoinites,
Zidonians, and Hittites ; of the nations concern-
ing which the Lord said unto the children of
Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall
they come in unto you : for surely they will
turn away your heart after their gods : Solomon
clave unto these in love. And he had seven
hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
concubines : and his wives turned away his
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heart. For it came to pass, when Solomon was
old, that his wives turned away his heart after
other gods : and his heart was not perfect with
the Lord his God, as icas the heart of David his
father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, and after ISIilcom the
abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon
did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not
fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
Then did Solomon build an high place for
Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill
that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
abomination of the children of Amnion. And
likewise did he for all his strange wives, which
burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because
his heart was turned from the Lord God of
Israel, which had appeared unto him t\\'ice, and
had commanded him concerning this thing,
that he should not go after other gods : but j
he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, For-
asmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast
not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
have commanded thee, I will surely rend the
kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy
servant. Notwithstanding in thy days I will
not do it for David thy father's sake : but I will
rend it out of the hand of thy son. Howbeit I
will not rend away all the kingdom ; but will
give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's
sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have
chosen. And the Lord stirred up an adversary
unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite : he ivas of
the kind's seed in Edom.
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Or, 1 Kings xi. v. 26.
AND Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephra-
_ thite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose
mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman,
even he lifted up his hand against the king.
And this was the cause that he lifted up his
hand against the king : Solomon built Millo,
and repaired the breaches of the city of David
his father. And the man Jeroboam ivas a
mighty man of valour : and Solomon seeing the
young man that he was industrious, he made
him ruler over all the charge of the house of
Joseph. And it came to pass at that time when
Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the pro-
phet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the
way ; and he had clad himself with a new gar-
ment ; and they two were alone in the field :
and Ahijah caught the new garment that was on
him, and rent it in twelve pieces : and he said
to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces : for thus
saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I
will rend the kingdom out of the hand of
Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee : (but
he shall have one tribe for my servant David's
sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which
I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel :)
because that they have forsaken me, and have
worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zido-
nians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and
Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and
have not walked in my ways, to do that which
is right in mine eyes, and to Jcecp my statutes
and my judgments, as did David his father.
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out
of his hand : but I will make him prince all the
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days of his life for David my servant's sake,
whom I chose, because he kept my command-
ments and my statutes : but I will take the
kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
unto thee, even ten tribes. And unto his son
will I give one tribe, that David -my servant
may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem,
the city which I have chosen me to put my
name there. And I will take thee, and thou
shalt reign according to all that thy soul desire th,
and shall be king over Israel. And it shall be,
if thou wilt hearken unto all that I conmiand
thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is
right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my
commandments, jis David my servant did ; that
I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house,
as I built for David, and will give Israel unto
thee. And I will for this afflict the seed of
David, but not for ever. Solomon sought there-
fore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt,
and was in Egypt untd the death of Solomon.
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all
that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written
in the book of the acts of Solomon ? And the
time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
Israel was forty years. And Solomon slept with
his fathers, and was buried in the city of David
his father : and Eehoboam his son reigned in
his stead.
t!ri)e Ccntl^ Suntias afttr ^rimtg.
Morning. 1 I\jngs xii. j
ND Eehoboam went to Shechem : for all .
Israel were come to Shechem to make him
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king. And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of
it, (for he was fled from the presence of king
j Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt ;) that
I they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and
all the congregation of Israel came, and spake
unto Kehoboam, saying. Thy father made onr
yoke grievous : now therefore make thou the
grievous service of thy father, and his heavy
yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will
serve thee. And he said unto them, Depart yet
for three days, then come again to me. And
the people departed. And king Rehoboani
consulted with the old men, that stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said,
How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt
be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt
serve them, and answer them, and speak good
words to them, then they will l^e thy servants
for ever. But he forsook the counsel of the old
men, which they had given him, and consulted
with the young men that were grown up with
him, and which stood before him : and he said
unto them, What counsel give ye that we may
answer this people, who have spoken to me,
saying, Make the yoke which thy father did
put upon us lighter I And the young men that
were grown up with him spake unto him, say-
ing, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people
that spake unto thee, saying. Thy Either made
our yoke heav}'-, but make thou it lighter unto
us ; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little
finger shall be thicker "than my fathers loins.
And now whereas my father did lade you with
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a heavy yoke, I will add to yonr yoke : my
father hath chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions. So Jeroboam and
all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
as the king had appointed, sayincr, Come to me
again the third day. And the king answered
the people roughly, and forsook the old men's
counsel that they gave him ; and spake to them
after the counsel of the young men, saying, My
father made your yoke heavy, and I will add
to your yoke : my fother also chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the
people ; for the cause was from the Lord, that
he might perform his saying, which the Lord
spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, So when all Israel saw that
the king hearkened not unto them, the people
answered the king, saying, What portion have
we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the
son of Jesse : to your tents, Israel : now see
to thine own house. David. So Israel departed
unto their tents. But as for the children of
Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Reho-
boam reigned over them. Then king Rehoboam
sent Adoram, who xcas over the tribute ; and all
Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get
him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. So
Israel rebelled against the house of David unto
this day. And it came to pass, when all Israel
heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they
sent and called him unto the congregation, and
made him king over all Israel : there was none
that followed the house of David, but the tribe
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of Judah only. And when Rehoboam was come
to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of
Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred
and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were
warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to
bring the kingdom again to Kehoboam the son
of Solomon. But the word of God came unto
Shemaiah the man of God, saying. Speak unto
Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah,
and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin,
and to the remnant of the people, saying, Thus
saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight
against your brethren the children of Israel :
return every man to his house ; for this thing is
from me. They hearkened therefore to the word
of the Lord, and returned to depart, according to
the word of the Lord. Then Jeroboam built She-
chem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein ; and
went out from thence, and built Penuel. And
Jeroboam said in his heart. Now shall the king-
dom return to the house of David : if this people
go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord
at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people
turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam
king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go
again to Rehoboam king of Judah, Whereupon
the king took counsel, and made two calves of
gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you
to go up to Jerusalem : behold thy gods, Israel,
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put
he in Dan. And this thing became a sin : for the
people went to ivorship before the one, even unto
Dan. And he made an house of high places, and
made priests of the lowest of the people, which
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were not of the sons of Levi. And Jeroboam
ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast
that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar.
So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves
that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the
priests of the high places which hehad made. So he
• offered upon the altar which he had made in Betli-
; el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in
I the month which he had devised of his own heart ;
' and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel:
and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
Evening. 1 Kings xiii.
A ND, behold, there came a man of God out of
j\. Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-
el : and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn
incense. And he cried against the altar in the
word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altiir, thus
saith the Lord ; Behold, a child shall be bom
unto the house of David, Josiah by name ; and
upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high
places that burn incense upon thee, and men's
bones shall be burnt upon thee. And he gave a
sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which
the Lord hath spoken ; Behold, the altar shall
be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be
poured out. And it amie to pass, when king
Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God,
wdiich had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that
he put forth his hand from the altar, saying. Lay
hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth
against him, dried up, so that he could not pull
it in again to him. The altar also was rent, and
the ashes poured out from the altar, according to
the sign which the man of God had given bv the
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word of the Lord. And the king answered and
said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face
of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my
hand may be restored me again. And the man
of God besought the Lord, and the king's hand
was restored him again, and became as it was
before. And the king said unto the man of God,
Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I
will give thee a reward. And the man of God
said unto the king. If thou wilt give me half
thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither
will I eat bread nor drink water in this place :
for so was it charged me by the word of the
Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor
turn again by the same way that thou camest.
So he went another way, and returned not by
the way that he came to Beth-el, Now there
dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el ; and his sons
came and told him all the works that the man of
God had done that day in Beth-el : the words
which he had spoken unto the king, them they
told also to their father. And their father said
unto them. What way went he ? For his sons
had seen what way the man of God went, which
came from Judah. And he said unto his sons.
Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass :
and he rode thereon, and went after the man of
God, and found him sitting under an oak : and
he said unto him. Art thou the man of God that
camest from Judah ? And he said, I am. Then
he said unto him. Come home with me, and eat
bread. And he said, I may not return with thee,
nor go in with thee : neither will I eat bread nor
drink water with thee in this place : for it was
said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt
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eat no bread nor drink water there, nor tiiiH
again to go bv the way that thoii earnest. He
I said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art;
and an angel spake unto me by the word of the
Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into
thine house, that he may eat bread and drink
i water. But he lied unto him. So he went back
I with him, and did eat bread in his house, and
I drank water. And it came to pass, as they sat
I at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto
the prophet that brought him back : and he cried
unto the man of God that came from Judah,
saying. Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou
hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast
not kept the commandment which the Lord thy
God commanded thee, but camest back, and hast
eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the
; which the LOUD did say to thee, Eat no bread,
' and drink no water ; thy carcase shall not come
unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. And it came
to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to \int, for
the prophet whom he had brought back. And
when he was gone, a lion met him by the way,
i and slew him : and his carcase was cast in the
way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood
by the carcase. And, behold, men passed by,
and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion
standing by the carcase : and they came and told
it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. And
when the prophet that brought him back from
the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of
God, who was disobedient unto the word of the
Lord : therefore the Lord hath delivered him
imto the lion, which liath torn him, and slain
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him, according to the word of the Lord, which
he spake unto him. And he spake to his sons,
saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled
him. And he went and found his carcase cast in
the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the
carcase : the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor
torn the ass. And the prophet took up the car-
case of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass,
and brought it back : and the old prophet came
to the city, to mourn and to bury him. And he
laid his carcase in his own grave ; and they
mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother !
And it came to pass, after he had buried him,
that he spake to his sons, saying. When I am
dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the
man of God is buried ; lay my bones beside his
bones : for the saying which he cried by the
word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el,
and against all the houses of the high places
which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely
come to pass. After this thing Jeroboam returned
not from his evil way, but made again of the
lowest of the people priests of the high places :
whosoever would, he consecrated him. and he
became one of the priests of the high places.
And this thing became sin unto the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it
from off the face of the earth.
Or, 1 Kings xvii.
yi ND Elijah the Tishbite, v)ho was of the in-
XjL habitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As
the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I
stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years,
but according to my word. And the word of the
Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and
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turn tliee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be,
that thou shalt drink of the brook ; and I have
commanded the ravens to feed thee there. So he
went and did according unto the word of the
Lord : for he went and dwelt by the brook
Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens
brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of
the brook. And it came to pass after a while,
that the brook dried up, because there had been
no rain in the land. And the word of the Lord
came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zare-
phath, which belongeth to Zidon. and dwell there :
behold, I have commanded a widow woman there
to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zare-
phath. And when he came to the gate of the
city, behold, the widow woman 2vas there gather-
ing of sticks : and he called to her, and said,
Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel,
that I may drink. And as she was going to
fetch it, he Ciilled to her, and said. Bring me, I
pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And
she said. As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not
a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and
a little oil in a cruse : and, behold, I am gather-
ing two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for
me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
And Elijah said unto her. Fear not ; go and do
as thou hast said : but make me thereof a little
cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make
for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the
Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the
day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
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And she went and did according to the saying of
Elijah : and she, and he, and her house, did eat
many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not,
neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to
the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
And it came to pass after these things, that the
son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell
sick ; and his sickness was so sore, that there was
no breath left in him. And she said unto Elijah,
What have I to do with thee, thou man of
God ? art thou come unto me to call my sin to
remembrance, and to slay my son 1 And he said
unto her. Give me thy son. And he took him
out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft,
where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
And he cried unto the Lord, and said, Lord
my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the
widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
And he stretched himself upon the child three
times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, Lord
my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come
into him again. And the Lord heard the voice
of Elijah ; and the soul of the child ciime into
him again, and he revived. And Elijah took the
child, and brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto his
mother : and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I
know that thou art a man of God, arid that the
word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.
CI)c C^Iebfntf) .Sunlrag after t^rinitg. ■-
Morning. 1 Kings xviii.
AND it came to pass after many days, that the
xV. word of the Lord came to Elijah in the
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third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab ;
and I will send rain upon the earth. And Elijah
went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there
ivas a sore famine in Samaria. And Ahab called
Obadiah. which was the governor of his house.
(Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly : for it
was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the
Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets,
and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them
with bread and "water.) And Ahab said unto
Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all founwins of
water, and unto all brooks : peradveuture we
may find grass to save the horses and mules
alive, that we lose not all the beasts. So they
divided the laud between them to pass through-
out it : Ahab went one way by himself, and
Obadiah went another way by himself. And as
Obadiah wai> in the way, behokl, Elijah met him:
and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said,
Art thou that my lord Elijah ? And he answered
him, I am : go, tell thy lord. Behold, EUjah is
here. And he said. What have I sinned, that
thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand
of ^Uiab, to slay me ? As the Lord thy God
liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither
iny lord hath not sent to seek thee : and when
they said, He is not there ; he took an oath of
the kingdom and nation, that they found thee
not. And now thou sayest, Go, t<?ll thy lord.
Behold, Elijah is here. And it shall come to
pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the
Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I
know not ; and so when I come and tell Ahab,
and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me : but
I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.
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Was it not told my lord what I did when j
Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid [
an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty
in a cave, and fed them with bread and water ? ^
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah is here : and he shall slay me. And
Elijah said. As the Lord of hosts liveth, before
whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto
him to day. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab,
and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah,
that Ahab said unto him. Art thou he that
troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not
troubled Israel ; but thou, and thy father's house,
in that ye have forsaken the commandments of
the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim. Now
therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto
mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four
hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves
four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. So
Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and
gathered the prophets together unto mount
Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people,
and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?
if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal, then
follow him. And the people answered him not
a word. Then said Elijah unto the people, I,
even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord ; but |
Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
Let them therefore give us two bullocks ; and
let them choose one bullock for themselves, and
cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no
fire under: and I will dress the other bullock,
and lay it on wood, and put no fire under : and
call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call
ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
on the name of the Lord : and the God that
answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the
people answered and said, It is well spoken.
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal,
Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress
it first ; for ye are many ; and call on the name
of your gods, but put no fire under. And they
took the bullock which was given them, and they
dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from
morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.
But there was no voice, nor any that answered.
And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked
them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ;
either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is
in a journey, or perad venture he sleepeth, and
must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut
themselves after their manner with knives and
lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
And it came to pass, when midday was past, and
they prophesied until the time of the offering of
the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice,
nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. And
Elijah said unto all the people. Come near unto
me. And all the people came near unto him.
And he repaired the altar of the Lord that teas
broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones,
according to the number of the tribes of the sons
of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord
came, saying, Israel shall be thy name : and with
the stones he built an altar in the name of the
Lord : and he made a trench about the altar, as
great as would contain two measures of seed.
And he put the wood in order, and cut the
bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and
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said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on
the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. And he
said, Do it the second time. And they did it
the second time. And he said, Do it the third
time. And they did it the third time. And the
water ran round about the altar ; and he filled
the trench also with water. And it came to
pass at the time of the ofi'ering of the evening
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and
said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel,
let it be known this day that thou art God in
Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I
have done all these things at thy word. Hear
me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know
that thou art the Lord God, and that thou
hast turned their heart back again. Then the
fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt
sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the
dust, and licked up the water that was in the
trench. And when all the people saw it, they
fell on their faces : and they said, The Lord, he
is the God ; the Lord, he is the God. And Elijah
said unto them. Take the prophets of B;ial; let not
one of them escape. And they took them : and
Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon,
and slew them there. And Elijah said unto Ahab,
Get thee up, eat and drink ; for there is a sound of
abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and to
drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carniel ;
and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put
his face between his knees, and said to his servant,
Go up now, look toward the seii. And he went
up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And
he said, Go again seven times. And it amie to
pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
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there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a
man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto
Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down,
that the rain stop thee not. And it came to pass
in the mean while, that the heaven was black
with clouds and wind, and there was a great
rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
And the hand of the Lord was on EUjah ; and
he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to
the entrance of JezreeL
Evening. 1 Kings xix.
AND Aliab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
jr\. done, and withal how he had slain all the
prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a
messenger unto Elijah, saying. So let the gods
do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life
;is the life of one of them by to morrow about
this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and
went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which
belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
But he himself went a day^s journey into the wil-
derness, and came and sat down under a juniper
tree : and he requested for himself that he might
die ; and said, It is enough ; now, Lord, take
away my life ; for I am not better than my
fathers. And as he lay and slept under a juniper
tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and
said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked,
and, behold, there was a ciike baken on the coals,
and a cruse of water at his head. And he did
e^xt and drink, and laid him down again. And
the angel of the Lord came again the second
time, and touched him, and said. Arise and eat ;
becimse the journey is too great for thee. And
he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the
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strength of that meat forty days and forty nights
unto Horeb the mount of God. And he came
thither unto a cave, and lodged there ; and,
behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and
he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah ?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the
Lord God of hosts : for the children of Israel
have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword ;
and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my
life, to take it away. And he said, Go forth, and
stand upon the mount before the Lord. And,
behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in
pieces the rocks before the Lord ; hut the Lord
was not in the wind : and after the wind an
earthquake ; hut the Lord was not in the earth-
quake : and after the earthquake a fire ; hut the
Lord, loas not in the fire : and after the fire a
still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah
heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle,
and went out, and stood in the entering in of the
cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him,
and said, What doest thou here, Elijah ? And
he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord
God of hosts : because the children of Israel
have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword ;
and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my
life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto
him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of
Damascus : and when thou comest, anoint
Hazael to he king over Sj'^ria : and Jehu the son
of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to he king over
Israel : and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-
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meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy
room. And it shall come to pass, that him that
escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slav:
and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu
shall Elisha slay. Yet I have left me seven
thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not
bowed unto Biuil, and every mouth which hath
not kissed him. So he departed thence, and
found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who icas
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him,
and he with the twelfth : and Elijah passed by
him, and Ciist his mantle upon him. And he left
the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me,
I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and
then i will follow thee. And he said unto him,
Go back a^ain : for what have I done to thee ?
And he returned back from him, and took a yoke
of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh
■with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto
the people, and they did eat. Then he arose,
and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
Or, 1 Kings xxi.
AND it came to pass after these things, that
J\_ Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard,
which lias in Jezreel, hard by the palace of
AJiab king of Samaria. And Ahab spake unto
Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I
may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is
near unto my house : and I will give thee for it
a better vineyard than it ; or, if it seem good to
thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it
me, that I should give the inheritance of my
fathers unto thee. And Ahab came into his
house heavy and displeased because of the word
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which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him :
for he had said, I will not give thee the inherit-
ance of my fathers. And he kid him down
upon his bed, and turned away his face, and
would eat no bread. But Jezebel his wife came
to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so
sad, that thou eatest no bread? And he said
unto her. Because I spake unto Naboth the
Jezreelite, and said unto him. Give me thy vine-
yard for money ; or else, if it please thee, I will
give thee another vineyard for it : and he an-
swered, I will not give thee my vineyard. And
Jezebel his wife said unto him. Dost thou now
govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat
bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give
thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. So
she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed
them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the
elders and to the nobles that were in his city,
dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the
letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth
on high among the people : and set two men,
sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against
him, saying. Thou didst blaspheme God and the
king. And then carry him out, and stone him,
that he may die. And the men of his city, even
the elders and the nobles who were the inhabit-
ants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto
them, and as it was written in the letters which
she had sent unto them. They proclaimed a fast,
and set Naboth on high among the people. And
there came in two men, children of Belial, and
sat before him : and the men of Belial witnessed
against him, even against Naboth, in the presence
of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme
ELEYEXTH SU^'DAY AFTER TEIXITY.
God and the king. Then they carried him forth
out of the city, and stoned hiin with stones, that
he died. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying,
Naboth is stoned, and is dead. And it came
to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab,
Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for
money : for Naboth is not alive, but dead. And
it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth
was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the
vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take pos-
session of it. And the word of the Lord came
to Elijah the Tishbite, saying. Arise, go down to
meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria :
behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither
he is gone down to possess it. And thou shalt
speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus
saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked
the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood,
even thine. And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou
found me, mine enemy ? And he answered, I
have found thee : because thou hast sold thyself
to work evil in the sight of the Lord. Behold,
I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away
thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him
that pisseth against the wall, and him that is
shut up and left in Israel, and will make thine
house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast
provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The
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j dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
j Him that dieth of Ahiib in the city the dogs
i shall eat ; and him that dieth in the field shall
I the fowls of the air eat. But there was none
j like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
I wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom
i Jezebel his wife stirred up. And he did very
abominably in following idols, according to all
things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast
out before the children of Israel. And it came
to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he
rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh,
j and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, Seest thou how Aliab humbleth
himself iDefore me ? because he humbleth himself
before me. I will not bring the evil in his days :
hut in his son's days Avill I bring the evil upon
his house.
Vxfjt tUtorlft^ Suntjag nftcr ^rinitg.
Morning. 1 Kings xxii. to r. 41.
AND they continued three years without war
XjL between Syria and Israel. And it came to
pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah came down to the king of Israel. And
the king of Israel said unto his servants. Know
ye that Ramoth in Gilead is our's, and we be
still, and take it not out of the hand of the king
of Syria ? And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt
thou go with me to battle to Ramotli-gilead ?
And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I
am as thou art, my people as thy people, my
horses as thy horses. And Jehoshaphat said
unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at
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the word of the Lord to day. Then the king of
Israel gathered the prophets together, about four
hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go
against Eamoth-gilead to battle, or shall I for-
bear ? And they said, Go up ; for the Lord
shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And
Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him ?
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat,
There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah,
by whom we may enquire of the Lord : but I
hate him ; for he doth not prophesy good con-
cerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said,
Let not the king say so. Then the king of Israel
called an officer, and said. Hasten hither Micaiah
the son of Imlah. And the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his
throne, having put on their robes, in a void place
in the entrance of the gate of Samaria ; and all
the prophets prophesied before them. And Ze-
dekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns
of iron : and he said. Thus saith the Lord, With
these shalt thou push the S}Tians, until thou
have consumed them. And all the prophets
prophesied so, saying. Go up to Ramoth-gilead,
and prosper : for the Lord shall deliver it into
the king^s hand. And the messenger that was
gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying,
Behold now, the words of the prophets declare
good unto the king with one mouth: let thy
word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of
them, and speak that which is good. And
Micaiah said, ^5 the Lord liveth, what the
Lord saith unto me, that will I speak. So he
came to the king. And the king said unto him,
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Micaiah, shall we go against Earaoth-gilead to
battle, or shall we forbear ? And he answered
him, Go, and prosper : for the Lord shall deliver
it into the hand of the king. And the king said
unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee
that thou tell me nothing but that which is true
in the name of the Lord 1 And he said, I saw
all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that
have not a shepherd : and the Lord said, These
have no master : let them return every man to
his house in peace. And the king of Israel said
unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he
would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil ?
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of
the Lord : I saw the Lord sitting on his throne,
and all the host of heaven standing by him on
his right hand and on his left. And the Lord
said. Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go
up and fall at Eamoth-gilead ? And one said on
this manner, and another said on that manner.
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before
the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And
the Lord said unto him. Wherewith 1 And he
said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit
in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said.
Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go
forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the
Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all
these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken
evil concerning thee. But Zedekiah the son of
Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the
cheek, and said, Which way went tlie Spirit of
the Lord from me to speak unto thee? And
Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day,
when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to
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hide thyself. And the king of Israel said, Take
!Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amou the
governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
son ; and say. Thus saith the king. Put this
felloic in the prison, and feed him with bread of
affliction and with water of affliction, until I
come in peace. And Micaiah said. If thou re-
turn at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken
by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every
one of you. So the king of Israel and Je-
hoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ea-
moth-gilead. And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter
into the battle ; but put thou on thy robes. And
the king of Israel disguised himself, and went
into the battle. But the king of Syria com-
manded his thirty and two Giptains that had
rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with
small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
And it came to pass, when the capt-iins of the
chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely
it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside
to fight against him : and Jehoshaphat cried out.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots perceived that it was not the king of
Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and
smote the king of Israel between the joints of
the harness : wherefore he said unto the driver
of his chariot. Turn thine hand, and carry me
out of the host ; for I am wounded. And the
battle increased that day : and the king was
stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians,
and died at even : and the blood ran out of the
wound into the midst of the chariot And there
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■went a proclamation throughout the host about
the going down of the sun, saying, Every man
to his city, and every man to his own country.
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria ;
and they buried the king in Samaria. And one
Avashed the chariot in the pool of Samaria ; and
the dogs licked up his blood ; and they washed
his armour ; according unto the word of the
Lord which he spake. Now the rest of the acts
of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house
which he made, and all the cities that he built,
are they not written in the book of the chroni-
cles of the kings of Israel ? So Ahab slept with his
fathers ; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Evening. 2 Kings ii. to v. 16.
AND it came to pass, when the Lord would
. take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind,
that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. And
Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee ;
for the Lord hath sent me to Beth-el. And
Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they
went down to Beth-el. And the sons of the pro-
phets that ivere at Beth-el came forth to Elisha,
and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord
will take away thy master from thy head to day ?
And he said, Yea, I know it ; hold ye 3^our peace.
And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I
pray thee ; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho.
And he said. As the Lord liveth, and a^ thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to
Jericho. And the sons of the prophets that ^oere
at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him,
Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy
master from thy head to day ? And he answered.
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Yea, I know it ; hold ye your peace. And Elijah
said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here ; for the
Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As
the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will
not leave thee. And they two went on. And
fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood to view afar off : and they two stood by
Jordan. And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped
it tof(ether, and smote the waters, and they were
divided hither and thither, so that they two went
over on dry ground. And it came to pass, when
they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha,
Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken
away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee,
let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing :
nevertheless, if thou see me ivhen I am taken from
thee, it shall be so unto thee ; but if not, it shall
not be so. And it came to pass, as they still
went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared
a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted
them both asunder ; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and
he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Is-
rael, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him
no more : and he took hold of his own clothes,
and rent them in two pieces. He took up also
the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went
back, and stood by the bank of Jordan ; and he
took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
smote the waters, and said. Where is the Lord
God of Elijah ? and when he also had smitten
the waters, they parted hither and thither : and
Elisha went over. And M'hen the sons of the
prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him.
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they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.
And they came to meet him, and bowed them-
selves to the ground before him.
Or, 2 Kings iv. v. 8 to v. 38.
AN D it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to
. Shunem, where loas a great woman ; and
she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was,
that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither
to eat bread. And she said unto her husband,
Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man
of God, which passeth by us continually. Let us
make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall ;
and let us set for him there a bed, and a table,
and a stool, and a candlestick : and it shall be,
when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in
thither. And it fell on a day, that he came
thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay
there. And he said to Gehazi his servant. Call
this Shunammite. And when he had called her,
she stood before him. And he said unto him,
Say now unto her. Behold, thou hast been careful
for us with all this care ; what is to be done for
thee ? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king,
or to the captain of the host 1 And she answered,
I dwell among mine own people. And he said,
What then is to be done for her ? And Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no chdd, and her hus-
band is old. And he said. Call her. And when he
had called her, she stood in the door. And he said,
About this season, according to the time of life,
thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay,
my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine
handmaid. And the woman conceived, and bare
a son at that season that Elisha had said unto
her, according to the time of life. And when the
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child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went
out to his father to the reapers. And he said
unto his father, My head, my head. And he said
to a lad. Carry him to his mother. And when
he had taken him, and brought him to his mother,
he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the
man of God, and shut the door upon him, and
went out. And she called unto her husband,
and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young
men, and one of the aases, that I may run to the
man of God, and come again. And he said,
"Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day ? it is
neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said.
It shall be well. Then she saddled an ass, and
said to her servant. Drive, and go forward ; slack
not thy riding for me, except I bid thee. So she
went and came unto the man of God to mount
Oarmel. And it came to pass, when the man of
God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his
servant. Behold, yonder is that Shunammite :
run now, I pmy thee, to meet her, and say unto
her, 7s it well with thee? is it M-ell with thy
husband ? is it well with the child ? And she
answered. It is well. And when she came to the
man of God to the hill, she caught him by the
feet : but Gehazi came near to thrust her away.
And the man of God said, Let her alone ; for her
soul is vexed within her : and the Lord hath hid
it from me, and hath not told me. Then she said,
Did I desire a son of my lord ? did I not say. Do
not deceive me ? Then he said to Gehazi, Gird '
up thy loins, and tjike my staff in thine hand,
and go thy way : if thou meet any man, salute
him not ; and if any salute thee, answer him not
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again : and lay my stafFupon the face of the child.
And the mother of the child said, As the Lord
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave
thee. And he arose, and followed her. And
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff
upon the face of the child ; but there was neither
voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to
meet him, and told him, saying. The child is not
awaked. And when Elisha was come into the
house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon
his bed. He went in therefore, and shut the
door upon them twain, and prayed unto the
Lord. And he went up, and lay upon the child,
and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes
upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands : and
he stretched himself upon the child ; and the
flesh of the child waxed warm. Then he returned,
and walked in the house to and fro ; and went
up, and stretched himself upon him : and the
child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his
eyes. And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this
Shunammite. So he called her. And when she
was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the ground, and took up her son, and
went out.
^Ilje ^Ijtrtccttt]^ .SuntJag after tlFrimtg.
Morning. 2 Kings v.
NOW Naaman, captain of the host of the
king of Syria, was a great man Avith his
master, and honourai)le, because by him the Lord
had given deliverance unto Syria : he was also a
mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. And
j the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had
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THIRTEENTH SUISTDAY AFTER TRINITY.
brought away captive out of the land of Israel a
little maid ; and she waited on Naiiman^s wife.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my
lord icere with the prophet that is in Samaria !
for he would recover him of his leprosy. And
one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and
thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will
send a letter unto the king of Israel, And he
departed, and took with him ten talents of silver,
and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes
of raiment. And he brought the letter to the king
of Israel, saying. Now when this letter is come
unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman
my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him
of his leprosy. And it came to pass, when the king
of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his
clothes, and said, Ain I God, to kill and to make I
alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover
a man of his leprosy ? wherefore consider, I pray |
you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. |
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had |
heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes,
that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast
thou rent thy clothes ? let him come now to me,
and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying,
Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh
shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I thought. He will surely come out to
me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord
his God, and strike his hand over the place,
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and recover the leper. Are not Ahana and
Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the
waters of Israel ? may 1 not wash in them, and
be clean ? So he turned and went away in a
rage. And his servants came near, and spake
unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet
liad bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou
not have done it ? how much rather then, when
he saith to thee. Wash, and be clean ? Then went
he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jor-
dan, according to the saying of the man of God :
and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a
little child, and he was clean. And he returned
to the man of God, he and all his company, and
came, and stood before him : and he said, Behold,
now I know that there is no God in all the earth,
l)ut in Israel : now therefore, I pray thee, take a
blessing of thy servant. But he said, As the
Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive
none. And he urged him to take it ; but he
refused. And Naaman said. Shall there not
then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two
mules^ burden of earth ? for thy servant will
henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacri-
fice unto other gods, but unto the Lord. In this
thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when
my master goeth into the "house of Rimraon to
worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I
bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I
bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the
Lord pardon thy servant in this thing. And he
said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from
him a little way. But Gehazi, the servant of
Elisha the man of God, said. Behold, my master
hath spared Naaman ;.his Syrian, in not receiving
THIRTEENTH SETvDAY AFTER TRINITY.
at his hands that which he brought : but, as the
Lord liveth, I will run after him. and take some-
what of him. So Gehazi followed after Naaman.
And when Naaman saw him running after hina,
he lighted down from the chariot to meet him,
and said, Is all well 1 And he said, All is well.
My master hath sent me, sapng. Behold, even
now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two
i young men of the sons of the prophets : give them,
I I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of
! garments. And Naaman said. Be content, take
j two talents. And he urged him, and bound two
; talents of silver in two bags, Avitli two changes of
■ garments, and laid them upon two of his servants ;
j and they bare them before him. And when he
! came to the tower, he took thevi from their hand,
! and bestowed them in the house : and he let the
I men go, and they departed. But he went in, and
I stood before his master. And Elisha said unto
him. Whence comest thou, Gehazi ? And he said,
Thy servant went no whither. And he said unto
j him, Went not mine heart icith thee, when the
j man turned again from his chariot to meet thee ?
I Is it a time to receive money, and to receive gar-
i ments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep,
I and oxen, and menservants. and maidservants ?
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave
unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he
■went out from his presence a leper as white
as snow.
Evening. 2 Elngs vi. to v. 24.
AND the sons of the prophets said unto
jTjL Elisha, Behold now, the place where we
dwell with thee is too strait for us. Let us go,
we pray thee, imto Jordan, and take thence
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
every man a beam, and let us make us a place
there, where we may dwell. And he answered.
Go ye. And one said, Be content, I pray thee,
and go with thy servants. And he answered, I
will go. So he went with them. And when
they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. But
as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into
the water : and he cried, and said, Alas, master !
for it was borrowed. And the man of God said.
Where fell it ? And he shewed him the place.
And he cut down a stick, and Cfist it in thither ;
and the iron did swim. Therefore said he, Take
it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and
took it. Then the king of Syria warred against
Israel, and took counsel with the servants, say-
ing. In such and such a place shall he my camp.
And the man of God sent unto the king of
Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a
place ; for thither the Syrians are come down.
And the king of Israel sent to the place which
the man of God told him and warned him of,
and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was
sore troubled for this thing ; and he called bis
servants, and said unto them. Will ye not shew
me which of us is for the king of Israel ? And
one of his servants said. None, my lord, O king :
but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth
the king of Israel the words that thou speakest
in thy bedchamber. And he said, Go and spy
where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And
it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots,
and a greiit host : and they came by night, and
compassed the city about. And when the servant
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. ,
of the man of God was risen early, and gone
forth, behold, an host compassed the city both
with horses and chariots. And his servant said
unto him, Alas, my master ! how shall we do ?
And he answered, Fear not : for they that he
with us are more than they that be with them.
And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee,
open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord
opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw :
and, behold, the moimtiiin icas full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha. And when
they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the
Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee,
with blindness. And he smote tnera with blind-
ness according to the word of Elisha. And
Elisha said imto them. This is not the way,
neither is this the city : follow me, and I will
bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led
them to Samaria. And it came to pass, when
they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said,
Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may
see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they
saw ; and, behold, they were in the midst of
Samaria. And the king of Israel said unto
Elisha. when he saw them, My father, shall I
smite them ? shall I smite them ? And he an-
swered, Thou shalt not smite theyn : wouldest
thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive
with thy sword and with thy bow ? set bread
and water before them, that they may eat and
drink, and go to their master. And he prepared
great provision for them : and when they had
eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they
went to their master. So the bands of Syria
came no more into the land of Israel.
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Or, 2 Kings vii.
THEN Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the
Lord ; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow
about this time shall a measure of fine flour he
sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for
a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. Then a lord on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man
of God, and said. Behold, if the Lord would
make windows in heaven, might this thing be ?
And he said. Behold, thou shalt see it with thine
eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. And there were
four leprous men at the entering in of the gate :
and they said one to another, Why sit we here
until we die '! If we say, We will enter into the
city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall
die there : and if we sit still here, we die also.
Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the
host of the Syrians : if they save us alive, we
shall live ; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the
camp of the Syrians : and when they were come
to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, be-
hold, there was no man there. For the Lord had
made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of
chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of
a great host : and they said one to another, Lo,
the king of Israel hath hired against us the
kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyp-
tians, to come upon us. Wherefore they arose
and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and
their horses, and their asses, even the ttimp as it
ivas, and fled for their life. And when these
lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp,
they went into one tent, and did eat and drink,
and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment,
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRTXITY.
and went and hid it; and came again, and
entered into another tent, and aimed thence
also, and went and hid it. Then they said one
to another. We do not well : this day is a day
of good tidings, and we hold our peace : if we
tarry till the morning light, some mischief will
come upon us : now therefore come, that we may
go and tell the king's household. So they came
and called unto the porter of the city : and they
told them, saying, V>'e came to the c;imp of the
Syrians, and, behold, there icas no man there,
neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses
tied, and the tents as they icere. And he called
the porters ; and they told it to the king's house j
within. And the king arose in the night, and
said unto his servants, I will now shew you what
the S}Tian3 have done to us. They know tluxt |
we be hungry ; therefore are they gone out of |
the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, j
When they come out of the city, we shall catch ;
them alive, and get into the city. And one of |
his sers'ants answered and said, Let some take, I i
pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which !
are left in tlie city, (behold, they are as all the \
multitude of Isi-ael that are left in it : behold, I [
say, they arc even as all the multitude of the
Israehtes that are consumed :) and let us send
and see. They took therefore two chariot horses ;
and the king sent after the host of the Syrians,
saying. Go and see. And they went after them
unto Jordan : and, lo, all the way ivas full of
garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast
away in their haste. And the messengers re-
turned, and told the king. And the people went
out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY,
measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and
two measures of barley for a shekel, according to
the word of the Lord. And the king appointed
the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the
charge of the gate : and the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God
had said, who spake when the king came down
to him. And it came to pass as the man of
God had spoken to the king, saying, Two mea-
sures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of
fine flour for a shekel, shall iDe to morrow about
this time in the gate of Samaria : and that lord
answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold,
if the Lord should make windows in heaven,
might such a thing be ? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not
eat thereof. And so it fell out unto liim : for the
people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
CIjc J'ourtcent^ Sunlras after tHrinitg.
Morning. 2 Kings ix.
AND Elisha the prophet called one of the
. children of the prophets, and said unto
him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil
in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead : and
when thou coraest thither, look out there Jehu
the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Ninishi, and
go in, and make him arise up from among his
brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber ;
then take the box of oil, and pour it on his
head, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I have
anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the
door, and flee, and tarry not. So the young
man, evefi the young man the prophet, went to
Eamoth-gilead. And when he came, behold,
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
the captains of the host were sitting ; and he
said, I have an errand to thee, Ciiptain. And
Jehu said. Unto which of all us ? And he said,
To thee, O captain. And he arose, and went
into the house ; and he poured the oil on his
head, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over
the people of the Lord, even over Israel. And
thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master,
that I may avenge the blood of my servants the
prophets, and the blood of all the servants of
the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel. For the
whole house of Ahab shall perish : and I will
cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the
wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel :
and I will make the house of Ahab like the
house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like
the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah : and the
dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
and there shall be none to bury her. And he
opened the door, and fled. Then Jehu came
forth to the servants of his lord : and one said
unto him, Is all well ? wherefore came this mad
fellow to thee ? And he said unto them, Ye
know the man, and his communication. And
they said, It is false ; tell us now. And he
said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying,
Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king
over Israel, Then they hasted, and took every
man his garment, and put it under him on the
top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets,
saying, Jehu is king. So Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Eamoth-
gilead, he and all Israel, because of HazaeL
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
king of Syria. But king Joram was returned
to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds Avhich the
Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be
your minds, then let none go forth nor escape
out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel. So
Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel ; for
Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah
was come down to see Joram. And there stood
a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and
said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take
an horseman, and send to meet them, and let
him say, Is it peace ? So there went one on
horseback to meet him, and said. Thus saith the
king, Is it peace ? And Jehu said. What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
And the watchman told, saying, The messenger
came to them, but he coraeth not again. Then
he sent out a second on horseback, which came
to them, and said, Thus saith the king. Is it
jjeace ? And Jehu answered, What hast thou
to do with peace ? turn thee behind me. And
the watchman told, saying, He came even unto
them, and cometh not again : and the driving
is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi ;
for he driveth furiously. And Joram said,
Make ready. And his clmriot was made ready.
And Joram king of Israel and Aliaziah king of
Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they
went out against Jehu, and met him in the por-
tion of Naboth the Jezreelite. And it came to
pass, when Joram saw Jehu, tliat he said, J* it
peace, Jehu ? And he answered, AVhat peace,
so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
and her witchcrafts are so many ? And Jorani
turned his hands, and fled, and said to AhazirJh,
There is treachery, Ahaziah. And Jehu drew
a bow with his full strength, and smote Jeho-
ram between his arms, and the arrow went out
at his heart, and he sunli down in his chariot.
Then said Jeh ?< to Bidkar his captain, Take up,
and cast him in the portion of the field of
Naboth the Jezreelite : for remember how that,
when I and thou rode together after Ahab his
father, the Lord laid this burden upon him ;
surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Na-
both, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord ;
and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the
Lord. Now therefore take ayid cast him into
the plat of ground, according to the word of the
Lord. But when Ahaziah the king of Judah
saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. ;
And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite
him also in the chariot. And they did so at the
going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he
fled to Megiddo, and died there. And his ser-
vants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fiithers in
the city of David. And in the eleventh year of
Joram the son of Aliab began Ahaziah to reigu
over Judah. And when Jehu was come to
Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted
her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a
window. And as Jehu entered in at the gate,
she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master I
And he lifted up his face to the window, and
said. Who is on my side ? who ? And there
looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And
he said, Throw her down. So they threw her ;
4.
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY,
down : and some of her blood was sprinkled on
the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her
under foot. And when he was come in, he did
eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed
woman, and bury her: for she is a king's
daughter. And they went to bury her: but
they found no more of her than the scull, and
the feet, and the palms of her hands. Where-
fore they came again, and told him. And he
said, This is the word of the Lord, which he
spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh
of Jezebel : and the carcase of Jezebel shall be
as dung upon the face of the field in the jjortion
of Jezreel ; so that they shall not say, This is
Jezebel.
Evening. 2 Kings x, to v. 32.
AND Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And
Jl\. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria,
unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to
them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing
your master's sons are with you, and there are
with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also,
and armour ; look even out the best and meetest
of your master's sons, and set him on his father's
throne, and fight for your master's house. But
they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold,
two kings stood not before him : how then shall
we stand 1 And he that was over the house, and
he that was over the city, the elders also, and
the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu,
saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that
thou shalt bid us ; we will not make any king :
do thou that which is good in thine eyes. Then
I FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
j he wrote a letter the second time to them, sjiy-
j ing, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto
I Diy voice, take ye the heads of the men your
'■ master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to
I morrow this time. Kow the king's sons, heiiig
; ^seventy persons, luei-e with the great men of the
city, which brought them up. And it came to
; pass, when the letter came to them, that they
, took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons,
I and put their heads in baskets, and sent him
I them to Jezreel. And there came a messenger,
I and told him, saying. They have brought the"
I heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay y©
i them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate
! until the morning. And it came to pass in the
! morning, that he went out, and stood, and said
! to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I
j conspired against my master, and slew him : but
who slew all these"? Know now that there shall
! fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the
j Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the
j house of Ahab : for the Lord hath done that
j which he spake by liis servant Elijah. So Jehu
! slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
I Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks,
I and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
I And lie arose and departed, and came to Samaria.
And as he luas at the shearing house in the way,
Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of
I Judah, and said, Who are ye ? And they an-
j swered. We are the brethren of Ahaziah ; and
I we go down to salute the children of the king
' and the children of the queen. And he said.
Take them alive. And they took them alive,
and slew them at the pit of the shearing house,
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
even two and forty men ; neither left he any of
them. And when he was departed thence, he
lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab corning
to meet him : and he saluted him, and said to
him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is Avith thy
heart ? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it
be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his
hand ; and he took him up to him into the
chariot. And he said, Come with me, and see
my zeal for the Lord. So they made him ride
in his chariot. And when he came to Samaria,
he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria,
till he had destroyed him, according to the
saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.
And Jehu gathered all the people together, and
said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little ; but
Jehu shall serve him much. Now therefore
ciill unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
servants, and all his priests ; let none be want-
ing : for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal ;
whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.
But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that
he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. And
Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.
And they proclaimed it. And Jehu sent through
all Israel : and all the worshippers of Baal came,
so that there "was not a man left tliat came not.
And they c;\me into the house of Baal ; and the
house of Baal was full from one end to another.
And he said unto him that teas over the vestry,^
Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers ot'
Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of
Bechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto
the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
there be here with yoii none of the servants of
the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal only.
And when they went in to ofier sacrifices and
burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men
without, and said, If any of the men whom I
have brought into your hands escape, he that
letteth him go, his life shall he for the life of him.
And it Ciime to piiss, as soon as he had made an
end of otiering the burnt offering, that Jehu said
to the guard and to the captains. Go in, and slay
them ; let none come forth. And they smote
them with the edge of the sword ; and the
guard and the captains cast them out, and went
to the city of the house of Baal. And they
brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal, and burned them. And they brake down
the image of Baal, and brake down the house of
Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. How-
beit fram the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from,
after them, to icit, the golden calves that were in
Beth-el, and that icere in Dan. And the Lord
said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done weU in
executing that which is right in mine eyes, and
hast done unto the house of Ahab according to
all that was in mine heart, thy children of the
fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of
the Lord God of Israel with all his heart : for
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which
made Israel to sin.
Or, 2 Kings xiiL
IN the three and twentieth year of Joash the
son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahiu the
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son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sa-
maria, and reigned seventeen years. And he
did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,
and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, which made Israel to sin ; he departed
not therefrom. And the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and he delivered them
into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and
into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael,
all their days. And Jehoahaz besought the
Lord, and the Lord h£arkened unto him : for
he saw the oppression of Israel, beciiuse the king
of Syria oppressed them. (And the Lord gave
Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under
the hand of the Syrians : and the children of
Isi-ael dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. Never-
theless they departed not from the sins of the
house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but
walked therein : and there remained the grove
also in Samaria.) Neither did he leave of the
people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten
chariots, and ten thousand footmen ; for the king
of Syria had destroyed them, and had made
them like the dust by threshing. Now the rest
of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and
his might, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel ? And
Jehoahaz slept with his fathers ; and they buried
him in Samaria : and Joash his son reigned in
his stead. In the thirty and seventh year of
Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samarm,, and
reigned sixteen years. And he did that which
was evil in the sight of the Lord ; he departed
not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
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Nebat, who made Israel sin : but he -walked
therein. And the rest of the acts of Joash, and
all that he did, and his might wherewith he
fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel ? And Joash slept with his fathers ;
and Jeroboam sat upon his throne : and Joash
was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness
whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel
came down unto him, and wept over his face,
and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And Elisha
said unto him. Take bow and aiTOws. And he
took unto him bow and arrows. And he said
to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the
bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha
put his hands upon the kings hands. And he
said, Open the window eastward. And he opened
it Then Elisha said. Shoot. And he shot. And
he said. The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and
the arrow of deliverance from S\Tia : for thou
shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have
consumed them. And he said, Take the arrows.
And he took them. And he said unto the king
of Israel. Smite upon the ground. And he
smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God
was wroth with him, and said. Thou shouldest
have smitten live or six times ; then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it:
whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
And Elisha died^ and tliey buried him. And
the bands of the ]Moabites invaded the land at
the coming in of the year. And it came to pass,
as they were burying a man, that, behold, they
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spied a band 0/ men ; and they cast the man
into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man
was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha,
he revived, and stood up on his feet. But
Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of Jehoahaz. And the Lord was gracious
unto them, and had compassion on them,
and had respect unto them, because of his
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
would not destroy them, neither cast he them
from his presence as yet. So Hazael king of
Syria died ; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his
stead. And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took
again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of
Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the
hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three
times did Joash beat him, and recovered the
cities of Israel.
^T^c Mittwi}) SunUag after ^rinitg.
Morning. 2 Kings xviii.
"XTOW it came to pass in the third year of
Jl.^ Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Heze-
kiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to
reign. Twenty and five years old was he when he
began to reign ; and he reigned twenty and nine
years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
v}as Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. And he
did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,
according to all that David his father did. He
removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces
the brasen serpent that Moses had made : for
imto those days the children of Israel did bum
incense to it : and he called it Nehushtan. He
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trusted in the Lord God of Israel ; so that after i
him was none like him among all the kings of
Judah, nor any that were before him. For he ;
clave to the Lord, and departed not from fol- i
lowing him, but kept his commandments, which j
the Lord commanded Moses. And the Lord I
was with him ; and he prospered whithersoever j
he went forth : and he rebelled against the king I
of Assyria, and served him not. He smote the I
Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders j
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the '
fenced city. And it came to pass in the fourth
year of king Hezekiah, which v:as the seventh
year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, thM '.
Shalmaneser king of Asspia came up against :
Samaria, and besieged it. And at the end of j
three years they took it : even in the sixth year
of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea i
king of Israel, Samaria was taken. And the |
king of Assyria did earn,- away Israel unto |
Asspia, and put them in Halah and in Habor
bij the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the !
Medes : because they obeyed not the voice of I
the Lord their God, but transgressed his cove- j
nant. and all that Moses the servant of the Lord i
commanded, and would not hear them, nor do |
them. Now in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come
up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and
took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent
to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have
offended ; return from me : that which thou
puttest on me will I bear. And the king of
Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents
-+
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of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver
that was found in the house of the Lord, and in
the treasures of the king's house. At that time
did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of
the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars
which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and
gave it to the king of Assyria. And the king
of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Eab-
shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a
great host against Jerusalem. And they went
up and came to Jerusalem. And when they
were come up, they came and stood by the
conduit of the upper pool, which is in the high-
' way of the fuller's field. And when they had
called to the king, there came out to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the
son of Asaph the recorder. And Rab-shakeh
said unto them. Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest 1 Thou
sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have
counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom
dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me ?
Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff' of this
bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man
lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so
is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on
him. But if ye say unto me. We trust in the
Lord our God : is not that he, whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and
hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem ? Now
therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord
the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two
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thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to '
set riders upon them. How then wilt thou turn
away the face of one capt;dn of the least of my :
niaster^s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt i
for chariots and for horsemen ? Am I now come ■
up without the Lord against this place to j
destroy it 1 The Lord said to me, Go up against ,
this land, and destroy it. Then said Eliakim i
the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna. and Joah, unto I
Rab-shakeh, Speak. I pray thee, to thy servants j
in the Syrian language ; for we undei'stand it : '
and talk not with us in the Jews' language in '.
the ears of the people that are on the wall. But \
Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master |
sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak i
these words ? hath he not sent me to the men j
which sit on the wall, that they may eat their ,
own dung, and drink their own piss with you ?
Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud
voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying.
Hear the word of the great king, the king of
Assyria : thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah
deceive you : for he shall not be able to deliver
you out of his hand : neither let Hezekiah make
you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will
surely deliver us, and this city shall not be de-
livered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Hearken not to Hezekiah : for thus saith the
king of Assyria, ^Make a7i agreement with me
by a present, and come out to me. and then eat
ye every man of his own vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters
of his cistern : untd I come and tjike you away
to a land like your own land, a land of com
and wine, a land of bi-ead and vinevards, a land
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of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and
not die : and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when
he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver
us. Hath any of the gods of the nations de-
livered at all his land out of the hand of the
king of Assyria? Where are the gods of
Hamath, and of Arpad ? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered
Samaria out of mine hand? Who are they
among all the gods of the countries, that have
delivered their country out of mine hand, that
the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine
hand 1 But the people held their peace, and
answered him not a word : for the king's com-
mandment was, saying, Answer him not. Then
came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah
with their clothes rent, and told him the words
of Rab-shakeh.
Evening. 2 Kings xix.
AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah
. heard it, that he rent his clothes, and
covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
the house of the Lord. And he sent Eliakim,
which teas over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and
blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the
words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria
his master hath sent to reproach the living God ;
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and will reprove the words which the Lord thy
God hath heard : wherefore lift up thy prayer
for the remnant that are left. So the servants
of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And Isaiah
said unto them. Thus shall ye say to your master,
Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with which the servants
of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he
shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his
own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land. So Eal>shakeh returned,
and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah : for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish. And when he heard say of Tir-
hakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out
to fight against thee : he sent messengers again
unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus shall ye speak to
Hezekiah king of Judab, saying. Let not thy
God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, say-
ing, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria. Behold, thou
hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly :
and shalt thou be delivered ? Have the gods of
the nations delivered them which my fathers
have destroyed ; as Gozan, and Haran, and Ee-
zeph, and the children of Eden v.hich tcere in
Thelasar ? "Where is the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim. of Hena, and Ivah ? And Hezekiah
received the letter of the hand of the messengers,
and read it : and Hezekiah went up into the
house of the Lord, and spread it before the
Lord. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord,
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and said, Lord God of Israel, which dwellest
behveen the cherubims, thou art the God, even
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth;
thou hast made heaven and earth. Lord, bow
down thine ear, and hear : open, Lord, thine
eyes, and see: and hear the words of Senna-
cherib, which hath sent him to reproach the
living God. Of a truth. Lord, the kings of
Assyria have destroyed the nations and their
lands, and have a^st their gods into the fire :
for they were no gods, but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone : therefore they have de-
stroyed them. Now therefore, O Lord our God,
I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that
all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
thou art the Lord God, even thou only. Then
Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which
thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king
of Assyria I have heard. This is the word that
the Lord hath spoken concerning him ; The
virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee,
and laughed thee to scorn ; the daughter of Je-
rusalem hath shaken her head at thee. Whom
hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and
against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and
lifted up thine eyes on high ? even against the
Holy One of Israel. By thy messengers thou
hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With
the multitude of my chariots I am come up to
the height of the mountains, to the sides of
Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees
thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I
wiU enter into the lodgings of his borders, and
into the forest of his Carniel. I have digged
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and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of
my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged
places. Hast thou not heard long ago how I
have done it, and of ancient times that I have
formed it ? now have I brought it to pass, that
thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps . Therefore their inhabitants were
of small power, they were dismayed and con-
founded ; they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the house
tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy rage against me. Be-
ciiuse thy rage against me and thy tumult is
come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my
hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and
I will turn thee back by the way by which thou
caniest. And tliis shall be a sign unto thee, Ye
shall eat this year such things as grow of them-
selves, and in the second year that which spring-
eth of the same ; and in the third year sow ye,
and reap, and plant vmeyards, and eat the fruits
thereof. And the remnant that is escaped of
the house of Judah shall yet again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of
Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they
that escape out of mount Zion : the zeal of the
Lord of hosts shall do this. Therefore thus
saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an
arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor
cast a bank against it. By the way that he came,
by the same shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend
this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for
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my servant David^s sake. And it came to pass
that night, that the angel of the Lord went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an
hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when
they arose early in the morning, behold, they
were all dead corpses. So Sennacherib king of
Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he
was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the sword : and they escaped into the
land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reign-
ed in his stead.
Or, 2 Kings xxiii. to v. 31.
A ND the king sent, and they gathered unto
J\. him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusa-
lem. And the king went up into the house of
the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem Avith him, and the
priests, and the prophets, and all the people,
both small and great : and he read in their ears
all the words of the book of the covenant which
was found in the house of the Lord. And the
king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant
before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to
keep his commandments and his testimonies and
his statutes with all their heart and all their
soul, to perform the words of this covenant that
were written in this book. And all the people
stood to the covenant. And the king command-
ed Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the
second order, and the keepers of the door, to
bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all
the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
grove, and for all the host of heaven : and he
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burned them without Jerusalem in the fields
of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto
Beth-el. And he put down the idolatrous priests,
■whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn
incense in the high places in the cities of Judah,
and in the places round about Jerusalem ; them
also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun,
and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all
the host of heaven. And he brought out the
grove from the house of the Lord, without Je-
rusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it
at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to
powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the
graves of the children of the people. And he
brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
were by the house of the Lord, where the women
wove hangings for the grove. And he brought
all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had
burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and
brake down the high places of the gates that
were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua
the governor of the city, which were on a man's
left hand at the gate of the city. Nevertheless
the priests of the high places came not up to
the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they
did eat of the unleavened bread among their
brethren. And he defiled Topheth, which is in
the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no
man might make his son or his daughter to pass
through the fire to ^Molech. And he took away
the horses that the kings of Judah had given to
the sun, at the entering in of the house of the
Lord, by the chamber of Kathan-melech the
chamberlain, which ivas in the suburbs, and
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burned the chariots of the sun with fire. And
the altars that were on the top of the upper
chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had
made, and the altars which Manasseh had made
in the two courts of the house of the Lord,
did the king beat down, and brake tli&m down
from thence, and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron. And the high places that were
before Jerusalem, which were on tlie right hand
of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the
king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the
abomination of the Zidonians, and for Che-
mosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of Am-
mon, did the king defile. And he brake in
pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and
filled their places with the bones of men. More-
over the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high
place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar
and the high place he brake down, and burned
the high place, and stamped it small to powder,
and burned the grove. And as Josiah turned
himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there
in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out
of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the
altar, and polluted it, according to the word of
the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who
proclaimed these words. Then he said, What
title is that that I see ? And the men of tEe
city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of
God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed
these things that thou hast done against the
altar of Beth-el. And he said, Let him alone ;
let no man move his bones. So they let his
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bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that
came out of Samaria. And all the houses also
of the high places that were in the cities of
Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away,
and did to them according to all the acts that
he had done in Beth-el. And he slew all the
I priests of the high places that icere there upon
the altars, and burned men's bones upon them,
and returned to Jerusalem. And the king com-
manded all the people, saying. Keep the pass-
over unto the Lord your God, as it is written
in the book of this covenant. Surely there was
not holden such a passover from the days of the
judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of
the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah ;
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, where-
in this passover was holden to the Lord in
Jerusalem. ISIoreover the icorkers with familiar
spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the
idols, and all the abominations that were spied
in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did
Josiah put away, that he might perform the
words of the law which were written in the book
that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of
the Lord. And like unto him was there do
king before him, that turned to the Lord with all
his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his
might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither
after him arose there any like him. Notwith-
standing the Lord turned not from the fierceness
of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was
kindled against Judah, because of all the pro-
vocations that Manasseh had provoked him
withal. And the Lord said, I will remove
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Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed
Israel, and will cast oif this city Jerasalem which
I have chosen, and the house of which I said,
My name shall be there. Now the rest of the
acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah ? In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king
of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria
to the river Euphrates : and king Josiah went
against him ; and he slew him at Megiddo, when
he had seen him. And his servants carried him
in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought
him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre. And the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him,
and made him king in his father's stead.
Cf;e Sixtecntf) ^untJag after ^rtnitg.
Morning. 2 Chron. xxxvi.
THEN the people of the land took Jehoahaz
the son of Josiah, and made him king in
his father's stead in Jerusalem. Jehoahaz ims
twenty and three years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusa-
lem, and condemned the land in an hundred
talents of silver and a talent of gold. And the
king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name
to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his
brother, and carried him to Egypt. Jehoiakim
ivas twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem :
and he did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord his God. Against him came up Nebuchad-
^ H-
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nezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters,
to carry him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also
carried" of the vessels of the house of the Lord to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was
found in liim, behold, they are written in the
book of the kings of Israel and Judah : and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead, Jehoi-
achin teas eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned three months and ten days in
Jerusalem : and he did that which u-as evil in the
sight of Lord. And when the year was expired,
king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to
Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of
the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem. Zedekiah was one
and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did
that ichich icas evil in the sight of the Lord his
God, atid humbled not himself before Jeremiah
the prophet spcahng from the mouth of the Lord, i
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadncz-
2ar, who had made him sware by God : but he
stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from
turning unto the Lord God of Israel. Moreover
all the°chief of the priests, and the people, trans-
gressed very much after all the abominations of
the heathen ; and polluted the house of the Lord
which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the
Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending ;
because he had compassion on his people, and on
his dwelling place : but they mocked the messen-
gers of God, and despised his words, and misused
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his prophets, until tlie wrath of the Lord arose j
against his people, till there ivas no remedy.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the |
Chaldees, who slew their young men with the i
sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had I
no compassion upon young man or maiden, old j
man, or him that stooped for age : he gave them ■
all into his hand. And all the vessels of the !
house of God, great and small, and the treasures
of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of
the king, and of his princes ; all these he brought
to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and
burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroy-
ed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that
had escaped from the sword carried he away to
Babylon ; where they were servants to him and
his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia :
to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sab-
baths : for as long as she lay desolate she kept
sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. Now
in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the
word of the Lord spoJcen by the mouth of Jere-
miah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up
the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made
a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and
put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus
king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth j
hath the Lord God of heaven given me ; and he
hath charged me to build him an house in Jeru-
salem, which is in Judah. AVho is there among
you of all his people ? The Lord his God be with
him, and let him go up.
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Evening. Nehem. i. and ii. to v. 9.
ril HE words of Neheraiah the son of Hachaliab.
JL And it came to pass in the month Chisleu,
in the twentieth year, as I was in Shush an the
palace, that Hanani, one of my brethren, came,
he and certain men of Judah ; and I asked them
concerning the Jews that had escaped, which
were left of the captivity, and concerning Jeru-
salem. And they said unto me, The remnant
that are left of the captivity there in the province
are in great affliction and reproach : the wall of
Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates
thereof are burned with fire. And it came to
pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down
and wept, and mourned certain days, and fested,
and prayed before the God of heaven, and said,
I beseech thee, Lord God of heaven, the great
and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and
mercy for them that love him and observe his
commandments : let thine ear now be attentive,
and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the
prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee
now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy
servants, and confess the sins of the children of j
Israel, which we have sinned against thee : both I
I and my father's house have sinned. We have |
dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not j
kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the j
judgments, which thou commanded st thy servant |
Moses. Reriiember, I beseech thee, the word that f
thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If
ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among
the nations : but if ye turn unto me, and keep
my commandments, and do them ; though there
were of you Gxst out unto the uttermost part of
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the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence,
and will bring them unto the place that I have
chosen to set my name there. Now these are
thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast
redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong
hand. Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear
be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to
the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy
name : and prosper, I pray thee, thy serv^ant this
day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this
man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in
the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that
wine was before him : and I took up the wine,
and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been
heforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the
king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad,
seeing thou art not sick ] this is nothing else but
sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
and said unto the king. Let the king live for
ever : why should not my comitenance be sad,
when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres,
lieth waste, and the gat-es thereof are consumed
with fire ] Then the king said unto me, For what
dost thou make request ? So I prayed to the God
of heaven. And I said unto the king, If it please
the king, and if thy servant have found favour in
thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah,
unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I
may build it. And the king said unto me, (the
queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall
thy journey be ? and when wilt thou return ? So
it pleased the king to send me ; and I set him a
time. Moreover I said unto the king, If it please
the king, let letters be given me to the governors
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beyond the river, that they may convey me over
till I come into Judah ; and a letter unto Asaph
the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give
me timber to make beams for the gates of the
palace which appertained to the house, and for
the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall
enter into. And the king granted me, according
to the good hand of my God upon me.
Or, Nehem. viii.
AND all the people gathered themselves to-
_ gether as one man into the street that was
before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra
the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses,
which the Lord had commanded to Israel. And
Ezra the priest brought the law before the con-
gregation both of men and women, and all that
could hear with understanding, upon the first
day of the seventh month . And he read therein
before the street that ivas before the water gate
from the morning until midday, before the men
and the women, and those that could understand ;
and the ears of all the people irere attentive unto
the book of the law. And Ezra the scribe stood
upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for
the purpose ; and beside him stood Mattithiali,
and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah,
and Maaseiah, on his right hand ; and on his
left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah,
and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and
Meshullam. And Ezra opened the book in the
sight of all the people ; (for he was above all the
people ;) and when he opened it. all the people
stood up : and Ezra blessed the Lord, the great
God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen,
with lifting up their hands : and they bowed their
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heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces
to the ground. Also Jeshua, and Bani, and
Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah,
Maaseiah, Kelita., Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pe-
laiah, and the Levitts, caused the people to under-
stand the law: and the people stood in their
place. So they read in the book in the law of
God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused
them to undei-stand the reading. And Nehemiah,
which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
scribe, and the Levites that taught the people,
said unto all the people, This day is holy unto
the Lord your God ; mourn not, nor weep. For
all the people wept, when they heard the words
of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your
way, eat the fiit, and drink the sweet, and send
portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared:
for this day is holy unto our Lord : neither be
ye sorry ; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying. Hold
your peace, for the day is holy ; neither be ye
grieved. And all the people went their way to
eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to
make great mirth, because they had understood
the words that were declared unto them. And
on the second day were gathered together the
chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests,
and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to
understand the words of the law. And they
found written in the law which the Lord had
commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel
should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh
month : and that they should publish and pro-
claim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying,
Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches,
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and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and
palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to
make booths, as it is -written. So the people
went forth, and brought them, and made them-
selves booths, every one upon the roof of his house,
and in their courts, and in the courts of the house
of God, and in the street of the water gate, and
in the street of the gate of Ephraim. And all
the congregation of them that were come again
out of the captivity made booths, and sat under
the booths : for since the days of Jeshua the son
of Nun unto that day had not the children of
Israel done so. And there was very great glad-
ness. Also day by day, from the tirst day unto
the last day, he read in the book of the law of
God. And they kept the feast seven days ; and
on the eighth day ivas a solemn assembly, accord-
ing unto the manner.
Zl)t xtbmtftntf) Sun^jag aftr r Crtnits.
Morning. Jerem. v.
RU N ye to and fro through the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and
seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find
a man, if there be any that execute th judgment,
that seeketh the truth ; and I will pardon it.
And though they say, The Lord liveth ; surely
they swear folsely. Lord, ai-e not thine eyes
upon the truth ? thou hast stricken them, but
they have not grieved ; thou hast consumed
them, but they have refused to receive correc-
tion : they have made their faces harder than a
rock ; they have refused to return. Therefore I
said. Surely these are poor ; they are foohsh :
for they know not the way of the Lord, nar the
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judgment of their God. I will get me unto the
great men, and will speak unto them ; for they
have known the way of the Lord, and the
judgment of their God : but these have alto-
gether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil
them, a leopard shall watch over their cities :
every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in
pieces : because their transgressions are many,
a7id their backslidings are increased. How shall
I pardon thee for this ? thy children have for-
saken me, and sworn by them that are no gods :
when I had fed them to the full, they then com-
mitted adultery, and assembled themselves by
troops in the harlots' houses. They were as
fed horses in the morning : every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife. Shall I not visit for
these things ? saith the Lord : and shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this 1
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy ; but make
not a full end : take away her battlements ; for
they are not the Lord's. For the house of
Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the Lord. They
have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he ;
neither shall evil come upon us ; neither shall
we see sword nor famine : and the prophets
shall become wind, and the word is not in them:
thus shall it be done unto them. Wherefore
thus saith the Lord God of hosts. Because ye
speak this word, behold, I will make my words
in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it
shall devour them. Lo, I will bring a nation
upon you from far, house of Israel, saith the
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Lord : it ts a mighty nation, it is an ancient
nation, a nation whose language thou knowest
not, neither understandest what they say. Their
quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all
mighty men. And they shall eat up thine har-
vest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy
daught€rs should eat : they shall eat up thy
flocks and thine herds : they shall eat up thy
vines and thy fig trees : they shall impoverish
thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with
the sword. Nevertheless in those days, saith
the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say.
Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these
things unto us ? then shalt thou answer them.
Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange
gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in
a land that is not yours. Declare this in the
house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Hear now this, foolish people, and without
understanding ; which have eyes, and see not ;
which have ears, and hear not : Fear ye not
me ? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my
presence, which have placed the sand for the
bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it : and though the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not prevail ; though
they roar, yet can they not pass over it ? But
this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart ; they are revolted and gone. Neither say
they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord
our God, that giveth rain, both the former and
the latter, in his season : he reserveth unto us
the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your
iniquities have turned away these things, and
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your sins have withholden good things from you.
For among my people are found wicked men :
they lay wait, ixs, he that setteth snares ; they set a
trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds,
so are their houses full of deceit : therefore they
are become great, and waxen rich. They are
waxen fat, they shine : yea, they overpass the
deeds of the wicked : they judge not the cause,
the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper ;
and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the
Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a
nation as this ? A wonderful and horrible thing
is committed in the land ; the prophets prophesy
falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ;
and my people love to have it so : and what
will ye do in the end thereof ?
Evening. Jerem. xxii.
THUS saith the Lord ; Go down to the house of
the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
and say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of
Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David,
thou, and thy servants, and thy people that
enter in by these gates : thus saith the Lord ;
Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and
deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor : and do no wrong, do no violence to
the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow,
neither shed innocent blood in this place. For
if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter
in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon
the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by 1
myself, saith the Lord, that this house shail |
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become a desolation. For thus saitli the Lord
unto the king's house of Judah ; Thou art
Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon : yet
surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities
ichich are not inhabited. And I will prepare
destroyers against thee, every one with his wea-
pons : and they shall cut down thy choice
cedars, and cast them into the fire. And many
nations shall pass by this city, and they shall
say ev^ery man to his neighbour, "Wherefore hath
the Lord done thus unto this great city ] Then
they shall answer, Because they have forsaken
the covenant of the Lord their God, and wor-
shipped other gods, and served them. Weep ye
not for the dead, neither bemoan him : hut weep
sore for him that goeth away : for he shall
return no more, nor see his native country. For
thus saith the Lord touching Shallum the son
of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead
of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this
place ; He shall not return thither any more :
but he shall die in the place whither they have
led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ;
that useth his neighbour's service without wages,
and giveth him not for his work ; that saith, I
will build me a wide house and large chambers,
and cutteth him out windows ; and it is cieled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Shalt
thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar ?
did not thy father eat and drink, and do judg-
ment and justice, and then it was well with
him ? He judged the cause of the poor and
needv ; then it was well with him: was not
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this to know me? saith the Lord. But thine
eyes and thine heart are not but for thy cove-
tousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and
for oppression, and for violence, to do it. There-
fore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakini
the son of Josiah king of Judah ; They shall not
lament for him, smjing, Ah my brother ! or,
Ah sister ! they shall not lament for him,
saying. Ah lord ! or, Ah his glory ! He shall
be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn
and Ciist forth beyond the gates of Jerusa-
lem. Go up to Lebanon, and cry ; and lift
up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the
passages : for all thy lovers are destroyed. I
spake unto thee in thy prosperity ; hut thou
saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy
manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not
ray voice. The wind shall eat up all thy pastors,
and thy lovers shall go into captivity : surely
then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for
all thy wickedness. O inhabitant of Lebanon,
that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious
shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the
pain as of a woman in travail ! As I live, saith
the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet upon my right
hand, yet would I pluck thee thence ; and I
will give thee into the hand of them that seek
thy life, and into the hand of them whose f;ice
thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchad-
rezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of
the Chaldeans. And I will cast thee out, and
thy mother that bare thee, into another country,
where ye were not born ; and there shall ye die.
But to the land whereunto they desire to return,
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thither shall they not return. Is this man
Coniah a despised broken idol ? is he a vessel
wherein is no pleasure ? wherefore are they
cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land
which they know not] O earth, earth, earth,
hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the
Lord, "Write ye this man childless, a man that
shall not prosper in his days : for no man of his
seed shall prosper, sittins: upon the tlirone of
David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Or, Jerem. xxxv.
THE word which came unto Jeremiah from
the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, saying. Go unto the house
of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and
bring them into the house of the Lord, into one
of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Then I t^ok Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the
son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his
sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites ;
and I brought them into the house of the Lord,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son
of Igdaliah, a man of God, which ivas by the
chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of ISIaaseiah the son of Shp.llum, the
keeper of the door : and I set before the sons of
the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine,
and cups, and I said unto them. Drink ye wine.
But they said, We wnll drink no wijie : for
Jonadab the son of Rechab our father com-
manded us, saying. Ye shall drink no wine,
neither ye, nor your sons for ever : neither shall
ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard,
nor have any : but all your days ye shall dwell
in tents ; that ye may live many days in the land
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where ye be strangers. Thus have we obeyed the
voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father
in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine
all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our
daughters ; nor to build houses for us to dwell
in : neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor
seed : but we have dwelt in tents, and have
obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab
our father commanded us. But it came to pass,
when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go
to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chal-
deans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians :
so we dwell at Jerusalem. Then came the word
of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, Thus saith
the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; Go and
tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to
hearken to my words ? saith the Lord. The
words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons not to drink wine, are
performed ; for unto this day they drink none,
but obey their father's commandment : notwith-
standing I have spoken unto you, rising early
and speaking ; but ye hearkened not unto me.
I have sent also unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them,
saying. Return ye now every man from his evil
way, and amend your doings, and go not after
other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in
the land which I have given to you and to your
fathers : but ye have not inclined your ear, nor
hearkened unto me. Because the sons of Jonadab
the son of Rechab have performed the command-
ment of their father, which he commanded
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them ; but this people hath not hearkened unto
me : therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts,
the God of Israel ; Behold, I will bring upon
Jadah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
all the evil that I have pronounced against them :
because I have spoken unto them, but they have
not heard ; and I have called unto them, but
they have not answered. And Jeremiah Siiid
unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye
have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your
father, and kept all his precepts, and done accord-
ing unto all that he hath commanded you : there-
fore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel ; Jonadab the son of Piechab shall not
want a man to stand before me for ever.
^c C?igf)ttcntf) Suntran after '^timt^.
Morning. Jerem. xxxvl
AX D it came to pass in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from the
Lord, saying, Take thee a roll of a book, and
write therein all the words that I have spoken
unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spake
unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto
this day. It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto
them ; that they may return every man from his
evil way ; that I may forgive their iniquity and
their sin. Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son
of Xeriah : and Baruch ^^Tote from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he
had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
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And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I
am shut up ; I cannot go into the house of the
Lord : therefore go thou, and read in the roll,
which thou hast written from my mouth, the
words of the Lord in the ears of the people in
the Lord's house upon the fasting day : and
also thou shalt read them in the ears of all
Judah that come out of their cities. It may be
they will present their supplication before the
Lord, and will return every one from his evil
way : for great is the anger and the fury that the
Lord hath pronounced against this people. And
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all
that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
reading in the book the, words of the Lord in the
LoRD^s house. And it came to pass in the fifth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, in the ninth month, that they prockimed
a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jeru-
salem, and to all the people that came from
the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. Then read
Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in
the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemiv-
riah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher
court, at the entry of the new gate of the Lord's
house, in the ears of all the people. When
Michaiahthe son of Gemariah,the son of Shaphan,
had heard out of the book all the words of the
Lord, then he went down into the king's house,
into the scribe's chamber : and, ]o, all the princes
sat there, eveii Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah
the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and Gemariah the sou of Shaphan,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the
princes. Then Michaiah declared unto them all
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the words that he had heard, when Baruch read
the book in the ears of the people. Therefore
all the prmces sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Ba-
ruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein
thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come.
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his
hand, and came unto them. And they said unto
him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So
Baruch read it in their ears. Now it came to pass,
when they had heard all the words, they were
afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all these words.
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How
didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all
these words unto me with his mouth, and I
wrote them with ink in the book. Then said the
princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
Jeremiah ; and let no man know where ye be.
And they went in to the king into the court, but
they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama
the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of
the king. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the
roll : and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's
chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood
beside the king. Now the king sat in the win-
terhouse in the ninth month : and there was a
fire on the hearth burning before him. And it
came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or
four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast
it into the fire that ivas on the hearth, until all the
roll was consumed in the fire that was on the
hearth. Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their
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garments, neither the king, nor any of his ser-
vants that heard all these words. Nevertheless
Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he woidd not burn the
roll : but he would not hear them. But the king
commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hamraelech,and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son
of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jere-
miah the prophet : but the Lord hid them. Then
the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after
that the king had burned the roll, and the words
which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,
saying. Take thee again another roll, and write
in it all the former words that were in the first
roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath
burned. And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king
of Judah, Thus saith the Lord ; Thou hast
burned this roll, saying, AVhy hast thou written
therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall cer-
tainly come and destroy this land, and shall
cause to cease from thence man and beast ?
Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim
king of Judah ; He shall have none to sit upon
the throne of David : and his dead body shall
be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
night to the frost. And I will punish him and
his seed and his servants for their iniquity ; and
I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all
the evil that I have pronounced against thejn ;
but they hearkened not. Then took Jeremiah
another roll, and gave it to Bjiruch the scribe,
the son of Neriah ; who -svrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book
which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in
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the fire : and there were added besides unto them
many like words.
Evening. Ezek. ii.
A ND he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon
J\. thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. And
the spirit entered into me when he spake unto
me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him
that spake unto me. And he said unto me, Son
of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to
a rebellious nation that hath i-^belled against
me : they and their fathers have transgressed
against me, even unto this very day. For they
are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do
send thee unto them ; and thou shalt say unto
them. Thus saith the Lord God. And' they,
whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet
shall know that there hath been a prophet among
them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of
them, neither be afraid of their words, though
briers and thorns he with thee, and thou dost
dwell among scorpions : be not afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though
they he a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak
my words unto them, whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear : for they are most
rebellious. But thou, son of man, hear what I
say unto thee ; Be not thou rebellious like that
rebellious house : open thy mouth, and eat that
I give thee. And when I looked, behold, an hand
was sent unto me ; and, lo, a roll of a book was
therein ; and he spread it before me ; and it
was written within and Avithout : and there was
written therein lamentations, and mourning, and
woe.
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Or, Ezek. xiii. to v. 17.
AN D the word of the Lord came unto me,
, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou
unto them that prophesy out of their own
hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord ; thus
saith the Lord God ; Woe unto the foolish pro-
phets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing ! O Israel, thy prophets are like the
foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into
the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the
house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day
of the Lord. They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The Lord saith : and the
Lord hath not sent them : and they have made
others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not
spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say. The
Lord saith it ; albeit I have not spoken 1 There-
fore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye have
spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I
am against you, saith the Lord God. And mine
hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity,
and that divine lies : they shall not be in the
assembly of my people, neither shall they be
written in the writing of the house of Israel,
neither shall they enter into the land of Israel ;
and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
Because, even because they have seduced my
people, saying, Peace ; and there was no peace ;
and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed
it with untempered morter : say unto them
which daub it with untempered morter, that it
shall fiill : there shall be an overflowing shower ;
and ye, great hailstones, shall fall ; and a
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stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall
is fallen, shall it not be said unto yon, Where
is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it ?
Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; I will even
rend it with a stormy wind in my fury ; and
there shall be an overflowing shower in mine
anger, and great hailstones in mij fury to con-
sume it. So will I break down the wall that ye
have daubed with untempered morter, and bring
it down to the ground, so that the foundation
thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and
ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof : and
ye shall know that I avi the Lord. Thus will I
accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
them that have daubed it with untempered
mortcr, and will say unto you, The wall is no
more, neither they that daubed it ; to ivit, the
prophets of Israel which jjrophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for
her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.
C^c i^mrtcfntf) Suntiag aftrr ^rinttg.
Morning. Ezek. xiv,
THEN came certain of the elders of Israel
unto me, and sat before me. And the word
of the Lord came unto me, saying. Son of man,
these men have set up their idols in their heart,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity be-
fore their face : should I be enquired of at all by
them ? Tlierefore speak unto them, and say unto
them,Thus saith the Lord God ; Every man of the
house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his ini-
quity before his face, and cometh to the prophet ;
I the Lord will answer him that cometh accord-
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ing to the multitude of his idols ; that I may take
the house of Israel in their own heart, because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord God ; Eepent, and turn ijourselves
from your idols ; and turn away your faces from
all your abominations. For every one of the
house of Israel, or of the stranger that so-
journeth in Israel, which separateth himself from
me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and
putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity be-
fore his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire
of him concerning me ; I the Lord will answer
him by myself : and I will set my face against
that man, and will make him a sign and a pro-
verb, and I will cut him off from the midst of
my people ; and ye shall know that I am the
Lord. And if the prophet be deceived when
he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived
that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand
upon him, and will destroy him from the midst
of my people Israel. And they shall bear the
punishment of their iniquity : the punishment
of the prophet shall be even as the punishment
of him that seeketh unto him ; that the house
of Israel may go no more astray from me, nei-
ther be polluted any more with all their trans-
gressions ; but that they may be my people, and
I may be their God, saith the Lord God. The
word of the Lord ciime again to me, saying.
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me
by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out
mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of
the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it,
and will cut off man and beast from it : thoush
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these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in
it, they should deliver but their own souls by
their righteousness, saith the Lord God. If I
cause noisome beasts to pass through the land,
and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no
man may pass through because of the beasts :
though these three men were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither
sons nor daughters ; they only shall be delivered,
but the land shall be desolate. Or if I bring a
sword upon that land, and say. Sword, go
through the land ; so tliat I cut off man and
beast from it : though these three men were in
it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver
neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall
be delivered themselves. Or if I send a pestOence
into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in
blood, to cut off from it man and beast : though
Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith
the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor
daughter ; they shall but deliver their own souls
by their righteousness. For thus saith the Lord
God ; How much more when I send my four
sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and
the famine, and the noisome beast, and the
pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast ?
Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that
shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters :
behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye
shall see their way and their doings : and ye
shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
have brought upon Jerusalem, ev«n concerning
all that I have brought upon it. And they
shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and
their doings : and ye shall know that I have not
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done without cause all that I have done in it,
saith the Lord God.
Evening. Ezek. xviii.
THE word of the Lord came unto me again,
saying, What mean ye, that ye use this
proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge? As I live,
saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion
any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold,
all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father,
so also the soul of the son is mine : the soul that
sinneth, it shall die. But if a man be just, and
do that which is lawful and right, and hath not
eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted
up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither
hath come near to a menstruous woman, and hath
not oppressed any, hut hath restored to the
debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence,
hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath,
covered the naked with a garment ; he that hath
not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken
any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand
from iniquity, hath executed true judgment
between man and man, hath walked in my
statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal
truly ; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the
Lord God. If he beget a son that is a robber,
a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to
any one of these things, and that doeth not any
of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the
mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled
by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and
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hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath com-
mitted abomination, hath given forth upon
usury, and hath taken increa.se : shall he then
live I he shall not live : he hath done all these
abominations ; he shall surely die ; his blood
shall be upon him. Now, lo, if he beget a son,
that seeth all his fathers sins which he hath
done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither
hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house
of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden
the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence,
but hath given his bread to the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with a garment, that
hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath
not received usury nor increase, hath executed
my judgments, hath walked in my statutes ;
he shall not die for the iniquity of his father,
he shall surely live. As for his fivther, because
he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother bj
violence, and did that which is not good among
his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Yet say ye, Why ? doth not the son bear the
iniquity of the father ? WTien the son hath
done that which is lawful and right, and hath
kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he
shall surely live. The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity
of the son: the righteousness of the righteous
shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked
will turn from all his sins that he hath com-
mitted, and keep all my statutes, and do that
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which is lawful and right, he shall surely live,
he shall not die. All his transgressions that he
hath committed, they shall not be mentioned
unto him : in his righteousness that he hath
done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all
that the wicked should die ? saith the Lord
God : and not that he should return from his
ways, and live ? But when the righteous turn-
eth away from his righteousness, and com-
mitteth iniquity, and doeth according to all
the abominations that the wicked man doeth,
shall he live ? All his righteousness that he
hath done shall not be mentioned : in his tres-
pass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that
he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Yet ye
say. The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear
now, house of Israel ; Is not my way equal ?
are not your ways unequal ? When a righteous
man tumeth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and dieth in them ; for
his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Again, when the wicked man tumeth away from
his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth
that which is lawful and right, he shall save his
soul alive. Because he considereth, and turneth
away from all his transgressions that he hath
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the
Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not
my ways equal ? are not your ways unequal ?
Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel,
every one according to his ways, saith the Lord
God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions ; so iniquity shall not be your
ruin. Cast away from you all your transgres-
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sions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make
you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will
ye die. house of Israel ? For I have no plea-
sure in the death of him that dieth, saith the
Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Or, Ezek, xxiv. r. 15.
A LSO the word of the Lord came unto me,
jl\. saying, Son of man, behold, I take away
from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke :
yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither
shall thy tears run down. Forbear to cry, make
no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine
head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy
feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the
bread of men. So I spake unto the people in
the morning : and at even my wife died ; and I
did in the morning as I was commanded. And
the people said unto me. Wilt thou not tell us
what these things are to us, that thou doest so ?
Then I answered them, The word of the Lord
came unto me, saying, Speak unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will
profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your
strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which
your soul pitieth ; and your sons and your
daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the
sword. And ye shall do as I have done : ye
shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of
men. And your tires shall he upon your heads,
and your shoes upon your feet : ye shall not
mourn nor weep ; but ye shall pine away for
your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign : according to all
that he hath done shall ye do : and when this
Cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
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Also, thon son of man, shall it not be in the day
when I take from them their strength, the joy
of their glor}^, the desire of their eyes, and that
whereupon they set their minds, their sons and
their daughters, that he tiiat escapeth in that day
shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with
thine ears ] In that day shall thy mouth be opened
to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and
be no more dumb : and thou shalt be a sign unto
them ; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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Morning. Ezek. xxxiv.
A ND the word of the Lord came unto me,
J\. saying, Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds;
Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves ! should not the shepherds feed the
flocks 1 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with
the wool, ye kill them that are fed : but ye
feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not
strengthened, neither have ye healed that which
was sick, neither have ye bound up that which
v:as broken, neither have ye brought again that
which was driven away, neither have ye sought
that which was lost ; but with force and with
cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were
scattered, because there is no shepherd : and they
became meat to all the beasts of the field, when
they were scattered. My sheep wandered through
all the mountains, and upon every high hill : yea,
my flock was scattered upon all the face of the
earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the
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Lord ; as I live, saith the Lord God, surely be-
cause my flock became a prey, and my flock
became meat to every beast of the field, because
there icas no shepherd, neither did my shepherds
search for my flock, but the shepherds fed them-
selves, and fed not my flock ; therefore, ye
shepherds, hear the word of the Lord ; thus
saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against the
shepherds ; and I will require my flock at their
hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the
flock ; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves
any more ; for I will deliver my flock from their
mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
For thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I, even I,
will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day
that he is among his sheep that are skittered ; so
wOl I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them
out of all places where they have been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring
them out from the people, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them to their own
land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel
by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of
the country. I will feed them in a good pasture,
and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their
fold be : there shall they lie in a good fold, and
in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the moun-
tains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and I will
cjiuse them to lie down, saith the Lord God. I
will seek that which was lost, and bring again
that which was driven away, and will bind up
that ichich was broken, and will strengthen that
which was sick : but I will destroy the fat and
the strong ; I will feed them with judgment.
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And as for you, my flock, thus saith the Lord
God ; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle,
between the rams and the he goats. Seemeth it
a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good
pasture, but ye nmst tread down with your feet
the residue of your pastures ? and to have drunk
of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue
with your feet ? And as for my flock, they eat
that which ye have trodden with your feet ;
and they drink that which ye have fouled with
your feet. Therefore thus saith the Lord God
unto them ; Behold, I, even I, will judge between
the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. Be-
cause ye have thrust Avith side and with shoulder,
and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till
ye have scattered them abroad ; therefore will I
save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey ;
and I will judge between cattle and cattle. And
I will set up one shepherd over them, and he
shall feed them, even my servant David ; he
shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
And I the Lord will be their God, and my
servant David a prince among them ; I the Lord
have spoken it. And I will make with them a
covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts
to cease out of the land : and they shall dwell
safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
And I will make them and the places round
about my hill a blessing ; and I will cause the
shower to come down in his season ; there shall
be showers of blessing. And the tree of the field
shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her
increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and
shall know that I am the Lord, when I have
broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered
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them ont of the hand of those that served them-
selves of them. And they shall no more be a
prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of
the land devour them ; but they shall dwell
safely, and none shall make them afraid. And I
will raise up for them a plant of renown, and
they shall be no more consumed with hunger in
the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen
any more. Thus shall they know that I the
Lord their God am with them, and that they,
eveyi the house of Israel, are my people, saith the
Lord God. And ye my flock, the flock of my
pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the
Lord God.
Evening. Ezek. xxxvii.
THE hand of the Lord was upon me, and
carried me out in the spirit of the Lord,
and set me down in the midst of the valley which
icas full of bones, and caused me to pass by them
round about : and, behold, there icere very many
in the open valley ; and, lo, they icere very dry.
And he said unto me. Son of man, can these
bones live ? And I answered, Lord God, thou
knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy
upon these bones, and say unto them, ye dry
bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith
the Lord God unto these bones ; Behold, I will
cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live :
and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring
up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and
put breath in you, and ye shall live ; and ye
- shall know that I avi the Lord. So I prophe-
sied as I wag commanded : and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the
bones Ciime together, bone to his bone. And
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when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came
up upon them, and the skin covered them above :
but there was no breath in them. Then said he
unto me. Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son
of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord
God ; Come from the four winds, O breath, and
breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So
I prophesied as he commanded me, and the
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood
up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones
are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say,
Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we
are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy
and say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God ;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves,
and cause you to come up out of your graves, and
bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall
know that I am the Lord, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up
out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in
you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in
your own land : then shall ye know that I the
Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the
Lord. The word of the Lord came again unto
me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee
one stick, and write upon it. For Judah, and for
the children of Israel his companions : then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the
stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel
his companions : and join them one to another
into one stick ; and they shall become one in
thine hand. And when the children of thy
people shall speak unto thee, saying. Wilt thou
not shew us what thou meanest by these ? say
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nnto them, Tlius saith the Lord God ; Behold,
I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the
hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
fellows, and will put them with him, even with
the stick of Jiidah, and make them one stick, and
they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks
whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord God ; Behold, I will take the children
of Israel from among the heathen, whither they
be gone, and will gather them on every side, and
bring them into their own land : and I will
make them one nation in the land upon the
mountains of Israel ; and one king shall be king
to them all : and they shall be no more two
nations, neither shall they be divided into two
kingdoms any more at all : neither shall they
defile themselves any more with their idols, nor
with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions : but I will save them out of all
their dvvellingplaces, wherein they have sinned,
and will cleanse them : so shall they be my
people, and I will be their God. And David my
servant shall he king over them : and they all
shall have one shepherd : they shall also walk in
my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do
them. And they shall dwell in the land that I
have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your
fathers have dwelt ; and they shall dwell therein,
even they, and their children, and their children's
children for ever : and my servant David shall
be their prince for ever. ^Moreover I will make
a covenant of peace with them ; it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them : and I will place
them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctu-
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ary in the midst of them for evermore. My
tabernacle also shall be with them : yea, I will
be their God, and they shall be my people. And
the heathen shall know that I the Lord do
sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in
the midst of them for evermore.
Or, Daniel i.
IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim
king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And
the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into
his hand, with part of the vessels of the house
of God : which he carried into the land of Shinar
to the house of his god ; and he brought the
vessels into the treasure house of his god. And
the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his !
eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the \
children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and I
of the princes ; children in whom 7vas no blemish, j
but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and j
cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, •
and such as had ability in them to stand in the i
king's palace, and whom they might teach the !
learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. And !
the king appointed them a daily provision of ;
the kin^s meat, and of the wine which he drank : ■
so nourishing them three years, tliat at the end '
thereof they might stand before the king. Now ;
among these were of thechildren of Judah, Daniel, j
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah : unto whom j
the prince of the eunuchs gave names : for he |
gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar ; and |
to Hananiah, of Shadrach ; and to Mishael, of
Meshach ; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego. But
Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not
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defile himself with the portion of the king's
meat, nor with the wine which he drank : there-
fore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs
that he might not defile himself. Now God had
brought Daniel into favour and tender love with
the prince of the eunuchs. And the prince of
the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord
the king, who hath appointed your meat and your
drink : for why should he see your faces worse
liking than the children which are of your sort ?
then shall ye make me endanger my head to the
king. Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the
prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy
servants, I beseech thee, ten days ; and let them
give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then
let our countenances be looked upon before thee,
and the countenance of the children that eat of
the portion of the king's meat : and as thou
seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented
to them in this matter, and proved them ten
days. And at the end of ten days their coun-
tenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than
all the children which did eat the portion of the
king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion
of their meat, and the wine that they should
drink ; and gave them pulse. As for these four
children, God gave them knowledge and skill in
all learning and wisdom : and Daniel had under-
standing in all visions and dreams. Now at the
end of the days that the king had said he should
bring them in, then the prince of the eimuchs
brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And
the king communed with them ; and among
them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah,
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Mishael, and Azariah : therefore stood they be-
fore the king. And in all matters of wisdom
and understanding, that the king enquired of
them, he found them ten times better than all
the magicians and astrologers that were in all
his realm. And Daniel continued eveji unto the
first year of king Cyrus.
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Morning. Daniel iii.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an
image of gold, whose height was threescore
cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits : he
set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of
Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent
to gather together the princes, the governors, and
the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the coun-
sellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the
provinces, to come to the dedication of the image
which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the
judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs,
and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered
together unto the dedication of the image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up ; and they
stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had
set up. Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is
commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all
kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the
golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath
set up : and whoso falleth not down and wor-
shippeth shall the same hour be cast into the
midst of a burning fiery furnace. Therefore at
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that time, wh^n all the people heard the sound
of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations,
and the languages, fell down and worshipped
the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king
had set up. Wherefore at that time certain
Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar,
O king, live for ever. Thou, O king, hast made
a decree, that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image : and whoso
faileth not down and worshippeth, that he should
be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over
the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach,
!Meshach, and Abed-nego ; these men, king,
have not regarded thee : they serve not thy gods,
nor worship the golden image which thou hast
set up. Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and
fury commanded to bring Shadrach, IMeshach,
and Abed-nego. Then thej'' brought these men
before the king. Nebuchadnezzar spake and
said unto them, Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor
worship the golden image which I have set up ?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick,
ye fall down and worship the image which I have
made ; well : but if ye worship not, ye shall be
cast the same hour into the midst of a burning
fiery furnace ; and who is that God that shall
deliver you out of my hands ? Shadrach, Me-
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shach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the
king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to
answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our
God whom we serve is able to deliver us from
the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us
out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it
known unto thee, king, that we will not serve
thy gods, nor worship the golden image which
thou hast set up. Then was Nebuchadnezzar
full of fury, and the form of his visage was
changed against Shadrach, Mesliach, and Abed-
nego : therefore he spake, and commanded that
they should heat the furnace one seven times
more than it was wont to be heated. And he
commanded the most mighty men that were in
his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery
furnace. Then these men were bound in their
coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other
garments, and were cast into the midst of the
burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the
king's commandment was urgent, and the fur-
nace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew
those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego. And these three men, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-ne^o, fell down bound into
the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Tlien
Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose
up in haste, and spake, and said unto his coun-
sellors, Did not we cast three men bound into
the midst of the fire ? They answered and said
unto the king, True, O king. He answered and
said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the
midst of the fire, and they have no hurt ; and
the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
4
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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth
of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants
of the most high God, come forth, and come
hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego, came forth of the midst of the fi.re. And
the princes, governors, and captains, and the
king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw
these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no
power, nor was an hair of their head singed,
neither were their coats changed, nor the smell
of fire had passed on them. Then Nebuchad-
nezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of
Shadrach, JNIeshach, and Abed-nego, who hath
sent his angel, and delivered his servants that
trusted in him, and have changed the king's
word, and yielded their bodies, that they might
not serve nor worship any god, except their own
God. Therefore I make a decree, That every
people, nation, and language, which speak any
thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Me-
shach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces,
and their houses shall be made a dunghill :
because there is no other God that am deliver
after this sort. Then the king promoted Shad-
rach, jMeshach, and Abed-nego, in the province
of Babylon.
Evening. Daniel iv.
"IVTEBUCHADNEZZAR the king, unto aU
jA people, nations, and languages, that dwell
in all the earth ; Peace be multiplied unto you.
J thought it good to shew the signs and wonders
that the high God hath wrought toward me.
How great are his signs ! and how mighty are
his wonders ! his kingdom is an everlasting king-
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dom, and his dominion is from generation to
generation. I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in
mine house, and flourishing in my palace : I aa^f
a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts
upon my bed and the visions of my head trou.-
bled me. Therefore made I a decree to bring in
all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they
might make known unto me the interpretation
of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the
astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers :
and I told the dream before them ; but they did
not make known unto me the interpretation
thereof But at the last Daniel came in before
me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to
the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit
of the holy gods : and before him I told the
dream, saying, Belteshazzar, master of the
magicians, because I know that the spirit of the
holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth
thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have
seen, and the interpretation thereof. Thus were
the visions of mine head in my bed ; I saw, and
behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the
height thereof was great. The tree grew, and
was strong, and the height thereof reached unto
heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all
the earth : the leaves thereof loere fair, and the
fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all :
the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and
the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs
thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. I saw in the
visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a
watcher and an holy one came down from hea-
ven ; he cried aloud, and said thus. Hew down
the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his
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leaves, aud scatter his fruit : let the beasts get
away from under it, and the fowls from his
branches : nevertheless leave the stump of his
roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and
bniss, in the tender grass of the field ; and let
it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his
portion be v.ith the beasts in the grass of the
earth : let his heart be changed from man's, and
let a beast's heart be given unto him ; and let
Seven times pass over him. This matter is by
the decree of the watchers, and the demand by
the word of the holy ones : to the intent that
the living may know that the most High ruleth
in the kingdom of men. and giveth it to whom-
soever he will, and setteth up over it the basest
of men. This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar
have seen. Xow thou, O Belteshazzar, declare
the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the
wise 'nun of my kingdom are not able to make
known unto me the interpretation : but thoti
art able ; for the spirit of the holy gods is in
thee. Then Daniel, whose name ivas Belteshaz-
zar, was astonied for one liour, and his thoughts
troubled him. The king spake, and said, Bel-
teshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation
thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and
said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate
thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine ene-
mies. The tree that thou sawest, which grew,
and was strong, whose height reached unto the
heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth ;
whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof
much, and in it was meat for all ; under which
the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose
branches the fowls of the heaven had their habi-
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tation : it is thou, king, that art grown and
become strong : for thy greatness is grown, and
reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the
end of the earth. And whereas the king saw a
watcher and an holy one coming dovni from hea-
ven, and saying. Hew the tree down, and destroy
it ; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in
the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in
the tender grass of the field ; and let it be wet
with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be
with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass
over him ; this is the interpretation, king, and
this is the decree of the most High, which is
come upon my lord the king : that they shall
drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
with the beasts of the field, and they shall make
thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee
with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall
pass over thee, till thou know that the most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth
it to whomsoever he will. And whereas they
commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots ;
thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that
thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
Wherefore, king, let my counsel be acceptable
unto thee, and break ofi" thy sins by righteous-
ness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to
the poor ; if it may be a lengthening of thy tran-
quillity. All this came upon the king Nebu-
chadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he
walked in the palace of the kingdom of Baby-
lon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great
Babylon, that I have built for the house of the
kingdom by the might of my power, and for the
honour of my majesty ? While the word was
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in the kind's mouth, there fell a voice from hea-
ven, saying, king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it
is spoken ; The kingdom is departed from thee.
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy
dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field :
they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and
seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know
that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of
men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The
same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebu-
chadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and
did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with
the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like
eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claics.
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar
lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine un-
derstanding returned unto me. and 1 blessed the
most High, and I praised and honoured him that
liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting
dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to
generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth
are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according
to his will in the army of heaven, and among
the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay
his hand, or say unto him. What doest thou ?
At the same time my reason returned unto me ;
and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour
and brightness returned unto me ; and my coun-
sellors and my lords sought unto me ; and I was
established in my kingdom, and excellent ma-
jesty was added unto me. Now I Nebuchad-
nezzar praise and extol and honour the King of
heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways
judgment : and those that walk in pride he is
able to abase.
TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Or, Daniel v.
BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast
to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine
before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he
tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden
and silver vessels Avhich his father Nebuchad-
nezzar had taken out of the temple which teas
in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes,
his wives, and his concubines, might drink
therein. Then they brought the golden vessels
that were taken out of the temple of the house
of God which was at Jerusalem ; and the king,
and his princes, his wives, and his concubines,
drank in them. They drank wine, and praised
the gods of gold, and of silver, of bniss, of iron,
of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came
forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over
against the candlestick upon the plaister of the
wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the
part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's
countenance was changed, and his thoughts
troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were
loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers,
the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the
king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon,
Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me
the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with
scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck,
and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Then came in all the king's wise men: but
they could not read the writing, nor make
known to the king the interpretiition thereof.
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and
his countenance was changed in him, and his
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lords were astonied. A'^ow the queen by reason
of the words of the king and his lords came iiito
the banquet house : and the queen spake and
said. king, live for ever : let not thy thoughts
trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed :
there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the
spirit of the holy gods ; and in the days of thy
father light and understanding and wisdom,
like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him ;
whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the
king, I say, thy father, made master of the
magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and sooth-
sayers ; forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and
knoAvledge, and understanding, interpreting of
dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and
dissolving of doubts, were found in the same
Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazziir :
now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the
interpretation. Then was Daniel brought in
before the king. And the king spake and said
unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of
the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the
king my father brought out of Jewry ? I have
even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is
in thee, and that light and understanding and
excellent wisdom is found in thee. And now
the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought
in before me, that they should read this writing,
and make known unto me the interpretation
thereof: but they could not shew the interpreta-
tion of the thuig: and I have heard of thee,
that thou canst make interpretations, and dis-
solve doubts : now if thou canst read the
writing, and make known to me the interpreta-
tion thereof, thou shalt be clothed vrith. scarlet,
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and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and
shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. Then
Daniel answered and said before the king, Let
thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to
another ; yet I will read the writing unto the
king, and make known to him the interpreta-
tion. O thou king, the most high God gave
Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and
majesty, and glory, and honour : and for the
majesty that he gave him, all people, nations,
and languages, trembled and feared before him :
whom he would he slew ; and whom he would
he kept alive ; and whom he would he set up ;
and whom he would he put down. But when
his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened
in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne,
and they took his glory from him : and he Avas
driven from the sons of men ; and his heart was
made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with
the wild asses : they fed him with grass like
oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of
heaven ; till he knew that the most high God
ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he
appointeth over it whomsoever he will. And
thou his son, Belshazzar, hast not hum-
bled thine heart, though thou knewest all
this ; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord
of heaven ; and they have brought the vessels
of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords,
thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine
in them ; and thou hast praised the gods of
silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone,
which see not, nor hear, nor know : and the God
in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all
thy ways, hast thou not glorified : then was the
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part of the hand sent from him ; and this
writing was written. And this is the writing
that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEl^
UPHARSIX. This is the interpretation of
the thing : MEXE ; God hath numbered thy
kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL ; Thou art
weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
PERES ; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to
the Medes and Persians. Then commanded
Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet,
and j9u^ a chain of gold about his neck, and
made a proclamation concerning him, that he
should be the third ruler in the kingdom. In
that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chal-
deans stain. And Darius the ^Median took the
kingdom, being about threescore and two years
old.
Cfje STtDcntu^sccontJ 5untfag after ^rinitg.
Morning. Daniel vi.
IT pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an
hundred and twenty princes, which should
be over the whole kingdom ; and over these
three presidents ; of whom Daniel icas first :
that the princes might give accounts unto them,
and the king should have no damage. Then
this Daniel was preferred above the presidents
and princes, because an excellent spirit icas in
him ; and the king thought to set him over the
whole realm. Then the presidents and princes
sought to find occasion against Daniel concern-
ing the kingdom ; but they could find none
occasion nor fault ; forasmuch as he teas faithful,
neither was there any error or fault found in
him. Then said these men, We shall not find
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any occasion against this Daniel, except we find
it against him concerning the law of his God.
Then these presidents and princes assembled
together to the king, and said thus unto him,
King Darius, live for ever. All the presidents
of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes,
the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted
together to establish a royal statute, and to make
a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition
of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee,
O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Now, king, establish the decree, and sign the
writing, that it be not changed, according to the
law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth
not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing
and the decree. Now when Daniel knew that
the writing was signed, he went into his house ;
and his windows being open in his chamber
toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees
three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks
before his God, as he did aforetime. Then these
men assembled, and found Daniel praying and
making supplication before his God. Then they
came near, and spake before the king concerning
the king's decree ; Hast thou not signed a decree,
that every man that shall ask a 'petition of
any God or man within thirty days, save of thee,
O king, shall be cast into the den of lions ? The
king answered and said, The thing is true,
according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth not. Then answered they and
said before the king. That Daniel, which is of
the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth
not thee, king, nor the decree that thou hast
signed, but maketh his petition three times a
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day. Then the king, when he heard these words,
was sore displeased with himself, and set his
heart on Daniel to deliver him : and he laboured
till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
Then these men assembled unto the king, and
said unto the king, Know, king, that the law
of the jVIedes and Persians is, That no decree
nor statute which the king establisheth may be
changed. Then the king commanded, and they
brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of
lions. ]\''oiv the king spake and said unto
Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually,
he M'ill deliver thee. And a stone was brought,
and laid upon the mouth of the den ; and the
king sealed it with his own signet, and with the
signet of his lords ; that the purpose might not
be changed concerning Daniel. Then the king
went to his palace, and passed the night fasting :
neither were instruments of musick brought
before him : and his sleep went from him.
Then the king arose very early in the morning,
and went in haste unto the den of lions. And
when he came to the den, he cried with a
lamentable voice unto Daniel : and the king
spake and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of
the living God, is thy God, whom thou serv^est
continually, able to deliver thee from the lions ?
Then said Daniel unto the king, king, live for
ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath
shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt
me : forasmuch as before him innocency was
found in me : and also before thee, king, have
I done no hurt. Then was the king exceeding
glad for him, and commanded that they should
take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was
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taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt
was found upon him, because he believed in his
God. And the king commanded, and they
brought those men ■which had accused Daniel,
and they cast them into the den of lions, them,
their children, and their wives ; and the lions
had the mastery of them, and brake all their
bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom
of the den. Then king Darius wrote unto all
people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all
the earth ; Peace be nmltiplied unto you. I
make a decree, That in every dominion of my
kingdom men tremble and fear before the God
of Daniel : for he is the living God, and sted-
fast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall
not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even
unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and
he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and
in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the
power of the lions. So this Daniel prospered in
the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus
the Persian.
Evening. Daniel vii. v. 9.
I BEHELD till the thrones were cast down,
and the Ancient of days did sit, whose gar-
ment was white as snow, and the hair of his head
like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery
flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery
stream issued and came forth from before him :
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before
him : the judgment was set, and the books were
opened. I beheld then because of the voice of
the great words which the horn spake : I beheld
even till the beast was slain, and his body
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destroyed, and given to the burning flame. As
concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their
dominion taken away : yet their lives were pro-
longed for a season and time. I saw in the night
visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of days, and they brought him ne<ir
before him. And there was given him dominion,
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, na-
tions, and languages, should serve him : his
dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall
not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall
not be destroyed. I Daniel was grieved in my
spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions
of my head troubled me. I c;mie near unto one
of them that stood by, and asked him the truth
of all this. So he told me, and made me know
the interpretation of the things. These great
beasts, which are four, are four kings, ichuh shall
arise out of the earth. But the saints of the most
High shall take the kingdom, and possess the
kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. Then
I would know the truth of the fourth beast,
which was diverse from all the others, exceeding
dreadful, whose teeth icere of iron, and his nails
of brass ; ichich devoured, brake in pieces, and
stamped the residue with his feet ; and of the
ten horns that were in his head, and of the other
which came up, and before whom three fell ;
even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth
that spake very great things, whose look teas
more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the
same horn made war with the saints, and pre-
vailed against them ; until the Ancient of days
came, and judgment was given to the saints of
[. .
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the most High ; and the time came that the
samts possessed the kingdom. Thus he said,
The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom
upon earth, which shall be diverse from all king-
doms, and shall devour the whole earth, and
shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And
the ten horns out of this kingdom a,re ten kings
that shall arise : and another shall rise after
them ; and he shall be diverse from the first, and
he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak
great words against the most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the most High, and think
to change times and laws : and they shall be
given into his hand until a time and times and
the dividing of time. But the judgment shall
sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to
consume and to destroy it unto the end. And
the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of
the Idngdom under the whole heaven, shall be
given to the people of the saints of the most
High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me
Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and
my countenance changed in me : but I kept the
matter in my heart.
(>r, Daniel xii.
A ND at that time shall Michael stand up, the
jl\_ great prince which standeth for the chil-
dren of thy people : and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time : and at that time
thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall
be found written in the book. And many of
them that sleep in the dust of the earth sliall
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' awake, some to everlasting life, and some to
shame ami everlasting contempt. And thev that
be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firma-
]uent ; and they that turn many to righteousness
! as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, O
I Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book,
I even to the time of the end : many shall run to
\ and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Then
i I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other
\ two, the one on this side of the bank of the river,
, and the other on that side of the bank of the
: river. And one said to the man clothed in linen,
j which u-as upon the waters of the river, How
; long shall it he to the end of these wonders 1
I And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was
upon the waters of the river, when he held up
his right hand and his left hand unto heaven,
and sware by him that liveth for ever that it
' shall he for a time, times, and an half ; and when
he shall have accomplished to scatter the power
of the holy people, all these things shall be
finished. And I heard, but I understood not :
then said I, my Lord, what shall be the end of
these things I And he said, Go thy way, Daniel :
: for the words are closed up and sealed till the
I time of the end. Many shall be purified, and
made white, and tried ; but the wicked shall do
wickedly : and none of the wicked shall under-
stand ; but the wise shall underst<ind. And
from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be
taken away, and the abomination that maketh
desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two
hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that
waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hun-
dred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy
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way till the end he: for thou shalt rest, and
stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Vi^z Qltocntg^tljirti Suntrag after ^Timitg.
Morning. Hosea xiv.
O ISRAEL, return unto the Lord thy God ;
for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord :
say unto him. Take away all iniquity, and re-
ceive us graciously : so will we render the calves
of our lips. Asshur shall not save us ; we will
not ride upon horses : neither will we say any
more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods :
for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will
heal their backsliding, I will love them freely :
for mine anger is turned away from him. I will
be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the
lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His
branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as
the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They
that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they
shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine ;
the scent thereof shall he as the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more
with idols ? I have heard him, and observed
him : I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy
fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall under-
stimd these things .? prudent, and he shall know
them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and
the just shall walk in them : but the transgres-
sors shall fall therein.
Evening. Joel ii. v. 21.
FEAR not, land ; be glad and rejoice : for
the Lord will do great things. Be not
afraid, ye beasts of the tield : for the pastures of
T>yENTY-THmD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her
fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their
strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
rejoice in the Lord your God : for he hath given
you the former rain moderately, and lie will
cause to come do^vn for you the rain, the fonner
rain, and the latter rain in the first mo7ith. And
the floors shall be fall of wheat, and the fats shall
overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore
to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
Ciinkerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmer-
worm, my great army which I sent among you.
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and
praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath
dealt wondrously with you : and my people
shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that
I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the
Lord your God, and none else : and my people
shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to
pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daugh-
ters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions : and
also upon the servants and upon the handmaids
in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I
will shew wonders in the heavens and in the
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The
Sim shall be turned into darkness, and the moon
into blood, before the gr&it and the terrible day
of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever shall Cidl on the name of the
Lord shall be delivered : for in mount Zion and
in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord
hath said, and in the renniant Avhom the Lord
shall call.
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Oi\ Joel iii. v. 9.
1')E0CLAIM ye this among the Gentiles ;
. Prepare Avar, wake up the mighty men, let
all the men of war draw near ; let them come
up : beat your plowshares into swords, and your
pruninghooks into spears : let the weak say, I
am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all
ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round
about : thither cause thy mighty ones to come
down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat : for
there will I sit to judge all the heathen round
about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is
ripe : come, get you down ; for the press is fuU,
the fats overflow ; for their wickedness is great.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision :
for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of
decision. The sun and the moon shall be dark-
ened, and the stars shall withdraAv their shining.
The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter
his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens and
the earth shall shake : but the Lord ivill be the
hope of his people, and the strength of the chil-
dren of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the
Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain : then shall Jerusalem be holy, and
there shall no strangers pass through her any
more. And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the mountains shall drop down new wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the
rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth of the house of the
Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be
a desolate wilderness, for the violence against
TWENTY-FOURTH SUXDAY AFTER TRINITY.
the children of Judah, because they have shed
innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall
dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation
to generation. For I will cleanse their blood
that I have not cleansed : for the Lord dwelleth
in Zion.
0;c ^tDcnt2=fourt1^ Stintrng after Crtnitg.
Morning. Amos iii.
HEAE this word that the Lord hath spoken'
against you, children of Israel, against
the whole family which I brought up from the
land of Egy]Dt, sayiug, You only have I known
of ail the families of the earth : therefore I Avill
punish you for all your iniquities. Can two
Avalk together, except they be agreed ? will a
lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey ?
will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have
taken nothing ? can a bird fall in a snare upon
the earth, where no gin is for him ? shall o??e
take up a snare from the earth, and have taken
nothing at all ? shall a trumpet be blown in the
city, and the people not be afraid ? shall there
be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?
iSurely the Lord God will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants the pro-
phets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear ?
the Lord God hath spoken, who can but pro- j
phesy ] Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and
in tiie palaces in the land of Egypt, and say,
Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of
Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the
midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst
thereof. For they know not to do right, saith
the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
their palaces. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God ; An adversary there shall he even round
about the land ; and he shall briug down thy
strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be
spoiled. Thus saith the Lord ; As the shepherd
taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or
a piece of an ear ; so shall the children of Israel
be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner
of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch. Hear
ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the
Lord God, the God of hosts, that in the day that
I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon
him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el : and
the horns of the altar shall be cut off", and fall to
the ground. And I will smite the winter house
with the summer house ; and the houses of
ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall
have an end, saith the Lord.
Evening. Amos v.
HEAR ye this word which I take up against
you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
The virgin of Israel is fallen ; she shall no more
rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is
none to raise her up. For thus saith the Lord
God ; The city that went out by a thousand
shall leave an hundred, and that which went
forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house
of Israel. For thus saith the Lord unto the
house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live :
but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and
pass not to Beer-sheba : for Gilgal shall surely
go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to
nought. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live ; lest
he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and devour it, and there be none to quench it in
TWEXTY-FOURTH SUXDAY AFTEK TRINITY.
Beth-el. Ye who turn judgmeut to wormwood,
and leave off righteousness in the earth, sedh
him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and
turneth the shadow of death into the morning,
and maketh the day dark v/ith night : that
calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth
them out upon the ftice of the earth : The Lord
is his name : that strengtheneth the spoiled
against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come
against the fortress. Thev hate him that re-
buke th in the gate, and they abhor him that
speaketh uprightly. Forasmuch therefore as
your treading is upon the poor, and ye take
from him burdens of wheat : ye have built
houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in
them ; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but
ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know
your manifold transgressions and your mighty
sins : they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and
they turn aside the poor in the gate from their
right. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence
in that tim.e ; for it is an evil time. Seek good,
and not evil, that ye may live : and so the
Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye
have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good.
and establish judgment in the gate : it may be
that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious
unto the remnant of Joseph. Therefore the
Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus ;
Wailing shall he in all streets ; and they shall
say in all the highways, Alas ! alas ! and they
shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
And in all vineyards shall be wailing . for I will
pass through thee, saith the Lord. Woe unto
TWEXTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what
end is it for you 1 the day of the Lord is dark-
ness, and not light. As if a man did flee from
a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the
house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a
serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord
be darkness, and not light ? even very dark, and
no brightness in it ? I hate, I despise your
feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings
and your meat offerings, I will not accept them :
neither will I regard the peace offerings of your
fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise
of thy songs ; for I will not hear the melody of
thy viols. But let judgment run down as
waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings
in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel ?
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Mo-
loch and Chiun your images, the star of your
god, which ye made to yourselves. Therefore will
I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.
Or, Amos ix.
I SAW the Lord standing upon the ^altar :
and he said. Smite the lintel of the door,
that the posts may shake : and cut them in the
head, all of them ; and I will slay the last of
them with the sword : he that fleeth of them
shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them
shall not be delivered. Though they dig itito
hell, thence shall mine hand take them ; though
they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring
them down : and though they hide themselves
in the top of Carmel, I will search and take
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
them out thence ; and though they be hid from
my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I
command the serpent, and he shall bite them :
and though they go into captivity before their
enemies, thence will I command the sword, and
it shall slay them : and I will set mine eyes
upon them for evil, and not for good. And the
Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land,
and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein
shall mourn : and it shall rise up wholly like a
flood ; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of
Egypt. It is he that buildeth his stories in the
heaven, and hath founded his troop in the
earth ; he that calleth for the waters of the
sea, and poureth them out upon the face of
the earth : The Lord is his name. Are ye not
as children of the Ethiopians unto me, chil-
dren of Israel ? saith the Lord. Have not I
brought up Israel out of the land of Eg}'pt?
and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the
Syrians from Kir] Behold, the eyes of the
Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I
wDl destroy it from oft" the face of the earth ;
saving that I will not utterly destroy the house
of Jacob, saith the Lord. For, lo, I will com-
mand, and I will sift the house of Israel among
all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet
shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the
sword, which say. The evil shall not overtake
nor prevent us. In that day will I raise up the
tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up
the breaches thereof ; and I will raise up his
ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old :
that they may possess the remnant of Edom,
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
and of all the heathen, which are called by my
name, saith the Lord that doeth this. Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord, that the plow-
man shall overtake the reaper, and the treader
of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the moun-
tains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills
shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity
of my people of Israel, and they shall build the
waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall
plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof ;
they shaU also make gardens, and eat the fruit
of them. And I will plant them upon their
land, and they shall no more be pulled up out
of their land which I have given them, saith the
Lord thy God.
2ri;e 2rtocntg=fift]^ SunUag after tlixiwit^.
Morning. Micah iv. and v. to v. 8.
BUT in the last days it shall come to pass,
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and it shall be exalted above the hills ; and peo-
ple shall flow unto it. And many nations shall
come, and say. Come, and let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the
God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths : for the law shall
go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations afar off" ; and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not
lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more. But they shall sit every
man under his vine and under his fig tree ; and
T^YEXTT-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRIXITT.
none shall njake them afraid : for the mouth of
the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all peo-
ple will Avalk every one in the name of his god,
and ^ye will walk in the name of the Lord our
God for ever and ever. In that day, saith the
Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and 1
will gather her that is driven out. and her that
I have afflicted ; and I will make her that halted
a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong
nation : and the Lord shall reign over them in
mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
And thou, tower of the flock, the strong hold
of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come,
even the first dominion ; the kingdom shall come
to the daughter of Jerusalem. Now why dost
thou cry out aloud ? is there no king in thee ?
is thy counsellor perished ? for pangs have taken
thee as a woman in travail. Be in pain, and
labour to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a
woman in travail : for now shalt thou go forth
out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field,
and thou shalt go even to Babylon ; there shalt
thou be delivered ; there the Lord shall redeem
thee from the hand of thine enemies. Now also
many nations are gathered against thee, that say.
Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon
Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the
Lord, neither understand they his counsel : for
he shall gather them as the sheaves into the
floor. Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion :
for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make
thy hoofs brass : and thou shalt be^t in pieces
many people : and I will consecrate their gain
unto the Lord, and their substance unto the
Lord of the whole earth.
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Now gather thyself in troops, daughter of
troops : he hath laid siege against us : they
shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon
the cheek. But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto
me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose goings
forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Therefore will he give them up, until the time
that she which travaileth hath brought forth :
then the remnant of his brethren shall return
unto the children of Israel. And he shall stand
and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the
majesty of the name of the Lord his God ; and
they shall abide : for now shall he be great unto
the ends of the earth. And this man shall be
the pea<;e, when the Assyrian shall come into
our land : and when he shall tread in our palaces,
then shall we raise against him seven shep-
herds, and eight principal men. And they shall
waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and
the land of Nimrod in the entrances tiiereof:
thus shall he deliver ws from the Assyrian, when
he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth
within our borders. And the remnant of Jacob
shall be in the midst of many people as a dew
from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass,
that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the
sons of men.
Evening. Micah vi.
HEAE ye now what the Lord saith ; Arise,
contend thou before the mountains, and
let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, moun-
tains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong
foundations of the earth : for the Lord hath a
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
controversy with his people, and he will plead
with Israel. O my people, what have I done
unto thee ? and wherein have I wearied thee ?
testify against me. For I brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of
the house of servants ; and I sent before thee
Moses, Aaron, and INIiriam. O my people, re-
member now what Balak king of Moab con-
sulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor an-
swered him from Shittim unto Gilgal ; that ye
may know the righteousness of the Lord. Where-
with shall I come before the Lord, and lx)W
myself before the high God ? shall I come before
him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year
old ? will the IjORD be pleased with thousands
of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ?
shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body /or the sin of my soul ? He
hath shewed thee, O man, what is good ; and
what doth the Lord require of tliee, but to do
justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God ? The Lord's voice crieth imto
the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy
name : hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed
it. Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in
the house of the wicked, and the scant measure
that is abominable? Shall I count them pure
with the wicked balances, and with the bag of
deceitful weights ? For the rich men thereof are
full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have
spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their
mouth. Therefore also will I make thee sick in
smiting thee, in making tJiee desolate because of
thy sins. Tliou shalt eat, but not be satisfied ;
and thy casting down shall be in the midst of
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
thee ; and thou shalt tiike hold, but shalt not
deliver ; and that which thou deliverest will I
give up to the sword. Thou shalt sow, but thou
shalt not reap ; thou shalt tread the olives, but
thou shalt not anoint thee with oil ; and sweet
wine, but shalt not drink wine. For the statutes
of Omri are kept, and all the Avorks of the house
of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels ; that I
should make thee a desolation, and the inhabit-
ants thereof an hissing : therefore ye shall bear
the reproach of my people.
Or, Micah vii.
WOE is me ! for I am as when they have
gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-
gleanings of the vintage : there is no cluster to
eat : my soul desired the firstripe fruit. The
good man is perished out of the earth : and there
is none upright among men : they all lie in wait
for blood ; they hunt every man his brother with
a net. That they may do evil with both hands
earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh
for a reward ; and the great ma7i, he uttereth
his mischievous desire : so they wrap it up. The
best of them is as a brier : the most upright is
sharper than a thorn hedge : the day of thy
watchmen ami thy visitation cometh ; now shall
be their perplexity. Trust ye not in a friend,
put ye not confidence in a guide : keep the doors
of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter
riseth up against her mother, the daughter in
law against her mother in law ; a man's enemies
are the men of his own house. Therefore I will
look unto the Lord ; I will wait for the God of
my salvation : my God will hear me. Rejoice
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
not against me, mine enemy ; when I fall, I
shall arise ; when I sit in darkness, the Lord
shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indig-
nation of the Lord, because I have sinned against
him, until he plead my Ciiuse, and execute judg-
ment for me : he will bring me forth to the light,
and I shall behold his righteousness. Then she
that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall
cover her which said unto me, Where is the
Lord thy God ? mine eyes shall behold her :
now shall she be trodden down as the mire of
the streets. In the day that thy walls are to be
built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
In that day also he shall come even to thee from
Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from
the fortress even to the river, and from sea to
sea, and /row mountain to mountain. Notwith-
standing the land shall be desolate because of
them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their
doings. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock
of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the
wood, in the midst of Carmel : let them feed in
Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Ac-
cording to the days of thy coming out of the
hmd of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous
things. The nations shall see and be confounded
at all their might : they shall lay their hand
upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. They
shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall
move out of their holes like worms of the earth :
they shall be afmid of the Lord our God, and
shall fear because of thee. Who is a God like
unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and pass-
eth by the transgression of the remnant of his
heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever,
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
because he delighteth in mercy. He Avill turn
again, he will have compassion upon us ; he will
subdue our iniquities ; and thou wilt cast all
their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt
perform the truth to Jacob, a^id the mercy to
Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers
from the days of old.
Zi)t Qrtocnt2=sixl]^ Suntrag after ^rinitg.
Morning. Hab. ii.
I WILL stand upon my watch, and set me
upon the tower, and will watch to see what
he will say unto me, and what I shall answer
when I am reproved. And the Lord answered
me, and said. Write the vision, and make it
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth
it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time,
but at the end it shall speak, and not lie : though
it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come,
it will not tarry. Behold, his soul v)hich is lifted
up is not upright in him : but the just shall live
by his faith. Yea also, because he transgresseth
by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at
home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as
death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth
unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all
people : shall not all these take up a parable
against him, and a taunting proverb against him,
and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which
is not his ! how long ? and to him that ladeth
himself with thick clay ! Shall they not rise up
suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that
shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto
them ] Because thou hast spoiled many nations,
all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee ;
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
because of men's blood, and for the violence of
the land, of the city, and of all that dwell there-
in. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetous-
ness to his house, that he may set his nest on
high, that he may be delivered from the power
of evil ! Thou hast consulted shame to thy
house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned
against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of
the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall
answer it. Woe to him that buildeth a town
with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity !
Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the
people shall labour in the very fire, and the
people shall weary themselves for very vanity ?
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge
of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the
sea. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and raakest
him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their
nakedness ! Thou art filled with shame for glory :
drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be un-
covered : the cup of the Lord's right hand shall
be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall
he on thy glory. For the violence of Lebanon
shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which
made them afraid, because of men's blood, and
for the violence of the land, of the city, and of
all that dwell therein. What profiteth the graven i
image that the maker thereof hath graven it ; the
molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the
maker of his work trusteth therein, to make
dumb idols ? Woe unto him that saith to the j
wood. Awake ; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall j
teach ! Behold, it is laid over with gold and j
silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst I
+
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
of it. But the Lord is in his holy temple : let
all the earth keep silence before him.
Evening. Hab. iii.
A PRAYER of Habakkuk the prophet upon
Shigionoth. Lord, I have heard thy
speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy
work in the midst of the years, in the midst of
the years make known ; in wrath remember
mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy
One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory
covered the heavens, and the earth was full of
his praise. And his Ijrightness was as the light ;
he had horns coining out of his hand : and there
was the hiding of his power. Before him went
the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at
his feet. He stood, and measured the earth : he
beheld, and drove asunder the nations ; and the
everlasting mountains were scattered, the per-
petual hills did bow : his ways are everlasting.
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction : and the
curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Was
the Lord displeased against the rivers ? was
thine anger against the rivers ? ivas thy wrath
against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine
horses and thy chariots of salvation ? Thy bow
was made quite naked, according to the oaths
of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst
cleave the earth with rivers. The mountains
saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing
of the water passed by : the deep uttered his
voice, a7id lifted up his hands on high. The
sun ayid moon stood still in their habitation : at
the light of thine arrows the}^ went, a7id at the
shining of thy glittering spear. Thou didst
march through the land in indignation,, thou
TWENTY- SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
didst thresh the heathen in anger. Thou went-
est forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
salvation with thine anointed ; thou woundedst
the head out of the house of the wicked, by dis-
covering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
Thou didst strike through with his staves the
i head of his villages : they came out as a whirl-
j wind to scatter me : their reioicing ivas as to
I devour the poor secretly. Thou didst walk
} through the sea with thine horses, through the
j heap of great waters. When I heard, my belly
; trembled ; my lips quivered at the voice : rot-
j tenness entered into my bones, and I trembled
{ in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble :
when he cometh up unto the people, he will
invade them with his troops. Although the fig
tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in
the vines ; the labour of the olive shall fail, and
the fields shall yield no meat ; the flock shall be
cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd
in the stalls : yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I
will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord
God is my strength, and he will make my feet
like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk
upon mine high places. To the chief singer on
my strmged instruments.
Or, Zepli. iii.
TyOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the
* ' oppressing city ! She obeyed not the
voice ; she received not correction ; she trusted
not in the Lord ; she drew not near to her God.
Her princes within her are roaring lions ; her
judges are evening wolves ; they gnaw not the
bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light
a7id treacherous persons : her priests have pol-
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
luted the sanctuary, they have done violence to
the law. The just Lord is in the midst thereof ;
he will not do iniquity : every morning doth he
bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but
the unjust knoweth no shame. I have cut off
the nations : their towers are desolate ; I made
their streets waste, that none passeth by : their
cities are destroyed, so that there is no man,
that there is none inhabitant. I said. Surely
thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction ;
so their dwelling should not be cut oft", howso-
ever I punished them : but they rose early, and
corrupted all their doings. Therefore wait ye
upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I
rise up to the prey : for my determination is to
gather the nations, that I may assemble the
kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation,
even all my fierce anger : for all the earth shall
be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For
then will I turn to the people a pure language,
tliat they may all call upon the name of the
Lord, to serve him with one consent. From
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants,
even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring
mine offering. In that day shalt thou not be
ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast
transgressed against me : for then I will take
away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice
in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty
beciiuse of my holy mountain. I will also leave
in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people,
and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquit}"^, nor
speak lies ; neither shall a deceitful tongue be
found in their mouth : for they shall feed and
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Sing, daughter of Zion ; shout, Israel ; be
glad and rejoice with all the heart. daughter
of Jerusalem. The Lord hath taken away thy
judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy : the
king of Israel, er^n the Lord, is in the midst of
thee : thou shalt not see evil any more. In that
day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not :
and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. The
Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty ;
he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy ;
he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee
with singing. I will gather them that are sorrow-
ful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to
ichom the reproach of it teas a burden. Behold,
at that time I will undo all that afflict thee : and
I wiU save her that halteth, and gather her that
was driven out ; and I will get them praise and
fame in every land where they have been put to
shame. At that time will I bring you again,
even in the time that I gather you : for I will
make you a name and a praise among all people
of the earth, when I turn back your captivity
before your eyes, saith the Lord.
Zl)c Ctocnts^scbcnti) 5unliag after ^tinitg.
Morning. Eccles. xL and xiL
CAST thy bread upon the waters : for thou
shalt find it after many days. Give a por-
tion to seven, and also to eight ; for thou know-
est not what evil shall be upon the earth. If
the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves
upon the earth : and if the tree fall toward the
south, or toward the north, in the place where j
the tree falleth, there it shall be. He that i
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observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that
regardeth the clouds shall not reap. As thou
knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor
how the bones do grow in the womb of her that
is with child : even so thou knowest not the
works of God who maketh all. In the morning
sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall
prosper, either this or that, or whether they both
shall be alike good. Truly the light is sweet,
and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold
the sun : but if a man live many years, and re-
joice in them all ; yet let him remember the
days of darkness ; for they shall be many. All
that Cometh is vanity. Rejoice, O young man,
in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the
days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of
thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but
know thou, that for all these things God will
bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove
sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from
thy flesh : for childhood and youth are vanity.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of
thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the
years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no
pleasure in them ; while the sun, or the light, or
the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the
clouds return after the rain : in the day when
the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the
strong men shall bow themselves, and the
grinders cease because they are few, and those
that look out of the windows be darkened, and
the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the
sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise
up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
of musick shall be brought low ; also when they
shall be afraid of that which is high, and feiirs
shall he in the way, and the almond tree shall
flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden,
and desire shall fail : because man goetli to his
long home, and the mourners go about the
streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the
golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken
at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cis-
tern. Then shall the dust return to the earth
as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God
who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the
preacher ; all is vanity. And moreover, because
the preacher was wise, he still tiiught the people
knowledge ; yea, he gave good heed, and sought
out, and set in order many proverbs. The
preacher sought to find out acceptable words :
and that ivhich icas written was upright, even
words of truth. The words of tlie wise are as
goads, and as nails fiistened by the masters of
assemblies, ivhich are given from one shepherd.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished :
of making many books there is no end ; and
much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us
hear the conclusion of the whole matter : Fear
God, and keep his commandments : for this is
the whole duty of man. For God shall bring
every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evik
Evening. Haggai ii. to v. 10.
IN the seventh raonih, in the one and twentieth
day of the month, came the word of the Lord
by the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of
Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
high priest, and to the residue of the people,
saying, Who is left among you that saw this
house in her first glory ? and how do ye see it
now ? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it
as nothing ? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
saith the Lord ; and be strong, O Joshua, son
of Josedech, the high priest ; and be strong, all
ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work :
for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts : dc-
cordiyig to the word that I covenanted with you
when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit re-
maineth among you : fear ye not. For thus
saith the Lord of hosts ; Yet once, it is a little
while, and I will shake the heavens, and the
earth, and the sea, and the dry land ; and I will
shake all nations, and the desire of all nations
shall come : and I Avill fill this house with glory,
saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and
the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The
glory of this latter house shall be greater than of
the former, saith the Lord of hosts : and in this
place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
O?', Mai. iii. and iv.
BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me : and the
Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his
temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in : behold, he shall come,
saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide
the day of his coming % and who shall stand when
he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and
like fullers^ sope : and he shall sit as a refiner
and purifier of silver : and he shall purify the
sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,
that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
TWENTY-SEVEXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah
and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in
the days of old, and as in former years. And I
will come near to you to judgment ; and I will
be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and
against the adulterers, and against false swearers,' j
and against those that oppress the hireling in his
wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that
turn aside the stranger /rowi, his right, and fear
not me, saith the Lord of hosts. For I am the
Lord, I change not ; therefore ye sons of Jacob
are not consumed. Even from the days of your
fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances,
and have not kept them. Eeturn unto me, and
I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
But ye said. Wherein shall we return ? Will a
man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But
ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee ? In tithes
and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse : for
ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring
ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in mine house, and prove me now
herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you
out a blessing, that there shall not be room
enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the
devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy
the fruits of your ground ; neither shall your
vine cast her fruit before the time in the field,
saith the Lord of hosts. And all nations shall
call you blessed : for ye shall be a delightsome
land,' saith the Lord of hosts. Your words have
been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye
say, What have we spoken so much against thee ?
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what
TWEXTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY,
profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and
that we have walked mournfully before the
Lord of hosts? And now Ave call the proud
happy ; yea, they that work wickedness are set
lip ; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one
to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard
it, and a book of remembrance was written be-
fore him for them that feared the Lord, and
that thought upon his name. And they shall be
mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I
make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a
man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then
shall ye return, and discern between the righ-
teous and the wicked, between him that serveth
God and him that serveth him not.
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall bum
as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that
do wickedly, shall be stubble : and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of
hosts, that it shall leave tbem neither root nor
branch. But unto you that fear my name shall
the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his
Avings ; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves
of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked ;
for they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord
of hosts. Eemember ye the law of Moses my ser-
vant, Avhich I commanded unto him in Horebforall
Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I
will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great audi dreadful day of the Lord : and
he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the chil-
dren, and the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
PEOPEE LESSORS
TO CE READ AT
MORXIXG AXD EVENING PRAYER
ON
HOLY-DAYS THEOUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Bzint ^ntjrrto's Bag.
Morning. Isai. liv.
SING, barren, thou that didst not bear ;
break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou
that didst not travail with child : for more are
the children of the desolate than the children of
the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the
place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thine habitations : spare not, lengthen
thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; for thou
shalt break forth on the right hand and on the
left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and
make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear
not ; for thou shalt not be ashamed : neither be
thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be put to
shame : for thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of
thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is
thine husband ; the Lord of hosts is his name ;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; The
God of the whole earth shall he be called. For
the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken
and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when
thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small
SAINT ANDREW'S DAY.
moment have I forsaken thee ; but with great
mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I
hid my face from thee for a moment ; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the Lord thy Redeemer. For this is as
the waters of Noah unto me : for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah should no more
go over the earth ; so have I sworn that I would
not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For
the mountains shall depart, and the hills be re-
moved ; but my kindness shall not depart from
thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be
removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on
thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and
not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with
fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sap-
phires. And I will make thy windows of agates,
and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders
of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall
be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the
peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt
thou be established : thou shalt be far from op-
pression ; for thou shalt not fear : and from
terror ; for it shall not come near thee. Behold,
they shall surely gather together, but not by me :
whosoever shall gather together against thee
shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created
the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and
that bringeth forth an instrument for his work ;
and I have created the waster to destroy. No
weapon that is formed against thee shall pros-
per ; and every tongue that shall rise against
thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is
the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and
their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
•i-
SAIXT ANDREW'S DAY.
Second Lesson. John i v. 35 tx) r. 43.
A GAIN the next day after John stood, and
jtx. two of his disciples ; and looking upon
Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb
of God ! iVnd the two disciples heard him speak,
and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned,
and saw them following, and saith unto them,
What seek ye? They said unto hini. Rabbi,
(which is to say, being interpreted. Master.)
where dwellest thou ? He saith unto them,
Come and see. They came and saw where he
dwelt, and abode with him that day : for it was
about the tenth hour. One of the two which
heard John speah, and followed him, was An-
drew, Simon Peters brother. He first findeth
his own brother Simon, and saith unto him. We
have found the Messias, which is, being inter-
preted, the Christ. And he brought him to
Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said.
Thou art Simon the son of Jona : thou shalt be
called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A
stone.
Evening. Isai. Ixv. to v. 17.
I AM sought of them that ixsiked. not for me;
I am found of them that sought me not : I
said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that
was not ciilled by my name. I have spread out
my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that teas not good, after
their own thoughts ; a people that provokethme
to anger continually to my face ; that sacrificeth
in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of
brick ; which remain among the graves, and
lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh,
and broth of abominable things is in theii'
SAINT ANDREW'S DAY.
vessels ; which say, Stand by thyself, come not
near to me ; for I am holier than thou. These
are, a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all
the day. Behold, it is written before me : I will
not keep silence, but will recompense, even re-
compense into their bosom, your iniquities, and
the iniquities of your fathers together, saith
the Lord, which have burned incense upon the
mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills :
therefore will I measure their former work into
their bosom. Thus saith the Lord, As the new
wine is found in the cluster, and one saith,
Destroy it not ; for a blessing is in it : so will I
do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy
them all. And I Avill bring forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my
mountains : and mine elect shall inherit it, and
my servants shall dwell there. And Sharon
shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor
a place for the herds to lie down in, for my peo-
ple that have sought me. But ye are they that
forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain,
that prepare a table for that troop, and that
furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and
ye shall all bow down to the slaughter : because
when I called, ye did not answer ; when I spake,
ye did not hear ; but did evil before mine eyes,
and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my
servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry : be-
hold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be
thirsty : behold, my servants shall rejoice, but
ye shall be ashamed : behold, my servants shall
sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
SAINT TH05IAS THE APOSTLE.
ledge ? therefore have I uttered that I nrider-
stood not ; things too wonderful for me, which I
knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will
speak : I will demand of thee, and declare thou
unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing
of the ear : but now mine eye seeth thee. Where-
fore I abhor myself^ and repent in dust and
ashes.
Second Lesson. John xx. v. 19 to v. 24.
THEN the same day at evening, being the
first day of the week, when the doors were
shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst,
and saith unto them, Peace he unto you. And
when he had so said, he shewed unto them his
hands and his side. Then were the disciples
glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus
to them again, Peace he unto you : as my Father
hath sent me, even so send I you. And when
he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith
unto them, Eeceive ye the Holy Ghost : whose
soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto
them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are
retained.
Evening. Isai. xxxv.
THE wilderness and the solitary place shall
be glad for them ; and the desert shall
rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and sing-
ing : the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they
shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excel-
lency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak
hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to
them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE.
not : behold, your God will come vnth vengeance,
zven God with a recompence ; he will come and
save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be
opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be un-
stopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an
hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in
the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert. And the parched ground
shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs
of water : in the habitation of dragons, where
each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
And an highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be called The way of holiness ;
the unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be
for those : the wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any
ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not
be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk
there : and the ransomed of the Lord shall re-
turn, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting
joy upon their heads : they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.
Second Lesson. John xiv. to v. 8.
LET not your heart be troubled : ye believe
in God, believe also in me. In my Father's
house are many mansions : if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again, and receive you unto myself ;
that where I am, there ye may be also. And
whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whi-
ther thou goest ; and how can we know the
way ? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
NATIVITY OF CHRIST.
truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. If ye had known me,
ye should have known my Father also : and
from henceforth ye know him, and have seen
him,
i^atibitg of ©firist.
Morning. Isai. ix. to v. 8.
NEVERTHELESS the dimness shall not Ic
such as was in her vexation, when at the
first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and
the land of NaphtaU, and afterward did more
grievously affllict her by the way of the sea, be-
yond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The peo-
ple that wallved in darkness have seen a great
light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow
of death, upon them hath the light shiued. Thou
hast multiplied the nation, and not increased
the joy: they joy before thee according to the
joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they
divide the spoil. For thou hast broken the yoke
of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the
rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
For every battle of the warrior is with confused
noise, and garments rolled in blood ; but this
shall be with burning a7id fuel of fire. For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given :
and the government shall be upon his shoulder :
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Coun-
sellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his
government and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,
to order it, and to establish it with judgment
and with justice from henceforth even for ever.
NATIVITY OF CHRIST.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform
this.
Second Lesson. Luke ii, to v. 1 5.
A ND it came to pass in those days, that there
jL\. "went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that
all the world should be taxed. {And this taxing
was first made when Cyrenius was governor of
Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into
his own city. And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea,
unto the city of David, which is called Bethle-
hem ; (because he was of the house and lineage
of David :) to be taxed with Mary his espoused
wife, being great with child. And so it was,
that, while they were there, the days were ac-
complished that she should be delivered. And
she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a
manger ; because there was no room for them in
the inn. And there were in the same country
shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch
over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of
the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the
Lord shone round about them : and they Avere sore
afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not :
for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you
is born this day in the city of David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord. And this shall he a
sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped
in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And
suddenly there was with the angel a multitude
of the heavenly host praising God, and saying.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men.
SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY.
Evening. Isai. vii. v. 10 to v. 17.
MOREOVER the Lord spake acrain unto
Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord
thy God ; ask it either in the depth, or in the
height above. But Aliaz said, I will not ask,
neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said,
Hear ye now, house of David ; Is it a small
thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary
my God also ? Therefore the Lord himself shall
give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know
to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For be-
fore the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest
shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Second Lesson. Tit. iii. v. 4 to v. 9.
BUT after that the kindness and love of God
our Saviour toward man appeared, not by
works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy he saved us, by the wash-
ing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Ghost ; which he shed on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Saviour ; that being justified
by his grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithfid
saying, and these things I will that thou affirm
constantly, that they which have believed in God
i might be careful to maintain good works. These
things are good and profitable unto men.
5aint Stfpl;cn's Bag.
Morning. Gen. iv. to v. 11.
A ND Adam knew Eve his wife ; and she con-
J\. ceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have
SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY.
gotten a man from the Lord. And she again
bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper
of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of
the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his
ofiering : but unto Cain and to his offering he
had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell. And the Lord said
unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is
thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well,
shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest
not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
shall he his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and
it came to pass, when they were in the field,
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I
know not : Am I my brother's keeper ? And
he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of
thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the
ground.
Second Lesson. Acts vi,
A ND in those days, when the number of the
J\. disciples was multiplied, there arose a mur-
muring of the Grecians against the Hebrews,
because their widows were neglected in the daily
ministration. Then the twelve called the mul-
titude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is
not reason that we should leave the word of God,
and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye
out among you seven men of honest report, full
SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY.
of the Holy Ghost and -w-isdom, •whom we may
appoint over this business. But we will give
ourselves continually to prayer, and to the min-
istry of the word. And the saying pleased the
whole multitude : and they chose Stephen, a
man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and
Philip, and Prochorus, and Kicanor, and Timon,
and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of An-
tioch : whom they set before the apostles : and
when they had prayed, they laid their hands on
them. And the word of God increased ; and the
number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem
greatly ; and a great company of the priests were
obedient to the faith. And Stephen, full of feith
and power, did great wonders and miracles
among the people. Then there arose certain of
the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of
the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians,
and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing
with Stephen. And they were not able to resist
the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Then they suborned men, which said. We have
heard him speak blasphemous words against
Moses, and against God. And they stirred up
the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and
came upon him, and caught him, and brought
hivi to the council, and set up false witnesses,
which said. This man ceaseth not to speak blas-
phemous words against this holy place, and the
law : for we have heard him say, that this Jesus
of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall
change the customs which Moses delivered us.
And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly
on him, saw his face as it had been the face of
an ansrel.
SAINT STEPfiEN'S DaY.
Evening. 2 Chron. xxiv. v. 15 to v. 23.
BUT Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of
days when he died ; an hundred and thirty
years old ivas he when he died. And they buried
him in the city of David among the kings, be-
cause he had done good in Israel, both toward
God, and toward his house. Now after the
death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah,
and made obeisance to the king. Then the king
hearkened unto them. And they left the house
of the Lord God of their fothers, and served
groves and idols : and wrath came upon Judah
and Jerusalem for this their trespass. Yet he
sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto
the Lord ; and they testified against them : but
they would not give ear. And the Spirit of God
came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the
priest, which stood above the people, and said
unto them. Thus saith God, Why transgress ye
the commandments of the Lord, that ye cmnot
prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord,
he hath also forsaken you. And they conspired
against him, and stoned him with stones at the
commandment of the king in the court of the
house of the Lord. Thus Joash the king re-
membered not the kindness which Jehoiada his
father had done to him, but slew his son. And
when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it,
and require it.
Second Lesson. Acts viii. to v. 9.
AND Saul was consenting unto his death. And
-l\_ at that time there was a great persecution
against the church which was at Jerusalem ;
and they were all scattered abroad throughout
the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the
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SAIXT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY.
apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to
his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
As for SauL, he made havock of the church, enter-
ing into every house, and haling men and women
committed them to prison. Therefore they that
were scattered abroad went every where preach-
ing the word. Then Philip went down to the
city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto
those things which Philip spake, hearing and
seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean
spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many
that were possessed ivith thc.n : and many taken
with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
And there Wiis great joy in that city.
Saint 3oI;n ti)c CJbangrlist's Bag.
Morning. Exod. xxxiii. v. 9.
A ND it came to pass, as Moses entered into
jl\. the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended,
and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the
LORD ti\llved with Moses. And all the people
saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle
door : and all the people rose up and worshipped,
every man in his tent door. And the Lord
spake unto Moses face to ftice, as a man speaketh
unto his friend. And he turned again into the
camp : but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun,
a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest
unto me, Bring up this people : and thou List
not let me know whom thou wilt send w4th me.
Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and
thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now
therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY.
thy sight, shew me now thy wa}^, that I may
know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight :
and consider that this nation is thy people. And
he said, My presence shall go ivith thee, and I
will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If
thy presence go not with me, carry us not up
hence. For wherein shall it be known here that
I and thy people have found grace in thy sight ?
is it not in that thou goest with us ? so shall we
be separated, I and thy people, from all the
people that are upon the face of the earth. Aud
the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing
also that thou hast spoken : for thou hast found
grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass
before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the
Lord before thee ; and will be gracious to whom
I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom
I will shew mercy. And he said, thou canst
not see my face : lor there shall no man see me,
and live. And the Lord said. Behold, there is a
place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock :
and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth
by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and
will cover thee with my hand while I pass by :
and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt
see my back parts : but my face shall not be
seen.
Second Lesson. John xiii. v. 23 to v. 3G.
l^rOW there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one
-Li of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon
Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should
ask who it should be of whom he spake. He
then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him. Lord,
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY.
who is it ? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I
shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And
when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop
Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
him, That thou doest, do quickly. Now no man
at the table knew for what intent he spake this
unto him. For some of them thought, because
Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto
him, Buy those things that we have need of
against the feast ; or, that he should give some-
thing to the poor. He then having received the
sop went immediately out : and it was night.
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said,
Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is
glorified in him. If God be glorified in him,
God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall
straightway glorify him. Little children, yet a
little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me :
and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye
cannot come ; so now I say to you. A new com-
mandment I give unto you. That ye love one
another ; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another. By this shall all men know that
ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another.
Evenin-g. Isai. vi.
IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also
the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and
lifted up. and his train filled the temple. Above
it stood the seraphims : each one had six wings ;
with twain he covered his face, and with twain
he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY.
is full of his glory. And the posts of the door
moved at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe
is me ! for I am undone ; because I am a man
of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen
the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of
the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from
off the altar : and he laid it upon my mouth,
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and
thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying.
Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ?
Then said I, Here am I ; send me. And he
said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not. Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest
they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and convert,
and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long?
And he answered. Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man,
and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord
have removed men far away, and there be a great
forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in
it shall be a tenth, send it shall return, and shall
be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance is in them, when they cast their leaves :
so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Second Lesson. Rev. i.
THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants
things which must shortly come to pass ; and he
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY. 1
sent and signified it by his angel unto his ser- j
vant John : who bare record of the word of God, }
and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all I
things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, |
and they that hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are written therein :
for the time is at hand.
JOHN to the seven churches which are in
Asia : Grace he unto you, and peace, from him
which is, and which was, and which is to come ;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his
throne ; and from Jesus Christ, icho is the faith-
ful witness, and the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, and hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father ; to lum he
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Behold, he cometh with clouds ; and every eye
shall see him, and they also which pierced hiiu :
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because
I of him. Even so. Amen. I am Alpha and
I Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty. I John, who also am your
brother, and companion in tribulation, and in
the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was
in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of
God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I
was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last :
and. What thou seest, write in a book, and send
it unto the seven churches which are in Asia ;
unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto
THE INNOCENTS' DAY.
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis,
and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And
I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And
bemg turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ;
and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one
like unto the Son of man, clothed with a gar-
ment down to the foot, and girt about the paps
with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs
were white like wool, as white as snow ; and his
eyes were as a flame of fire ; and his feet like
unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace ;
and his voice as the sound of many waters. And
he had in his right hand seven stars : and out of
his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword : and
his countenance was as the sun shineth in liis
strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his
feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon
me, saying unto me, Fear not ; I am the first and
the last : / am he that liveth, and was dead ;
and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen ;
and have the keys of hell and of death. Write
the things which thou hast seen, and the tilings
which are, and the things which shall be here-
after ; the mystery of the seven stars which thou
sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden
candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of
the seven churches : and the seven candlesticks
which thou sawest are the seven churches.
^f)e Ennocents' Ba^.
Morning. Jer. xxxi. to v. 18.
AT the same time, saith the Lord, will I be
J\. the God of all the families of Israel, and
they shall be my people. Thus suith the Lord,
The people which were left of the sword found
THE INNOCENTS' DAY.
grace in the wilderness ; even Israel, when I
went to cai^e him to rest, The^ Lord hath
appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love : therefore
with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again
I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O
virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned
with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the
dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt
yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria :
the planters shall plants and shall eat them as
common things. For there shall be a day, that
the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall
cry. Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the
Lord our God. For thus saith the Lord ; Sing
with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the
chief of the nations : publish ye, praise ye, and
say, Lord, save thy people, the remnant of
Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the
north country, and gather them from the coasts
of the earth, and with them the blind and the
lame, the woman with child and her that tra-
vaileth with child together : a great company
shall return thither. They shall come with
weeping, and with supplications will I lead
them : I will cause them to walk by the rivers
of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall
not stumble : for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the
Lord, ye nations, and declare it in the isles
afar off, and say. He that scattered Israel will
gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth
his flock. For the Ix)rd hath redeemed Jacob,
and ransomed him from the hand of him that
xvas stronger than he. Therefore they shall come
THE INNOCENTS' DAY.
and sing iu the heij^lit of Zion, and shall flow
together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat,
and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of
the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be
as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow
any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice
in the dance, both young men and old together :
for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will
comfort them, and make them rejoice from
their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people shall be
satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord ; A voice was heard in
Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rahel
weeping for her children refused to be comforted
for her children, because they were not. Thus
saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weep-
ing, and thine eyes from tears : for thy work
shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they
shall come again from the land of the enemy.
And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord,
that thy children shall come again to their own
border.
Evening. Baruch iv. u 21 to r. 31.
BE of good cheer, my children, cry unto
the Lord, and he shall deliver you from
the power and hand of the enemies. For my
hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you ;
and joy is come unto me from the Holy One,
because of the mercy which shall soon come unto
you from the Everlasting our Saviour. For I
sent you out with mourning and weeping : but
God will give you to me again with joy and
gladness for ever. Like as now the neighbours
of Sion have seen your captivity : so shall they
THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST.
see shortly your salvation from our God, whicli
shall come upon you with great glory, and
brightness of the Everlasting. ^My childreii,
sufier patiently the Avrath that is come upon you
from God : for thine enemy hath persecuted
thee ; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction,
and shalt tread upon his neck. My deliciite
ones have gone rough ways, and were taken
away as a flock aiught of the enemies. Be of
good comfort, my children, and cry unto God :
for ye shall be remembered of him that brought
these things upon you. For as it was your mind
to go astray from God : so, being returned, seek
him ten times more. For he that hath brought
these plagues upon you shall bring you ever-
lasting joy again with your salvation. Take a
good heart, 6 Jerusalem : for he that gave thee
that name will comfort thee.
^^c Circumcision of ©Ijrist.
Morning. Gen. xvii. v. 9.
AND God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt
_ keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy
seed after thee in their generations. This is my
covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and
you and thy seed after thee ; Every man child
among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall
circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and
you. And he that is eight days old shall be
circumcised among you, every man child in your
generations, he that is born in the house, or
bought with money of any stranger, which is
not of thy seed. He that *^is born in thy house,
und he that is bought with thy money, must
THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST.
needs be circumcised : and my covenant shall
be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall
be cut ofi" from his people ; he hath broken
my covenant. And God said unto Abraham,
As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And
I -will bless her, and give thee a son also
of her : yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a
mother of nations ; kings of people shall be of
her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart. Shall a child be
born unto him that is an hundred years old ?
and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear ?
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael
might live before thee ! And God said, Sarah
thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed ; and thou
shalt call his name Isaac : and I will estabhsh
my covenant with him for an everlasting cove-
nant, and with his seed after liim. And as for
Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and
will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes
shall he beget, and I will make him a great
nation. But my covenant will I establish with
Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year. And he left off talk-
ing with him, and God went up from Abraham.
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that
were born in his house, and all that were bought
with his money, every male among the men of
Abraham's house ; and circumcised the flesh of
their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had
said unto him. And Abraham ivas ninety years
THE CIKCUilCISIOX OF CHRIST.
old and nine, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmael his son icas
thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in
the flesh of his foreskin. In the selfsame day
was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
And all the men of his house, born in the house,
and bought with money of the stranger, were
circumcised with him.
Second Lesson. Rom. ii. v. 17.
BEHOLD, thou art called a Jew, and restest
in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
and knowest his will, and approvest the things
that are more excellent, being instructed out of
the law ; and art confident that thou thyself
art a guide of the blind, a light of them which
are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a
teacher of babes, which hast the form of know-
ledge and of the truth in the law. Thou there-
fore which teachest another, teachest thou not
thyself ? thou that preachest a man should not
steal, dost thou steal ? thou that sayest a man
should not commit adultery, dost thou commit
adultery ? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou
commit sacrilege ? thou that makest thy boast
of the law, through breaking the law dishonour-
est thou God ? For the name of God is blas-
phemed among the Gentiles through you, as it
is written. For circumcision verily profiteth, if
thou keep the law : but if thou be a breaker of
the law, thy circumcision is made uncircum-
cision. Therefore if the uncircumcision keep
the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncir-
cumcision be counted for circumcision ? And
shall not uncircumcision which Is by nature, if
THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST.
it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter
and circunicision dost transgress the law ? For
he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither
is that circunicision, which is outward in the
flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ;
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is
not of men, but of God,
Evening. Deut. x. v. 12.
AND now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy
_ God require of thee, but to fear the Lord
thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love
him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all
thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the com-
mandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which
I command thee this day for thy good ? Behold,
the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the
Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that
therein is. Only the Lord hath a delight in
thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed
after them, even you above all people, as it is
this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. For the
Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of
lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible,
which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward : j
he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless
and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving
him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the
stranger : for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God ;
him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou
cleave, and swear by his name. He is thy praise,
and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these
great and terrible things, which thine eyes have
THE EPIPHAXY.
seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons ; and now the Lord
thy God hath m-dde thee as the stars of heaven
for multitude.
Second Lesson. Col. ii. v. 8 to v. 18.
BEWARE lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tra-
dition of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ, For in him dwelleth all
the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are
complete in him, which is the head of all princi-
pality and power : in whom also ye are circum-
cised with the circumcision made without hands,
in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by
the circumcision of Christ : buried with him in
baptism, wherein also ye are risen with hivi
through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead. And you, being
dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, hav-
ing forgiven you all trespasses ; blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the
way, nailing it to his cross ; ayid having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made a shew of
them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let
no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink,
or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of
things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Zl)t (irpipfian^.
Morning, Isai. Ix.
RISE, shine ; for thy light is come, and the
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For,
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THE EPIPHANY,
behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and.
gross darkness the people : but the Lord shall
arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,
and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift
up thine eyes round about, and see : all they
gather themselves together, they come to thee :
thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see,
and flow together, and thine heart shall fear,
and be enlarged ; because the abundance of
the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces
of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. The
multitude of camels shall cover thee, the drome-
daries of Midian and Ephah ; all they from
Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and
incense ; and they shall shew forth the praises
of the Lord. All the flocks of Kedar shall be
gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebai-
oth shall minister unto thee : they shall come
up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will
glorify the house of my glory. Who are these
that fly as a cloud, and as "the doves to their
windows ? Surely the isles shall wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons
from far, their silver and their gold with them,
unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the
Holy One of Israel, beciiuse he hath glorified
thee. And the sons of strangers shall build up
thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto
thee : for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my
favour have I had mercy on thee. Therefore thy
gates shall be open continually ; they shall not
be shut day nor night ; that men may bring unto
thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their
THE EPIPHANY.
kings may he brought. For the nation and king-
dom that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea,
those nations shall be utterly wasted. The glory
of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the
pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the
place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the
place of my feet glorious. The sons also of them
that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ;
and all they that despised thee shall bow them-
selves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they
shall CiiU thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion
of the Holy One of Israel. Whereas thou hast
been forsaken and hated, so that no man went
through thee, I will make thee an eternal ex-
cellency, a joy of many generations. Thou shalt
also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck
the brciist of kings : and thou shalt know that
I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob. For brass I will
bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
and for wood brass, and for stones iron : I will
also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors
righteousness. Violence shall no more be heard
iu thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy
borders ; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation,
and thy gates Praise. The sun shall be no more
thy light by day ; neither for brightness shall
th6 moon give light unto thee : but the Lord
shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy
God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down ;
neitlier shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the
Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the
days of thy mourning shall be ended. Thy people
also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the
laud for ever, the branch of my planting, the
THE EPIPHANY.
work of my liands, that I may be glorified. A
little one shall become a thousand, and a small
one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it
in his time.
Second Lesson. Luke iii. v. 15 to v. 23.
A ND as the people were in expectation, and
jl\. all men mused in their hearts of John,
whether he were the Christ, or not ; John an-
swered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize
you with water ; but one mightier than I cometh,
the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to
unloose : he shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost and with fire : whose fan is in his hand,
and he will throughly purge his floor, and will
gather the wheat into his garner ; but the chafi:'
he will burn with fire unquenchable. And many
other things in his exhortation preached he unto
the people. But Herod the tetrarch, being re-
proved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's
wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
added yet this above all, that he shut up John
in prison. Now when all the people were bap-
tized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being
baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape
like a dove upon him, and a voice came from
heaven, which said. Thou art my beloved Son ;
in thee I am well pleased.
Evening. Isai. xlix. v. 13 to v. 24.
SING, heavens ; and be joyful, earth ; and
break forth into singing, mountains : for
the Lord hath comforted his people, and will
have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said,
The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking
THE EPIPHANY.
child, that she should not have compassion on
the son of her womb ? yea, they [may forget, yet
will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven
thee upon the palms of my hands ; thy walls are
continually before me. Thy children shall make
haste ; thy destroyers and they that made thee
waste shall go forth of thee. Lift up thine eyes
round about, and behold : all these gather them-
selves together, and come to thee. Asl live,
saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with
them all, as with an ornament, and bind them
on thee, as a bride doeth. For thy waste and thy
desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up
shall be far away. The children which thou
shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say
again in thine ears. The place is too strait for
me : give place to me that I may dwell. Then
shalt thou say in thine heart, TVTio hath begotten
me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am
desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro ? and
who hath brought up these ? Behold, I was left
alone ; these, where had they beeyi ? Thus saith
the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand
to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the
people : and they shall bring thy sons in their
arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon
their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing
fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers :
they shall bow down to thee with their face
toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy
feet ; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord :
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for
me.
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THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL.
Second Lesson. John ii. to v. 12.
ND the third day there was a marriage in
Cana of Galilee ; and the mother of Jesus
was there : and both Jesus was called, and his
disciples, to the marriage. And when they
wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto
him. They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, what have I to do with thee ? mine
hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the
servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do if.
And there were set there six waterpots of stone,
after the manner of the purifying of the Jews,
containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus
saith unto them. Fill the waterpots with water.
And they filled them up to the brim. And he
saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
governor of the feast. And they bare it. When the
ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was
made wine, and knew not whence it was : (but
the servants which drew the water knew ;) the
governor of the feast called the bridegroom, and
saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth
set forth good wine ; and when men have well
drunk, then that which is worse : hut thou hast
kept the good wine until now. This beginning
of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and.
manifested forth his glory; and his disciples
believed on him.
Zi)e Conversion of Saint ^aul.
Morning. Isai. xlix. to v. 13.
LISTEN, isles, unto me ; and hearken, ye
people, from far ; The Lord hath called me
from the womb ; from the bowels of my mother
+
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL.
hath he made mention of my name. And he
hath made my mouth like a sharp sword ; in the
shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made
me a polished shaft ; in his quiver hath he hid
me ; and said unto me, Thou art my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said,
I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment
is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
And now, saith the Lord that formed me from
the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again
to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall
I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my
God shall be my strength. And he said, It is a
light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel : I will also give thee for a
light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my
salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith
the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy
One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom
the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings
shall see and arise, princes also shall worship,
because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy
One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. Thus
saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I
heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I
helped thee : and I will preserve thee, and give
thee for a covenant of the people, to establish
the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate herit-
ages ; that thou mayest say to the prisoners. Go
forth ; to them that are in darkness. Shew your-
selves. They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures shall he in all high places. They shall
not hunger nor thirst ; neither shall the heat nor
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT P.UL.
sun smite them : for he tliat hath mere on them
shall lead them, even by the springsof water
shall he guide them. And I will mal all my
mountains a way, and my highwayjshall be
exalted. Behold, these shall come fronar : and,
lo, these from the north and from the ^st ; and
these from the land of Siiiim.
Second Lesson. Gal. i. v. 11.
BUT I certify you, brethren, that t gospel
which was preached of me is not ier man.
For I neither received it of man, neitr was I
taught it, but by the revelation of JesiOhrist.
For ye have heard of my conversatioin time
past in the Jews' religion, how thabeyond
measure I persecuted the church of (1, and
wasted it : and profited in the Jews jligion
above many my equals in mine ownation,
being more exceedingly zealous of the titions
of my fathers. But when it pleased (, who
separated me from my mother's womb, a:^lled
me by his grace, to reveal his Son in mhat I
might preach him among the heathen ume-
diately I conferred not with flesh ancJood :
neither went I up to Jerusalem to the^hich
were apostles before me ; but I went intcabia,
and returned again unto Damascus. Thfter
three years I went up to Jerusalem to s^ter,
and abode with him fifteen days. But r of
the apostles saw I none, save James th(rd's
brother. Now the things which I wrinto
yon, behold, before God, I lie not. Afterls I
came into the regions of Syria and Cilicimd
was unknown by face unto the churchesTu-
dsea which were in Christ : but they hacird
only, That he which persecuted us in timast
- THl COXVERSIOX OF SAINT PAUL.
now prefheth the faith which once he destroyed.
And the]glorified God in me.
Evening. Jerem. i. to v. 11,
THE'ords of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,
of ie priests that ivere in Anathoth in the
land of fenjamin : to whom the word of the
Lord cie in the days of Josiah the son of
Amon l^g of Judah, in the thirteenth year of
his reigl It came also in the days of Jehoiakim
the sorpf Josiah king of Judah, unto the
end of i eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of
Josiah ng of Judah, unto the carrying away
of Jeruem captive in the fifth month. Then
the wo of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Before brmed thee in the belly I knew thee ;
and be^ thou earnest forth out of the womb I
sanctifl thee, ami 1 ordained thee a prophet
unto thations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God !
beholdjcaniiot speak : for I am a child. But
the La said unto me. Say not, I am a child :
for thdialt go to all that I shall send thee, and
•whatser I command thee thou shalt speak. Be
not ai of their faces : for I am with thee to
deliveee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put
forth hand, and touched my mouth. And the
LoRDd unto me, Behold, I have put my
word) thy mouth. See, I have this day set
thee I the nations and over the kingdoms, to
root mnd to pull down, and to destroy, and
to th'down. to build, and to plant.
tond Lesson. Acts xxvi, to v. 21.
Tr Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art
hitted to speak for thyself. Then
PauHched forth the hand, and answered for
him I think myself happy, king Agrippa,
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL.
because I shall answer for myself this day before
thee touching all the things whereof I am accused
of the Jews : especially because I know thee to
be expert in all customs and questions which are
among the Jews : wherefore I beseech thee to hear
me patiently. My manner of life from my youth,
which was at the first among mine own nation
at Jerusalem, know all the Jews ; which knew
me from the beginning, if they would testify,
that after the most straitest sect of our religion
I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am
judged for the hope of the promise made of God
unto our fathers : unto which promise our twelve
tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope
to come. For which hope's sake, kiiig Agrippa,
I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be
thought a thing incredible with you, that God
should raise the dead ? I verily thought with
myself, that I ought to do many things contrary
to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Which thing
I also did in Jerusalem : and many of the saints
did I shut up in prison, having received authority
from the chief priests ; and when they were put
to death, I gave my voice against them. And I
punished them oft in every synagogue, and com-
pelled iAem to blaspheme ; and being exceedingly
mad against them, I persecuted them, even unto
strange cities. Whereupon as I went to Damas-
cus with authority and commission from the
chief priests, at midday, king, I saw in the
way a light from heaven, above the brightness
of the sun, shining round about me and them
which journeyed with me. And when we were
all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking
unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul,
THE PURIFICATION OF THE VIRGIN MARY.
Saul, why persecutest thou me ? it is hard for
thee to kick against the pricks. And I said,
Who art thou, Lord ? And he said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand
upon thy feet : for I have appeared unto thee
for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a
witness both of these things which thou hast
seen, and of those things in the which I will ap-
pear unto thee ; delivering thee from the people,
and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send
thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from
darkness to light, and /ro»i the power of Satan
unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of
sins, and inheritance among them which are
sanctified by faith that is in me. Whereupon,
O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision : but shewed first unto them of
Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all
the coasts of Judsea, and theyi to the Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn to God, and do
works meet for repentance.
^f)C ^iurification of ti^c Virgin fHarg.
Morning. Exod. xiii. to v. 17.
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatso-
ever openeth the womb among the children of
Israel, both of man and of beast : it is mine. And
Moses said unto the people. Remember this day,
in which ye cjime out from Egypt, out of the
house of bondage ; for by strength of hand the
Lord brought you out from this place: there
shall no leavened bread be eaten. This day
came ye out in the month Abib. And it shall
be when the Lord shall bring thee into the
THE rUEIFICATIOX OF THE VIRGIN MARY,
land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a
land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt
keep this service in this month. Seven days
thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the
seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Un-
leavened bread shall be eaten seven days ; and
there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee,
neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in
all thy quarters. And thou shalt shew thy son
in that day, saying, This is done because of that
vjhich the Lord did unto me when I came forth
out of Egypt. And it shall be for a sign unto
thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial be-
tween thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in
thy mouth : for with a strong hand hath the
Lord brought thee out of Egj^pt. Thou shalt
therefore keep this ordinance in his season from
year to year. And it shall be when the Lord
shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,
as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and
shall give it thee, that thou shalt set apart unto
the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every
firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast ;
the males shall be the Lord's. And every first-
ling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb ;
and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt
break his neck : and all the firstborn of man
among thy children shalt thou redeem. And it
shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to
come, saying. What is this ? that thou shalt say
unto him. By strength of hand the Lord brought
us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage :
and it came to "pass, when Pharaoh would hardly
THE PURIFICATION OF THE YIRGIX MARY.
let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in
the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and
the firstborn of beast : therefore I sacrifice to the
Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males ;
but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
And it shall be for a token upon thine hand,
and for frontlets between thine eyes : for by
strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out
of Egypt.
Evening. Haggai ii. to v. 10.
IN the seventh month, in the one and twenti-
eth day of the month, came the word of the
Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now
to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of
Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the
high priest, and to the residue of the people,
saying, Who is left among you that saw this
house in her first glory ? and how do ye see it
now ? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it
as nothing ? Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,
saith the Lord ; and be strong, O Joshua, son of
Josedech, the high priest ; and be strong, all ye
people of the land, saith the Lord, and work :
for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts : ac-
cording to the word that I covenanted with you
■when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit re-
maineth among you : fear ye not. For thus
saith the Lord of hosts ; Yet once, it is a little
■while, and I will shake the heavens, and the
earth, and the sea, and the dry land ; and I will
shake all nations, and the desire of all nations
shall come : and I ^\^ll fill this house with glory,
saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and
the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The
glory of this latter house shall be greater than of
SAINT MATTHIAS'S DAY.
the former, saith the Lord of hosts : and in this
j)lace will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
Saint f5lattl)ias's JBag.
Morning. 1 Sam. ii. v. 27 to v. 36.
AND there came a man of God unto Eli,
and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord,
Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father,
Avhen they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house ?
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of
Israel to he my priest, to offer upon mine altar,
to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me ?
and did I give unto the house of thy father all
the offerings made by fire of the children of
Israel ? Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and
at mine offering, which I have commanded i7i
my habitation; and honourest thy sons above
me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of
all the offerings of Israel my people ] Wherefore
the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that
thy house, and the house of thy father, should
walk before me for ever : but now the Lord
saith. Be it fiiv from me ; for them that honour
me I will honour, and they that despise me shall
be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days come,
that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of
thy father's house, that there shall not be an old
man in thine house. And thou shalt see an
enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth Avhich
God shall give Israel : and there shall not be an
old man in thine house for ever. And the man
of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine
altar, shall he to consume thine eyes, and to
grieve thine heart : and all the increase of thine
house shall die in the flower of their asxe. And
SAIXT MATTHIAS'S DAY.
this shall he a sign unto thee, that shall come
upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas ;
in one day they shall die both of them. And
I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do
according to that -svbich is in mine heart and in
my mind : and I will build him a sure house ;
and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
Evening, Isai. xxii. v. 15.
THUS saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get
thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna,
which is over the house, and say, WTiat hast
thou here ? and whom hast thou here, that thou
hast hewed thee out a sepulclu*e here, as he that
heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that
graveth an habitation for liimself in a rock ?
Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a
mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like
a ball into a large country : there shalt thou die,
and there the chariots of thy glory shall he the
shame of thy lord's house. And I will drive
thee from thy station, and from thy state shall
he pull thee down. And it shall come to pass
in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah : and I will clothe hini with
thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle,
and I will commit thy government into his
hand : and he shall be a father to the inhabit-
ants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
And the key of the house of David will I lay
upon his shoulder ; so he shall open, and none
shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall
open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure
place ; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his
father's house. And they shall hang upon him
ANNUNCIATION OF OUR LADY.
all the gloiy of his father's house, the offspring
and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from
the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
flagons. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts,
shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place
be removed, and be cut down, and fall ; and the
burden that was upon it shall be cut off : for the
Lord liath spoken it.
Annunciation of our lEatfg.
3forning. Gen. iii. to v. 16.
"VTOW the serpent was more subtil than any
_L 1 beast of the field which the Lord God had
made. And he said unto the woman. Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden ? And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the gar-
den : but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden, God hath said. Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the w^onian, Ye shall
not surely die : for God doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open-
ed, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil. And when the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make 07ie
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her ; and
he did eat. And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked ;
and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of
the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool
of the day : and Adam and his wife hid them-
AXNUXCIATIOX OF OUR LADY.
selves from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord
God called unto Adam, and said unto hira, Where
art thou ? And he said, I heard thy voice in the
garden, and I was afraid, because I icas naked ;
and I hid myself. And he said, "Who told thee
that thou least naked ? Hast thou eaten of the
tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat? And the man said, The
woman whom thou gavest to he with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the
Lord God said unto the woman, What is this
that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat And the
Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle,
and above every beast of the field ; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all
the days of thy life : and I will put enmity be-
tween thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
B veiling. Isai. lii. v. 7 to v. 13.
HOW beautiful upon the mountains are the
feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of
good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto
Zion, Thy God reigueth ! Thy watchmen shall
lift up the voice ; with the voice together shall
they sing : for they shall see eye to eye, when
the"^ Lord shall bring again Zion. Break forth
into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jeru-
salem : for the Lord hath comforted his people,
he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord hath
made bare his holy arm in the eyes of aU the
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nations ; and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God. Depart ye, depart ye,
go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing ;
go ye out of the midst of her ; be ye clean, that
bear the vessels of the Lord. For ye shall not
go out with haste, nor go by flight : for the Lord
will go before you ; and the God of Israel ivill be
your rereward.
Morning, Isai. Iviii. to v. 13.
CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and shew my people their trans-
gression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet
they seek me daily, and delight to know my
ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and for-
sook not the ordinance of their God : they ask
of me the ordinances of justice : they take de-
light in approaching to God. Wherefore have
we fasted, say they, and thou seest not ? where-
fore have we afflicted our soul, and thou
takest no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of
your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your
labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate,
and to smite with the fist of wickedness : ye
shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your
voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that
I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his
soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ?
wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptiible day
to the Lord ? Is not this the fast that I have
chosen ] to loose the bands of wickedness, to
undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed
go free, and that ye break every yoke i Is it
not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that
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thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy
house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from
thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break
forth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness
shall go before thee ; the glory of the Lord shall
be thy rereward. Then shait thou call, and the
Lord shall answer ; thou shalt cry, and he shall
say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking vanity ; and if thou draw-
out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the |
afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in ob-
scurity, and thy darkness he as the noon day :
and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and
satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy
bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water, whose waters foil not.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old
waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations
of many generations ; and thou shalt be called.
The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths
to dwell in.
SecoJid Lesson. Mark ii. v. 13 to v. 2.3.
A ND he went forth again by the sea side ; and
J\. all the multitude resorted unto him, and
he tiiught them. And as he passed by, he saw
Le^^L the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of
custom, and said unto him. Follow me. And he
arose and followed him. And it came to pass,
that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many
publicans and sinners sat also together with
Jesus and his disciples : for there were many,
and thev followed him. And when the scribes
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and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and
sinners, they said unto his disciples. How is it
that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and
sinners ? When Jesus heard it, he saiUi unto
them, They that are whole have no need of the
physician, but they that are sick : I came not to
call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees
used to fast : and they come and say unto him.
Why do the disciples of John and of the Pha-
risees fast, but thy disciples fast not ? And Je-
sus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-
chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them ?
as long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast. But the days will come, when
the bridegroom shall be taken away from them,
and then shall they fast in those days. No man
also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old gar-
ment : else the new piece that filled it up taketh
away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles :
else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the
wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred :
but new wine must be put into new bottles.
Evening. Jonah iii.
AND the word of the Lord came unto Jonah
-ZjL the second time, saying, Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the
preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and
went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great
city of three days' journey. And Jonah began
to enter into the city a day's journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh
shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh
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believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on
sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the
least of them. For Avord came unto the king of
Nineveli, and he arose from his throne, and he
laid his robe from him, and covered him with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it
to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh
by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste
any thing : let them not feed, nor drink water :
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth,
and cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn
every one from his evil way, and from the vio-
lence that is in their hands. Who can tell if
God will turn and repent, and turn away from
his fierce anger, that we perish not ? And God
saw their works, that they turned from their evil
way ; and God repented of the evil, that he had
said that he would do unto them ; and he did
it not.
Second Lesson. Heb, xii. v. 3 to v. 18.
FOR consider him that endured such contra-
diction of sinners against himself, lest ye be
wearied and foint in your minds. Ye have not
yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son,
despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
faint when thou art rebuked of him : for whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom ho receiveth. If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ;
for what son is he whom the father chasteneth
not ] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof
all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
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sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our
flesh which corrected us, and we gave them re-
verence : shall Ave not much rather be in subjec-
tion unto the Father of spirits, and live 1 For
they verily for a few days chastened ^(s after
their own pleasure ; but he for our profit, that
we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no
chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grievous : nevertheless afterward it yieldeth
the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them
which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up
the hands which hang down, and the feeble
knees ; and make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way ;
but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with
all me7i, and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord : looking diligently lest any
man fail of the grace of God ; lest any root of
bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby
many be defiled ; lest there be any fornicator, or
profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of
meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that
afterward, when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place
of repentance, though he sought it carefully with
tears.
JfttonUai? htioxt faster.
Morning. Lament, i. to v. 15.
HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full
of people ! how is she become as a widow !
she that was great among the nations, and prin-
cess among the provinces, how is she become
tributary ! she weepeth sore in the night, and
her tears are on her cheeks : among all her lovers
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she hath none to comfort her: all her friends
have de;\lt treacheroush* with her, they are be-
come her enemies. Judah is gone into aiptivity
because of affliction, and because of great servi-
tude : she dwelleth among the heiithen. she
findeth no rest : all her persecutors overtook her
between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn,
because none come to the solemn feasts : all her
gates are desolate : her priests sigh, her virgins
are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her
adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper ;
for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude
of her transgressions : her children are gone into
captivity before the enemy. And from the
daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed :
her princes are become like harts that find no
pasture, and they are gone without strength
before the pursuer. Jerusalem remembered in
the days of her affliction and of her miseries all
her pleasant things that she had in the days of
old, when her people fell into the hand of the
enemy, and none did help her : the adversaries
saw iier, and did mock at her sabbaths. Jeru-
salem hath grievously sinned ; therefore she is
removed : all that honoured her despise her,
because they have seen her nakedness : yea, she
sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness
is in her skirts ; she remembereth not her last
end ; therefore she Gime down w^onderfully : she
had no comforter. O Lord, behold my afflic-
tion : for the enemy hath magnified himself.
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all
her pleasant things : for she hath seen that the
heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou
didst command tluU they should not enter into
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thy congregation. All her people sigh, they seek
bread ; they have given their pleasant things for
meat to relieve the soul : see, Lord, and con-
sider ; for I am become vile. Is it nothing to
you, all ye that pass by ? behold, and see if there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is
done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted
me in the day of his fierce anger. From above
hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
against them : he hath spread a net for my feet,
he hath turned me back : he hath made me
desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my
transgressions is bound by his hand : they are
wreathed, and come up upon my neck : he hath
made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered
me into their hands, from whom I am not able
to rise up.
Second Lesson. John xiv. to v. 15.
LET not your heart be troubled : ye believe
in God, believe also in me. In my Father's
house are many mansions : if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come again, and receive you unto myself ;
that where I am, there ye may be also. And
whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not
whither thou goest ; and how can we know the
way ? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also : and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him. Lord, shew us the Father,
and it sufiiceth us. Jesus saith unto him. Have
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I been so long time -with you, and yet hast thou
not known me, Philip ? he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father ; and how sayest thou then,
Shew us the Father ? Belieyest thou not that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me ? the
^yo^ds that I speak unto you I speak not of my-
self: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he
doeth the works. Belieye me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me : or else belieye me
for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also ; and greater worlcs
than these shall he do ; because I go unto my
Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing
in my name, I will do it.
Evening. Lament, il r. 13.
XTT^HAT thing shall I take to witness for thee?
V \ what thing shall I liken to thee, daughter
of Jerusalem ? what shall I equal to thee, that I
may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion ?
for thy breach is great like the sea : who can
heal thee ? Thy prophets have seen vain and
foolish things for thee : and they have not dis-
covered thine iniquity, to turn away thy cap-
tivity ; but have seen for thee false burdens and
causes of banishment. All that pass by clap
theii' hands at thee ; they hiss and wag their
head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is
this the city that 7ne}i call The perfection of
beauty, The' joy of the whole earth ? All thine
enemies have opened their mouth against thee :
they hiss and gnash the teeth : they say, We
have swallowed her up : certainly this is the day
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that we looked for ; we have found, we have
seen it. The Lord hath done that which he had
devised ; he hath fulfilled his word that he had
commanded in the days of old : he hath thrown
down, and hath not pitied : and he hath caused
thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up
the horn of thine adversaries. Their heart cried
unto the Lord, wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run doAvn like a river day and night :
give thyself no rest ; let not the apple of thine
eye cease. Arise, cry out in the night : in the
beginning of the watches pour out thine heart
like water before the face of the Lord : lift up
thy hands toward him for the life of thy young
children, that faint for hunger in the top of every
street. Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom
thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their
fruit, and children of a span long? shall the
priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary
of the Lord ? The young and the old lie on the
ground in the streets : my virgins and my young
men are fallen by the sword ; thou hast slain
them in the day of thine anger ; thou hast killed,
and not pitied. Thou hast called as in a solemn
day my terrors round about, so that in the day
of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained :
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath
mine enemy consumed.
Second Lesson. John xiv. v. 15.
IF ye love me, keep my commandments. And
I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter, that he may abide with
you for ever ; even the Spirit of truth ; whom
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him
not, neither knoweth him : but ye know him ;
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for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless : I will come to
you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me
no more ; but ye see me : because I live, ye shall
live also. At that day ye shall know that I am
in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He
that hath my commandments, and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me : and he that loveth me
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love hhn,
and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith
unto him, not Isairiot, Lord, how is it that thou
wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the
world ? Jesus answered and said unto him. If a
man love me, he wiU keep my words : and my
Father will love him, and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him. He that
loveth me not keepeth not my sayings : and the
word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's
which sent me. These things have I spoken
unto yoii, being yet present with you. But the
Comforter, ichich is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you
all things, and bring all things to your remem-
brance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace
I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not
as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away,
and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye
would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the
Father : for my Father is greater than I. And
now I have told you before it come to pass, that,
when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Here-
after I will not talk much with you : for the
prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in
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me. But that the world may know that I love
the Father ; and as the Father gave me com-
mandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Cucstiag before faster.
Morning. Lament, iii. to v. 34.
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the
rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and
brought me into darkness, but not i?ito light.
Surely against me is he turned ; he tumeth his
hand against me all the day. My flesh and my
skin hath he made old ; he hath broken my
bones. He hath builded against me, and com-
passed me with gall and travel. He hath set me
in dark places, as they that be dead of old. He
hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out:
he hath made my chain heavy. Also when I
cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. He
hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath
made my paths crooked. He teas unto me as a
bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me
in pieces : he hath made me desolate. He hath
bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the
arrow. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver
to enter into my reins. I was a derision to all
my people ; and their song all the day. He
hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me
drunken with wormwood. He hath also broken
my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me
with ashes. And thou hast removed my soul far
off from peace : I forgat prosperity. And I said,
My strength and my hope is perished from the
Lord : remembering mine affliction and my
misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul
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hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled
in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have
I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are
not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning : great is thy faith-
fulness. The LoED is my portion, saith my soul ;
therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good
unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him. It is good that a man should both
hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
Lord, It is good for a man that he bear the
yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth
silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He
putteth his mouth in the dust ; if so be there
may be hope. He giveth his cheek to him that
smite th him : he is filled full with reproach.
For the Lord will not cast off for ever : but
though he cause grief, yet will he have com-
passion according to the multitude of his mercies.
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the
children of men.
Second Lesson. John xv. to v. 14.
I AM the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman. Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away : and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean
through the word which I have spoken unto
you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine ; no more can ye, except ye
abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the
branches : He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit :
for without me ye can do nothing. If a man
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abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch,
and is withered ; and men gather them, and
cast them into the fire, and thej are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that
ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye be my disciples.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved
you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love ;
even as I have kept my Father's command-
ments, and abide in his love. These things have
I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might be full. This is
my commandment. That ye love one another,
as I have loved you. Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for
his friends.
Evening. Lament, iii. v. 34.
TO crush under his feet all the prisoners of
the earth, to turn aside the right of a man
before the face of the most High, to subvert a
man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. Who
is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the
Lord command eth it not ? Out of the mouth of
the most High proceedeth not evil and good ?
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man
for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search
and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto
God in the heavens. We have transgressed and
have rebelled : thou hast not pardoned. Thou
hast covered with anger, and persecuted us :
thou hast slain, thou hast not j)itied. Thou hast
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covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer
should not pass through. Thou hast made us
as the ofl'scouring and refuse in the midst of the
people. All our enemies have opened their
mouths against us. Fear and a snare is come
upon us, desolation and destruction. jNIine eye
runneth down with rivers of water for the
destruction of the daughter of my people. Mine
eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any
intermission, till the Lord look down, and be-
hold from heaven. Mine eye affecteth mine
heart beamse of all the daughters of my city.
INIine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, with-
out cause. They have cut otf my life in the
dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. AYaters
flowed over mine head ; then I said, I am cut
off. I called upon thy name, Lord, out of the
low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice : hide
not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou
drewest near in the day that I called upon thee :
thou saidst, Fear not. Lord, thou hast pleaded
the causes of my soul ; thou hast redeemed my
life. Lord, thou hast seen my wrong : judge
thou my cause. Thou hast seen all their ven-
geance and all their imaginations against me.
Thou hast heard their reproach, Lord, and
all their imaginations against me ; the lips of
those that rose up against me, and their device
against me all the day. Behold their sitting
down, and their rising up ; I am their musick.
Eender unto them a recompence, O Lord, ac-
cording to the work of their hands. Give them
sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute
and destroy them in anger from under the hea-
vens of the Lord.
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Sicond Lesson. John xv. v. 14.
YE are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I
command you. Henceforth I call you not
serv^ants ; for the servant knoweth not what his
lord doeth : but I have called you friends ; for
all things that I have heard of my Father I
have made known unto you. Ye have not
chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit,
and that your fruit should remain : that what-
soever ye shall ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it you. These things I command
you, that ye love one another. If the world
hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you. If ye were of the world, the world
would love his own : but because ye are not of
the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. Re-
member the word that I said unto you, The
servant is not greater than his lord. If they
have persecuted me, they will also persecute
you ; if they have kept my saying, they will
keep your's also. But all these things will they
do unto you for my name's sake, because they
know not him that sent me. If I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had sin :
but now they have no cloke for their sin. He
that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had
not done among them the works which none
other man did, they had not had sin : but now
have they both seen and hated both me and my
Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word
might be fulfilled that is written in their law,
They hated me without a cause. But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
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from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of
me : and ye also shall bear witness, because ye
have been with me from the beginning.
SSctintstian Moxt drastcr.
Morning. Lament, iv. to v. 21.
HOW is the gold become dim ! hoiv is the
most fine gold changed ! the stones of the
sanctuary are poured out in the top of every
street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable
to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen
pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter !
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they
give suck to their young ones : the daughter of
my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in
the wilderness. The tongue of the sucking child
cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst : the
young children ask bread, and no man breaketh
it unto them. They that did feed delicately are
desolate in the streets : they that were brought
up in scarlet embrace dunghills. For the punish-
ment of the iniquity of the daughter of my
people is greater than the punishment of the sin
of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment,
and no hands stayed on her. Her Nazarites
were purer than snow, they were whiter than
milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies,
their polishing was of sapphire : their visage is
blacker than a coal ; they are not known in the
streets : their skin cleaveth to their bones ; it is
withered, it is become like a stick. They that
he slain Avith the sword are better than they that
be slain with hunger; for these pine away,
stricken through for want of the fruits of the
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field. The hands of the pitiful women have
sodden their own children : they were their
meat in the destruction of the daughter of my
people. The Lord hath accomplished his fury ;
he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath
kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the
foundations thereof. The kings of the earth,
and all the inhabitants of the world, would not
have believed that the adversary and the enemy
should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities
of her priests, that have shed the blood of the
just in the midst of her, they have wandered
as blind men in the streets, they have polluted
themselves with blood, so that men could not
touch their garments. They cried unto them,
Depart ye ; it is unclean ; depart, depart, touch
not : when they fled away and wandered, they
said among the heathen, They shall no more
sojourn there. The anger of the Lord hath
divided them ; he will no more regard them :
they respected not the persons of the priests,
they favoured not the elders. As for us, our
eyes as yet failed for our vain help : in our
watching we have watched for a nation that
could not save us. They hunt our steps, that
we cannot go in our streets : our end is near,
our days are fulfilled ; for our end is come.
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of
the heaven : they pursued us upon the moun-
tains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of
the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we
said. Under his shadow we shall live among the
heathen.
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Second Lesson. John xvL to r. 16:
THESE things hare I spoken unto vou, that
ye should not be offended. They shall put
you out of the synagogues : yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he
doeth God service. And these things will they
do unto you, because they have not known the
Father, nor me. But these things have I told
you, that when the time shall come, ye may
remember that I told you of them. And these
things I said not unto you at the beginning,
because I was with you. But now I go my way
to him that sent me ; and none of you asketh
me. Whither goest thou ? But because I have
said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled
your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth ; It
is expedient for you that I go away : for if I go
not away, the Comforter will not come unto you ;
but if I depart. I will send him unto you. And
when he is come, he will reprove the world of
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment : of
sin, because they believe not on me ; of righte-
ousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see
me no more ; of judgment, because the prince of
this world is judged. I have yet many things
to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he
will guide you into all truth : for he shall not
speak of himself ; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak : and he will shew you things
to come. He shall glorify me : for he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All
things that the Father hath are mine : therefore
said 1, that he shall take of mine, and shiiU shew
it unto you.
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Evening. Daniel ix. v. 20.
A ND whiles I was speaking, and praying, and
XjL confessing my sin and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before the
Lord my God for the holy mountain of my
God ; yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even
the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision
at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening obla-
tion. And he informed me, and talked with me,
and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give
thee skill and understanding. At the beginning
of thy supplications the commandment came
forth, and I am come to shew thee ; for thou art
greatly beloved : therefore understand the mat-
ter, and consider the vision. Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people and upon thy holy
city, to finish the transgression, and to make an
end of sins, and to make reconciliation for ini-
quity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and
understand, that from the going forth of the
commandment to restore atid to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,
and threescore and two weeks : the street shall
be built again, and the wall, even in troublous
times. And after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself : and the
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof
shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined. And he shall con-
firm the covenant with many for one week : and
in the midst of the week he shall cause the
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sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make ii
desolate, even until the consummation, and that
determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Second Lesson. John xvi. v. 16.
A LITTLE while, and ye shall not sec me :
and again, a little while, and ye shall see
me, because I go to the Father. Then said some
of his disciples among themselves, What is this
that he saith unto us, A little ■while, and ye shall
not see me : and again, a little while, and ye
shall see me : and. Because I go to the Father ?
They said therefore, What is this that he saith,
A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith,
Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask
him, and said unto them. Do ye enquire among
yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye
shall not see me : and again, a little while, and
ye shall see me ? Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Tliat ye shall weep and lament, but the world
shall rejoice : and ye shall be sorrowful, but yoiu-
sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when
she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour
is come : but as soon as she is delivered of the
child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for
joy that a man is born into the world. And ye
now therefore have sorrow : but I will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy
no man taketh from you. And in that day ye
shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye
asked nothing in my name : ask, and ye shall
receive, that your joy may be full. These things
have I spoken unto you in proverbs : but the
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time Cometh, when I shall no more speak unto
you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of
the Father, At that day ye shall ask in my
name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray
the Father for you : for the Father himself
loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have
believed that I came out from God. I came
forth from the Father, and am come into the
world : again, I leave the world, and go to the
Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now
speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things,
and needest not that any man should ask thee :
by this we believe that thou camest forth from
God. Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe ?
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that
ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and
shall leave me alone : and yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me. These things I
have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation :
but be of good cheer ; 1 have overcome the
world.
Cf)urstra2 before dfastcr.
Morning. Hosea xiii. to v. 15.
WHEN Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted
himself in Israel ; but when he offended
in Baal, he died. And now they sin more and
more, and have made them molten images of
their silver, and idols according to their own
understiuiding, all of it the work of the crafts-
men : they say of them. Let the men that sacri-
fice kiss the adves. Therefore they shall be as
the morning cloud, and as the early dew that
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passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the
whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out
of the chimney. Yet I am the Lord thy God
from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no
god but me : for there is no saviour beside me.
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land
of great drought. According to their pasture, so
were they filled ; they were filled, and their heart
was exalted ; therefore have they forgotten me.
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion : as a
leopard by the way will I observe thein : I will
meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her
whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and
there will I devour them like a lion : the wild
bea^t shall tear them. Israel, thou hast de-
stroyed thyself ; but in me is thine help. I will
be thy king : where is any other that may save
thee in all thy cities ? and thy judges of whom
thou saidst. Give me a king and princes ? I gave
thee a king in mine anger, and took him away
in my wrath. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound
up ; his sin is hid. The sorrows of a travailing
woman shall come upon him : he is an unwise
son ; for he should not stay long in the i^lace of
the breaking forth of children. I will ransom
them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem
tTieni from death : O death. I will be thy plagues ;
grave, I will be thy destruction : repentance
shall be hid from mine eyes.
Second Lesson. John xvii,
THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour
is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorify thee : as thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as
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many as thou hast given him. And this is life
eternal, that they might know thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I
have glorified thee on the earth : I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do. And now,
0. Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee before the
world was. I have manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me out of the world :
thine they were, and thou gavest them me ; and
they have kept thy word. Now they have
known that all things whatsoever thou hast
given me are of thee. For I have given unto
them the words which thou gavest me ; and they
have received them, and have known surely that
I came out from thee, and they have believed
that thou didst send me. I pray for them : I
pray not for the world, but for them which thou
hast given me ; for they are thine. And all
mine are thine, and thine are mine ; and I am
glorified in them. And now I am no more in
the world, but these are in the world, and I come
to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own
name those whom thou hast given me, that they
may be one, as we are. While I was with them
in the world, I kept them in thy name : those
that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of
them is lost, but the son of perdition ; that the
scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I
to thee ; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my joy fulfilled in them-
selves. I have given them thy word ; and the
■world hath hated them, because they are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray
not that thou shouldest take them out of the
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world, but that thou shouldest keep them from
the evil. They are not of the world, even as I
am not of the world. Sanctify them through
thy truth : thy word is truth. As thou hast sent
me into the world, even so have I also sent them
into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through
the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but
for them also which shall believe on me through
their word ; that they all may be one ; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us : that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me. And the glory which
thou gavest me I have given them ; that they
may be one, even as we are one : I in them, and
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
one ; and that the world may know that thou
hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast
loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom
thou hast given me, be with me where I am ;
that they may behold my glory, which thou hast
given me : for thou lovedst me before the foun-
dation of the world. righteous Father, the
world hath not known thee : but I have known
thee, and these have known that thou hast sent
me. And I have declared unto them thy name,
and will declare it : that the love where\\dth
thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
them.
Evening. Hosea xiv.
O ISRAEL, return unto the Lord thy God ;
for thou hast fiillen by thine iniquity. Take
with you words, and turn to the Lord : say unto
him. Take away all iniquity, and receive us
graciously : so wiU we render the calves of our
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lips. Asshur shall not save ns ; we will not ride
upon horses : neither will we say any more to
the work of our hands, Ye are our gods : for in
thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal
their backsliding, I will love them freely : for
mine anger is turned away from him. I will be
as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches
shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell
under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive
as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent
thereof shall he as the wine of Lebanon. Ephraim
shall say, What have I to do any more with
idols ? I have heard him, and observed him : I
am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit
found. Who is wise, and he shall understand
these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ?
for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just
shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall
faU therein.
Second Lesson. John xiii. to v. 36.
"VrOW before the feast of the passover, when
-Ll Jesus knew that his hour Avas come that
he should depart out of this world unto the
Father, having loved his own which were in the
world, he loved them unto the end. And supper
being ended, the devil having now put into the
heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray
him ; Jesus knowing that the Father had given
all things into his hands, and that he was come
from God, and went to God ; he riseth from
supper, and laid aside his garments ; and took a
towel, and girded himself After that he poureth
water into a bason, and besan to wash the dis-
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I ciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to
Simon Peter : and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
dost thou wash my feet ? Jesus answered and
said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now ;
but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith unto
him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus
answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no
part with me. Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord,
not my feet only, but also my hands and my
head. Jesus saith to him, He that is washed
needeth not save to wash h is feet, but is clean
every whit : and ye are clean, but not all. For
he knew who should betray him ; therefore said
he. Ye are not all clean. So after he had washed
their feet, and had taken his garments, and was
set down again, he said unto them. Know ye
what I have done to you ? Ye Cidl me Master
and Lord : and ye say well ; for so I am. If I
then, your Lord and Master, have washed your
feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
For I have given you an example, that ye should
do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The servant is not greater than his
lord ; neither he that is sent greater than he
that sent him. If ye know these things, happy
are ye if ye do them. I speak not of you all : I
know whom I have chosen : but that the scrip-
ture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with
me hath lifted up his heel against me. Now I
tell you before it come, that, when it is come to
pivss, ye may believe that I am he. Verily, verily,
I say unto you. He that receiveth whomsoever I
send receiveth me ; and he that receiveth me
receiveth him that sent me. When Jesus had
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thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one
of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked
one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of
his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter
therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask
who it should be of whom he spake. He then
lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord,
who is it ? Jesus answered. He it is, to whom I
shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And
when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop
Satiin entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
him. That thou doest, do quickly. Now no man
at the table knew for what intent he spake this
unto him. For some of them thought, because
Judtis had the bag, that Jesus had said unto
him, Buy those things that we have need of
against the feast ; or, that he should give some-
thing to the poor. He then having received the
sop went immediately out : and it was night.
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said,
Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is
glorified in him. If God be glorified in him,
God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall
straightway glorify him. Little children, yet a
little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me :
and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye
cannot come ; so now I say to you. A new
commandment I give unto you, That ye love one
another ; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another. By this shall all men know that
ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another.
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GOOD FRIDAY.
Gootf JFritrag.
Morning. Gen. xxii. to v. 20.
AND it came to pass after these things, that
Xjl God did tempt Abraham, and said unto
him, Abraham : and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the
land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt
offering upon one of the mountains which I will
tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of
his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and
clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose
up, and went unto the place of which God had
told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted
up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And
Abraham said unto his young men. Abide ye
here witli the ass ; and I and the lad will go
yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And Abraham took the Avood of the burnt offer-
ing, and laid it upon Isaac his son ; and he took
the fire in his hand, and a knife ; and they went
both of them together. And Isaac spake unto
Abraham his father, and said, ISIy father : and
he said, Here am I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood : but where is the
lamb for a burnt offering ? And Abraham said,
IMy son, God will provide himself a lamb for a
burnt offering : so they went both of them to-
gether. And they came to the place which God
had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar
there, and laid the wood in order, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the
wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand,
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and took the knife to slay his son. And the
angel of the Lord called unto hiin out of heaven,
and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said. Here
am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon
the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for
now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
nie. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in
a thicket by his horns : and Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham
called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh : as
it is said to this day. In the mount of the Lord
it shall be seen. And the angel of the Lord
called unto Abraham out of heaven the second
time, and said. By myself have I sworn, saith
the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing,
and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son :
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multi-
plying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of
the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate
of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed ; because tliou
hast obeyed my voice. So Abraham returned
unto his young men, and they rose up and went
together to Beer-sheba ; and Abraham dwelt at
Beer-sheba.
Second Lesson. John xviii.
HEN Jesus had spoken these words, he
w
went forth with his disciples over the
brook Cedron, where was a garden, into tlie Avhich
he entered, and his disciples. And Judas also,
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which betrayed him, knew the place : for Jesus
ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. Judas
then, having received a band of men and ofl&cers
from the chief priests and Pharisees, conieth
thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should
come upon him, went forth, and said unto theni.
Whom seek ye ? They answered him, Jesus of
Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And
Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he,
they went backward, and fell to the ground.
Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye ? And
they said, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus answered,
I have told you that I am Ae; if therefore 3*6
seek me, let these go their way : that the saying
might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them wliich
thou gavest me have I lost none. Then Simon
Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the
high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear.
The servant's name was ^Malchus. Then said
Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the
sheath : the cup which my Father hath given
me, shall I not drink it ? Then the band and
the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus,
and bound him, and led liim away to Annas first ;
for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was
the high priest that same year. Now Caiaphas
was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it
was expedient that one man should die for the
people. And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and
so did another disciple: that disciple was known
unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into
the palace of the high priest. But Peter stood
at the door without. Then went out that other
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disciple, which was known unto the hicrh priest,
and spake unto her that kept the door, and
brought in Peter. Then saith the damsel that
kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one
of this man's disciples ? He saith, I am not.
And the servants and officers stood there, who
had made a fire of coals ; for it was cold : and
they warmed themselves : and Peter stood with
them, and warmed himself. The high priest then
asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world ;
I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the tem-
ple, whither the Jews always resort ; and in
secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou
me ] ask them which heard me, what I have said
unto them : behold, they know what I said.
And when he had thus spoken, one of the officei-s
which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of
his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest
so ? Jesus answered him. If I have spoken evil,
bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest
thou me ? Now Annas had sent him bound
unto Caiaphas the high priest. And Simon
Peter stood and warmed himself. They said
therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his
disciples ? He denied it, and said, I am not.
One of the servants of the high priest, being his
kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith. Did not
I see thee in the garden with him ? Peter then
denied again : and immediately the cock crew.
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the
hall of judgment : and it was early ; and they
themselves went not into the judgment liall, lest
they should be defiled ; but that they might eat
the passover. Pilate then went out unto them.
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and said. What accusation bring ye against this
man ? They answered and said unto him. If he
were not a malefactor, we would not have de-
livered him up unto thee. Then said Pilate
unto them, Take ye him, and judge him accord-
ing to your law. The Jews therefore said unto
him. It is not lawful for us to put any man to
death : that the saying of Jesus might be ful-
I filled, which he spake, signifying what death he
I should die. Then Pilate entered into the judg-
I raent hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto
i him. Art thou the King of the Jews ? Jesus
j answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself,
i or did others tell it thee of me ? Pilate answered,
''. Am I a Jew ? Thine own nation and the chief
priests have delivered thee unto me : what hast
thou done ? Jesus answered, ]SIy kingdom is
not of this world : if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my sers'ants fight, that I
should not be delivered to the Jews : but now is
my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore
said unto him, Art thou a king then ? Jesus
answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To
this end was I born, and for this cause came I
into the world, that I should bear witness unto
the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth
my voice. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?
And when he had said this, he went out agiun
unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in
him no foult at all. But ye have a ctistom, that
I should release unto you one at the passover :
■will ye therefore that I release unto you the King
of the Jews ? Then cried they all again, saying,
Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas Avas
a robber.
GOOD FRIDAY.
Evening. Isai. lii. v. 13 and liii.
BEHOLD, my servant shall deal prudently,
he shall be exalted and extolled, and be
very high. As many were astonied at thee ; his
visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men : so shall he
sprinkle many nations ; the kings shall shut
their mouths at him : for that which had not
been told them shall they see ; and that which
they had not heard shall they consider.
Who hath believed our report ? and to whom
is the arm of the Lord revealed ? For he shall
grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor
comeliness ; and when we shall see him, tha-e is
no beauty that we should desire him. He is
despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief : and we hid as it were
our faces from him ; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our
griefs, and Ciirried our sorrows : yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he ivas wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement
of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone
astray ; we have turned every one to his own
way ; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth : he is brought as a
iamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment :
and who shall declare his generation 'I for he was
cut off out of the land of the livincj : for the
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transgression of my people was he stricken. And
he made his grave with the wicked, and with the
rich in his death ; because he had done no vio-
lence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet
it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put
him to oTief : when thou shalt make his soul an
offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the
travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied : by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many ; for he shall bear their iniquities. There-
fore will I divide him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ;
because he hath poured out his soul unto death :
and he was numbered with the transgressors ;
and he bare the sin of many, and made interces-
sion for the transgressors.
Second Lesson. 1 Peter ii.
WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and
all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and
all evQ speakings, as new born babes, desire the
sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow
thereby : if so be ye have tasted that the Lord
is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living
stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of
God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are
built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by
Jesus Christ, Wherefore also it is contained in
the scriptiu-e. Behold, I lay in Sion a chief cor-
ner stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth
on him shall not be confounded. Unto you
therefore which believe he is precious : but unto
them which be disobedient, the stone which the
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builders disallowed, the same is made the head
of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a
rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the
word, being disobedient : whereunto also they
were appointed. But ye are a chosen genera-
tion, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a pecu-
liar people ; that ye should shew forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into
his marvellous light : which in time past were not
a people, but are now the people of God : which
had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers
and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which
war against the soul ; having your conversation
honest among the Gentiles : that, whereas they
speak against you as evil doers, they may by
your good works, which they shall behold, glorify
God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves
to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake :
whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto
governors, as unto them that are sent by him for
the punishment of evildoers, and for the j^raise
of them that do well. For so is the will of God,
that with well doing ye may put to silence the
ignorance of foolish men : os, free, and not using
your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as
the servants of God, Honour all men. Love
the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Servants, be subject to your masters with all
fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also
to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a
man for conscience toward God endure grief,
suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, it,
when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take
it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer
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^or it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable
with God. For even hereunto were ye called :
because Christ also suifered for us, leaving us an
example, that ye should follow his steps : who
did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth :
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ;
when he suffered, he threatened not ; but com-
mitted himself to him that judge th righteously ;
who his own seK bare our sins in his own body
on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness : by whose stripes ye
were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray ;
but are now returned unto the Shepherd and
Bishop of your souls.
CFastcr C^bm.
Morning. Zech. ix.
THE burden of the word of the Lord in the
land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall he
the rest thereof: Avhen the eyes of man, as of
all the tribes of Israel, shall he toward the Lord.
And Hamath also shall border thereby ; Tyrus,
and Zidon, though it be very wise. And Tyrus
did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up
silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of
the streets. Behold, the Lord will cast her out,
and he will smite her ]x»wer in the sea ; and
she shall be devoured with fire. Ashkelon shall
see it, and fear ; Gaza also shall see it, and be
very sorrowful, and Ekron ; for her expectation
shall be ashamed ; and the king shall perish
from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I
will cut off the pride of the PhiHstines. And I
will take away his blood out of his mouth, and
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his abominations from between his teeth : but
he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God,
and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and
Ekron as a Jebusite. And I will encamp about
mine house because of the anuy, because of him
that passeth by, and because of him that re-
turneth : and no oppressor shall pass through
them any more : for now have I seen with mine
eyes. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ;
shout, daughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy
King cometh unto thee : he is just, and having
salvation ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and
upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will cut
otf the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse
from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut
off : and he shall speak peace unto the heathen :
and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea,
and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I
have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit
wherein is no water. Turn you to the strong
hold, ye prisoners of hope : even to day do I de-
clare that I will render double unto thee ; when
I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with
Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, Zion, against
thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword
of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen
over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the
lightning : and the Lord God shall blow the
trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the
south. The Lord of hosts shall defend them ;
and they shall devour, and subdue with sling
stones ; and they shall drink, a7id make a noise
as through wine ; and they shall be filled like
bowls, and as the corners of the altar. And the
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Lord their God shall save them in that day as
the flock of his people : for they shall he as the
stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon
his land. For how great is his goodness, and
how great is his beauty ! corn shall make the
young men chearfal, and new wine the maids.
Second Lesson. Luke xxiii. v. 50.
A ND, behold, there teas a man named Joseph,
Jlv, a counsellor ; aiid he was a good man, and
a just : (the same had not consented to the
counsel and deed of them ;) he was of Arima-
threa, a city of the Jews : who also himself
waited for the kingdom of God. This man went
unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And
he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and
laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone,
wherein never man before was laid. And that
day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew
on. And the w^omen also, which came with
him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the
sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And
they returned, and prepared spices and oint-
ments ; and rested the sabbath day according to
the commandment.
Evening. Hosea v. v. 8 to vi. v. 4.
BLOW ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the
trumpet in Ramah : cry aloud at Beth-
aven, after thee, Benjamin. Ephraim shall
be desolate in the day of rebuke : among the
tribes of Israel have I made known that which
shall surely be. The princes of Judah were like
them that remove the bound : therefore I will
pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,
because he willingly walked after the command-
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ment. Therefore icill I he unto Ephraim as a
moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah
saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the As-
syrian, and sent to king Jareb : yet could he
not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. For
I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young
lion to the house of Judah ; I, even I, will tear
and go away ; I will take away, and none shall
rescue him. I will go and return to my place,
till the}'' acknowledge their offence, and seek my
face : in their affliction they will seek me earh-.
■ Come, and let us return unto the Lord : for
he hath torn, and he will heal us ; he hath
smitten, and he will bind us up. After two
days will he revive us : in the third day he will
raise us up, and Ave shall live in his sight. Then
shall we know, if we follow on to know the
Lord : his going forth is prepared as the morn-
ing ; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as
the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Second Lesson. Rom. vi. to t*. 14.
"Y^T^HAT shall we say then ? Shall we con-
T T tinue in sin, that grace may abound ? God
forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin,
live any longer therein ? Know ye 'not, that so
many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death 1 Therefore we
are buried with him by baptism into death :
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life. For if we have
been planted together in the likeness of his
death, we shall be also in the likeness of his re-
surrection ; knowincj this, that our old man is
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crucified with him, that the body of sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth -we should not
serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that
we shall also live with him : knowing that
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 Clirist
our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your
mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
thereof. Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but
yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness unto God.
fHontjao in eastfr=©13[C4fe.
Morning. Exod. xv. to v. 22.
THEN sang Moses and the children of Israel
this song unto the Lord, and spake, sapng,
I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath tri-
umphed gloriously : the horse and his rider
hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my
strength and song, and he is become my salva-
tion : he is my God, and I will prepare him an
habitation ; my father s God, and I will exalt
hun. The Lord is a man of war : the Lord is
his name. Pharaoh's chariots and his host
bath he cast into the sea : his chosen captains
also are drowned in the Red sea. The depths
have covered them : they sank into the bottom
as a stone. Thy right hand, Lord, is become
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glorious in power : thy right hand, O Lord,
hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the
greatness of thine excellency thou hast over-
thrown them that rose up against thee : thou
sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as
stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the
waters were gathered together, the floods stood
upright as an heap, and the depths were con-
gealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said,
I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the
spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I
will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy
them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the
sea covered them : they sank as lead in the
mighty waters. Who is like unto thee, Lord,
among the gods ? who is like thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful in praises, doing Avonders 1
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth
swallowed them. Thou in thy mercy hast led
forth the people ivhich thou hast redeemed :
thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy
holy habitation. The people shall hear, and be
afraid : sorrow shall take hold on the inhabit-
ants of Palestina. Then the dukes of Edom
shall be amazed ; the mighty men of Moab,
trembling shall take hold upon them ; all the
inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. Fear
and dread shall fall upon them ; by the great-
ness of thine arm they shall be as still as a
stone ; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till
the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in
the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place,
O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to
dwell in, in the Sanctuary, Lord, ivhich thy
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hands have established. The Lord shall reign
for ever and ever. For the horse of Pharaoh
went in with his chariots and with his horsemen
into the sea, and the Lord brought again the
waters of the sea upon tliem ; but the children
of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the
sea. And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of
Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the
women went out after her with timbrels and
with dances. And ^Miriam answered them, Sing
ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glo-
riously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into tlie sea.
Second Lesson. Luke xxiv. to v. 13.
"VTOW upon the first day of the week, very
jJl early in the morning, they came unto the
sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had
prepared, and certain others with them. And
they found the stone rolled away from the sepul-
chre. And they entered in, and found not the
body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass,
as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold,
two men stood by them in shining garments :
and as they were afraid, and bowed down their
faces to the earth, they said unto them. Why
seek ye the living among the dead ? he is not
here, hut is risen : remember how he spake unto
you when he was yet in Galilee, saying. The Son
of man must be delivered into the hands of sin-
ful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise
again. And they remembered his words, and
returned from the sepulchre, and told all these
things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. It
Avas Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary
the mother of James, and other icomen that were
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■with tliem, which told these things unto the
apostles. And their words seemed to them as
idle tales, and they believed them not. Then
arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre ; and
stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid
by themselves, and departed, wondering in him-
self at that which was come to pass.
Evening. Cant. ii. v. 10.
MY beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up,
my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and
gone ; the flowers appear on the earth : the time
of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of
the turtle is heard in our land ; the fig tree
putteth forth her green figs, and the vhies with
the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my
love, my fair one, and come away. my dove,
that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret
places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance,
let me hear thy voice ; for sweet is thy voice,
and thy countenance is comely. Take us the
foxes, the little foxes, that spoU the vines : for
our vines have tender grapes. My beloved is
mine, and I am his : he feedeth among the lilies.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away,
turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a
young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Second Lesson. Matt, xxviii. to v. 10.
IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary
Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepul-
chre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake :
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven,
and came and rolled back the stone from the
door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like
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liglitning, and his raiment white as snow : and
for fear of him the keepers did shake, and
beciime as dead men. And the angel answered
and said unto the women, Fear not ye : for I
know that ve seek Jesus, w^hich was crucified.
He is not here : for he is risen, as he said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And
go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen
from the dead ; and, behold, he goeth before you
into Galilee ; there shall ye see him : lo, I have
told you. And they departed quickly from the
sepulchre with fear and great joy ; and did run
to bring his disciples word. And as they went
to tell ills disciples, behold, Jesus met them, say-
ing. All hail. And they came and held him by
the feet, and worshipped him.
^ucstraj) in eastcr=2Bcrfi.
Morning. 2 Kings xiii. x. 14 to v. 22.
n^OW Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness
jAI whereof he died. And Joash the king of
Israel c:mie down unto him. and wept over his
face, and said, my father, my father, the chariot
of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And Elisha
said unto him. Take bow and arrows. And he
took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to
the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow.
And he put his hand upon it : and Elisha put
his hands upon the king's hands. And he said.
Open the window eastward. And he opened it.
Then Elisha said. Shoot. And he shot. And
he said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance,
and the arrow of deliverance from Syria : for
thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou
have consumed them. And he said, Take the
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arrows. And he took them. And be said unto
the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And
he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of
God was wroth with him, and said. Thou should-
est have smitten five or six times ; then hadst
thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it :
whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the
bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the
coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as
they were burying a man, that, behold, they
spied a band of men; and they cast the man
into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man
was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha,
he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Second Lesson. John xxi. to v. 15.
AFTER these things Jesus shewed himself
jl\. again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias ;
and on this wise shewed he himself. There were
together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didy-
mus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the
sows of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing.
They say unto him, We also go with thee. They
went forth, and entered into a ship immediately ;
and that night they caught nothing. But when
the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the
shore : but the disciples knew not that it was
Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Children,
have ye any meat ? They answered him, No.
And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right
side of the ship, and ye shall find. They c^ist
therefore, and now they were not able to draw it
for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that dis-
ciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is
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the Lord. Now Avhen Simon Peter heard that it
was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him,
(for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the
sea. And the other disciples came in a little
ship ; (for they were not far from land, but as it
were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with
fishes. As soon then as they were come to land,
they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon,
and bread. Jesus saith unto them. Bring of the
fish which ye have now caught. Simon Peter
went up, and drew the net to land full of great
fishes, an hundred and fifty and three : and for
all there were so many, yet was not the net
broken. Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.
And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who
art thou ? knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus
then Cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them,
and fish likewise. This is now the third time
that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after
that he was risen from the dead.
Evening. Ezek. xxxvii. to v. 15.
THE hand of the Lord was upon me, and
Ciirried me out in the spirit of the Lord,
and set me down in the midst of the valley
which was full of bones, and caused me to pass
by them round about : and, behold, there were
very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were
very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man,
can these bones live ? And I answered. O Lord
God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me,
Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them,
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones ;
Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
and ye shall live : and I will lay sinews upon
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you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover
you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye
shall live ; and ye shall know that I am the
Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded :
and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and be-
hold a shaking, and the bones came together,
bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the
sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and
the skin covered them above : but there was no
breath in them. Then said he unto me. Prophesy
unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to
the wind. Thus saith the Lord God ; Come from
the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these
slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he
commanded me, and the breath came into them,
and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
exceeding great army. Then he said unto me,
Son of man, these bones are the whole house of
Israel : behold, they say. Our bones are dried,
and our hope is lost : we are cut ofl' for our
parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, O my people,
I will open your graves, and cause you to come
up out of your graves, and bring you into the
land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am
the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O
my people, and brought you up out of your
graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye
shall live, and I shall place you in your own
land : then shall ye know that I the Lord have
spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
Second Lesson. John xxi. v. 15.
SO when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon
Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me
more than these ] He saith unto him, Yea,
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Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith
unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him
again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas,
lovest thou me ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ;
thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto
him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the
third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ?
Peter was grieved because he said unto him the
third time, Lovest thou me ? And he said unto
him. Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou know-
est that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him. Feed
my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When
thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and
walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou
shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,
and another shall gird thee, and carry thee
whither thou wouldest not. This spake he,
signifying by what death he should glorify God.
And when he had spoken this, he saith unto
him, FoUow me. Then Peter, turning about,
seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following ;
which also leaned on his breast at supper, and
said. Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee ?
Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what
shall this man do ? Jesus saith unto him. If I
will that he tarry till I come, what is that to
thee ? follow thou me. Then went this saying
abroad among the brethren, that that disciple
should not die : yet Jesus said not unto him.
He shall not die ; but. If I will that he tarry till
I come, w^hat is that to thee ? This is the dis-
ciple which testifieth of these things, and \ATote
these things : and we know that his testimony is
true. And there are also many other things
which Jesus did, the which, if they should be
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•written every one, I suppose that even the world
itself could not contain the books that should be
written. Amen.
Saint iHaife's Bag,
Morning. Isai. Ixii. v. 6.
I HAVE set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, ivhich shall never hold their peace
day nor night : ye that make mention of the
Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest,
till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a
praise in the earth. The Lord hath sworn by
his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,
Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat
for thine enemies ; and the sons of the stranger
shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast
laboured : but they that have gathered it shall
eat it, and praise the Lord ; and they that have
brought it together shall drink it in the courts
of my holiness. Go through, go through the
gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast
up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ;
lift up a standard for the people. Behold, the
Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy sal-
vation Cometh ; behold, his reward is with him,
and his work before him. And they shall call
them. The holy people, The redeemed of the
Lord : and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A
city not forsaken.
Evening. Ezek. i. to v. 15.
NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in
the fourth month, in the fifth day of the
month, as I was among the captives by the river
of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I
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saw visions of God. In the fifth day of the
mouth, which was the fifth year of king Jehoia-
chin's captivity, the word of the Lord came ex-
pressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,
in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar ; and the hand of the Lord Wiis there
upon him. And I looked, and, behold, a whirl-
wind caine out of the north, a great cloud, and a
fire infolding itself, and a brightness icas about
it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of
amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also out of
the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
creatures. And this was their appearance ; they
had the likeness of a man. And every one had
four faces, and every one had four wings. And
their feet were straight feet ; and the sole of their
feet was like the sole of a caK's foot : and they
sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. And
they had the hands of a man under their wings
on their four sides ; and they four had their
faces and their wings. Their wings ivere joined
one to another ; they turned not when they
went ; they went every one straight forward.
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had
the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the
right side : and they four had the face of an ox
on the left side ; they four also had the face of
an eagle. Thus were their faces : and their wings
were stretched upward ; two wings of every one
were joined one to another, and two covered their
bodies. And they went every one straight for-
ward : whither the spirit was to go, they went ;
and they turned not when they went. As for
the likeness of the living creatures, their appear-
ance ivas like burning coals of fire, and like the
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appearance of lamps : it went up and down
among the living creatures ; and the fire was
bright, and out of the fire went forth, lightning.
And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of a flash of lightning,
Saint ^I;tl{p antr Saint Samrs's ilBag.
Morning. Isai. Ixi.
THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ;
because the Lord hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to them that are, bound ; to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of ven-
geance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ;
to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to
give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy
for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit
of heaviness ; that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he
might be glorified. And they shall build the
old wastes, they shall raise up the former desola-
tions, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations. And strangers
shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of
the alien shall he your plowmen and your vine-
dressers. But ye shall be named the Priests of
the Lord : men shall call you the Ministers of
our God ; ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. For
your shame ye shall have double ; and for con-
fusion they shall rejoice in their portion : there-
fore in their land they shtill possess the double :
everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I the
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Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
oflering ; and I will direct their work in truth,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with
them. And their seed shall be known among
the Gentiles, and their offspring among the peo-
ple : all that see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed v:hich the Lord hath
blessed, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my
soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath
clothed me with the garments of salvation, he
hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself vfiih. ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as
the garden causeth the things that are sown in
it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cjiuse
righteousness and praise to spring forth before
all the nations.
Second Lesson. John i. v. 43.
THE day following Jesus would go forth into
Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto
him, Follow me. Now Philip was of Bethsaida,
the city of Andrew and Peter, Philip findeth
Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found
him, of whom Moses in the law, and the pro-
phets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph. And Nathanael said unto him. Can
there any good thing come out of Nazareth ?
Philip saith unto hun. Come and see. Jesus saw
Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him,
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile !
Nathanael saith unto him, "Whence knowest thou
me ? Jesus auswered and said unto him, Before
that Philip called thee, when thou wast under |
the fig tree, I saw thee. Nathanael answered |
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and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of
God ; thou art the King of Israel. Jesus an-
swered and said unto him, Because I said unto
thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest
thou ? thou shalt see greater things than these.
And he saith unto him. Verily, verily, I say unto
you. Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the
angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of man.
Evening. Zech. iv.
AND the angel that talked with me came
. again, and waked me, as a man that is
wakened out of his sleep, and said unto me,
What seest thou 1 And I said, I have looked,
and behold a candlestick all o/gold, with a bowl
upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon,
and seven j^ipes to the seven lamps, which ai-e
ujDon the top thereof : and two olive trees by it,
one upon the right side of the bowl, and the
other upon the left side thereof. So I answered
and spake to the angel that talked with me,
saying, What are these, my lord ? Then the an-
gel that talked with me answered and said unto
me, Knowest thou not what these be ? And I
said. No, my lord. Then he answered and spake
unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord
unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
Who art thou, great mountain ? before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become a plain : and he shall
bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings,
crying, Grace, grace unto it. Moreover the word
of the Lord came unto me, saying. The hands of
Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this
house ; his hands shall also finish it ; and thou
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shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me
unto Tou. For who hath despised the day of
small things ? for they shall rejoice, and shall
see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with
those seven ; they are the eyes of the Lord,
which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Then answered I, and said unto him, What are
these two olive trees upon the right side of the
candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And
I answered again, and said unto him, "SVhat be
these two olive branches which through the two
golden pipes empty the golden oil out of them-
selves ? And he answered me and said, Knowest
thou not what these he ? And I said, No, my
lord. Then said he, These are the two anointed
ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
?rf)c ■3scmsion=Ba2.
Morning. Dan. vii. v. 9 to v. 15.
I BEHELD till the thrones were cast down,
and the Ancient of days did sit, whose gar-
ment icas white as snow, and the hair of his head
like the pure wool : his throne icas like the fiery
flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery
stream issued and came forth from before him :
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten
thousand times ten thousand stood before him :
the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
I beheld then because of the voice of the great
words which the horn spake : I beheld even till
the beast Wiis slain, and his body destroyed, and
i given to the burning flame. As concerning the
j rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken
j away : yet their lives were prolonged for a sea-
son "and time. I saw in the night visions, and.
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behold^ one like the Son of man came with the
clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of
days, and they brought him near before him.
And there was given him dominion, and glory,
and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and
languages, should serve him : his dominion is an
everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Second Lesson. Luke xxiv. v. 44.
AND he said unto them. These are the words
XjL which I spake unto you, while I was yet
with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which
were written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures, and said unto
them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day : and that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in his name among all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are
witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send
the promise of my Father upon you : but tarry
ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued
with power from on high. And he led them out
as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands,
and blessed them. And it came to pass, while
he blessed them, he was parted from them, and
ctirried up into heaven. And they worshipped
him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy :
and were continually in the temple, praising and
blessing God. Amen.
Evening. 2 Kings ii. to v. 16.
AND it came to pass, when the Lord would
j\. take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind,
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that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. And
Elijah Siiid unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee ;
for the Lord hath sent me to Beth-el. And
EUsha said ^nito him. As the Lord liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they
went*^ down to Beth-el. And the sons of the
prophets that icere at Beth-el came forth to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that
the Lord ^^-111 take away thy master from thy
head to day ? And he said. Yea, I know it ;
hold ye your peace. And Elijah said unto hun,
Elisha, krry here, I pray thee ; for the Lord
hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the
Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee. So they came to Jericho. And the
sons of the prophets that iccre at Jericho came
to Elisha. and said unto him, Knowest thou that
the Lord will take away thy master from thy
head to day ? And he answered. Yea, I know
it ; hold ye your peace. And Elijah said unto
him, TaiTy, I pmy thee, here ; for the Lord hath
sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave
thee. And they two went on. And fifty men
of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to
view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it to-
gether, and smote the waters, and they were
divided hither and thither, so that they two went
over on dry ground. And it came to pass, when
they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha,
Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken
away from thee. And Elisha said. I pray thee,
let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
And he said. Thou hast asked a hard thing:
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nevertJieless, if tliou see me when I am taken from
thee, it shall be so unto thee ; but if not, it shall
not be so. And it came to pass, as they still
went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared
a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted
them both asunder ; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven. And Ehsha saw it, and
he cried. My father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw
him no more : and he took hold of his own
clothes, and rent them in two pieces. He took
up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
and went back, and stood by the bank of Jor-
dan ; and he took the mantle of Elijah that
fell from him, and smote the waters, and said.
Where is the Lord God of Elijah ? and when
he also had smitten the waters, they parted
hither and thither : and Elisha went over. And
when tlie sons of the prophets which ivere to
view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit
of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came
to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground
before him.
Second Lesson. Heb. iv.
LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being
left 7(s of enterino; into his rest, any of you
should seem to come short of it. For unto us
was the gospel preached, as well as unto tliem :
but the word preached did not profit them, not
being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
For we which have believed do enter into rest,
as he said. As I have sworn in my wrath, if they
shall enter into my rest : although the works
were finished from the foundation of the world.
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For he spake in a certain place of the seventh
day on this wise. And God did rest the seventh
day from all his works. And in this place again,
If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing there-
fore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
and they to whom it was first preiiched entered
not in beciiuse of unbelief : again, he limiteth a
certain day, saying in David, To day, after so
long a time ; as it is said, To day if ye will hear
his voice, harden not your h&irts. For if Jes^us
had given them rest, then would he not after-
ward have spoken of another day. There remain-
eth therefore a rest to the people of God. For
he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest,
lest any man fall after the same example of un-
belief. For the word of God is quick. ;ind power-
ful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart. Neither is there any creature that is not
manifest in his sight : but all things are naked
and opened' unto the eyes of him with whom
we have to do. Seeing then that we have a
great high priest, that is passed into the hea-
vens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
profession. For we have not an high priest
•which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
intirmities ; but was in all points tempted like
as u-e are, yet without sin. Let us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in.
time of need.
fHonUag in WiWmn=&Bxtk.
Morning. Gen. xi. to v. 10.
A ND the whole earth was of one language,
X\_ and of one speech. And it came to pass,
as they journeyed from the east, that they found
a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt
there. And they said one to another. Go to, let
us make brick, and burn them throughly. And
they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a
city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth. And the Lord came down to see the city
and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the Lord said. Behold, the people is one,
juid they have all one language ; and this they
begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one
another's speech. So the Lord scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth : and they left off to build the city. There-
fore is the name of it called Btibel ; because the
Lord did there confound the language of all the
earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Second Lesson. 1 Cor. xii. to v. 14.
"T^rOW concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I
_lN would not have you ignorant. Ye know
that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these
dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I
give you to understand, that no man speaking
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by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed : and
that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but
by the Holy Ghost. Xow there are diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are
diflerences of administrations, but the same
Lord. And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to
every man to protit withal. For to one is given
by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another
the word of knowledge by the same Spirit ; to
another faith by the same Spirit ; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit ; to another
the working of miracles ; to another prophecy ;
to another discerning of spirits ; to another
dicers kinds of tongues ; to another the inter-
pretation of tongues : but all these worketh that
one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every
man severally as he will. For as the body is
one, and hath many members, and all the mem-
bers of that one body, being many, are one body :
so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether ic(i be bond or free ; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Eve/ling. Num. xi. v. 16 to v. 31.
A ND the Lord said unto J^Ioses, Gather unto
j\. me seventy men of the elders of Israel,
whom thou knowest to be the elders of the peo-
ple, and officers over them ; and bring them
unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they
may stand there with thee. Ajid I will come
down and tidk with thee there : and I will take
of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it
upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of
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the people with thee, that thou bear it not thy-
self alone. And say thou unto the people, Sanc-
tify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall
eat flesh : for ye have wept in the ears of the
Lord, saying. Who shall give us flesh to eat ?
for it was well with us in Egypt : therefore the
Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. Ye
shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days,
neither ten days, nor twenty days ; but even a
whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
and it be loathsome unto you : because that ye
have despised the Lord which is among you,
and have wept before him, saying. Why came
we forth out of Egypt ? And Moses said. The
people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand footmen ; and thou hast said, I will
give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them,
to suffice them ? or shall all the fish of the sea
be gathered together for them, to suffice them ?
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord's
hand waxed short ? thou shalt see noAV whether
my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
And Moses went out, and told the people the
words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy
men of the elders of the people, and set them
round about the tabernacle. And the Lord
came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
took of the spirit that icas upon him, and gave
it unto the seventy elders : and it came to pass,
that, when the spirit rested upon them, they pro-
phesied, and did not cease. But there remained
two of the men in the camp, the name of the one
was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad :
and the spirit rested upon them ; and they were
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of them that were written, but went not out unto
the tabernacle : and they prophesied in the
camp. And there ran a young man, and told
Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy
in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered
and said, My lord ]Moses, forbid them. And Moses
said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake ? would
God that all the Lord's people were prophets,
and that the Lord would put his spirit upon
them ! And Moses gat him into the camp, he
and the elders of Israel.
Second Lesson. 1 Cor. xii. r. 27 and xiii.
"T^OW ye are the body of Christ, and members
JA in particular. And God hath set some in
the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets,
thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts
of healings, helps, governments, diversities of
tongues. Are all apostles '? are all prophets ?
are all teachers ? are all workers of miracles ?
have all the gifts of healing ? do all speak with
tongues ? do all interpret 1 But covet earnestly
the "best gifts : and yet shew I unto you a more
excellent way.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though
I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
and have not charity, I am nothing. And though
1 bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and
though I give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity
suffereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not ;
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charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth
not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thiiiketh no evil ; rejoiceth
not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; bear-
eth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things. Charity never fail-
eth : but whether there be prophecies, they shall
fail ; whether there be tongues, they shall cease ;
whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish
away. For we know in part, and we prophesy
in part. But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I under-
stood as a child, I thought as a child : but when
I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but
then face to face : now I know in part ; but then
shall I know even as also I am known. And now
abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the
greatest of these is charity.
^urstiag in (!BI)itsun=a2accfe.
Morning. Joel ii. u 21.
FEAR not, O land ; be glad and rejoice : for
the Lord will do great things. Be not
afraid, ye beasts of the field : for the pastures of
the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her
fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their
strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion,
and rejoice in the Lord your God : for he hath
given you the former rain moderately, and he
will cause to come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the
fats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I
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will restore to you the years that the locnst hath
eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and
the ijalmerworm, my great army -which I sent
among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be
satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your
God, that hath dealt wondrously with you : and
my people shall never be ashamed. And ye
shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and
that I am the Lord your God, and none else :
and my people shall never be ashamed. And it
shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out
my spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall
dream dreams, your young men shall see visions :
and also upon the servants and upon the hand-
maids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in
the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
moon into blood, before the great and the terrible
day of the Lord come. And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the Lord shall be delivered : for in mount Zion
and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the
Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the
Lord shall call.
Second Lesson. 1 Thess. y.v. 12 to v. 24.
A ND we beseech you, brethren, to know them
jLjL which labour among you, and are over you
in the Lord, and admonish you ; and to esteem
them very highly in love for their work's sake.
And be at peace among yourselves. Now we
exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly,
comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be
patient toward all men. See that none render
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evil for evil unto any man ; but ever follow that
which is good, both among yourselves, and to all
men. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.
In every thing give thanks : for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench
not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove
all things ; hold fast that which is good. Abstain
from all appearance of evil. And the very God
of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Evening. Micah iv. to v. 8.
BUT in the last days it shall come to pass,
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and it shall be exalted above the hills ; and
people shall flow unto it. And many nations
shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to
the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of
the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths : for the law
shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among
many people, and rebuke strong nations afjir off ;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall
not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more. But they shall sit
every man under his vine and under his fig tree ;
and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth
of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all
people will walk every one in the name of his
god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord
our God for ever and ever. In that day, saith
the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and
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I will gather her that is driven out, and her
that I have afflicted ; and I will make her that
halted a remnant, and her that was cast far oft" a
strong nation : and the Lord shall reign over them
in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
Second Lesson. 1 John iv. to r. 14.
BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try
the spirits whether they are of God : be-
cause many false prophets are gone out into the
world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God :
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit
that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of
antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should
come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Ye are of God, little children, and have over-
come them : because greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world. They are of the
world : therefore spe^k they of the world, and
the world heareth them. We are of God : he
that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of
God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit
of truth, and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us
love one another : for love is of God ; and every-
one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth
God. He that loveth not knoweth not God ; for
God is love. In this was manifested the love of
God toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him. Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be
the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so
loved us, we ought also to love one another. No
man hath seen God at any time. If we love one
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another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is per-
fected in us . Hereby know we that we dwell in h im,
and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
5aint ISarnabas tl)C apostle.
Morning. Dent, xxxiii. to v. 12.
AND this is the blessing, wherewith Moses
. the man of God blessed the children of
Israel before his death. And he said. The Lord
came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto
them ; he shined forth from mount Paran, and
he came with ten thousands of saints : from his
right hand icent a fiery law for them. Yea, he
loved the people ; all his saints are in thy hand :
and they sat down at thy feet ; every one shall
receive of thy words. Moses commanded us a
law, even the inheritance of the congregation of
Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, when the
heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were
gathered together. Let Reuben live, and not
die ; and let not his men be few. And this is
the blessing of Judah : and he said, Hear, Lord,
the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his peo-
ple : let his hands be sufficient for him ; and be
thou an help to him from his enemies. And of
Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim
be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at
Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the
waters of Meribah ; who said unto his father
and to his mother, I have not seen him ; neither
did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his
own children : for they have observed thy word,
and kept thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob
thy judgments, and Israel thy law : they shall
put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice
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upon thine altar. Bless, Lord, his substance,
and accept the work of his hands : smite through
the loins of them that rise against him, and of
them that hate him, that they rise not again.
Second Lesson. Acts iv. v. 31.
A ND when they had prayed, the place was
J\. shaken where they were assembled to-
gether ; and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and they spake the word of God with
boldness. And the multitude of them that be-
lieved were of one heart and of one soul : neither
said any of them that ought of the things which
he possessed was his own ; but they had all
things common. And with great power gave
the apostles witness of the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus : and great grace was upon them all.
Neither was there any among them that lacked :
for as many as were possessors of lands or houses
sold them, and brought the prices of the things
that were sold, and laid them down at the
apostles' feet : and distribution was made unto
every man according as he had need. And
Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barna-
bas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of
consolation,) a Levite, ami of the country of
Cyprus, having land, sold it, and brought the
money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Evening. Nahum i.
THE burden of Nineveh. The book of the
vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God is
jealous, and the Lord revengeth ; the Lord re-
vengeth, and is furious ; the Lord will take
vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth
wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to
anger, and great in power, and will not at all
SAINT BAENABAS THE APOSTLE,
acquit the wicked : the Lord hath his way in
the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds
are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea,
and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers :
Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower
of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake
at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is
burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all
that dwell therein. Who can stand before his
indignation ? and who can abide in the fierce-
ness of his anger ? his fury is poured out like
fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of
trouble ; and he knoweth them that trust in
him. But with an overrunning flood he will
make an utter end of the place thereof, and
darkness shall pursue his enemies. What do ye
imagine against the Lord ? he will make an utter
end : affliction shall not rise up the second time.
For while they be folden together as thorns, and
while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall
be devoured as stubble fully dry. There is one
come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the
Lord, a wicked counsellor. Thus saith the Lord ;
Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet
thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass
through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will
afflict thee no more. For now will I break his yoke
from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
And the Lord hath given a commandment con-
cerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown :
out of the house of thy gods will I cut off" the graven
image and the molten image: I will make thy
grave ; for thou art vile. Behold upon the moun-
tains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
SAIXT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE.
that publisheth peace I Judah, keep thy so-
lemn feasts, perform thy vows : for the wicked shall
no more pass through thee ; he is utterly cut off.
Second Lesson. Acts xiv. v. 8.
AN D there sat a certain man at Lystra, im-
. potent in his feet, being a cripple from his
mother's womb, who never had walked : the
same heard Paul speak : who stedf;istly behold-
ing him, and perceiving that he had faith to be
healed, said with a loud voice, Stand upright on
thy feet. And he leaped and walked. And
when the people saw what Paul had done, they
lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of
Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the
likeness of men. And they Ciilled Barnabas,
Jupiter ; and Paul, ^Mercurius, because he was
the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter,
which was before their city, brought oxen and
garlands unto the gates, and would have done
sacrifice with the people. Which when the
apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent
their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying
out, and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things ?
AVe also are men of like passions with you, and
preach unto you that ye should turn from these
vanities unto the living God, which made hea-
ven, and earth, and the sea, and all things
that are therein : who in times past suffered all
nations to walk in their own ways. Neverthe-
less he left not himself without witness, in that
he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and
fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and
gladness. And with these sayings scarce re-
strained they the people, that they had not done
sacrifice unto them. And there came thither
SAINT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY.
certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who
I)ersuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul,
drew him out of the city, supposing he had been
dead. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round
about him, he rose up, and came into the city :
and the next day he departed with Barnabas to
Derbe. And when they had preached the gospel
to that city, and had taught many, they returned
again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhort-
ing them to continue, in the faith, and that we must
through much tribulation enter into the kingdom
of God. And when they had ordained them
elders in every church, and had prayed with
fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on
whom they believed. And after they had passed
throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
And when they had preached the word in Perga,
they went down into Attalia : and thence sailed
to Antioch, from whence they had been recom-
mended to the grace of God for the work which
they fulfilled. And when they were come, and
had gathered the church together, they rehearsed
all that God had done with them, and how he had
opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles, And
there they abode long time with the disciples.
Saint 3oJ)n IQaptist's Bag-
Morning. Mai. iii. to v. 7.
BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me : and the
Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his
temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in : behold, he shall come, saith
the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day
SAIXT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY.
of his comincT ? and who shall stand when he
appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like
fullers' sope : and he shall sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver : and he shall purify the sons
of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,
that they may ofler unto the Lord an off"ering iu
righteousness. Then shall the oftering of Judah
and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in
the days of old, and as in former years. And I
will come near to you to judgment ; and I will
be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and
against the adulterers, and agahist false swearers,
and against those that oppress the hireling in his
wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that
turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear
not me, saith the Lord of hosts. For I am
the Lord, I change not ; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.
Second Lesson. Matt. iii.
IN those days came John the Baptist, preach-
ing in the wilderness of Judrea. and saying,
Repent ye : for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the
prophet Esaias, sapng, The voice of one crying
in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make his paths straight. And the same
John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a
leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meiit
was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to
him Jerusalem, and all Judsea, and all the region
round about Jordan, and were baptized of him
in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he
saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come
to his baptism, he said unto them, generation
of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the
SAINT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY.
wrath to come ? bring forth therefore fruits meet
for repentance : and think not to say within
yourselves, We have Abraham to our father :
for I say unto you, that God is able of these
stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And
now also the axe is laid unto the root of the
trees : therefore every tree which bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the
fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance : but he that cometh after me is
mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy
to bear : he shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost, and with fire : whose fan is in his hand,
and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather
his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up
the chaff with unquenchable fire. Then cometh
Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be
baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying,
I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest
thou to me ? And Jesus answering said unto
him, Suffer it to he so now : for thus it becometh
us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suftered
him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went
up straightway out of the water : and, lo, the
heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove, and light-
ing upon him : and lo a voice from heaven,
saying. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased.
Evening. Mai. iv.
FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn
as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all
that do wickedly, shall be stubble : and the day
that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord
of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
SAINT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY.
branch. But unto you that fear my name shall
the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in
his wings ; and ye shall go forth, and grow up
as calves of the stall. And ye shidl tread down
the wicked ; for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this,
saith the Lord of hosts. Remember ye the law
of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto
him in Horeb for aU Israel, icith the statutes and
judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadfid day of the Lord : and he shall turn the
heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart
of the children to their fathers, lest I come and
smite the earth with a curse.
Second Lesson. Matt. xiv. to v. 13.
AT that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the
J\. fome of Jesus, and said unto his servants,
This is John the Baptist ; he is risen from the
dead ; and therefore mighty works do shew forth
themselves in him. For Herod had laid hold on
John, and bound him, and put Mm in prison for
Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. For
John said unto him. It is not lawful for thee to
have her. And when he would have put him to
death, he feared the multitude, because they
counted him as a prophet. But when Herod^s
birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias
danced before them, and pleased Herod. Where-
upon he promised with an oath to give her what-
soever she would ask. And she, being before
instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John
Baptist's head in a charger. And the king was
sorry : nevertheless for the oath^s sake, and them
which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to
SAINT PETER'S DAY.
be given her. And he sent, and beheaded John
in the prison. And his head was brought in a
charger, and given to the damsel : and she
brought it to her mother. And his disciples
came, and took up the body, and buried it, and
went and told Jesus.
Saint" Jeter's Bag.
Morning, Ezek. iii. v. 4 to v. 15.
AND he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee
J\. unto the house of Israel, and speak with my
words unto them. For thou art not sent to a
people of a strange speech and of an hard lan-
guage, hut to the house of Israel ; not to many
people of a strange speech and of an hard lan-
guage, whose words thou canst not understand.
Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have
hearkened unto thee. But the house of Israel
will not hearken unto thee ; for they will not
hearken unto me : for all the house of Israel are
impudent and hardhearted. Behold, I have made
thy face strong against their faces, and thy fore-
head strong against their foreheads. As an ada-
mant harder than flint have I made thy forehead :
fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house. Moreover he
said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I
shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and
hear with thine ears. And go, get thee to them
of the captivity, unto the children of thy people,
and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith
the Lord God ; whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear. Then the spirit took me up,
and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing,
saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from
SAIXT PETER'S DAY.
his place. I heard also the noise of the wings
of the living creatures that touched one another,
and the noise of the wheels over against them,
and a noise of a great rushing. So the spirit
lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my "spirit ; but the
hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
Second Lesson. John xxi. v. 15 to v. 23.
SO when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon
Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me
more than these ? He saith unto him. Yea,
Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith
unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again
the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou
me ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ; thou
knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him.
Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third
time, Simon, soti of Jonas, lovest thou me ?
Peter was grieved because he said unto him the
third time, Lovest thou me ? And he said unto
him. Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou know-
est that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him. Feed
my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee. When
thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and
walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou
shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,
and another shall gird thee, and carry theewhither
thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by
what death he should glorify God. And when
he had spoken this, he saith unto him. Follow
me. Then Peter, turning about, seeth the dis-
ciple whom Jesus loved following ; which also
leaned on his breast at supi)er, and said, Lord,
■which is he that betrayeth thee ? Peter seeing
him saith to Jesus, Lord, and Avhat shall this
SAINT PETER'S DAY.
man do ? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he
tarry till I come, what is that to thee ? follow
thou me.
Evening. Zech. iii.
AND he shewed me Joshua the high priest
J\. standing before the angel of the Lord, and
Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
And the Lord said unto Satiin, The Lord re-
buke thee, O Satan ; even the Lord that hath
chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee : is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire ? Now Joshua was
clothed with filthy garments, and stood before
the angel. And he answered and spake unto
those that stood before him, saying, Take away
the filthy garments from him. And unto him he
said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to
pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change
of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair
mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre
upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
And the angel of the Lord stood by. And the
angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying,
Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; If thou wilt walk
in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge,
then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt
also keep my courts, and I will give thee places
to walk among these that stand by. Hear now,
O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows
that sit before thee : for they are men wondered
at : for, behold, I will bring forth my servant
the BRANCH. For behold the stone that I have
laid before Joshua ; upon one stone shall be
seven eyes : behold, I will engrave the graving
thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will
remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In
SAINT PETER'S DAY.
that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call
every man his neighbour under the vine and
under the fig tree.
Second Lesson. Acts iv. v. 8 to v. 23.
THEN Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost,
said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and
elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of
the good deed done to the impotent man, by
what means he is made whole ; be it known
unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that
by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom
ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead,
even by him doth this man stand here before you
whole. This is the stone which was set at
nought of you builders, which is become the head
of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any
other : for there is none other name under hea-
ven given among men, whereby we must be
saved. Now when they saw the boldness of
Peter and John, and perceived that they were
unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled ;
and they took knowledge of them, that they had
been with Jesus. And beholding the man which
was healed standing with them, they could say
nothing against it. But when they had com-
manded them to go aside out of the council, they
conferred among themselves, saying, "What shall
we do to these men ? for that indeed a notiible
miracle hath been done by them is manifest to
all them that dwell in Jerusalem ; and we
cannot deny it. But that it spread no further
among the people, let us straitly threaten them,
that they speak henceforth to no man in this
name. And they called them, and commanded
them not to speak at all nor teach in the name
SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE.
of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and
said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight
of God to hearken unto you more than unto God,
judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things
which we have seen and heard. So when they
had further threatened them, they let them go,
finding nothing how they might punish them,
because of the people : for all men glorified God
for that which was done. For the man was above
forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing
was shewed.
Saint 35amts tl)t Spostlc.
Morning. 2 Kings i. to v. 16.
THEN Moab rebelled against Israel after the
death of Ahab. And Ahaziah fell down
through a lattice in his upper chamber that was
in Samaria, and was sick : and he sent messen-
gers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-
zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover
of this disease. But the angel of the Lord said
to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the
messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto
them. Is it not because there is not a God in
Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the
god of Ekron ? Now therefore thus saith the
Lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed
on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
And Elijah departed. And when the messengers
turned back unto him, he said unto them. Why
are ye now turned back ? Ajid they said unto
him, There came a man up to meet us, and said
unto us. Go, turn again unto the king that sent
you, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is
it not because there is not a God in Israel, that
+ —
SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE.
thou sendest to enquire of B;ial-zebub the god
of Ekron ? therefore thou shalt not come down
from that bed on -which thou art gone up, but
shalt surely die. And he said unto them, What
manner of man ivas he which Ciime up to meet
you, and told you these words ? And they
answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt
with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he
said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. Then the king
sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty.
And he went up to him : and, behold, he sat on
the top of an hill. And he sjwke unto him.
Thou man of God, the king hath said. Come
down. And Elijah answered and said to the
captain of fifty, If I 6e a man of God, then let
fire come down from heaven, and consume thee
and thy fifty. And there came down fire from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. Again
also he sent unto him another captain of fifty
with his fifty. And he answered and said unto
him, man of God, thus hath the king said.
Come down quickly. And Elijah answered and
said unto them. If I 6<3 a man of God, let fire
come down from heaven, and consume thee and
thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. And
he sent again a captain of the third fifty with
his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went
up, and Ciime and fell on his knees before Elijah,
and besought him, and said unto him, man of
God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these
fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and
burnt up the two captains of the former fifties
with their fifties : therefore let my life now be
SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE.
precious in thy sight. And the angel of the
Lord said unto Elijah, Go down with him : be
not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down
with him unto the king.
Second Lesson. Luke ix. v.bl to v. 57.
A ND it came to pass, when the time was come
J\. that he should be received up, he stedfastly
set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messen-
gers before his face : and they went, and entered
into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready
for him. And they did not receive him, because
his face Avas as though he would go to Jerusalem.
And when his disciples James and John saw
this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command
fire to come down from heaven, and consume
them, even as Elias did ? But he turned, and re-
buked them, and said. Ye know not what manner
of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not
come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
And they went to another village.
Evening. Jer. xxvi. r. 8 to v. 16.
NOW it came to pass, when Jeremiah had
made an end of speaking all that the Lord
had commanded him to speak unto all the people,
that the priests and the prophets and all the
people took him, saying. Thou shalt surely die.
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the
Lord, saying. This house shall be like Shiloh,
and this city shall be desolate without an inha-
bitant? And all the people were gathered
against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
When the princes of Judah heard these things,
then they came up from the king's house unto
the house of the Lord, and sat down in the
entry of the new gate of the Lord's house. Then
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE.
spake the priests and the prophets unto the
princes and to all the people, saying, This man
is worthy to die ; for he hath prophesied against
this city, as ye have heard with your ears. Then
spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all
the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy
against this house and against this city all the
words that ye have heard. Therefore now amend
your ways and your doings, and obey the voice
of the Lord your God ; and the Lord will repent
him of the evil that he hath pronounced against
you. As for me, behold, I am in your hand : do
with me as seeraeth good and meet unto you.
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to
death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon
yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the
inhabitants thereof : for of a truth the Lord hath
sent me unto you to speak all these words in
your ears.
.Saint ISartl^oIomcbJ tl)t ^postlt.
Morning. Gen. xxviiL v. 10 to v. 18.
AND Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and
. went toward Haran. And he lighted upon
a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set ; and he took of the
stones of that place, and put them for his pil-
lows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And
he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and
behold the angels of God ascending and descend-
ing on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above
it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham
thy father, and the God of Isaac : the land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE,
to thy seed ; and thy seed shall be as the dust
of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to
the south : and in thee and in thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed. And, be-
hold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all
places whither thou goest, and will bring thee
again into this land ; for I wiU not leave thee,
until I have done that which I have spoken to
thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep,
and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place ;
and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said,
How dreadful is this place ! this is none other
but the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.
Evening. Deut. xviii. v. 15.
THE Lord thy God will raise up unto thee
a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy
brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall
hearken ; according to all that thou desiredst of
the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying. Let me not hear again the
voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see
this great fire any more, that I die not. And the
Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that
which they have spoken. I will raise them up a
Prophet from among their brethren, like unto
thee, and will put my words in his mouth ; and
he shall speak unto them all that I shall com-
mand him. And it shall come to pass, that who-
soever will not hearken unto my words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak
a word in my name, which I have not com-
manded him to speak, or that shall speak in the
name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we
know the word which the Lord hath not spoken ?
when a prophet speaketh in the name of the
Lord, if the thing follow not. nor come to pass,
that is the thing which the Lord hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it pre-
sumptuously : thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Saint i^attl^rtD tf)c 'apostU.
Moraiag. 1 Kings xix. v. 15.
AXD the Lord said unto him. Go, return on
Xjl thy way to the wilderness of Damascus :
and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to he king
over Syria : and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt
thou anoint to he king over Israel : and Elisha
the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou
anoint to he prophet in thy room. And it shall
come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword
of Hazael shall Jehu slay : and him that es-
capeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all
the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and
every mouth which hath not kissed him. So
he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
Shaphat, who icas plowing v:ith twelve yoke of
oxen before him, and he with the twelfth : and
Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon
him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah,
and said. Let me. I pray thee, kiss my father
and my mother, and then I will follow thee.
And he said unto him. Go back again : for what
have I done to thee ] And he returned back
from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew
them, and boiled their flesh with the instru-
ments of the oxen, and gave unto the people,
and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after
Elijah, and ministered unto him.
Evening. 1 Chron. xxix. to v. 20.
FURTHEEMORE David the king said unto
all the congregation, Solomon my son,
whom alone. God hath chosen, is yet young and
tender, and the work is great : for the palace is
not for man, but for the Lord God. Now I
have prepared with all my might for the house
of my God the gold for things to be made of
gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the
brass for things of brass, the iron for things of
iron, and wood for things of wood ; onyx stones,
and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of
divers colours, and all manner of precious stones,
and marble stones in abundance. Moreover,
because I have set my affection to the house of
my God, I have of mine own proper good, of
gold and silver, which I have given to the house
of my God, over and above all that I have pre-
pared for the holy house, even three thousand
talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven
thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the
walls of the houses withal : the gold for things
of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and
for all manner of work to be made by the hands
of artificers. And who then is willing to con-
secrate his service this day unto the Lord ?
Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the
tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's
work, offered willingly, and gave for the service
of the house of God of gold five thousand talents
and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thou-
SAINT MATTHEW THE APOSTLE,
sand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand
talents, and one hundred thousand talents of
iron. And they with whom precious stones
were found gave them to the treasure of the
house of the Lord, by the hand of Jehiel the
Gershouite. Then the people rejoiced, for that
they offered willingly, because with perfect heart
they offered willingly to the Lord : and David
the king also rejoiced with great joy. Where-
fore David blessed the Lord before all the con-
gregation : and David said, Blessed be thou,
Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Thine, Lord, is the greatness, and the power,
and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty :
for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is
thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou
art exalted as head above all Both riches and
honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ;
and in thine hand is power and might ; and in
thine hand it is to make great, and to give
strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we
thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But
who am I, and what is my people, that we
should be able to ofier so willingly after this
sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine
own have we given thee. For we are strangers
before thee, and sojourners, as were all our
fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow,
and there is none abiding. Lord our God,
all this store that we have prepared to buUd
thee an house for thine holy name cometh of
thine hand, and is all thine own. I know also,
my God, that thou triest the heart, and hiist
pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the up-
rightness of mine heart I have willingly offered
SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
all these things : and now have I seen with joy
thy people, which are present here, to offer will-
ingly unto thee, Lord God of Abraham,
Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for
ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the
heart of thy people, and prepare their heart
unto thee : and give unto Solomon my son a
perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy
testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these
things, and to build the palace, for the which I
have made provision.
Saint jMic\)ul mts all ^ntjcls.
Morning. Gen. xxxii.
AN D Jacob went on his way, and the angels
. of God met him. And when Jacob saw
them, he said, This is God^s host : and he called
the name of that place Mahanaim. And Jacob
sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
And he commanded them, saying. Thus shall ye
speak unto my lord Esau ; Thy servant Jacob
saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and
stayed there until now : and I have oxen, and
asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenser-
vants : and I have sent to tell my lord, that I
may find grace in thy sight. And the messen-
gers returned to Jacob, saying. We came to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee,
and four hundred men with him. Then Jacob
was greatly afraid and distressed : and he divid-
ed the people that was with him, and the flocks,
and herds, and the camels, into two bands ; and
said, If Esau come to the one company, and
smite it, then the other company which is left
SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL AXGELS.
shall escape. Aiid Jacob said, God of my
father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the
Lord which saidst unto me, JReturn unto thy
country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well
with thee : I am not worthy of the least of all
the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou
hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my
staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am
become two bands. Deliver me, I pray thee,
from the hand of my brother, from the hand of
Esau : for I fear him, lest he will come and smite
me, and the mother Avith the children. And
thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make
thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude. And he lodged there
that same night ; and took of that which came
to his hand a present for Esau his brother ;
two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats,
two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, thirty
milch Ciimels with their colts, forty kine, and
ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
And he delivered them into the hand of
his servants, every drove by themselves ; and
said unto his servants. Pass over before me, and
put a space betwixt drove and drove. And he
commanded the foremost, saying, ^yhen Esau
my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, say-
ing. Whose a ri thou? and whither goest thou?
and whose are these before thee ] then thou shalt .
say. They be thy servant Jacob's ; it is a present !
sent unto my lord Esau : and. behold, also he ts
behind us. And so commanded he the second, I
and the third, and all that followed the droves,
saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto
Esau, when ye find him. And say ye moreover,
SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
Behold, thy servant Jacob is behmd us. For he
said, I will appease him with the present that
goeth before me, and afterward I will see his
face ; peradventure he will accept of me. So
went the present over before him : and himself
lodged that night in the company. And he rose
up that night, and took his two wives, and his
two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and
passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took
them, and sent them over the brook, and sent
over that he had. And Jacob was left alone ;
and there wrestled a man with him until the
breaking of the day. And when he saw that he
prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow
of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And
he said. Let me go, for the day breaketh. And
he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless
me. And he said unto him, What is thy name 1
And he said, Jacob. And he said. Thy name
shall be cidled no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a
prince hast thou power with God and with men,
and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and
said. Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he
said. Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my
name ? And he blessed him there. And Jacob
called the name of the place Peniel : for I have
seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon
him, and he halted upon his thigh. There-
fore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew
which shrank, which is upon the hollow of
the thigh, unto this day : because he touched
the hollow of Jacob's tliigh in the sinew that
shrank.
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SAIXT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
Second Lesson. Acts xii. v. 5 to v. 18.
PETER therefore was kept in prison : but
prayer was made without ceasing of the
church unto God for him. And when Herod
would have brought him forth, the same night
Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound
with two chains : and the keepers before the
door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of
the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in
the prison : and he smote Peter on the side, and
raised him up, saying. Arise up quickly. And
his chains fell off from his hands. And the
angel said unto him. Gird thyself, and bind on
thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith
unto him. Cast thy garment about thee, and
follow me. And he went out, and followed him ;
and wist not that it was true which was done by
the angel ; but thought he saw a vision. When
they were past the first and the second ward,
they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto
the city ; which opened to them of his own
accord : and they went out, and passed on through
one street ; and forthwith the angel departed
from him. And when Peter was come to him-
self, he said. Now I know of a surety, that the
Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me
out of the hand of Herod, and from all the
expectation of the people of the Jews. And
when he had considered the thing, he came to the
house of Mary the mother of John, whose sur-
name was Mark ; where many were gathered
together praying. And as Peter knocked at
the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken,
named Rhoda. And when she knew Peters
voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but
SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But
she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then
said they. It is his angel. But Peter continued
knocking : and when they had opened the door, and
saw him, they were astonished . But he, beckoning
unto them with the hand to hold their peace, de-
clared unto them how the Lord had brought him
out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these
things unto James, and to the brethren. And he
departed, and went into another place.
Evening. Dan. x. v. 4.
A ND in the four and twentieth day of the first
j\. month, as I was by the side of the great
river, which is Hiddekel ; then I lifted up mine
eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man
clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with
fine gold of Uphaz : his body also was like the
beryl, and his face as the appearance of light-
ning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms
and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and
the voice of his words like the voice of a multi-
tude. And I Daniel alone saw the vision : for
the men that were with me saw not the vision ;
but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they
fled to hide themselves. Therefore I was left
alone, and saw this great vision, and there re-
mained no strength in me : for my comeliness
was turned in me into corruption, and I retained
no strength. Yet heard I the voice of his words :
and when I heard the voice of his words, then
was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face
toward the ground. And, behold, an hand
touched me, which set me upon my knees and
upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto
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SAIXT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
me, Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand
the words that I speak unto thee, and stand up-
right : for unto thee am I now sent. And when
he had spoken this word unto me, I stood
j trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not,
Daniel : for from the first day that tliou didst
set thine heart to understand, and to chasten
thyself before thy God, thy words were heard,
and I am come for thy words. But the prince
of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and
twenty days : but, lo, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me ; and I remained there
with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to
make thee understand what shall befall thy
people in the latter days : for yet the vision is
for many days. And when he had spoken such
words unto me, I set my face toward the ground,
and I became dumb. And, behold, one like the
similitude of the sons of men touched my lips :
then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said
unto him that stood before me, my lord, by
the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and
I have retained no strength. For how can the
servant of this my lord talk with this my lord ?
for as for me, straightway there remained no
strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Then there came again and touched me one like
the appearance of a man, and he strengthened
me, and said, man greatly beloved, fear not :
peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.
And when he had spoken unto me, I was
strengthened, and said. Let my lord speak ; for
thou hast strengthened me. Then said he,
Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and
now will I return to fight with the prince of
SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST.
Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince
of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that
which is noted in the scripture of truth : and
there is none that holdeth with me in these
things, but Michael your prince.
Second Lesson. Rev, xiv. v. 14.
AND I looked, and behold a white cloud, and
XJl upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son
of man, having on his head a golden crown, and
in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel
came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice
to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy
sickle, and reap : for the time is come for thee
to reap ; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle
on the earth ; and the earth was reaped. And
another angel came out of the temple which is in
heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. And
another angel came out from the altar, which
had power over fire ; and cried with a loud cry
to him that had the sharp sickle, saying. Thrust
in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of
the vine of the earth ; for her grapes are fully
ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the
earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and
cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of
God. And the winepress was trodden without
the city, and blood came out of the winepress,
even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a
thousand and six hundred furlongs.
.Saint TLnkc tl)C OHfaartgcIist.
Morning. Isai. Iv.
0, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money ; come
H
. SAIXT LUKE THE EVAXGELIST.
■^ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk
•without money and without price. Wherefore do
ye spend money for that which is not bread ?
and your labour for that which satisfieth not ?
hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that
ichich is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me :
hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make
an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David. Behold, I have given him /or
a witness to the people, a leader and commander
to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a nation
that thou knowest not, and nations that knew
not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord
thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel ; for he
hath glorified thee. Seek ye the Lord while he
may be found, call ye upon him while he is near :
let the wicked forsake his way, and the un-
righteous man his thoughts : and let him return
unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon
him ; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain
Cometh dowTi, and the snow from heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater :
so shaU my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it
shall accompli'sh that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye
shall go out with joy, and be led forth with
SAIXT LUKE THE EVANGELIST.
peace : the mounttiins and the hills shall break
forth before you into singing, and all the trees of
the field shall clap theii- hands. Instead of the
thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it
shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlast-
ing sign that shall not be cut off.
Evening. Ecclus, xxxviii. to v. 15.
HONOUR a physician with the honour due
unto him for the uses which ye may have
of him : for the Lord hath created him. For of
the most High cometh healing, and he shall
receive honour of the king. The skill of the
physician shall lift up his head : and in the sight
of great men he shall be in admiration. The
Lord hath created medicines out of the earth ;
and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was
not the water made sweet with wood, that the
virtue thereof might be known ? And he hath
given men skill, that he might be honoured in
his marvellous works. With such doth he heal
[men,] and taketh away their pains. Of such
doth the apothecary make a confection ; and of
his works there is no end ; and from him is
peace over all the earth. INIy son, in thy sick-
ness be not negligent : but pray unto the Lord,
and he will make thee whole. Leave off from
sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse
thy heart from all wickedness. Give a sweet
savour, and a memorial of fine flour ; and make
a fat offering, as not being. Then give place to
the physician, for the Lord hath created him :
let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of
him. There is a time when in their hands there
is good success. For they shall also pray unto
SAI^'T SIMON AND SAINT JTDE.
the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they
give for ease and remedy to prolong life.
Saint 5imon antr 5aint Sutfc.
Morning. IsaL xxviii. v. 9 to v. 17.
'VTT'HOM shall he teach knowledge ? and
T T whom shall he make to understand doc-
trine ? them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts. For precept must be
upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon
line, Une upon line ; here a little, a7id there a
little : for with stammering lips and another
tongue wiU he speak to this people. To whom
he said, This is the rest tcherewith ye may cause
the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing :
yet they would not hear. But the word of the
Lord was unto them precept upon precept, pre-
cept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon
line ; here a little, and there a little ; that they
might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of
the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people
which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said,
We have made a covenant with death, and with
hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto
us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under
felsehood have we hid ourselves : therefore thus
saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious
corner stone, a sure foundation : he that believeth
shall not make haste.
Evening. Jer. iii. v. 12 to v. 19.
GO and proclaim these words toward the
north, and say, Eeturn, thou backsliding
ALL SAINTS' DAY.
Israel, saith the Lord ; and I will not cause
mine anger to fall upon you : for I am merciful,
saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for
ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that
thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy
God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers
under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed
my voice, saith the Lord. Turn, backsliding
children, saith the Lord ; for I am married unto
you : and I will take you one of a city, and two
of a family, and I will bring you to Zion : and
I will give you pastors according to mine heart,
which shall feed you with knowledge and under-
standing. And it shall come to pass, when ye
be multiplied and increased in the land, in those
days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The
ark of the covenant of the Lord : neither shall
it come to mind : neither shall they remember
it ; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that
be done any more. At that time they shall call
Jerusalem the throne of the Lord ; and all the
nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of
the Lord, to Jerusalem : neither shall they walk
any more after the imagination of their evil
heart. In those days the house of Judah shall
walk with the house of Israel, and they shall
come together out of the land of the north to the
land that I have given for an inheritance unto
your Withers.
^n faints' IBaj.
Morning. Wisd. iii. to v. 10.
BUT the souls of the righteous are in the
hand of God. and there shall no torment
touch them. In the sight of the unwise they
.a^ju o^'i.x^'^ X o ±j.rv X .
seemed to die : and their departure is taken for
misery, and their going from us to be utter de-
struction : but they are in peace. For though
they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their
hope full of immortality. And having been a
little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded :
for God prov^ed them, and found them worthy
for himself. As gold in the farnace hath he tried
them, and received them as a burnt offering.
And in the time of their visitation they shall
shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the
stubble. They shall judge the nations, and have
dominion over the people, and their Lord shall
reign for ever. They that put their trust in him
shall understand the truth : and such as be faith-
ful in love shall abide with him : for grace and
mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his
elect.
Second Lesson. Heb. xi. v. 33 and xii. to v. 7.
WHO through faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained pro-
mises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the
violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant
in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Women received their dead raised to life again :
and others were tortured, not accepting deliver-
ance ; that they might obtain a better resur-
rection : and others had trial of cruel mockings
and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and im-
prisonment : they were stoned, they were sawn
asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ;
(of whom the world was not worthy :) they wan-
ALL SAINTS' DAY.
dered in deserts, and in mountains, and in deris
and caves of the earth. And these all, having
obtained a good report through faith, received
not the promise : God having provided some
better thing for us, that they without us should
not be made perfect.
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay-
aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the
author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, de-
spising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God. For consider him
that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,
striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the
exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto
children. My son, despise not thou the chasten-
ing of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked
of him : for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Evening. Wisd. v. to v. 17.
THEN shall the righteous man stand in great
boldness before the face of such as have
afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.
When they see it, they shall be troubled with
terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strange-
ness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they
looked for. And they repenting and groaning
for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves,
This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach : we fools accounted
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ALL SAINTS' DAY.
his life madness, and his end to be without
honour : how is he numbered among the children
of God. and his lot is among the saints ! There-
fore have we erred from, the way of truth, and
the light of righteousness hath not shined unto
us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon
us. We wearied ourselves in the way of wicked-
ness and destruction : yea, we have gone through
deserts, where there lay no way : but as for the
way of the Lord, we have not known it. What
hath pride profited us ? or what good hath riches
with our vaunting brought us ? All those things
are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that
hasted by ; and as a ship that passeth over the
waves of the water, which when it is gone by,
the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the
pathway of the keel in the waves ; or as when a
bird hath flown through the air, there is no token
of her way to be found, but the light air being
beaten with the stroke of her wings, and parted
with the violent noise and motion of them, is
passed through, and therein afterwards no sign
where she went is to be found ; or like as when
an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air,
which immediately cometh together again, so
that a man c<mnot know where it went through :
even so we in like manner, as soon as we were
born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign
of virtue to shew ; but were consumed in our
own wickedness. For the hope of the ungodly
is like dust that is blown away with the wind ;
like a tliin froth that is driven away with the
storm ; like as the smoke which is dispersed here
and there with a tempest, and passeth away as
the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a
ALL SAINTS' DAY.
day. But the righteous live for evermore ; their
reward also is with the Lord, and the care of
them is with the most High. Therefore shall
they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful
crown from the Lord's hand : for with his right
hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall
he protect them.
Second Lesson. Rev. xix. to v. 17.
AND after these things I heard a great voice
jljl of much people in heaven, saying. Alleluia ;
Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power,
unto the Lord our God : for true and righteous
are his judgments : for he hath judged the gTeat
whore, Avhich did corrupt the earth with her for-
nication, and hath avenged the blood of his ser-
vants at her hand. And again they said. Alleluia.
And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And
the four and twenty elders and the four beasts
fell down and worshipped God that sat on the
throne, saying. Amen ; Alleluia. And a voice
came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God,
all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both
small and great. And I heard as it were the
voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of
many waters, and as the voice of mighty thun-
derings, saying, Alleluia : for the Lord God om-
nipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour to him : for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself
ready. And to her w\as granted that she should
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white : for the
fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he
saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which
are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings
THE QUEEN'S ACCESSION,
of God. And I fell at liis feet to worship him.
And he said unto me, See thou do it not : I am
thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have
the testimony of Jesus : worship God : for the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse ; and he that sat upon him was called
Faitliful and True, and in righteousness he doth
judge and make war. His eyes icere as a flame
of fire, and on his head were many crowns ; and
he had a name written, that no man knew, but
he himself. And he icas clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood : and his name is called The
Word of God. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed
in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his
mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should smite the nations : and he shall rule
them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God. And he liath on his vesture and on his
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND
LORD OF LOEDS.
Z^t ^ecn's Accession.
Josh. i. to V. 10.
l^OW after the death of Moses the servant of
JAI the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord
spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, IVIoses'
minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead ; now
therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and
all this people, unto the land which I do give to
them, even to the children of Israel. Every
place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,
that have I given unto you, as I said unto ^Moses.
THE QUEEN'S ACCESSTOX.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto
the ^eat river, the river Euphrates, all the land
of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward
the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
There shall not any man be able to stand before
thee all the days of thy life : as I was with Mo-
ses, so I will be with thee : I will not fail thee,
nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good cou-
rage : for unto this people shalt thou divide for
an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their
fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and
very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all the law, which Moses my servant
commanded thee : turn not from it to the right
hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper
whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law
shall not depart out of thy mouth ; but thou
shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all that is
written therein : for then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good
success. Have not I commanded thee ? Be
strong and of a good courage ; be not afraid, nei-
ther he thou dismayed : for the Lord thy God is
with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Second Lesson. Eom. xiii.
LE T every soul be subject unto the higher
powers. For there is no power but of God :
the powers that be are ordained of God. Who-
soever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth
the ordinance of God : and they that resist shall
receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are
not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt
thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that
which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the
THE QUEEN'S ACCESSION.
same : for he is the minister of God to thee for
good. But if thou do that which is evil, be
afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain :
for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. "Where-
fore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath,
but also for conscience sake. For for this cause
pay ye tribute also : for they are God's ministers,
attending continually upon this very thing.
Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to
whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ;
fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another :
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
For this. Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet ; and
if there be any other commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no
ill to his neighbour : therefore love is the ful-
filling of the law. And that, knowing the time,
that now it is high time to awake out of sleep :
for now is our salvation nearer than when we
believed. The night is fiir spent, the day is at
hand : let us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in
rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and
wantonness, not in strife and envj'ing. But put
ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
provision for the flesh, to fuljil the lusts thereof.
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TnE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
St. MATTHEW.
CHAPTER I.
THE book of the generation of Jesiis Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham,
Abraham begat Isaac ; and Isaac begat Jacob ;
and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren ; and
Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar ; and
Phares begat Esrom ; and Esroui be^at Aram ;
and Aram begat Aminadab ; and Aminadab be-
gat Naasson ; and JSTtiasson begat Salmon ; and
Salmon begat Booz of Rachab ; and Booz begat
Obed of Ruth ; and Obed begat Jesse ; and Jesse
begat David the king ; and David the king be-
gat Solomon of her that had been the wife of
Urias ; and Solomon begat Roboam ; and Roboam
begat Abia ; and Abia begat Asa ; and Asa begat
Josaphat ; and Josaphat begat Joram ; and Jo-
ram begat Ozias ; and Ozias begat Joatham ; and
Joatham begat Achaz ; and Achaz begat Ezekias ;
and Ezekias begat Manasses ; and Manasses
begat Amon ; and Amon begat Josias ; and
Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about
the time they were carried away to Babylon :
and after they were brought to Babylon, Jecho-
nias begat Salathiel ; and Salathiel begat Zoro-
babel ; and Zorobabel begat Abiud ; and Abiud
begat Eliakim ; and Eliakim begat Azor ; and
Azor begat Sadoc ; and Sadoc begat Achim ;
and Achim begat Eliud ; and Eliud becrat Elea-
+
Jan. 2, Mom. S. MATTHEW, I. July 6, Even.
z&T ; and Eleazar begat ]Matthan ; and IMatthan
begat Jacob ; and Jacob begat Joseph the hus-
band of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who
is called Christ. So all the generations from
Abraham to David are fourteen generations ;
and from David until the carrying away into
Rabylon are fourteen generations ; and from the
carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are
fourteen generations.
Jan. 2, Morning ; July 6, Evening.
NOW the birth of Jesus Christ was on this
wise : "When as his mother Mary was
espoused to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and
not willing to make her a pubUck example, was
minded to put her away privily. But while he
thought on these things, behold, the angel of the
Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying,
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto
thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived
in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS :
for he shall save his people from their sins. Now
all this was done, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,
saying. Behold, a virgin shall be with child,
and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call
his name Emmanuel, which being interpret^
is, God with us. Then Joseph being raised
from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had
bidden him, and took unto him his wife : and
knew her not till she had brought forth her
firstborn son : and he called his name JESUS.
Jan. 3, Morn. S. MATTHEW, IT. July 7, Even.
CHAPTER II.
Jan. 3, Morning ; July 7, Evening.
"I^OW when Jesus was born in Bethlehem
JlI of Judijea in the days of Herod the king,
behold, there came wise men from the east to
Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born
King of the Jews I for we have seen his star in
the east, and are come to worship him. When
Herod the king had heard these things, he was
troubled, and all Jerusalein with him. And
when he had gathered all the chief priests and
scribes of the people together, he demanded of
them where Christ should be born. And they
said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judsea : for
thus it is written by the prophet, And thou
Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the
least among the princes of Juda : for out of
thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my
people Israel. Then Herod, when he had privily
called the wise men, enquired of them dili-
gently what time the star appeared. And he
sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search
diligently for the young child ; and when ye
have found him, bring me word again, that I
may come and worship him also. When they
had heard the king, they departed ; and, lo, the
star, which they saw in the east, went before
them, till it came and stood over where the
young child was. When they saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when
they were come into the house, they saw the
young child with Mary his mother, and fell
down, and worshipped him : and when they had
opened their treasures, they presented unto him
gifts ; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. And
Jan. 3, Morn. S. JIATTHEW, II. July 7, Even.
being warned of God in a dream that they should
not return to Herod, they • departed into their
own country another way. And when they were
departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appear-
eth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take
the young child and his mother, and flee into
Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word :
for Herod will seek the young child to destroy
him. "When he arose, he took the young child
and his mother by night, and departed into
Egypt : and was there until the death of
Herod : that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying. Out
of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod,
when he saw that he was mocked of the wise
men, was exceeding %AToth, and sent forth, and
slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,
and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old
and under, according to the time which he had
diligently enquired of the wise men. Then
was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy
the prophet, saying. In Rama was there a voice
heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and
would not be comforted, because they are not.
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of
the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in
Egypt, saying. Arise, and take the young child
and his mother, and go into the land of Israel :
for they are dead which sought the young child's
Life. And he arose, and took the young child
and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in
Judsea in the room of his fother Herod, he was
afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being
Jan. 4, Mom. S. MATTHEW, III. July 8, Even.
warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into
the parts of Galilee : and he came and dwelt in
a city called Nazareth : that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be
called a Nazarene.
CHAPTER in.
Jan. 4, Morning; July 8, Evening.
IN those days came John the Baptist, preach-
ing in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying,
Repent ye : for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand. For this is he that was spoken of by
the prophet Esaias, saying. The voice of one
crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
the Lord, make his paths straight. And the
same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and
a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat
was locusts and wild honey. Then went out
to him Jerusalem, and all Judcea, and all the
region round about Jordan, and were baptized
of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But
when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sad-
ducees come to his baptism, he said unto them,
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you
to flee from the wrath to come ? bring forth
therefore fruits meet for repentance : and think
not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham
to our father : for I say unto you, that God is
able of these stones to raise up children unto
Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto
the root of the trees : therefore every tree which
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
cast into the fire. I indeed baptize you with
water unto repentance : but he that cometh after
me is mifrhtier than I, whose shoes I am not
Jan. 5, Morru S. MATTHEW, IV. July 9, Even,
worthy to bear : he shall baptize you with the
Holy Ghost, and icith fire : whose fan is in his
hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and
gather his wheat mto the garner ; but he will
burn up the chaflf with unquenchable fire. Then
Cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John,
to be baptized of him. But John forbad him,
saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and
comest thou to me ? And Jesus answering said
unto him. Suffer it to be so now : for thus it
becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then
he suSered him. And Jesus, when he was bap-
tized, went up straightway out of the water :
and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and
he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and lighting upon him : and lo a voice from
heaven, saying. This is my beloved Sou, in whom
I am well pleiised.
CHAPTER TV.
Jan. 5, Morning ; July 9, Evening.
THEN was Jesus led up of the spirit into
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty
nights, he was afterward an hungred. And
when the tempter aime to him, he said. If thou
be the Son of God, command that these stones
be made bread. But he answered and said, It
is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God. Then the devil t<iketh him up
into the holy city, and setteth him on a pin-
nacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou
be the Son of God, cast thyself down : for it is
written, He shall give his angels charge con-
f. 4
Jan. 5, Mom. S. MATTHEW, IV. July 9, Even.
cerning thee : and in their hands they shall bear
thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot
against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is
written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into
an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him
all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of
them ; and saith unto him, All these things will
I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship
me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence,
Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels
came and ministered unto him. Now when
Jesus had heard that John wa,s cast into prison,
he departed into Galilee ; and leaving Nazareth,
he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon
the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and
Nephthalim : that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying. The
land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim,
by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of
the Gentiles ; the people which sat in darkness
saw great light ; and to them which sat in the
region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say.
Repent : for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw
two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew
his brother, casting a net into the sea : for they
were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow
me, and I will make you fishers of men. And
they straightway left their nets, and followed
him. And going on from thence, he saw other
two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and
Jan. 7, Mom. S. MATTHEW, V. July 10, Even.
John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their
father, mending their nets ; and he called them.
And they immediately left the ship and their
father, and followed him.
Jan. 7, Morning ; July 10, Evening.
A ND Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in
XjL their s^Tiagogues, and preaching the gospel
of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sick-
ness and all manner of disease among the people.
And his fame went throughout all Syria : and
they brought unto him all sick people that were
tiiken with divers diseases and torments, and
those which were possessed with devils, and those
which were lunatick, and those that had the
palsy ; and he healed them. And there followed
him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and
from Decapolis. and from Jerusalem, and from
Judaea, and from bevond Jordan.
CHAPTER V.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a
mountain : and when he was set, his disciples
came unto him : and he opened his mouth, and
taught them, sa\ang, Blessed are the poor in
spirit : for their^s is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be
comforted- Blessed are the meek : for they shall
inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do
hunger and thirst after righteousness : for they
shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful : for
they shall obtiiin mercy. Blessed are the pure
in heart : for they shall see God. Blessed are
the pciicemakers : for they shall be called the
children of God. Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness' sake : for t heir's is
the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when
Jan. 8, Mam. S. MATTHEW, V. July 11, Even.
men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall
say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my
sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad : for great
is your reward in heaven : for so persecuted they
the prophets which were before you.
Jan. 8, Morning ; July 11, Evening.
YE are the salt of the earth : but if the salt
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it
be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing,
but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot
of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither
do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,
but on a candlestick ; and it giveth light unto
all that are in the house. Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in
heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy
the law, or the prophets : I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you,
Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one
of these least commandments, and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the least in the king-
dom of heaven : but whosoever shall do and
teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That
except your righteousness shall exceed the righte-
ousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in
no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Ye
have heard that it was said by them of old
time, Thou shalt not kill ; and whosoever shall
kill shall be in danger of the judgment : but I
Jan. 8, Morn. S. MATTHEW, V. JidyU, Even,
say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his
brother without a cause shall be in danger of
the judgment : and whosoever shall say to his
brother, Eaca, shall be in danger of the council :
but Avhosoever shall say. Thou fool, shall be in
danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy
gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy
brother hath ought 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 ;
lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to
the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
officer, and thou be Ciist into prison. Verily I
say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out
thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old
time. Thou shalt not commit adultery : but I
say unto you. That whosoever looketh on a
woman to lust after her hath committed adul-
tery with her already in his heart. And if thy
right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one
of thy members should perish, and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell. And if
thy right hand ofi'end thee, cut it off, and cast it
from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one
of thy members should perish, and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell. It hath
been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife,
let him give her a writing of divorcement : but
I say unto you. That whosoever shall put away
his wife, saving for the cause of fornication,
causeth her to commit adultery : and whosoever
Jan. 9, Mom. S. MATTHEW, V. July 12, Even.
shall marry her that is divorced committeth
adultery.
Jan. 9, Morning ; July 1 2, Evening.
A GAIN, ye have heard that it hath been said
jljL by them of old time, Thou shalt not for-
swear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord
thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at
all ; neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne :
nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool : neither
by Jerusalem ; for it is the city of the great
King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head,
because thou canst not make one hair white or
black. But let your communication be, Yea,
yea ; Nay, nay : for whatsoever is more than
these cometh of evil. Ye have heard that it
hath been said. An eye for an eye. and a tooth
for a tooth : but I say unto you. That ye resist
not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy
right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if
any man will sue thee at the law, and take away
thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And who-
soever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with
him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and
from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou
away. Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine
enemy. But I say unto you. Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, and pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you ; that ye may be the
children of your Father which is in heaven : for
he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust. For if ye love them wliich love you.
Jan, 10, Mom. S. MATTHEW, YI. July 13, Even.
what reward have ye 1 do not even the publicans
the same ? And if ye salute j^our brethren only,
what do ye more than others ? do not even the
publicj\ns so ? Be ye therefore perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect,
CHAPTER YL
Jan. 10, Morning ; July 13, Evening.
TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before
men, to be seen of them : otherwise ye
have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms,
do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hjrpo-
crites do in the synagogues and in the streets,
that they may have glory of men. Verily I say
unto you. They have their reward. But when
thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know
what thy right hand doeth : that thine alms
may be in secret : and thy Father which seeth
in secret himself shall reward thee openly. And
when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing
in the synagogues and in the corners of the
streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily
I say unto you, They have their reward. But
thou, when *^thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy
Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But
when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do : for they think that they shall be
heard for their much speaking. Be not ye there-
fore like unto them : for your Father knoweth
what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore pray ye : Our Father
*•
Jan. 11, Morn. S. MATTHEW. VI. July 14, Even.
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil : For thine is the king-
dom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses,
your heavenly Father 'will also forgive you : but
if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither
will your Father forgive your trespasses. More-
over when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a
sad countenance : for they disfigure their faces,
that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily
I say unto you. They have their reward. But
thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and
wash thy face ; that thou appear not unto men
to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret :
and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall re-
ward thee openly
Jan. 11, Morning; July 14, Evening ; Feb. 29, Morning,
chop. 7.
LAY not up for yourselves treasures upon
earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal : but
lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal : for
where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also. The light of the body is the eye : if there-
fore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be
full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole
body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that ,is in thee be darkness, how great is
. Jan. 1 1 , Morn. S. MATTHEW, TIL July 14, Even,
.that darkness ! No man can serve two masters :
for either he will hate the one, and love the
other ; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot sen^e God and mammon.
Therefore I say unto you. Take no thought for
your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
on. Is not the life more than meat, and the
body than raiment ? Behold the fowls of the
air : for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they ] Which of you by taking thought can add
one cubit unto his stature ? And , why take
ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, nei-
ther do they spin : and yet I say unto you. That
even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe
the grass of the field, which to day is, and to
morrow is c;ist into the oven, shall he not much
more clothe you, ye of little faith ? Therefore
take no thought, saying, What shall we eat ? or,
What shall we drink ? or, Wherewithal shall we
be clothed ? (for after all these things do the
Gentiles seek :) for your heavenly Father know-
eth that ye have need of all these things. But
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righ-
teousness ; and all these things shall be added
unto you. Take therefore no thought for the
morrow : for the morrow shall take thought for
the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof
CHAPTER YII.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with
Jan. 12, Mom. S. MATTHEW, YII. July 15, Even.
what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged :
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be mea-
sured to you again. And why beholdest thou
the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but con-
siderest not the beam that is in thine own eye ?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull
out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a
beam is. in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and
then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote
out of thy brother's eye. Give not that which
is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls
before swine, lest they trample them under their
feet, and turn again and rend you.
Jan. 12, Morning ; July 15, Evening.
ASK, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye
J\. shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you : for every one that asketh receiveth ;
and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is
there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he
give him a stone ] or if he ask a fish, will he give
him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your children, how
much more shall your Father which is in heaven
give good things to them that ask him ? There-
fore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them : for
this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in
at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and
broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat : because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in
Jan. 12, Mom. S. MATTHEAY, Til. Juhj 15, Even.
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of this-
tles 1 Even so 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 cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he
that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name 1 and
in thy name have Ciist out devils ? and in thy
name done many wonderfid works '? And then
•will I profess unto them, I never knew you :
depart from me, ye that work iniquity. There-
fore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise
man, which built his house upon a rock : and
the rain descended, and the floods came, and the
winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it
fell not : for it was foimded upon a rock. And
every one that heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a
foohsh man. which built his house upon the
sand : and the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that
house ; and it fell : and great was the fall of it.
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended
these sayings, the people were astonished at his
doctrine : for he taught them as one having
authority, and not as the scribes.
Jan. 13, Morn. S. MATTHEW, VIIL JuUj 16, Even.
CHAPTER VIII.
Jan. 13, Morning; July IG, Evening.
WHEN he was corae down from the moun-
tain, great multitudes followed him. And,
behold, there came a leper and worshipped
him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make
me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and
touched him, saying, I will ; be thou clean.
And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
And Jesus saith unto him. See thou tell no man ;
but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and
offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testi-
mony unto them. And when Jesus was entered
into Capernaum, there came unto him a cen-
turion, beseeching him, and saying. Lord, my
servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, griev-
ously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him,
I will come and heal him. The centurion an-
swered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that
thou shouldest come under my roof : but speak
the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers
under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he
goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ;
and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
"When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to
them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I
have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
And I say unto you. That many shall come from
the east and west, and shall sit down with Abra-
ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of
heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall
be cast out into outer darkness : there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus
said unto the centurion. Go thy way ; and as
Jan. 14, Morn. S. MATTHEW, Till. July 17, Eoen.
thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.
And his servant ^vas healed in the selfsame hour.
And when Jesus was come into Peters house,
he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
And he touched her hand, and the fever left her:
and she arose, and ministered unto them. When
the even was come, they brought unto him many
that were possessed with devils : and he aist out
the spirits with his word, and healed all that
were sick : that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself
took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Jan. 14, Jlorning; July 17, Evening.
"VTOW when Jesus saw great multitudes about
_Li him, he gave commandment to depart unto
the other side. And a certain scribe came, and
said unto him. Master, I will follow thee whither-
soever thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him,
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air
have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where
to lay his head. And another of his disciples
said "unto him, Loi"d, suffer me first to go and
bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Fol-
low me ; and let the dead bury their dead. And
when he was entered itito a ship, his disciples
followed him. And, behold, there arose a great
tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was
covered with the waves : but he was asleep.
And his disciples c:mie to him, and awoke him,
saving, Lord, save us : we perish. And he s;iith
utito them. Why are ye fearful, ye of little
faith ? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds
and the sea ; and there was a great calm. But
the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man
is this, that even the winds and the sea obey
Jan. 15, Morn. S. MATTHEW, IX. Juli/ 18, Even.
him ! And when he was come to the other side into
the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two
possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, ex-
ceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that
way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What
have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God ?
art thou come hither to torment us before the time ?
And there was a good way off from them an herd
of many swine feeding. So the devils besought
him, saying, If thou cast us out, sutler us to go
away into the herd of swine. And he said unto
them. Go. And when they were come out, they
went into the herd of swine : and, behold, the
whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep
place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
And they that kept them fled, and went their
ways into the city, and told every thing, and
■what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
And, behold, the Avhole city came out to meet
Jesus : and when they saw him, they besought
him that he would depart out of their coasts.
CHAPTER IX.
Jan. 15, Morning ; July 18, Evening.
A ND he entered into a ship, and passed over,
JljL and came into his own city. And, behold,
they brought to him a man sick of the palsy,
lying on a bed : and Jesus seeing their faith said
unto the sick of the pais}'- ; Son, be of good
cheer ; thy sins be forgiven thee. And, behold,
certain of the scribes said within themselves.
This man blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing
their thoughts said. Wherefore think ye evil in
your hearts ? For whether is easier, to say. Thy
sins be forgiven thee ; or to say, Arise, and walk ?
Jan. 15, Morn. S. MATTHEW, IX. July 18, Even,
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath
power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to
the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed,
and go unto thine house. And he arose, and
departed to his house. But when the multitude
saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which
had. given such power unto men. And as Jesus
passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named
Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom : and
he saith unto lum. Follow me. And he arose,
and followed him. And it came to pass, as Jesus
sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans
and sinners came and sat down with him and
his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it,
they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your
Master with publicans and sinners ? But when
Jesus hei\rd that, he Siiid unto them. They that
be wdiole need not a physician, but they that are
sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I
will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not
come to call the righteous, but sinners to repent-
ance. Then came to him the disciples of John,
saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft,
but thy disciples fast not ? And Jesus said unto
them. Can the children of the bridechamber
mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them I
but the days will come, when the bridegroom
shall be taken from them, and then shall they
fast. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto
an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it
np taketh from the garment, and the rent is made
worse. Neither do men put new wine into old
bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine run-
neth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new
wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Jan. 16, Morn. S. MATTHEW, IX. JulijW, Even.
Jan. 16, Morning ; Jiily 19, Evening.
WHILE he spake these things unto them,
behold, there came a certain ruler, and
worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even
now dead : but come and lay thy hand upon her,
and she shall live. And Jesus arose, and fol-
lowed him, and so did his disciples. And,
behold, a woman, which was dise;^ed with an
issue of blood twelve years, came behind him^
and touched the hem of his garment : for she
said within herself, If I may but touch his gar-
ment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him
about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be
of good comfort ; thy faith hath made thee M'hole.
And the woman was made whole from that hour.
And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and
saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
he said unto them, Give place : for the maid is
not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to
scorn. But when the people were put forth, he
went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid
arose. And the fame hereof went abroad into
all that land. And when Jesus' departed thence,
two blind men followed him, crying, and saying,
Thou son of David, have mercy on us. And
when he was come into the house, the blind men
came to him : and Jesus saith unto them. Believe
ye that I am able to do this 1 They said unto
him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes,
saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
And their eyes were opened ; and Jesus straitly
charged them, saying, See that no man know %t.
But they, when they were departed, spread
abroad his fiime in all that country. As they
went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb
f
Jan. 17, Morn. S. MATTHEW, X. July 20, Even.
I man possessed with a devil. And when the devil
I was ctist out, the dumb spake : and the multi-
i tudes marvelled, saving, It was never so seen in
I Israel. But the Pnarisees said, He casteth out
j devils through the prince of the devils. And
Jesus went about all the cities and villages,
! teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the
gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sick-
: ness and every disease among the people. But
I when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
compassion on them, because they fainted, and
were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shep-
herd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The
harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are
few ; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,
that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
CHAPTER X.
Jan. 17, Morning ; July 20, Evening.
A ND when he had called unto him his twelve
J\, disciples, he gave them power iigainst un-
I clean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all
I manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
i Now the names of tlie twelves apostles are these ;
! The fii-st, Simon, who is called Peter, and An-
; drew his brother ; James the son of Zebedee, and
j John his brother ; Philip, and Bartholomew ;
Thomas, and ^Matthew the publican ; James Hie
son of Alphseus, and Lebb[eus, whose surname
was Thaddseus ; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas
Iscariot, who also betrayed him. These twelve
Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,
Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into
any city of the Samaritans enter ye not : but go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Ja7i. 17, Morn. S. MATTHEW, X. July 20, Even.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the
lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils : freely ye
have received, freely give. Provide neither gold,
nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for
your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes,
nor yet staves : for the workman is worthy of
his meat. And into whatsoever city or town ye
shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy ; and
there abide till ye go thence. And when ye
come into an house, salute it. And if the house
be worthy, let your peace come upon it : but if
it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear
your words, when ye depart out of that house or
city, shake oif the dust of your feet. Verily I
say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the
Lind of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of
judgment, than for that city. Behold, I send
you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be ye
therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
But beware of men : for they will deliver you
up to the councils, and they will scourge you in
their synagogues ; and ye shall be brought before
governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony
against them and the Gentiles. But when they
deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye
shall speak : for it shall be given you in that
same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not
ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father
which speaketh in you. And the brother shall
deliver up the brother to death, and the father
the child : and the children shall rise up against
their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
Jan. 1 8, Morn. S. MATTHEW, X. July 21 , Even.
sake : but he that endureth to the end shall be
saved. But when they persecute you in this city,
flee ye into another : for verily I say unto you,
Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel,
tni the Son of man be come.
Jan. 18, Morning; July 21, Evening.
THE disciple is not above his master, nor the
servant above his lord. It is enough for
the disciple that he be as his master, and the
servant as his lord. If they have aiUed the
master of the house Beelzebub, how much more
shall they call them of his household \ Fear
them not therefore : for there is nothing covered,
that shall not be revealed ; and hid, that shall
not be known. What I tell you in darkness,
that speak ye in light : and what ye hear in the
ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And
fear not them which kill the body, but are not
able to kill the soul : but rather fear him which
is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Are not two sparrows sold for a forthing ? and
one of them shall not fall on the ground ^vithout
your Father. But the very hairs of your head
are aU numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are
of more value than many sparrows. Whosoever
therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in hea-
ven. But whosoever shall deny me before men,
him will I also deny before my Father which is
in heaven. Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a
sword. For I am come to set a man at variance
against his father, and the daughter against her
mother, and the daughter in law against her
mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they
Jan. 19, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XI. July 22, Ecen.
of his own household. He that loveth father or
mother more than me is not worthy of me : and
he that loveth son or daughter more than me is
not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his
cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of
me. He that findeth his life shall lose it : and
he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that
reeeiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He
that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet
shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that
receiveth a righteous man in the name of a
righteous man shall receive a righteous man's
reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto
one of these little ones a cup of cold water only
in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you,
he shall in no wise lose Ms reward.
CHAPTER XI.
Jan. 19, Morning; Juli/ 22, Evening.
AND it came to pass, when Jesus had made
J\. an end of commanding his twelve disciples,
he departed thence to teach and to preach in
their cities. Now when John had he;ird in
the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his
disciples, and said unto him. Art thou he that
should come, or do we look for another ] Jesus
answered and said unto them, Go and shew John
again those things which ye do hear and see :
the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the
dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever
shall not be offended in me. And as they de-
parted, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes
noTs ■
Jan. 19, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XI. July 22, Eren.
concerning John, "What -went ye ont into the
wilderness to see ? A reed shaken with the
wind ? But what went ye out for to see ? A
man clothed in soft raiment ? behold, they that
wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. But
what went ye out for to see ? A prophet ? yea,
I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For
this is he, of. whom it is written, Behold, I send
my messenger before thy iace, which shall prepare
thy way before thee. Verily I say unto you,
Among them that are born of women there hath
not risen a greater than John the Baptist : not-
withstanding he that is least in the kingdom of
heaven is greater than he. And from the days
of John the Baptist iintil now the kingdom of
heaven suffereth violence, and the violent t<ike
it by force. For all the prophets and the law
prophesied until John. And if ye will receive
it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He that
hath ears to hear, let him hear. But whereunto
shall I liken this generation ? It is like unto
children sitting in the markets, and calling unto
their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto
you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned
unto you. and ye have not lamented. For John
came neither eating nor drinking, and they say,
He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating
and drinking, and they say, Behold a man glut-
tonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans
and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her
children. Then began he to upbraid the cities
wherein most of his mighty works were done,
because they repented not : Woe unto thee,
Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the
mighty works, which were done in you, had been
Jan. 20, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XII. Juhj 23, Even.
done in Tyre and Sidon,they would have repented
long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto
you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou,
Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt
be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works,
which have been done in thee, had been done in
Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
But I say unto you, That it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of
judgment, than for thee. At that time Jesus
answered and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prudent, and hast re-
vealed them unto babes. Even so. Father : for
so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are
delivered unto me of my Father : and no man
knoweth the Son, but the Father ; neither know-
eth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me ; for I am meek and lowly
in heart : and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
CHAPTER XII.
Jan. 20, Morning ; July 23, Evening.
AT that time Jesus went on the sabbath day
J\. through the corn ; and his disciples were
an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn,
and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it,
they said unto him. Behold, thy disciples do that
which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
But he said unto them. Have ye not read what
Jan. 20, Morn. S. 3IATTHEW, XII. July 23, Even.
David did, when he was an hiingred, and they
that were with hhn ; how he entered into the
house of God, and did eat the shew bread, which
was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them
which were with him, but only for the priests ?
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the
sabbath days the priests in the temple profane
the sabbath, and are blameless ? But I say unto
you, That in this place is 07ie greater than the
temple. But if ye had known what this mean-
eth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye
would not have condemned the guiltless. For
the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
And when he was departed thence, he went into
their synagogue : and, behold, there was a man
which had Ai.shand withered. And they asked
him, saying. Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath
days ? that they might accuse him. And he
said unto them, NVhat man shall there be among
you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into
a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on
it, and lift it out ? How much then is a man
better than a sheep ? Wherefore it is lawful to
do well on the sabbath days. Then saith he t^
the man. Stretch forth thine hand. And he
stretched it forth ; and it was restored whole,
like as the other. Then the Pharisees went out,
and held a council against him, how they might
destroy him. But when Jesus knew it, he with-
drew himself from thence : and great multitudes
followed him, and he healed them all ; and
charged them that they should not make him
known : that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Behold my
servant, whom I have chosen ; my beloved, in
Jan. 21, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XII. Juhj 24, Even.
■whom my soul is well pleased : I will put my
spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to
the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry ;
neither shall any man hear his voice in the
streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and
smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send
forth judgment unto victory. And in his name
shall the Gentiles trust.
Jan. 21, Morning; Jtthj 24, Evening.
THEN was brought unto him one possessed
with a devil, blind, and dumb : and he
liealed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb
both spake and saw. And all the people were
amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David ?
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said. This
felloiv doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub
the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their
thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to desolation ;
and every city or house divided against itself
shall not stand : and if Satan cast out Satan, he
is divided against himself; how shall then his
kingdom stand ? And if I by Beelzebub cast
} out devils, by whom do your children cast them
out ? therefore they shall be your judges. But
I if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the
kingdom of God is come unto you. Or else how
I can one enter into a strong man's house, and
I spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong
I man ? and then he will spoil his house. He that
I is not with me is against me ; and he that
j gathereth not with me sciittereth abroad. Where-
I fore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blas-
j phemy shall be forgiven unto men : but the
I blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be
Jan. 21, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XII. July 24, liven.
forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a
word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven
him : but whosoever speaketh against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, neither in the icorkl to come. Either
make the tree good, and his fruit good ; or else
make the tree corrupt, and his fruit. corrupt : for
the tree is known by his fruit. generation of
vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things ?
for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure
of the heart bringeth forth good things : and an
evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth
evil things. But I Siiy unto you, That every idle
word that men shall speak, they shall give
account thereof in the day of judgment. For by
thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy
words thou shalt be condemned. Then certain
of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
saying. Master, we would see a sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them. An evil
and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ;
and there shall no sign be given to it, but the
sign of the prophet Jonas : for as Jonas was
three days and three nights in the whale's belly ;
so sliall the Son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. The men of
Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this gene-
ration, and shall condemn it : because they re-
pented at the preaching of Jonas ; and, behold,
a greater than Jonas is here. The queen of the
south shall rise up in the judgment with this
generation, and shall condemn it : for she came
from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon ; and, behold, a greater thau
Jan. 22, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XIII. July 25, Even.
Solomon is here. When the unclean spirit is
gone out of a man, he walketh through dry-
places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he
saith, I will return into my house from whence
I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it
empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he,
and taketh with himself seven other spirits more
wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell
there : and the last state of that man is worse
than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this
wicked generation. While he yet talked to the
people, behold, his mother and hLs brethren stood
without, desiring to speak with him. Then one
said unto him. Behold, thy mother and thy
brethren stand without, desiring to speak with
thee. But he answered and said unto him that
told him. Who is my mother ? and who are my
brethren 1 And he stretched forth his hand
toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother
and my brethren ! For whosoever shall do the
will of my Father which is in heaven, the same
is my brother, and sister, and mother.
CHAPTER XIII.
Jan. 22, Morning ; July 25, Evening.
THE same day went Jesus out of the house,
and sat by the sea side. And great mul-
titudes were gathered together unto him, so that
he went into a ship, and sat ; and the whole
multitude stood on the shore. And he spake
many things unto them in parables, saying. Be-
hold, a sower went forth to sow ; and when he
sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the
fowls came and devoured them up : some fell
upon stony places, where they had not much
Jaji. 22, Mor?i. S. MATTHEW, XIII. July 25, Even.
earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because
they had no deepness of earth : and when the
sun was up, they were scorched ; and because
they had no root, they withered away. And
some fell among thorns ; and the thorns sprung
up, and choked them : but other fell into good
ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundred-
! fold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath
i ears to hear, let him hear. And the disciples
■ came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou
i unto them in parables ? He answered and said
I unto them. Because it is given unto you to know
I the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to
I them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to
I him shall be given, and he shall have more
; abundance : but whosoever hath not, from him
I shall be taken away even that he hath. There-
i fore speak I to them in parables : because they
seeing see not ; and hearing they hear not,
I neither do they understand. And in them is
' fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith. By
; hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ;
and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive :
for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their
; ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have
■ closed; lest at any time they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
■ understand with their heart, and should be con-
verted, and I should heal them. But blessed are
your eyes, for they see : and your ears, for they
hear. For verily I say unto you, That many
: prophets and righteous men have desired to see
those things which ye see, and have not seen
them; and to hear those things which ye hear,
■ and have not heard them. Hear ve therefore the
Jan. 23, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XIII. July 26, Even.
parable of the sower. When any one heareth
the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it
not, then conieth the wicked one, and catcheth
away that which Avas soAvn in his heart. This is
! he which received seed by the way side. Bnt he
that received the seed into stony places, the
same is he that heareth the word, and anon with
I joy roceiveth it ; yet hath he nut root in himself,
I but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or
persecution ariseth because of the word, by and
by he is offended. He also that received seed
among the thorns is he that heareth the word ;
and tiie care of this world, and the deceitfulness
of riches, choke the word, and he becometh un-
fruitful. But he that received seed into the good
ground is he that heareth" the word, and under-
standeth it ; which also beareth fruit, and
bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty,
some thirty.
Jan. 23, Morning ; July 26, Evening.
ANOTHER parable put he forth unto them,
_LJL saying. The kingdom of heaven is likened
unto a man which sowed good seed in his field :
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed
tares among the wheat, and went his way. But
when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth
fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the ser-
vants of the householder came and said unto
him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy
field ? from Avhence then hath it tares ? He said
unto them, An enemy hath done this. The
servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we
go and gather them up ? But he said, Nay ;
lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also
the wheat with them. Let both grow together
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Jan. 23, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XIII. July 26, Even,
until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I
will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first
the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them : but gather the wheat into my barn.
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of
mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in
his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds :
but when it i^ grown, it is the greatest among
herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of
the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Another parable spake he unto them ; The king-
dom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a
woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole wiis leavened. All these things
spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables ; and
without a parable spake he not unto them : that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in para-
bles ; I will utter things which have been kept
secret from the foundation of the world. Then
Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into
the house : and his disciples came unto him, say-
ing, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of
the field. He answered and said unto them, He
that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ;
the field is the world ; the good seed are the
children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the
children of the wicked 07ie ; the enemy that
sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the end
of the world ; and the reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned
in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of this
world. The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom
Jan. 24, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XIII. July 27, Even.
all things that offend, and them which do
iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace of
fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as
the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who
hath ears to hear, let him hear. Again, the king-
dom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a
field ; the which when a man hath found, he
hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all
that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again, the
kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found
one pearl of great price, went and sold all that
he had, and bought it. Again, the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a net, that was Ciist into the
sea, and gathered of every kind : which, when it
was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and
gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad
away. So shall it be at the end of the world :
the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked
from among the just, and shall cast them into the
furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth. Jesus saith unto them. Have ye
understood all these things ? They say unto him,
Yea, Lord. Then said he unto them, Therefore
i every scribe which is instructed unto the king-
I dom of heaven is like unto a inan that is an
\ householder, which bringeth forth out of his
treasure things new and old.
Jan. 24, Morning; July 27, Evening.
AND it came to pass, that when Jesus had
j\. finished these parables, he departed thence.
And when he was come into his own country, he
taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that
they were astonished, and said. Whence hath
Jan. 24, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XIV. July 27, Even,
this man this wisdom, and these mighty works ?
Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother
called Mary ? and his brethren. James, and Jo-
ses, and Simon, and Judas ? And his sisters,
are they not all with us ? Whence then hath
this man all these things? And they were
offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A
prophet is not without honour, save in his own
country, and in his own house. And he did not
many mighty works there because of their un-
belief.
CHAPTER XIY.
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the
fame of Jesus, and said unto his servants. This
is John the Baptist ; he is risen from the dead ;
and therefore mighty works do shew forth them-
selves in him. For Herod had laid hold on John,
and bound him, and put him in prison for Hero-
dias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. For John
said unto him, It is not hiAvful for thee to have
her. And when he would have put him to
de<ith, he feared the multitude, because they
counted him as a prophet. But when Herod's
birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias
danced before them, and pleased Herod. Where-
upon he promised with an oath to give her what-
soever she would ask. And she, being before
instructed of her mother, said, Give me here
John Baptist's head in a charfrer. And the king
was sorry : nevertheless for the oath's sake, and
them which sat with him at meat, he commanded
it to be given her. And he sent, and beheaded
John in Uie prison. And his head was brought
in a charger, and given to the damsel : and she
brought it to her mother. And his disciples
Jan. 2G, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XIV. July 28, Even.
came, and took up the body, aud buried it, and
went and told Jesus.
Jan. 26, Morning; July 28, Evening.
WHEN Jesus heard ofit^ he departed thence
by ship into a desert place apart : and
when the people had heard thereof, they followed
him on foot out of the cities. And Jesus went
forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved
with compassion toward them, and he healed
their sick. And when it was evening, his dis-
ciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place,
and the time is now past ; send the multitude
away, that they may go into the villages, and
buy themselves victuals. But Jesus said unto
them, They need not depart ; give ye them to
eat. And they say unto him. We have here but
five loaves, and two fishes. He said. Bring them
hither to me. And he commanded the multi-
tude to sit down on the grass, and took the five
loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to
heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves
to his disciples, and the disciples to the multi-
tude. And they did all eat, and were filled :
and they took up of the fragments that remained
twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten
were about five thousand men, beside women
and children. And straightway Jesus constrained
his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before
him unto the other side, while he sent the mul-
titudes away. And when he had sent the mul-
titudes away, he went up into a mountain apart
to pray : and when the evening was come, he
was there alone. But the ship was now in the
midst of the sea., tossed with waves : for the
wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of
Ja7i. 27, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XV. Jult/ 29, Eccn. I
the night Jesus Trent unto them, walking on the '
sea. And when the disciples saw hiin walking on
the sea. they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit ;
and they cried out for fear. But straightway
Jesus spake unto them, saying. Be of good cheer ;
it is I ; be not afraid. And Peter answered him
and said. Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto
thee on the water. And he said. Come. And
when Peter was come down out of the ship, he
walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when
he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid ; and
begiuning to sink, he cried, saying. Lord, save
me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his
hand, and caught him. and said unto him, thou
of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt ? And
when they M'ere come into the ship, the wind
ceased. Then they that were in the ship came
and worshipped him. saying. Of a truth thou art
the Son of God. And wlien they were gone
over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.
And when the men of that place hiid knowledge
of him, they sent out into all that country round
about, and brought unto him all that were
diseased ; and besought him that they might
only touch the hem of his garment : and as
many as touched were made perfectly whole.
CHAPTER XV.
Jan. 27, Morning ; July 29, Evening.
THEN came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees,
which were of Jerusalem, saying. Why do
thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders'?
for they wash not their hands when they eat
bread. But he answered and said unto them,
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of
Jan. 27, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XV. Juhj 29, Evm.
God by your tradition ? For God commanded,
saying, Honour thy father and mother : and, He
that curseth father or mother, let him die the
death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his
father or his mother. It is a gift, by whatsoever
thou mightest be profited by me ; and honour
not his father or his mother, he shall be free.
Thus have ye made the commandment of God of
none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites,
well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This
people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
and honoureth me with their lips ; but their
heart is far from me. Bat in vain they do wor-
ship me, teaching for doctrines the command-
ments of men. And he called the multitude,
and said unto them. Hear, and understand : not
that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man ;
but that which cometh out of the mouth, this
defileth a man. Then came his disciples, and
said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees
were ofiended, after they heard this saying ? But
he answered and said. Every plant, which my
heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted
up. Let them alone : they be blind leaders of
the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both
shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter
and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
And Jesus said. Are ye also yet without under-
standing ? Do not ye yet understand, that wliat-
soever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the
belly, and is cast out into the draught ? But
those things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart ; and they defile the
man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false
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Jan. 23, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XY. July 30, Ercn.
•witness, blasphemies : these are the things which
defile a man : but to eut \vith unwashen hands
defileth not a man.
Jan. 28, Jlorninor ; Juhj 30, Evening.
THEN Jesus went thence, and departed into
the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, be-
hold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same
coasts, and cried unto him, sayincr, Have mercy
on me, Lord, thou son of David ; my daughter
is grievously vexed with a devil. But he an-
swered her not a word. And his disciples came
and besouffht him, saying, Send her away ; for
she crieth after us. Bat he answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel. Then Ciime she and worshipped
him, saying. Lord, help me. But he answered
and said. It is not meet to t;ike the children's
bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said,
Truth, Lord : yet the dogs eat of the crumbs
•which fall from their masters' table. Then Je-
sus answered and said unto her, woman, great
is thy faith : be it unto thee even as thou wilt
And her daughter was made whole from that
very hour. And Jesus departed from thence,
and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee ; and
•went up into a mountain, and sat down there.
And great multitudes came unto him, having
with them those that were lame, blind, dumb,
maimed, and many others, and cast them down
at Jesus' feet ; and he healed them : insomuch
that the multitude wondered, when they saw the
dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the
lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they
glorified the God of Israel. Then Jesus called
his disciples unto him, and said, I have com-
]
I Jan. 29, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XVI. July 31, Even.
I pa<=;sion on the multitude, because they continue
A\ ith me now three days, and have nothing to
cat : and I will not send them away fasting, lest
they faint in the way. And his disciples say
unto him, Whence should we have so much
bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a mul-
titude ? And Jesus saith unto them, How many
loaves have ye ? And they said, Seven, and a
few little fishes. And he commanded the mul-
titude to sit down on the ground. And he took
the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks,
and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and
the disciples to the multitude. And they did
all eat, and were filled : and they took up of the
broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
And they that did eat were four thousand men,
beside women and children. And he sent away
the multitude, and took ship, and came into the
coasts of Magdala.
CHAPTER XVI.
Jan. 29, Morning ; July 31, Evening.
THE Pharisees also with the Sadducees came,
and tempting desired him that he would
shew them a sign from heaven. He answered
and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say,
It will be fair weather : for the sky is red. And
in the morning. It will be foul weather to day :
for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypo-
crites, ye can discern the face of the sky ; but
can ye not discern the signs of the times ? A
wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after
a sign ; and there shall no sign be given unto it,
but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left
them, and departed. And when his disciples
Jan. 29, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XVI. JnlySl, Even.
were come to the other side, they had forgotten
to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them,
Take heed and beware of the leiiven of the j
Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And they j
reasoned among; themselves, sayincr, Jt is because j
-sve have taken no bread. Which when Jesus j
perceived, he said unto them, ye of little faith, !
why reason ye among yourselves, because ye !
have brought no bread ? Do ye not yet under-
stand, neither remember the five loaves of the
five thousand, and how many baskets ye took
up ] Neither the seven loaves of the four thou-
sand, and how many baskets ye took up I How
is it that ye do not understand that I spake it
not to you concerning bread, that ye should
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees ] Then understood they how that
he bade them not beware of the leaven of bretid,
but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees. When Jesus amie into the coasts
of Ciesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, say-
ing, Whom do men say that I the Son of man
am ? And they said. Some say that thou art
John the Baptist : some, Elias ; and others,
Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto
them. But whom say ye that lam ? And Simon
Peter answered and said. Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered
and said unto him. Blessed art thou, Simon
Bar-jona : for flesh and blood hath not revealed
it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto thee. That thou art Peter,
and upon this rock 1 will build my church ; and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the king-
Jan. 30, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XVII. Aug. 1, Even^
dom of heaven : and whatsoever thou shalt bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven : and what-
soever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed
in heaven. Then charged he his disciples thai
they should tell no man that he was Jesus
the Christ. From that time forth began Jesus
to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go
unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the
elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
killed, and be raised again the third day. Then
Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, say-
ing. Be it far from thee, Lord : this shall not be
unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter,
Get thee behind me, Satan : thou art an offence
unto me : for thou savourest not the things that
be of God, but those that be of men.
Jan. 30, Morning ; Aufj. 1, Evening.
THEN said Jesus unto his disciples, If any
man will come after me, let him deny him-
self, and take up his cross, and follow me. For
whosoever will save his life shall lose it : and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find
it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul ? or what j
shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? For
the Son of man shall come in the glory of his
Father with his angels ; and then he shall reward
every man according to his works. Verily I say
unto you. There be some standing here, which
shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of
man coming in his kingdom.
CHAPTER XVII.
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James,
and John his brother, and bringeth them up into
an high mountain apart, and was transfigured
Jan. 31, May-n. S. MATTHEW, XVII. Aug. 2, Et;en.
before them : and his face did shine as the sun,
and his raiment was white as the light. And,
behold, there appeared unto them Moses and
Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter,
and said unto Jesus. Lord, it is good for us to
be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three
tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses,
and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold,
a bright cloud overshadowed them : and behold
a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased ; hear
ye him. And when the disciples heard ii, they
fell on their lace, and were sore afraid. And
Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise,
and be not afraid. And when they had lifted
up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
And as they came down from the mountain,
Jesus charged them, saying. Tell the vision to no
man, until the Son of man be risen again from the
dead. And his disciples asked him, saying. Why
then say the scribes that Elias must first come ?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias
truly shall first come, and restore all things. But
I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and
they knew him not, but have done unto him
whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the
Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples
understood that he spake unto them of John the
Baptist.
Jan. 31, Morning; Aug. 2, Evening.
4 XD wlien they were come to the multitude,
jl\. there came to him a certain man, kneeling
down to him, and saying. Lord, have mercy on
my son : for he is lunatick, and sore vexed :
for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into
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Jan. ?A, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XVII. Aiig. 2, Even.
the water. And I brought him to thy disciples,
and they could not cure him. Then Jesus an-
swered and said, O faithless and perverse gene-
ration, how long shall I be with you ? how long
shall I suffer you ? bring him hither to me. And
Jesus rebuked the devil ; and he departed out
of him : and the child was cured from that very
hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart,
and said. Why could not we ciist him out ? And
Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief :
for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a
grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this
mountain, E^move hence to yonder place ; and
it shall remove ; and nothing shall be impossible
unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but
by prayer and fasting. And while they abode
in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of
man shall be betrayed into the hands of men :
and they shall kill him, and the third day he
shall be raised again. And they were exceeding
sorry. And when they were come to Capernaum,
they that received tribute money came to Peter,
and said, Doth not your m.ister pay tribute ?
He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the
house, Jesus prevented him, saying. What think-
est thou, Simon ? of whom do the kings of the
earth take custom or tribute ] of their own chil-
dren, or of strangers ? Peter saith unto him. Of
strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the
children free. Notwithstanding, lest we should
offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook,
and take up the fish that first cometh up ; and
when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt
find a piece of money : that take, and give unto
them for me and thee.
Fth. 1, Morn. S. MATTHE^Y, XVIII. Aug. 3, Even.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Feb. 1, Morning; Aug. 3, Evening.
AT the same time came the disciples unto
J\. Jesus, saying, AVho is the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven ] And Jesus called a little
child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
and. said, Verily I say unto you. Except ye be
j converted, and become as little children, ye shall
I not enter into the kingdom of heixven. Whoso-
ever therefore shall humble himself as this little
child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little
child in my name receiveth me. But whoso
shall oflfend one of these little ones which believe
in me, it were better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck, and that he were i
drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the
world because of ottences ! for it must needs be
tliiit oftences come ; but woe to that man by
whom the offence cometh ! Wherefore if thy
h;md or thy foot offend, thee, cut them off', and
cast 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 cast 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 cast into hell fire. Take heed that ye
despise not one of these little ones ; for I say
unto you. That in heaven their angels do always
behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
For the Son of man is come to save that which
was lost. How think ye ? if a man have an
hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray,
doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth
Fib. 2, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XVIII. Aug. A, Even.
into the mountains, and seeketh that which is
L-^one astray % And if so be that he find it, verily
1 say unto you, he rejoice th more of that sheep ^
than of the ninety and nine which went not
astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father
M'hich is in heaven, that one of these little ones
should perish. Moreover if thy brother shall
Trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault
Ijc tween thee and him alone : if he shall hear
thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he
A\ ill not hear thee, then take with thee one or
t\vo more, that in the mouth of two or three
V, itnesses every word may be established. And
ir he shall nei^lect to hear them, tell it unto the
church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let
him be unto thee as an heathen man and a
publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever
ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven :
and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That
if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for
them of my Father which is in heaven. For
where two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.
Fth. 2, Morning ; Aug. 4, Evening.
THEN came Peter to him, and said. Lord,
how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him ? till seven times ? Jesus
saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven,
times : but. Until seventy times seven. Therefore
is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain
king, which would take account of his servants.
And when he had begun to reckon, one was
brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand
Ftb. 2, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XIX. Aug. 4, Even.
talents. Bat fonismiich as he had not to pay,
his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife,
and children, and all that he had, and payment
to be made. The servant therefore fell down,
and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience
with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord
of that servant w;is moved with compassion, and
loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the
same servant went out, and found one of his
fellowservants, which owed him an hundred
pence : and he laid hands on him, and took him
by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
And his fellowserv^ant fell down at his feet, and
I besought him, saying. Have patience with me,
and I will pay thee all. And he would not : but
went and axst him into prison, till he should
pay the debt. So when his fellowservants saw
what was done, they were very sorry, and came
and told unto their lord all that was done. Tiien
his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him,
thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that
debt, because thou desiredst me : shouldest not
thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-
j servant, even as I had pity on tliee ? And his
I lord w\as wroth, and delivered him to the tor-
! mentors, till he should pay all that was due unto
I him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do
also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not
every one his brother their trespasses.
CHAPTER XIX.
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had
finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee,
and came into the coasts of Judsea beyond Jor-
dan ; and great multitudes followed him ; -and }
he healed theiu there. i
Feb. 3, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XIX. Aug. 5, Even.
Feb. 3, Morning; Aug. 5, Evening.
THE Pharisees also came unto him, tempting
him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for
a man to put away his wife for every cause ?
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye
not read, that he which made them at the begin-
ning made them male and female, and said, For
this cause shall a man leave father and mother,
and shall cleave to his wife : and they twain
shall be one flesh ? Wherefore they are no more
twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder. They
say unto him, Why did Moses then command to
give a writing of divorcement, and to put her
away^? He saith unto them, Moses because of
the hardness of your hearts sufiered you to put
away your wives : but from the beginning it
was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever
shall put away his wife, except it he for fornica-
tion, and shall marry another, committeth adul-
tery : and whoso marrieth her which is put away
doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto
him. If the case of the man be so with his wife,
it is not good to marry. But he said unto them,
All men cannot receive this saying, save they to
whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs,
which were so bom from their mother's womb :
and there are some eunuchs, which were made
eunuchs of men : and there be eunuchs, which
have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom
of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it,
let him receive it. Then were there brought
unto him little children, that he should put his
hands on them, and pray : and the disciples
rebuked them. But Jesus said, Sufiier little
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children, and forbid them not, to come unto me :
for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he
laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good
Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may
have eternal life \ And he said unto him, Why
callest thou me good ? Oure is- none good but
one, that is, God : but if thou wilt enter into life,
keep the commandments. He saith unto him,
Wliich ? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder,
Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not
steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honour
thy father and thij mother: and» Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself. The young man saith
Tinto him. All these things have I kept from my
youth up : what lack I yet ? Jesus said unto
him. If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that
•thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven : and come arid follow
me. But when the young man heard that saying,
he went away sorrowful : for he had great pos-
sessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples.
Verily I say unto you. That a rich man shall
hardly enter into the kingdom of hciiven. And
again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich
man to enter into the kingdom of God. When
his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly
amazed, saying. Who then can be saved ? But
Jesus beheld thein, and said unto them, With
men this is impossible ; but with God all things
are possible.
Feb. 4, 3Iorninff ; Aug. 6, Evening.
THEN answered Peter and said unto him,
Behold, we have forsaken aU, and followed
Feb. 4, Alorn. S. MATTHEW. XX. Aug. G, Even.
thee ; what shall we have therefore ? And Jesus
said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye
which have followed me, in the regeneration
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of
his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every
one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an
hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
But many that are first shall be last ; and the
last shall be first.
CHAPTER XX.
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
that is an householder, which went out early in
the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
And when he had agreed with the labourers for
a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
And he went out about the third hour, and saw
others standing idle in the marketplace, and said
unto them ; Go ye also into the vineyard, and
whatsoever is right I will give you. And they
went their way. Again he went out about the
sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And
about the eleventh hour he went out, and found
others standing idle, and saith unto them. Why
stand ye here all the day idle ? They say unto
him. Because no man hath hired us. He saith
unto them. Go ye also into the vineyard ; and
whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So
when even was come, the lord of the vineyard
saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and
give them their hire, beginning from the last
unto the first. And when they came thi^t were
Feb. 5, M(/rn. S. MATTHEW, XX. Aug. 7, Even.
hired about the eleventh hour, they received
ever}' man a penny. But when the first came,
they supposed that they should have received
more ; and they likewise received every man a
penny. And when they had received it^ they mur-
mured against the goodman of the house, saying,
These last have wrought hut one hour, and thou
hast made them equal unto us. which have borne
the burden and heat of the day. But he answered
one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no
wrong : didst not thou agree with me for a
penny ? Take that thine is, and go thy way : I
will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it
not lawful for me to do what I will with mine
own ? Is thine eye evil, because I am good ?
So the last shall be first, and the first last : for
many be called, but few chosen.
Fth. 5, Morning ; Aug. 7, Evening.
AND Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the
J\. twelve disciples apart in the way, and said
unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem ; and
the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief
priests and unto the scribes, and they shall con-
demn him to death, and shall deliver him to the
Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify
hira : and the third day he shall rise again.
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's chil-
dren with her sons, worshipping /jiw,and desiring
a certain thing of him. And he said unto her,
What wilt thou ? She saith unto him, Grant
that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy
right hand, and the other on the left, in thy
kingdom. But Jesus answered and said, Ye
know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of
Feb. 5, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XX. Aug. 7, Even.
the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized
with the baptism that I am baptized with ? They
say unto him, We are able. And he saith unto
them. Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be
baptized with the baptism that I am baptized
with : but to sit on my right hand, and on my
left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to
them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
And when the ten heard it, they were moved
with indignation against the two brethren. But
Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know
that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion
over them, and they that are great exercise
authority upon them. But it shall not be so
among you : but whosoever will be great among
you, let him be your minister ; and whosoever
will be chief among you, let him be your servant :
even as the Son of man came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a
ransom for many. And as they departed from
Jericho, a great multitude followed him. And,
behold, two blind men sitting by the way side,
when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out,
saying. Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son
of David. And the multitude rebuked them,
because they should hold their peace : but they
cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O
Lord, thou son of David. And Jesus stood still,
and called them, and said, What will ye that I
shall do unto you ? They say unto him. Lord,
that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had
compassion on them, and touched their eyes :
and immediately their eyes received sight, and
they followed him.
Feb. 6, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXI. Aug. 8, Everu
CHAPTER XXI.
Feb. 6, Morning; Aug. 8, Evening.
AND when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem,
JLA. and were come to Bethphage, unto the
mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
saying unto them, Go into the village over
against you, and straightway ye shall find an
ass tied, and a colt with her : loose them, and
bring them unto me. And if any man say ought
unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of
them ; and straightway he will send them. All
this was done, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophet, saying. Tell ye the
daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto
thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt
the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and
did as Jesus commanded them, and brought
the ass, and the colt, and put on them their
clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very
great multitude spread their garments in the
way ; others cut down branches from the trees,
and strawed thevi in the way. And the multitudes
that went before, and that followed, cried, saying,
Hosanna to the son of David : Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord ; Hosanna in
the highest. And when he was come into Jeru-
salem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is
this ? And the multitude said. This is Jesus the
prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went
into the temple of God, and cast out all them
that sold and bought in the temple, and over-
threw the tables of the moneychangers, and the
seats of them that sold doves, and said unto
them. It is written, My house shall be called the
house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of
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thieves. And the blind and the lame came to
him in the temple ; and he healed them. And
when the chief priests and scribes saw the won-
derful things that he did, and the children crying
in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of
David ; they were sore displeased, and said unto
him, Hearest thou what these say ? And Jesus
saith unto them. Yea ; have ye never read, Out
of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast
perfected praise ? And he left them, and went
out of the city into Bethany ; and he lodged
there. Now in the morning as he returned into
the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig
tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing
thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it. Let no
fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And
presently the fig tree withered away. And when
the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying. How
soon is the fig tree withered away ! Jesus
answered and said unto them. Verily I say unto
you. If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not
only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also
if ye shall say unto this mountain. Be thou
removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; it shall
be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall
ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Feb. 7, Morning; Aug. 9, Evening.
A ND when he was come into the temple, the
jL\. chief priests and the elders of the people
came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By
what authority doest thou these things ? and
who gave thee this authority ? And Jesus
answered and said unto them, I also will ask
you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise
will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Feb. 7, Morn. S. 3IATTHEW, XXI. Aug. 9. Even.
The biiptLsm of John, whence was it ? from
heaven, or of men ? And they reasoned with
themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven ;
he. will say unto us, Why did ye not then
believe him ? But if we shall say, Of men ; we
fear the people ; for all hold John as a prophet.
And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot
telL And he said unto them, Neither tell I you
by what authority I do these things. But what
think ye ? A certain man had two sons ; and
he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to
day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I
will not : but afterward he repented, and went.
And he came to the second, and said likewise.
And he answered and said, I ^o, sir : and went
not. Whether of them twain did the will of his
father ? They say unto him. The first. Jesus
saith unto them. Verily I say unto you. That the
publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom
of God before you. For John came unto you in
the way of righteousness, and ye believed him
not : but the publicans and the harlots believed
him : and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not
afterward, that ye "might believe him. Hear
another parable : There was a certain house-
holder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it
round about, and digged a winepress in it, and
built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and
went into a far country : and when the time of
the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the
husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits
of it. And the husbandmen took his servants,
and beat one, and killed another, and stoned
another. Again, he sent other servants more
than the first : and they did unto them likewise.
feb. 8, Jl/orn. S. MATTHEW, XXII. Aug. 10, Even.
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying.
They will reverence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they said among them-
selves, This is the heir ; come, let us kill him,
and let us seize on his inheritance. And they
caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard,
and slew him. When the lord therefore of the
vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those
husbandmen? They say unto him, He will
miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let
out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which
shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the
scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected,
the same is become the head of the corner : this
is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our
eyes ? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom
of God shall be taken from you, and given to a
nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And
whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be
broken : but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will
grind him to powder. And when the chief
priests and Pharisees had heard his parables,
they perceived that he spake of them. But
when they sought to lay hands on him, they
feared the multitude, because they took him for
a prophet.
CHAPTER XXII.
Feb. 8, Morning; Aug. 10, Evening.
AND Jesus answered and spake unto them
x\. again by parables, and said. The kingdom
of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made
a marriage for his son, and sent forth his ser-
vants to call them that were bidden to the
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wedding : and they would not come. Again, he
sent forth other servants, saying. Tell them which
are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner :
my oxen and viy fatlings are killed, and all
things are ready : come unto the marriage. But
they made light of if, and went their ways, one
to his farm, another to his merchandise : and the
remnant took his servants, and entreated them
spitefully, and slew them. But when the king
heard thereof, he was wroth : and he sent forth
his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and
burned up their city. Then saith he to his
servants, The wedding is ready, but they which
were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore
into the highways, and as many as ye shall find,
bid to the marriage. So those sers'ants went out
into the highways, and gathered together all as
many as they found, both bad and good : and
the wedding was furnished with guests. And
when the king came in to see the guests, he saw
there a man which had not on a wedding ga]>
ment : and he saith unto him, Friend, how
earnest thou in hither not having a wedding
garment \ And he was speechless. Then said
the king to the servants, Bind him hand and
foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer
darkness ; there shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth. For many are called, but few are
chosen.
Feb. 9, Morning; Aug. 11, Evening.
THEN went the Pharisees, and took counsel
how they might entangle him in his talk.
And they sent out unto him their disciples with
the Herodians, saying. Master, we know that
thou art true, and teachest the way of God in
Feb. 9, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXII. Aug. 11, Even,
truth, neither carest thou for any man : for thou
regardest not the person of men. Tell us there-
fore, What thinkest thou ? Is it lawful to give
tribute unto Caesar, or not ? But Jesus perceived
their wickedness, and said. Why tempt ye me,
ye hypocrites ? Shew me the tribute money.
And they brought unto him a penny. And he
saith unto them. Whose is this image and super-
scription ? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then
saith he unto them. Render therefore unto Caesar
the things which are Ceesar's ; and unto God the
things that are God's. When they had heard
these words, they marvelled, and left him, and
went their way. The same day c;ime to him
the Sadducees, which say that there is no resur-
rection, and asked him, saying. Master, Moses
said. If a man die, having no children, his
brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed
unto his brother. Now there were with us seven
brethren : and the first, when he had married a
wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife
unto his brother : likewise the second also, and
the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the
woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection
whose wife shall she be of the seven ? for they
all had her. Jesus answered and said unto them.
Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the
power of God. For in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but
are as the angels of God in heaven. But as
touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye
not read that which was spoken unto you by
God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is
not the God of the dead, but of the living. And
Feb. 10, Mom. S. ^lATTHEW, XXIII. Aug. 12, Even.
when the multitude heard this, they were as-
tonished at his doctrine. But when the Pharisees
had heard that he had put the Sadducees to
silence, they were gathered together. Then one
of them, ivhich was a lawyer, asked him a ques-
tion, tempting him, and saying, Master, which
is the great commandment in the law ? Jesus
said unto him. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great
commandment. And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On
these two commandments hang all the law and
the prophets.
Feb. 10, Morning; Aug. 12, Evening.
WHILE the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye
I of Christ i whose son is he ? They say unto
him, The son of David. He saith unto them,
How then doth David in spirit call him Lord,
saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on
my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy
footstool ? If David then call him Lord, how is
he his son ? And no man was able to answer
him a word, neither durst any rjmji from that
day forth ask him anv more questions.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his
disciples, saying. The scribes and the Pharisees
sit in Moses^ seat : all therefore whatsoever they
bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do
not ye after their works : for they say, and do
not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous
to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders ;
but they themselves wiU not move them with one
Feb. 11, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXIII. Aug. 13, Even.
of their fingers. But all their works they do for
to be seen of men : they make broad their phy-
lacteries, and enlarge the borders of their gar-
ments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts,
and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greet-
ings in the markets, and to be called of men,
Eabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye cjiUed Rabbi : for
one is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are
brethren. And call no man your father upon
the earth : for one is your Father, which is in
heaven. Neither be ye called masters : for one
is your Master, even Christ. But he that is
greatest among you shall be your servant. And
whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased ;
and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
F>^b. 11, Morning; Aug. 13, Evening.
BUT woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ! for ye shut up the kingdom of
heaven against men : for ye neither go in your-
selves^ neither sufier ye them that are entering to
go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ! for ye devour widows' houses, and
for a pretence make long prayer : therefore ye
shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye
compass sea and laud to make one proselyte, and
when he is made, ye make him twofold more the
child of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you,
ye blind guides, which say. Whosoever shall
swear by the temple, it is nothing ; but whoso-
ever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is
a debtor ! Ye fools and blind : for whether is
greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth
the gold ? And, Whosoever shall swear by the
altar, it is nothing ; but whosoever sweareth by
Ftb. M, Mom. S. 3IATTHEW, XXin. Aug. \B, Even.
the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. Ye fools
and blind : for whether is greater, the gift, or the
altar that sanctifieth the gift ? Whoso therefore
shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by
all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by
the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that
dwelleth therein. And he that shall swear by
heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by
him that sitteth thereon. Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of
mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted
the weightier matters of the law, judgment,
mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done,
and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind
guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a
camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ! for ye make clean the outside of the
cup and of the platter, but within they are full
of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within the cup and
platter, that the outside of them may be clean
also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ! for ye are like unto whited sepul-
chres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but
are within full of dead men's bones, and of all
uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but within ye are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the
tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres
of the righteous, and say. If we had been in the
days of our fathers, we would not have been
partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that
ye are the children of them which killed the
Feb. 12, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXIV. Aug. 14, Even.
prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets,
and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye
shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye
scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them
from city to city : that upon you may come all
the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from
the blood of righteous Abel unt-o the blood of
Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew be-
tween the temple and the altar. Verily I say
unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that
killest the prophets, and stonest them which are
sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered
thy children together, even as a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and ye would not !
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
For I say unto you. Ye shall not see me hence-
forth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh
iu the name of the Lord.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Feb. 12, Morning; Aug. 14, Evening.
AND Jesus went out, and departed from the
J\. temple : and his disciples came to him for
to shew him the buildings of the temple. And
Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these
things ? verily I say unto you. There shall not
be left here one stone upon another, that shall
not be thrown down. And as he sat upon the
mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying. Tell us, when shall these things
be ? and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
Feb. 12, Mom. S. MATTHEW", XXIV. Aug. 14, Evert.
and of the ead of the world ? And Jesus an-
swered and said unto them, Take heed that no
man deceive you. For many shall come in my
name, saying, I am Clirist ; and shall deceive
many. And ye shall heiir of wars and rumours
of wars : see that ye be not troubled : for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is
not yet. For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom : and there shall
be fiimines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in
divers places. Ail these are the beginning of
sorrows.. Then shall they deliver you up to bo
afflicted, and shall kill you : and ye shall be
hated of all nations for my name's sake. And
then shall many be offended, and shall betray
one another, and shall hate one another. And
many felse prophets shall rise, and shall deceive
many. And because iniquity shall abound, the
love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall
endure unto, the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preach-
ed in all the world for a Avitness unto all nations :
and then shall the end come. When ye there-
fore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the
holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand :)
then let them which be in Judaea flee into the
mountains : let him which is on the housetop not
come down to take any thing out of his house :
neither let him which is in the field return back
to take his clothes. And woe unto them that
are with child, and to them that give suck in
those days ! But pray ye that your flight be not
in the winter, neither on the sabbath day : for
then shall be great tribulation, such as was not
Feb. n, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXIV. Aug. 15, Even.
since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be. And except those days
should be shortened, there should no flesh be
saved : but for the elect's sake those days shall
be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto
you, Lo, here is Christ, or there ; believe it not.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false pro-
phets, and shall shew great signs and wonders ;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you
before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you,
Behold, he is in the desert ; go not forth : be-
hold, he is in the secret chambers ; believe it not.
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and
shineth even unto the west ; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever
the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
Feb. 13, Morning ; Aug. 15, Evening.
IMMEDIATELY after the tribulation of those
days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heavens
shall be shaken : and then shall appear the sign
of the Son of man in heaven : and then shall all
the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory. And he shall send
his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and
they shall gather together his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When his
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye
know that siunmer is nigh : so likewise ye, when
ye shall see all these things, know that it is near.
Feb. 13, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXIV. Aug, 15, Ecen.
even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things be i
fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but j
my words shall not pass away. But of that day i
and hour knoweth no man^ no, not the angels of !
heaven, but my Father only. But as the days !
of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son j
of man be. For as in the days that were before I
the flood they were eating and drinking, marry-
ing and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noe entered into the ark. and knew not until the
flood came, and took them all away ; so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be. Then
shall two be in the field ; the one shall be taken,
and the other left. Two women shall be grind-
ing at the mill ; the one shall be taken, and the
other left. Watch therefore : for ye know not
what hour your Lord doth come. But know
this, that if the goodman of the house had known
in what watch the thief would come, he would
have watched, and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also
ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the
Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and
wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler i
over his household, to give them meat in due
season ? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord
when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I
say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over
ali his goods. But and if that evil servant shall
say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming ;
and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and
to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of
that servant shall come in a day when he looketh
not for him, and in an hour that he is not awjire
Feb. 14, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXV. Aug. 16, Even.
of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him,
his portion with the hypocrites : there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
CHAPTER XXV.
Feb. 14, Morning: Aug. 16, Evening.
THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be likened
unto ten virgins, which took their lamps,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And
five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took
no oil with them : but the wise took oil in their
vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom
tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at
midnight there was a cry made. Behold, the
bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their
lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give
us of your oil ; for our lamps are gone out. But
the wise answered, saying, Not so ; lest there be
not enough for us and you : but go ye rather to
them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And
while they went to buy, the bridegroom came ;
and they that were ready went in with him to
the marriage : and the door was shut. After-
ward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord,
Lord, open to us. But he answered and said.
Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch
therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the
hour wherein the Son of man cometh. For the
kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a
far country, who called his own servants, and
delivered unto them his goods. And unto one
he gave five talents, to another two, and to
another one ; to every man according to his
Feb. 14, M(ym. S. BIATTHEW, XXV. Aug. 16, Even.
several ability ; and straightway took his jour-
ney. Then he that had received the five talents
went and traded with the same, and made them
other five talents. And likewise he that had.
received two, he also gained other two. But he
that had received one went and digged in the
earth, and hid his lord's money. After a long time
the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth
with them. And so he that had received five
talents came and brought other five talents,
saying. Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents :
behold, I have gained beside them five talents
more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thau
good and faithful servant : thou hast been faith-
ful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things : enter thou into the joy of thy
lord. He also that had received two talents
came and said. Lord, thou deliveredst unto me
two talents : behold, I have gained two other
talents beside them. His lord said unto him,
Well done, good and faithful servant ; thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
ruler over many things : enter thou into the joy
of thy lord. Then he which had received the
one talent came and said. Lord, I knew thee
that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou
hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast
not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and
hid thy talent in the earth ; lo, there thou hast
that is thine. His lord answered and said unto
him, Thou wicked and slothful serv^ant, thou
knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and
gather where I have not strawed : thou oughtest
therefore to have put my money to the exchang-
ers, and then at my coming I should have re-
Feb. 15, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXV. Awj. 17, Even.
ceived mine own with usury. Take therefore
the talent from him, and give it unto him which
hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath
shall be given, and he shall have abundance :
but from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he hath. And cast ye
the unprofitable servant into outer darkness :
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Feb. 15, Morning ; Aug. 17, Evening.
WHEN the Son of man shall come in his
glory, and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory : and
before him shall be gathered all nations : and he
shall separate them one from another, as a shep-
herd divideth his sheep from the goats : and he
shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto
them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world : for I was an
hungred, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty,
and ye gave me drink : I Wcis a stranger, and ye
took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was
sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye
came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred,
and fed thee ? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ?
or naked, and clothed thee 'i or when saw we thee
sick, or in prison, and came unto thee % And
the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily
I say unto you. Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me. Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand. Depart from me, ye
Feb. 16, Mortu S. MATTHEW, XXVI. Aug. 18, Even.
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the
devil and his angels : for I was an hungred, and
ye gave me no meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave
me no drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me
not in : naked, and ye clothed me not : sick, and
in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall
they also answer him, saying. Lord, when saw
we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or
naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister
unto thee i Then shall he answer them, saying,
Verily I say unto you. Inasmuch as ye did it
not to one of the lea-st of these, ye did it not to
me. And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment : but the righteous into life eternal.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Feb. 16, Morning; Aug. IS, Evening.
A ND it came to pass, when Jesus had finished
J\. all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the
passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be
crucified. Then assembled together the chief
priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the
people, unto the palace of the high priest, who
was called Caiapbis, and consulted that they
might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. But
they said. Not on the feast day, lest there be an
uproar among the people. Now when Jesus was
in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
there came unto him a woman having an
alabaster box of very precious ointment, and
poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But
when his disciples saw it, they had indignation,
saying. To what purpose is this waste ? for this
ointment might have been sold for much, and
Feb. 16, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXVI. Aug. 18, Even.
given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he
said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman ? for
she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye
have the poor always with you ; but me ye have
not always. For in that she hath poured this
ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached in the whole world, there shall
also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a
memorial of her. Then one of the twelve, called
Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and
said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will
deliver him unto you? And they covenanted
with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from
that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened
bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto
him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee
to eat the passover ? And he said. Go into the
city to such a man, and say unto him. The Mas-
ter saith, My time is at hand ; I will keep the
passover at thy house with my disciples. And
the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them ;
and they made ready the passover. Now when
the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
And as they did eat, he said. Verily I say unto
you, that one of you shall betray me. And they
were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one
of them to say unto him. Lord, is it I ? And he
answered and said. He that dippeth his hand
with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him :
but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man
is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he
had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed
Feb. 17, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXVI. Aug. 19, Even.
him, answered and said, Master, is it I ? He
said unto him. Thou hast said. And as they
were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it,
and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and
said. Take, eat ; this is my body. And he took
the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it ; for this is my blood
of the new testament, which is shed for many
for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I
will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine,
until that day when I drink it new with you in
my Father's kingdom. And when they had sung
an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
Feb. 17, Morning; Aug. 19, Evening.
THEN saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be
offended because of me this night : for it is
written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep
of the flock shall be scattered abroad. But after
I am risen again, I will go before you into Ga-
lilee. Peter answered and said unto him. Though
all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will
I never be offended. Jesus said unto him, Ve-
rily I say unto thee. That this night, before the
cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter
said unto him. Though I should die with thee,
yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all
the disciples. Then cometh Jesus with them
unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto
the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray
yonder. And he took with him Peter and the
two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful
and very heavy. Then saith he unto them. My
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death :
tarry ye here, and watch wdth me. And he went
a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed,
Feb. 17, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXVI. Aug. 19, Even.
saying, my Father, if it be possible, let this
cup pass from me : nevertheless not as I will,
but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the dis-
ciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto
-Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one
hour ? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into
temptation : the spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak. He went away again the second
time, and prayed, saying, my Father, if this
cup may not pass away from me, except I drink
it, thy will be done. And he came and found
them asleep again : for their eyes were heavy.
And he left them, and went away again, and
prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto
them, Sleep on now, and take your rest : behold,
the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is be-
trayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us
be going : behold, he is at hand that doth betray
me. And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of
the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude
with swords and staves, from the chief priests
and elders of the people. Now he that betrayed
him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I
shall kiss, that same is he : hold him fast. And
forthwith he came to Jesus, and said. Hail, mas-
ter ; and kissed him. And Jesus said unto him,
Friend, wherefore art thou come ? Then came
they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus
stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and
struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote
off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up
again thy sword into his place : for all they that
take the sword shall perish with the sword.
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Feb. 18, J/oJTU S. MATTHEW, XXYT. Aug. 20, Even,
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my
Father, and he shall presently give me more
than twelve legions of angels ? But how then
shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must
be ? In that same hour said Jesus to the mul-
titudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with
swords and staves for to take me ? I sat daily
with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no
hold on me. But all this was done, that the
scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Feb. 18, Morning; Aug. 20, Evening.
A XD they that had laid hold on Jesus led him
J\. away to Caiaphas the high priest, where
the scribes and the elders were assembled. But
Peter followed him afar otf unto the high priest's
palace, and went in, and sat with the servants,
to see the end. Now the chief priests, and
elders, and all the council, sought false witness
agjiinst Jesus, to put him to death ; but found
none: yea, though many fidse witnesses came,
yet found they none. At the last came two false
witnesses, and said, This fellow said, I am able
to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in
three days. And the high priest arose, and said
i unto him, Answerest thou nothing ? what is it
1 which these witness against thee ? But Jesus
held his peace. And the high priest answered
and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living
God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ,
the Sou of God. Jesus saith unto him. Thou
hast said : nevertheless I say unto you, Here-
after shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the
right hand of power, and coming in the clouds
' of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes,
Feb. 19, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXYII. Aug. 21, Even.
saying, He hath spoken blasphemy ; what further
need have we of witnesses 1 behold, now ye have
heard his blasphemy. What think ye ? They
answered and said, He is guilty of death. Then
did they spit in his face, and buffeted him ; and
others smote him with the palms of their hands,
saying. Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is
he that smote thee ? Now Peter sat without in
the palace : and a damsel came unto him, say-
ing, Thou also wast with Jesus of GalUee. But
he denied before thevi all, saying, I know not
what thou sayest. And when he was gone out
into the porch, another maid saw him, and said
unto them that were there. This fellow was also
with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied
with an oath, I do not know the man. And
after a while came unto him they that stood by,
and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of
them ; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. Then
began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know
not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which
said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt
deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept
bitterly.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Feb. 19, Morning ; Aug. 21, Evening.
WHEN the morning was come, all the chief
priests and elders of the people took
i counsel against Jesus to put him to death : and
I when they had bound him, they led him away,
' and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
I Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he
I saw that he was condemned, repented himself
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Feb. 19, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXVII. Avg. 21, Eveiu
and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to
the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned
in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And
they said. What is that to us ? see thou to that.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the
temple, and departed, and -went and hanged
himself. And the chief priests took the silver
pieces, and said. It is not lawful for to put them
into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
And they took counsel, and bought with them
the potter's field, to bury strangers in.' Where-
fore that field was called, The field of blood,
unto this day. Then was fulfilled that which
was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying. And
they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of
him that was valued, whom they of the children
of Israel did value ; and gave them for the
potter's field, as the Lord appointed nie. And
Jesus stood before the governor : and the gover-
nor asked him, saying. Art thou the King of the
Jews ? And Jesus said unto him. Thou sayest.
And when he was accused of the chief priests
and elders, he answered nothing. Then said
Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many
things they witness against thee '? And he
answered him to never a word ; insomuch that
the governor marvelled greatly. Now at that
feast the governor was wont to release unto the
people a prisoner, whom they would. And they
had then a notable prisoner, called Rirabbas.
Therefore when they were gathered together,
Pilate said unto them. Whom will ye that I
release unto you ? Barabbas, or Jesus which is
called Christ ? For he knew that for envy they
had delivered him. When he was set down on
Fih. 20, Mwm. S. MATTHEW, XXVII. Aug. 22, Even,
the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, say-
ing, Have thou nothing to do with that just man :
or I have suffered many things this day in a
dream because of him. But the chief priests and
elders persuaded the multitude that they should
ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus, The governor
answered and said unto them. Whether of the
twain will ye that I release unto you 1 They said,
Barabbas. Pilate saith unto them, What shall
I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?
They all say unto him. Let him be crucified.
And the governor said. Why, what evil hath he
done ? But they cried out the more, saying,
Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he
could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult i
wjis made, he took water, and washed his hands
before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of
the blood of this just person : see ye to it. Then
answered all the people, and said. His blood he
on us, and on our children. Then released he
Barabbas unto them : and when he had scourged
Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Feb. 20, Morning ; Aug. 22, Evening.
THEN the soldiers of the governor took Jesus
into the common hall, and gathered unto
him the whole band of soldiers. And they
stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
And when they had platted a crown of thorns,
they put it upon his head, and a reed in his
right hand : and they bowed the knee before
him, and mocked him, saying. Hail, King of the
Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the
reed, and smote him on the head. And after
that they had mocked him, they took the robe
off from him, and put his own raiment on him.
Feb. 20, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXVIL Aug. 22, Even.
and led him away to crucify him. And as they
came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon
by name : him they compelled to bear his cross.
And when they were come unto a place called
Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they
gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall :
and when he had tasted thereof, he would not
drink. And they crucified him, and parted his
garments, casting lots : that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet. They parted
my garments among them, and upon my vesture
did they cast lots. And sitting down they
watched him there ; and set up over his head
his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE
KING OF THE JEWS. Then were there two
thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand,
and another on the left. And they that passed
by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying.
Thou that destroyest the temple, and bulkiest it
in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son
of God, come down from the cross. Likewise
also the chief priests mocking him, with the
scribes and elders, said, He saved others ; himself
he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let
him now come down from the cross, and we will
believe him. He trusted in God ; let him deliver
him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am
the Son of God. The thieves also, which were
crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness
over all the land unto the ninth hour. And
about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani % that is
to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me ? Some of them that stood there, when they
Feb. 21, Morn. S. MATTHEW, XXVII. Aug. 23, Evert.
heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
And straightway one of them ran, and took a
spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on
a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said,
Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save
him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a
loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold,
the veil of the temple was rent in twain from
the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake,
and the rocks rent ; and the graves were opened ;
and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
and came out of the graves after his resurrection,
and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many. Now when the centurion, and they that
were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earth-
quake, and those things that were done, they
feared greatly, saying. Truly this was the Son of
God. And many women were there beholding
afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee,
ministering unto him : among which was Mary
Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and
Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
Feb. 21, Morning; Avg. 23, Evening.
HEN the even was come, there came a
w
rich man of Arimathsea, named Joseph,
who also himself was Jesus' disciple : he went to
Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then
Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And when Joseph 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 stone to the door of
the sepulchre, and departed. And there was
Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting
over against the sepulchre. Now the next day.
Ftb. 22, 3/orn. S. MATTHEW, XXVIII. Aug. 21, Even.
that followed the day of the preparation, the
chief priests and Pharisees came together unto
Pilate, saying. Sir, we remember that that de-
ceiver 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
watch : go your way, make it as sure as ye ain.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, seal-
ing the stone, and setting a watch.
CHAPTER XXYin.
Feb. 22, Morning ; Aug. 24, Evening.
IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary-
Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepul-
chre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake :
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven,
and came and rolled back the stone from the
door, and sat upon it. His countenance was
like lightning, and his raiment white as snow :
and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and
became as dead men. And the angel answered
and said unto the women. Fear not ye : for I
know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
He is not here : for he is risen, as he said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And
go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen
from the dead ; and. behold, he goeth before you
into Galilee ; there shall ye see him : lo, I have
told you. And they departed quickly from the
sepulchre with fear *^and great joy ; and did run
Feb. 22, Mom. S. MATTHEW, XXVIII. Axig. 24, Even.
to bring his disciples word. And as they went
to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them,
saying. All hail. And they came and held him
by the feet, and worshipped hhn. Then said
Jesus unto them. Be not afraid : go tell my
brethren that they go into Galilee, and there
shall they see me. Now when they were going,
behold, some of the watch came mto the city,
and shewed unto the chief priests all the things
that were done. And when they were assembled
with the elders, and had taken counsel, they
gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say
ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him
awaij while we slept. And if this come to the
governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure
you. So they took the money, and did as they
were taught: and this saying is commonly re-
ported among the Jews until this day. Then the
eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a
mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
And when they saw him, they worshipped him :
but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake
unto them, saying, All power is given unto me
in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost : teaching them to observe all things what-
soever I have commanded you : and, lo, I am
with you alway, emn unto the end of the world;
Amen. ;
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
St. MAEK.
CHAPTER I.
Feb. 23, Morning; Awj. 25, Erefiing.
THE beginaing of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God ; as it is written in the
prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before
thy face, which shall prepare thy way before
thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make hLs paths
straight. John did baptize in the wilderness,
and preach the baptism of repentance for the
remission of sins. And there went out unto him
all the land of Judtea, and they of Jerusalem,
and were all baptized of him in the river of Jor-
dan, confessing their sins. And John was cloth-
ed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin
about his loins ; and he did eat locusts and wild
honey ; and preached, saying, There cometh one
mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose
shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and un-
loose. I indeed have baptized you with water : j
but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. [
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus i
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized j
of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up !
out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, !
and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him : I
and there came a voice from heaven, saying, j
Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well j
E leased. And immediately the spii-it driveth i
im into the wilderness. And he was there in I
the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan ; and j
was with the wild beasts ; and the angels minis-
I FeJ). 24, Morn. S. MARK, I. Aug. 26, Even.
tered unto him. Now after that John was put
in prison, Jesus came into Gahlee, preaching the
gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The
time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand : repent ye, and believe the gospel. Now
as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon
and Andrew his brother casting a net into the
sea : for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto
them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to
become fishers of men. And straightway they
forsook their nets, and followed him. And when
he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James
the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who
also were in the ship mending their nets. And
straightway he called them : and they left their
father Zebedee in the ship with the hired ser-
vants, and went after him.
Feb. 24, Morning ; Aug. 26, Evening.
A ND they went into Capernaum ; and straight-
J\. way on the sabbath day he entered into tlie
synagogue, and taught. And they were aston-
ished at his doctrine : for he taught them as one
that had authority, and not as the scribes. And
there was in their synagogue a man with an un-
clean spirit ; and he cried out, saying, Let us
alone ; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus
of Nazareth ? art thou come to destroy us ? I
know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
And Jesus rebuked him, saymg. Hold thy peace,
and come out of him. And when the unclean
spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice,
he came out of him. And they were all amazed,
insomuch that they questioned among them-
selves, saying, What thing is this 1 what new
doctrine is this I for with authority commandeth
Feb. 24, .\forn. S. MAPtK. I. Aug. 26, Even.
he even the nnclean spirits, and they do obey
him. And immediately his fame spread abroad
throucjhout all the region round about Galilee.
And forthwith, when they were come out of the
synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon
and Andrew, with James and John. But Simon^s
wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they
tell him of her. And he came and took her by
the hand, and lifted her up ; and immediately
the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought
unto him all that were diseased, and them that
were possessed with devils. And all the city
was gathered together at the door. And he
healed many that were sick of divers diseases,
and east out many devils ; and suffered not the
devils to speak, because they knew him. And
in the morning, rising up a great while before
day, he went out, and departed into a solitary
place, and there prayed. And Simon and they
that were with him followed after him. And
when they had found him, they said unto him,
All men seek for thee. And he said unto them,
Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach
there also : for therefore came I forth. And he
preached in their synagogues throughout all
Galilee, and cast out devils. And there came a
leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down
to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou
canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with
compassion, put forth his hand, and touched
him, and saith unto him, I will ; be thou clean.
And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the
leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
And he straitly cliarged him, and forthwith sent
Feb. 25, Mam. S. MARK, II. Aug. 27, Even.
hiin away ; and saith unto him, See thou say
nothing to any man : but go thy way, shew thy-
self to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those
things which Moses commanded, for a testimony
unto them. But he went out, and began to
publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter,
insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter
into the city, but was without in desert places :
and they came to him from every quarter,
CHAPTER II.
Feb. 25, Morning ; Aug. 27, Evening.
AND again he entered into Capernaum after
J\. some days; and it was noised that he was
in the house. And straightway many were
gathered together, insomuch that there was no
room to receive them, no, not so much as about
the door : and he preached the word unto them.
And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the
palsy, which was borne of four. And when they
could not come nigh unto him for the press, they
uncovered the roof where he was : and when
they had broken it up, they let down the bed
wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus
saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy,
Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were
certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning
in their hearts. Why doth this man thus speak
blasphemies ? who can forgive sins but God
only ? And immediately when Jesus perceived
in iiis spirit that they so reasoned within them-
selves, he said unto them, Wfry reason ye these
things in your hearts ? Whether is it easier to
say to the sick of the palsy. Thy sins be forgiven
thee ; or to say. Arise, and take up thy bed, and
Feb. 25, Morn. S. MARK, IL Aug. 27, Even.
walk h But that ye may know that the Son of
man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he
saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee,
Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into
thine house. And immediately he arose, took
up the bed, and went forth before them all ; in-
somuch that they were all amazed, and glorified
God, saying. We never saw it on this fashion.
And he went forth again by the sea side ; and
all the multitude resorted unto him, and he
taught them. And as he passed by, he saw Levi
the son of Alphseus sitting at the receipt of cus-
tom, and said unto him. Follow me. And he
arose and followed him. And it came to pass,
that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many
publicans and sinners sat also together with
Jesus and his disciples : for there were many,
and they followed him. And when the scribes
and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and
sinners, they said unto his disciples. How is it
that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and
sinners ? When Jesus heard it, he saith unto
them, They that are whole have no need of the
physician, but they that are sick : I came not to
cidl the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees
used to fist : and they come and say unto him,
Why do the disciples of John and of the Phari-
sees fist, but thy disciples fist not ? And Jesus
said unto them. Can the children of the bride-
chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them ?
as long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they Ciinnot fast. But the days will come, when
the bridegroom shall be taken away from them,
and then shall they fast in those days. No man
Feb. 26, Morru S. MARK, III. -^ Aug. 28, Even.
also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old gar-
ment ; else the new piece that filled it up taketh
away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles :
else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the
wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred :
but new wine must be put into new bottles.
Feb. 26, Morning ; Aug. 28, Evening.
A ND it came to pass, that he went through the
J\. corn fields on the sabbath day ; and his
disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of
corn. And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold,
why do they on the sabbath day that which is
not lawful ? And he said unto them, Have he
never read what David did, when he had need,
and was an hungred, he, and they that were with
him ? How he went into the house of God in the
days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the
shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the
priests, and gave also to them which were with
him ? And he said unto them, The sabbath was
made for man, and not man for the sabbath : there-
fore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
CHAPTER in.
And he entered again into the synagogue ; and
there was a man there which had a withered
hand. And they watched him, whether he would
heal him on the sabbath day ; that they might
accuse him. And he saith unto the man wliich
had the withered hand. Stand forth. And he
saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the
sabbath days, or to do evil \ to save life, or to
kill ? But they held their peace. And when
he had looked round about on them with anger,
being grieved for the hardness of their hearts,
Feb. 27, Mom. S. MARK, III. Aug. 29, Even,
he saith unto the man. Stretch forth thine hand.
And he stretched it out : and his hand was re-
stored whole as the other. And the Pharisees
went forth, and stmightway took counsel with
the Herodians against hiin, how they might
destroy him. But Jesus withdrew himself with
his disciples to the sea : and a great multitude
from Galilee followed him, and from Judcea, and
from Jerusalem, and from Idumsea, and from
beyond Jordan ; and they about Tyre and Sidon,
a great multitude, when they had heard what
great things he did, came unto him. And he
spake to his disciples, that a small ship should
wait on him because of the multitude, lest they
should throng him. For he had healed many ;
I insomuch that they pressed upon him for to
touch him. as many as had phigues. And un-
clean spirits, when they saw him, fell down
before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son
of God. And he straitly charged them that they
should not make him known.
Feb. 27, Morning; Aug. 29. Evening. '^
AND he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth
_Zjl nnto him whom he would : and they came
unto him. And he ordained twelve, that they
should be with him, and that he might send them
forth to preach, and to have power to heal sick-
nesses, and to cast out devils : and Simon he
surnarned Peter ; and James the so7i of Zebedee,
and John the brother of James ; and he sur-
narned them Boanerges, which is, The sons of
thunder : and Andrew, and Philip, and Rirtho-
lomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and Jjimes
the soil of Alphceus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon
the Canaauite, and Judas Iscariot, which also
Feb. 27, Mom, S. MARK, III. Aug. 29, Even.
betrayed him : and they went into an house.
And the multitude cometh together again, so that
they could not so much as eat bread. And when
his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold
on him : for they said, He is beside himseli
And the scribes which came down from Jerusa-
lem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince
of the devils casteth he out devils. And he
called them unto him, and said unto them in
parables, How can Satan cast out Satan ? And
if a kingdom be divided against itseK, that
kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be
divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
And if Satiin rise up against himself, and be
divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. No
man can enter into a strong man's house, and
spoH his goods, except he will first bind the strong
man ; and then he will spoil his house. Verily
I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto
the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith
soever they shall blaspheme : but he that shall
blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never
forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damna-
tion : because they said. He hath an unclean
spirit. There came then his brethren and his
mother, and, standing without, sent unto him,
calling him. And the multitude sat about him,
and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and
thy brethren without seek for thee. And he an-
swered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my
brethren ? And he looked round about on them
which sat about him, and said, Behold my
mother and my brethren ! For whosoever shall
do the will of God, the same is my brother, and
my sister, and mother.
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Ftb. 23, Mom. S. JIARK, lY. Aug. 30, Z:t^ew.
CHAPTER IV.
Feb. 2S, Morning ; Aug. 30, Evening.
A ND he began ag-ain to teach by the sea side :
XjL and there was gathered unto him a great
multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and
sat in the sea ; and the whole multitude Wt\s by
the sea on the land. And he taught them many
things by parables, and said unto them in his doc-
trine, Hearken ; Behold, there went out a sower
to sow : and it came to pass, as he sowed, some
fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air Ciime
and devoured it up. And some fell on stou}'
ground, where it had not much earth ; and
immediately it sprang up, because it had no
depth of earth : but when the sun was up, it was
scorched ; and because it had no root, it withered
away. And some fell among thorns, and the
thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no
fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did
yield fruit that sprang up and increased ; and
brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and
some an hundred. And he said unto them, He
that hath eiirs to hear, let him hear. And when
he was alone, they that were about him with the
twelve asked of him the parable. And he said
unto them, Unto you it is given to know the
mystery of the kingdom of God : but unto them
that are without, all these things are done in
parables: that seeing they may see, and not
perceive ; and hearing they may hear, and not
understand ; lest at any time they should be
converted, and their sins should be forgiven
them. And he said unto them, Know ye not
this parable ? and how then will ye know all
parables ? The sower soweth the word. And
Feb. 28, Morn. S. MARK, IV. Aug. 30, Even.
these are they by the way side, where the word
is sown ; but when they have heard, Satan
Cometh immediately, and taketh away the word
that was sown in their hearts. And these are
they likewise which are sown on stony ground ;
who, Avhen they have heard the word, imme-
diately receive it with gladness ; and have no
root in themselves, and so endure but for a time :
afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth
for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
And these are they which are sown among thorns ;
such as hear the word, and the cares of this
world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the
lusts of other things entering in, choke the Avord,
and it becometh unfruitful. And these are they
which are sown on good ground ; such as hear
the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit,
some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hun-
dred. And he said unto them, Is a candle
brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed ?
and not to be set on a candlestick 1 For there
is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested ;
neither was any thing kept secret, but that it
should come abroad. If any man have ears to
hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take
heed what ye hear : with what measure ye mete,
it shall be measured to you : and unto you that
hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to
him shall be given : and he that hath not, from
him shall be taken even that which he hath.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a
man should cast seed into the ground ; and should
sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should
spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For
the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself ; first the
3!arcJi 1, Morn. S. 31 ARK, IV. Aug. 31, Even.
blade, then the ear. after that the full corn in the
ear. But Avhen the fruit is brought forth, im-
mediately he putteth in the sickle, because the
har^^est is come. And he said, Whereunto shall
we liken the kingdom of God ? or with what
comparison shall we compare it ? It is like a
grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in
the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the
earth : but when it is sown, it groweth up, and
becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out
great branches ; so that the fowls of the air may
lodge under the shadow of it. And with many
such parables spake he the word unto them, as
they were able to hear it. But without a parable
spake he not unto them : and when they Avere
alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
March 1, Morning ; Aug. 31, Evening.
A ND the same day, when the even was come,
xV. he saith unto them. Let us piiss over unto
the other side. And when they had sent away the
multitude, they took him even as he was in the
ship. And there were also with him other little
ships. And there arose a great storm of wind,
and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was
noM- full. And he was in the hinder part of the
ship, asleep on a pillow : and they awake him,
and say unto him, jMaster, carest thou not that
we perish ? And he arose, and rebuked the
wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And
the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them. Why are ye so fearful ?
how is it that ye have no faith ? And they feared
exceedingly, and said one to another. What man-
ner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea
obey him ?
March 1, Morn. S. MARK, V. Aug. 31, Even.
CHAPTER V.
And they came over unto the other side of the
sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And
when he was come out of the ship, immediately
there met him out of the tombs a man with an
unclean spirit, who had his dwellino^ among the
tombs ; and no man could bind him, no, not
with chains : because that he had been often
bound with fetters and chains, and the chains
had been plucked asunder by him, and the
fetters broken in pieces : neither could any man
tame him. And always, night and da}'-, he was
in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and
cutting himself with stones. But when he saw
Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, and
cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I
to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high
God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment
me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the
man, thori unclean spirit. And he asked him,
What is thy name ? And he answered, saying,
My name is Legion : for we are many. And he
besought him much that he would not send them
away out of the country. Now there was there nigh
unto the mountains a great herd of swine feed-
ing. And all the devils besought him, saying,
Send us into the swine, that we may enter into
them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave.
And the unclean spirits went out, and entered
into the swine : and the herd ran violently down
a steep place into the sea, (they were about two
thousand ;) and were choked in the sea. And
they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the
city, and in the country. And they went out to
see what it was that was done. And they come
March 2, Morn. S. MARK, Y. Sept. 1, Even.
i to Jesus, and see liim that was possessed with
! the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed,
I and in his right mind : and they were afraid.
I And they that saw it told them how it befell to
j him that was possessed with the devil, and also
concerning the swine. And they began to pray
him to depart out of their coasts. And when he
was come into the ship, he that had been pos-
sessed with the devil prayed, him that he might
be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him not,
but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and
tell them how great tilings the Lord hath done
for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. And
he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis
how great tilings Jesus had done for him : and
all tntn did marvel
March 2, Morning; Sept. 1, Evening.
A ND when Jesas was passed over again by
J\. ship unto the other side, much people
gathered unto him : and he Avas nigh unto the
sea. And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers
of the synagogue, Jairus by name ; and when he
saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him
greatly, saying. My little daughter heth at the
point of death : I i->ray thee, come and lay thy
hands on her, that she may be healed ; and she
shall live. And Jesus went with him ; and much
people followed him, and thronged him. And a
certain woman, which had an issue of blood
twelve yeiirs, and had sujffered many things of
many physicians, and had spent all that she had,
and wiis nothing bettered, but rather grew w^orse,
when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press be-
hind, and touched his garment. For she said. If
I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
+ +
March 2, Morn. S. MARK, V. Sept. 1, Even.
And straightway the fountain of her blood was
dried up ; and she felt in her body that she was
healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately
knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of
him, turned him about in the press, and said,
Who touched my clothes ? And his disciples
said unto him, Thou seest the multitude throng-
ing thee, and sayest thou, Who touched nie ?
And he looked round about to see her that had
done this thing. But the woman fearing and
trembling, knowing what was done in her, came
and fell down before him, and told him all the
truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith
hath miide thee whole ; go in peace, and be whole
of thy plague. While he yet spake, there came
from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain
which said. Thy daughter is dead : why troublest
thou the Master any further ? As soon as Jesus
heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the
ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter,
and James, and John the brother of James. And
he Cometh to the house of the ruler of the syna-
gogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept
and wailed greatly. And when he was come in,
he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and
weep ? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And
they laughed him to scorn. But when he had
put them all out, he taketh the father and the
mother of the damsel, and them that were with
him, and entereth in where the damsel was
lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and
said unto her, Talitha cumi ; which is, being inter-
preted, Damsel I say unto thee, arise. And straight-
way the damsel arose, and walked ; for she was
I March 3, Mom. S. MAEE, YI. Sept. 2, Even,
of the age of twelve years. And they were as-
tonished with a ^Teal astonishment. And he
charged them straitly that no man should know
it; and commanded that something should be
given her to eat.
CHAPTER VI.
March 3, Morning ; Sept. 2, Evening.
AND he went out from thence, and came into
J\. his own country ; and his disciples follow
him. And when the sabbath day was come, he
began to teach in the synagogue : and many hear-
ing liiin were astonished, saying. From whence
hath this man these things ? and what wisdom is
this which is given unto him, that even such
mighty works are wrought by his hands ? Is not
this the carpenter, the son of ]Mary, the brother
of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon ?
and are not his sisters here with us ] And they
were offended at him. But Jesus said unto them,
A prophet is not without honour, but in his own
country, and among his own kin, and in his own
house. And he could there do no nughty work,
save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk,
and healed them. And he marv'elled because of
their unbelief. And he went round about the
villages, teaching. And he called unto him the
twelve, and began to send them forth by two
and two ; and gave them power over unclean
spirits ; and commanded them that they should
take nothing for f/tt^ir journey, save a staff only ;
no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse : but
he shod with sandals ; and not put on two coats.
And he said unto them, In what place soever ye
enter into an house, there abide till ye depart
from that place. And whosoever shall not receive
March 4, Morn. S. MARK, VI. Sept. 3, Even.
you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake
off the dust under your feet for a testimony
against them. Verily I say unto you. It shall
be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in
the day of judgment, than for that city. And
they went out, and preached that men should
repent. And they cast out many devils, and
anointed with oil many that were sick, aiid
healed them.
March 4, Morning ; Sept. 3, Evening.
A ND king Herod heard of him ; (for his name
XjL was spread abroad :) and he said, That
John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and
therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves
in him. Others said. That it is Elias. And
others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the
prophets. But when Herod heard thereof, he
said. It is John, whom I beheaded : he is risen
from the dead. For Herod himself had sent
forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him
in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's
wife : for he had married her. For John had
said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have
thy brother's wife. Therefore Herodias had a
quarrel against him, and would have killed him ;
but she could not : for Herod feared John, know-
ing that he was a just man and an holy, and ob-
served him ; and when he heard him, he did
many things, and heard him gladly. And when
a convenient day was come, that Herod on his
birthday made a supper to his lords, high cap-
tains, and chief estates of Galilee ; and when tlie
daughter of the said Herodias came in, and
danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat
with him, the king said unto the damsel. Ask of
March 5, Morn. S. MARK, VI. Sept. 4, Even.
me whatsoever tLoii wilt, and I will give it thee.
And he sware unto her. Whatsoever thou shalt
ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my
kingdom. And she went forth, and said unto
her mother, "What shall I ask ? And she said.
The head of John the Baptist. And she came
in straightway with haste unto the king, and
asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and
by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
And the king was exceeding sorry ; yet for his
oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with
him, he would not reject her. And immediately
the king sent an executioner, and commanded
his head to be brought : and he went and be-
headed him in the prison, and brought his head
in a charger, and gave it to the damsel : and the
damsel g:ive it to her mother. And when his
disciples heard of it, they came and took up his
corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
MarcJi 5, Morning ; Sept. 4, Evening.
A ND the apostles gathered themselves together
JTjL unto Jesus, and told hhn all things, both
what they had done^ and what they had taught.
And lie said unto them, Come ye yourselves
apiirt into a desert place, and rest a while : for
there were many coming and going, and they
had no leisure so much as to eat. And they de-
parted into a desert place by ship privately.
And the people saw them departing, and many
knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities,
and outwent them, and came together unto him.
And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people,
and was moved with comjwssion toward them,
because they were as sheep not having a shep-
herd : and he began to teach them many things.
March 5, Morn. S. MARK, VI. Sejri. 4, Even.
And when the day was now far spent, his dis-
ciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert
place, and now the time is far passed : send them
away, that they may go into the country round
about, and into the villages, and buy themselves
bread: for they have nothing to eat. He an-
swered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat.
And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy
two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give
them to eat ? He saith unto them. How many
loaves have ye ? go and see. And when they
knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. And he
commanded them to make all sit down by com-
panies upon the green grass. And they sat down
in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. And when
he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes,
he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake
the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set
before them ; and the two fishes divided he
among them all. And they did all eat, and were
filled. And they took up twelve baskets full of
the fragments, and of the fishes. And they that
did eat of the loaves were about five thousand
men. And straightway he constrained his dis-
ciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other
side before unto Eethsaida, while he sent away
the people. And when he had sent them away,
he departed into a mountain to pray. And when
even was come, the ship was in the midst of the
sea, and he alone on the land. And he saw them
toiling in rowing ; for the wind was contrary
unto them : and about the fourth watch of the
night he cometh unto them, walking upon the
sea, and would have passed by them- But when
they saw him walking upon the sea, they sup-
March C, Mom. S. MARK, YIL Sept. 5, Even.
posed it had been a spirit, and cried out : for
they all saw him, and were troubled. And im-
mediately he talked with them, and saith unto
them. Be of good cheer : it is I ; be not afraid.
And he went up unto them into the ship ; and
the wind ceased : and they Avere sore amazed in
themselves beyond measure, and wondered. For
they considered not the miracle of the loaves : for
their heart was hardened. And when they had
passed over, they came into the land of Genne-
saret, and drew to the shore. And Avhen they
were come out of the ship, straightway they knew
him, and ran through that whole region round
about, and began to carry about in beds those
that were sick, where they heard he AVits. And
whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities,
or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and
besought him that they might touch if it were
but the border of his garment : and as many as
touched him were made Avhole.
CHAPTER YIL
March 6, Morning ; Sept. 5, Evening.
THEN came together unto him the Pharisees,
and certain of the scribes, which came from
Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his
disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say,
with unwashen, hands, they found fault. For
the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash
their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of
the elders. And when they come from the mar-
j ket, except they wash, they eat not. And many
other things there be, which they have received
to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen
vessels, and of tables. Then the Phai'isees and
i-
March 6, Morn. S. MARK, TIL Sept. 5, Even.
scribes asked hira, Why walk not thy disciples
according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
bread with unwashen hands ? He answered and
said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of
you hypocrites, as it is written. This people
iionoureth me with their lips, but their heart is
far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship
me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of
men. For laying aside the commandment of
God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the wash-
ing of pots and cups : and many other such like
things ye do. And he said unto them. Full well
ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may
keep your own tradition. For Moses said,
Honour thy father and thy mother ; and, Whoso
curseth father or mother, let him die the death :
but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mo-
ther. It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by what-
soever thou mightest be profited by me ; he shall
he free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought
for his father or his mother ; making the word of
God of none effect through your tradition, which
ye have delivered : and many such like things do
ye. And when he had called all the people luito
him, he said unto them. Hearken unto me every
one of yoUy and understand : there is nothing
from without a man, that entering into him can
defile him : but the things which come out of
hira, those are they that defile the man. If any
man have ears to hear, let him hear. And when
he was entered into the house from the people,
his disciples asked hira concerning the parable.
And he saith unto them. Are ye so without un-
derstanding also ? Do ye not perceive, that
whatsoever thing from without entereth into the
March 7, Morn. S. MAEK, YII. Sept. 6, Even.
man, it cannot defile him ; because it entereth
not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth
out into the draught, purging all meats ? And
he said, That which cometh out of the man, that
defileth the man. For from within, out of the
heart of men. proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wicked-
ness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from
within, and delile the man.
March 7, Morning ; Sept. 6, Evening.
4 ND from thence he arose, and went into the
J\. borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into
an house, and would have no man know it : but
he could not be hid. For a certain woman,
whose young daughter had an unclean spirit,
heard of him, and came and fell at his feet : the
woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation ;
and she besought him that he would cast forth
the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said
unto her. Let the children first be filled : for it
is not meet to take the children's bread, and to
cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and
said unto him. Yes, Lord : yet the dogs under
the table eat of the children's crumbs. And he
said unto her. For this sa;^dng go thy way ; the
devil is gone out of thy daughter. And when
she was come to her house, she found the devil
gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre
and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee,
through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and
had an impediment in his speech ; and they be-
seech him to put his hand upon him. And he
March 7, Mom. S. MARK, YIII, Sept.. 6, Even.
took him aside from the multitude, and put his
fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched
his tongue ; and looking up to heaven, he sighed,
and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be
opened. And straightway his ears were opened,
and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he
spake plain. And he charged them that they
should tell no man : but the more he charged
them, so much the more a great deal they pub-
lished it ; and were beyond measure astonished,
saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh
both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
CHAPTER Vin.
In those days the multitude being very great,
and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his
disciples unto hiin, and saith unto them, I have
compassion on the multitude, because they have
now been with me three days, and have nothing
to eat : and if I send them away fasting to their
own houses, they will faint by the way : for
divers of them came from far. And his disciples
answered him. From whence can a man satisfy
these men with bread here in the wilderness?
And he asked them, How many loaves have ye ?
And they said. Seven. And he commanded the
people to sit down on the ground : and he took
the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake,
and gave to his disciples to set before them ; and
they did set theTti before the people. And they
had a few small fishes : and he blessed, and com-
manded to set them also before them. So they
did eat, and were filled : and they took up of
the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
And they that had eaten were about four thou-
sand : and he sent them away.
March 8, Jlfom. S. MARK, VIII. Sept. 7, Even.
March S, Morning; Sept. 7, Evening.
A ND straightway he entered into a ship with
J\. his disciples, and came into the parts of
Dalmanutha. And the Pharisees came forth,
and began to question with him, seeking of him
a sign from heaven, tempting him. And he
sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth
this generation seek after a sign ? verily I say
unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this
generation. And he left them, and entering into
the ship again departed to the other side. Now
the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither
had they in the ship with them more than one
loaf. And he charged them, saying, Take heed,
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the
leaven of Herod. And they re<isoned among
themselves, saying. It is because we have no
bread. And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto
them. Why reason ye, because ye have no bread ?
perceive ye not yet. neither understand ? have ye
your heart yet hardened ? having eyes, see ye
not 1 and having ears, hear ye not ? and do ye
not remember ? When I brake the five loaves
among five thousand, how many baskets full of
fragments took ye up ? They say unto him,
Twelve. And when the seven among four thou-
sand, how many baskets full of fragments took
ye up ? And they said. Seven. And he said
unto them, How is it that ye do not understand '?
And he cometh to Bethsaida ; and they bring
a blind man unto him, and besought him to
touch him. And he took the blind man by the
hand, and led him out of the town ; and when
he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon
him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he
March 8, Morn. S. MAKK, Till. Sept. 7, Even.
looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
After that he put his hands again npon his eyes,
and made him look up : and he was restored, and
saw every man clearly. And he sent him away
to his house, saying, Xeither go into the town,
nor tell it to any in the town. And Jesus went
out, and his disciples, into the towns of Csesarea
Philippi : and by the way he asked his disciples,
saying unto them. Whom do men say that I am ?
And they answered, John the Baptist : but
some say, Elias ; and others. One of the prophets.
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that
I am ? And Peter answereth and saith unto him,
Thou art the Christ. And he charged them that
they should tell no man of him. And he began
to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer
many things, and be rejected of the elders, and
of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed,
and after three days rise again. And he spake
that saying openly. And Peter took him, and
began to rebuke him. But when he had turned
about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked
Peter, saying. Get thee behind me, Satan : for
thou savourest not the things that be of God, but
the things that be of men. And Avhen he had
called the people unto him with his disciples also,
he said unto them. Whosoever will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and foUoAV me. For whosoever will save his life
shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for
my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soid ? or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me
March 9, Mom. S. MARK, IX. Sept. S, Even.
and of my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation ; of bim also shall the Son of man be
ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of bis
Father with the bolv ancrels.
CHAPTER IX.
V And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
That there be some of them that stand here, which
shall not taste of death, till they have seen the
kingdom of God come with power.
March 9, Morning ; Sept. 8, Evening.
AND after six days Jesus taketh xcith Mm
j\. Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth
them up into an high mountain apart by them-
selves : and he was transfigured before them.
And his raiment became shining, exceeding white
as snow ; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
And there appeared unto them Elites with Closes :
and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter
answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for
us to be here : and let us make three tabernacles ;
one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
For he wist not what to say ; for they were sore
afraid. And there was a cloud that overshadowed
them : and a voice Ci\me out of the cloud,
saying, This is my beloved Son : hear him. And
suddenly, when they had looked round about,
they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with
themselves. And as they came down from the
mountain, he charged them that they should tell
no man what things they had seen, till the Son
of man were risen from the dead. And they
kept that saying with themselves, questioning
one with another what the rising from the dead
should mean. And they asked him, saying. Why
say the scribes that Elias must first come ? And
March 9, Morn. S. MARK, IX, Sept. 8, Even.
he answered and told them, Elias verily coraeth
first, and restoreth all things ; and how it is
written of the Son of man, that he must sufier
many things, and be set at nought. But I say
imto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they
have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it
is written of him. And when he came to his
disciples, he saw a great multitude about them,
and the scribes questioning with them. And
straightway all the people, when they beheld
him, were greatly amazed, and running to him
saluted him. And he asked the scribes. What
question ye with them ? And one of the multi-
tude answered and said. Master, I have brought
unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit ;
and Vv'heresoever he taketh him, he teareth him :
and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth,
and pineth away : and I spake to thy disciples
that they should cast him out ; and they could
not. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless
generation, how long shall I be with you ? how
long shall I suffer you % bring him unto me.
And they brought him unto him : and when he
saw him, straightway the spirit tare him ; and
he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
And he asked his father. How long is it ago since
this came imto him 1 And he said. Of a child.
And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and
into the waters, to destroy him : but if thou
canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and
help us. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that
believeth. And straightway the father of the
child cried out, and said Avith tears, Lord, I believe;
help thou mine unbelief. When Jesus saw that
March 10, Morn. S. :5IAEK, IX. Sept. 9, Even.
the people came running together, he rebuked
the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and
deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and
enter no more into him. And the spirit cried,
and rent him sore, and came out of him : and he
was as one dead ; insomuch that many said. He
is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and
lifted him up ; and he arose. And when he was
come into the house, his disciples asked him
privately, Why could not we cast him out ? And
he said unto them, This kind can come forth by
nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
March 10, Morning ; Sept. 9, Evening.
A ND they departed thence, and passed through
jl\, Galilee ; and he would not that any man
should know it For he taught his disciples,
and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered
into the hands of men, and they shall kill him ;
and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third
day. But they understood not that saying, and
were afraid to ask him. And he aime to Caper-
naum : and being in the house he asked them,
What was it that ye disputed among yourselves
by the way ? But they held their peace : for by
the way they had disputed among themselves,
who sJiouId be the greatest. And he sat down,
and called the twelve, and saith unto them. If
any man desire to be first, the same shall be last
of all, and ser\-ant of alL And he took a child,
and set liiin in the midst of them : and when he
had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
"Whosoever shall receive one of such children in
my name, receiveth me : and whosoever shall
receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent
me. And John answered him, saying. Master,
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March\\,M(n-n. S. MAEK, X. Sept \0, Even,
we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and
he foUoweth not us : and we forbad him. because
he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid Mm
not : for there is no man which shall do a miracle
in mj name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
For he that is not against us is on our pai-t.
For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to
drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ,
verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his
revvard. And whosoever shall oft'end one of
these little ones that believe in me, it is better
for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he were cast into the sea. And if thy
hand offend thee, cut it off' : it is better for thee
to enter into life maimed, than having two hands
to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be
quenched : where their worm dieth not, and the
fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend
thee, cut it off" : it is better for thee to enter halt
into life, than having two feet to be Ciust into hell,
into the fire that never shall be quenched : where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
And if thine eye oftend thee, pluck it out : it is
better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God
with one ej^e, than having two eyes to be cast into
hell fire : where their worm dieth not, and the fire
is not quenched. For every one shall be salted
with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted Avith
salt. Salt is good : but if the salt have lost his
saltness, wherewith will ye season it ? Have salt
in yourselves, and have peace one witii anotJier.
CHAPTER X.
March n, Morning; Sept. 10, Evening.
AND he arose from thence, and cometh into
XjL the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of
March H, Morm. S. MARK, X. Sept. 10, Even.
Jordan : and the people resort unto him again ;
and. as he was wont, he taught them again. And
the Pharisees came to him. and asked him. Is it
lawful for a man to put away his wife ? tempting
him. And he answered and said unto them,
What did ^Nloses command you ? And they said,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement,
and to put her away. And Jesus answered and
said unto them, For the hardness of your heart
he wrote you this precept. But from the begin-
ning of the creation God made them male and
female. For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother, and cleave to his wife ; and
they twain shall be one flesh : so then they are
no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore
God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder. And in the house his disciples asked
him attain of the same matter. And he saith
unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife,
and marry another, committeth adultery against
her. And if a woman shall put away her hus-
band, and be married to another, she committeth
adulteiy. And they brought young children to
him, that he should touch them : and his disci-
ples rebuked those that brought them. But when
Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said
unto them. Suffer the little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not : for of such is the
kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you. Who-
soever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a
little child, he shall not enter therein. And he
took them up in his arms, put his hands upon
them, and blessed them. And when he was
gone forth into the way, there came one running,
and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Mas-
March 11, Morn. S. MARK, X. Sept. 10, Even.
ter, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal
life ? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest
thou me good 1 there is none good but one, that
is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do
not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal.
Do not bear false witness. Defraud not. Honour
thy father and mother. And he answered and
said unto him, Master, all these have I observed
from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him
loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou
lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast,
and give to the poor, and thou shalt have trea-
sure in heaven : and come, take up the cross,
and follow me. And he was sad at that saying,
and went away grieved : for he had great pos-
sessions. And Jesus looked round about, and
saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they
that have riches enter into the kingdom of God !
And the discijDles were astonished at his words.
But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them,
Children, how hard is it for them that trust in
riches to enter into the kingdom of God ! It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God. And they were astonished out
of measure, saying among themselves, Who then
can be saved ? And Jesus looking upon them
saith, With men it is impossible, but not with
God : for with God all things are possible. Then
Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all,
and have followed thee. And Jesus answered
and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man
that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,
for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive
March 12, Mom. S. MARK, X. Sept. U, Even.
an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and chOdren,
and lands, with persecutions ; and in the world
to come eternal life. But many that cure first
shall be last ; and the last first.
March 12, Morning ; Sept. 11, Evening.
A KD they were in the way going up to Jeru-
Jlx. salem ; and Jesus went before them : and
they were amazed ; and as they followed, they
were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and
began to tell them what things should happen
unto him, saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the
chief priests, and unto the scribes ; and they
shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver
him to the Gentiles : and they shall mock him,
and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him,
and shall kill him : and the thu*d day he shall
rise again. And James and John, the sons of
Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we
would that thou shouldest do for us what-
soever we shall desire. And he said unto them,
What would ye that I should do for you ? They
said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit,
one on thy right hand, and the other on th}'' left
hand, in thy glory. But Jesus said unto them,
Ye know not what ye ask : can ye drink of the
cup that I drmk of? and be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with ? And they
said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto
them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I
drink of ; and with the baptism that I am bap-
tized withal shall ye be baptized : but to sit on
my right hand and on my left hand is not mine
March 12, Mom. S. MARK, X. Sept. 11, Evm.
to give ; but it shall he given to them for whom
it is prepared. And when the ten heard it, they
began to be much displeased with James and
John. But Jesus called them to him, and saith
unto them, Ye know that they which are ac-
counted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lord-
ship over them ; and their great ones exercise
authority upon them. But so shall it not be
among you : but whosoever will be great among
you, shall be your minister : and whosoever of
you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of
all. For even the Son of man came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his
life a ransom for many. And they came to
Jericho : and as he went out of Jericho with his
disciples and a great number of people, blind
Bartimaeus, the son of Timseus, sat by the high-
way side begging. And when he heard that it
was Jesus of iSTazareth, he began to cry out, and
say, Jesus, thou son of David,- have mercy on
me. And many charged him that he should
hold his peace : but he cried the more a great
deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to
be called. And they call the blind man, saying
unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth
thee. And he, casting away his garment, rose,
and came to Jesus. And Jesus answered and
said unto him. What wilt thou that I should do
unto thee ? The blind man said unto him, Lord,
that I might receive my sight. And Jesus said
unto him, Go thy way ; thy faith hath made
thee whole. And immediately he received his
sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
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CHAPTER XI.
March 13, Morning; Sept. 12, Evening.
A XD Avheii they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto
J\. Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of
Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and
saith unto them, Go your way into the village
over against you : and as soon as ye be entered
into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never
man sat ; loose him. and bring him. And if any
man say unto you. Why do ye this ? say ye that
the Lord hath need of him ; and straightway he
will send him hither. And they went their way,
and found the colt tied by the door without in a
place where two ways met ; and they loose him.
And certain of them that stood there said unto
them, What do ye, loosing the colt ? And they
said unto them even as Jesus had commanded :
and they let them go. And they brought the
colt to Jesus, and cost their garments on him ;
and he sat upon him. And many spread their
garments in the way : and others cut down
branches off the trees, and strawed them in the
way. And they that went before, and they that
followed, cried, saying, Hosanna ; Ble.ssed is he
that Cometh in the name of the Lord : Blessed
he the kingdom of our father David, that cometh
in the name of the Lord : Hosanna in the high-
est. And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into
the temple : and when he had looked round
about upon all things, and now the eventide was
come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
And on the morrow, when they were come from
Bethany, he was hungry : and seeing a fig tree
afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might
find any thing thereon : and when he came to it,
March 13, Morn. S. MARK, XL Sept. 12, Even.
he found nothing but leaves ; for tlie time of figs
was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto
it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.
And his disciples heard it. And they come to
Jerusalem : and Jesus went into the temple, and
began to cast out them that sold and bought in
the temple, and overthrew the tables of the
moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold
doves ; and would not suffer that any man should
carry any vessel through the temple. And he
taught, saying unto them. Is it not written. My
house shall be called of all nations the house of
prayer? but ye have made it a den a thieves.
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and
sought how they might destroy him : for they
feared him, because all the people was astonished
at his doctrine. And when even was come, he
went out of the city. And in the morning, as
they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up
from the roots. And Peter calling to remem-
brance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig
tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And
Jesus answering saith unto them, Have fiiith in
God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed,
and "be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those
things which he saith shall come to pass ; he
shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say
imto you. What things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye 'shall
have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive,
if ye have ought against any : that your Father
also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will
March li. Mom. S. MAEK, XTI. ^ Sepf.lS.Eveiu
your Father •whieh is in heaven forgive your i
trespasses.
March 14, Morning ; Sept. 13, Evening.
A ND they come again to Jerusalem : and as
JTjL he was walking in the temple, there come
to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the
elders, and say unto him, By what authority
doest thou these things ? and who gave thee this
authority to do these things ? And Jesus an-
swered and said unto them, I will also ask of you
one question, and answer me. and I will tell you
by what authority I do these things. The baptism
of John, was it from heaven, or of men ? answer
me. And they reasoned with themselves, saying,
If we shall say, From heaven ; he will say, Why
then did ye not believe him ? But if we shall
say, Of men ; they feared the people : for all men
counted John, that he Wiis a prophet indeed.
And they answered and said unto Jesus, We
amnot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto
them. Neither do I tell you by what authority I
do these things.
CHAPTER XII.
And he began to speak unto them by parables.
A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an
hedge about it, and digged a j)l<ice for the wine-
fat, and built a tower, and let it out lo husband-
men, and went into a far country. And at the
season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that
he might receive from the husbandmen of the
fruit of the vineyard. And they caught hitiv, and
beat him, and sent him away empty. And again
he sent unto them another servant ; and at him
they cast stones, and wounded him in the hcitd,
and sent him away shamefully handled. And
March 15, Mom. S. IMARK, XII. Sept. 14, Even.
again he sent another ; and him they killed, and
many others ; beating some, and killing some.
Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved,
he sent him also last unto them, saying. They
will reverence my son. But those husbandmen
said among themselves, This is the heir ; come,
let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
And they took him, and killed him, and cast him
out of the vineyard. What shall therefore the
lord of the vineyard do ? he will come and
destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vine-
yard unto others. And have ye not read this
scripture ; The stone which the builders rejected
is become the head of the corner : this was the
Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes ?
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared
the people : for they knew that he had spoken
the parable against them : and they left him,
and went their way.
March 15, Morning; Sept. 14, Evening.
AND they send unto him certain of the Phari-
jtTL sees and of the Herodians, to catch him in
his words. And when they were come, they say
unto him, Master, we know that thou art true,
and carest for no man : for thou regardest not
the person pf men, but teachest the way of God
in truth : Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar,
or not ? Shall we give, or shall we not give ?
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them,
Why tempt ye me 1 bring me a penny, that I
may see it. And they brought it. And he saith
unto them. Whose is this image and superscrip-
tion ? And they said unto him, Caesar's. And
Jesus answering said unto them, Render to
Cassar the thino;s that are Caesar's, and to God
Ifarch 1.5, Morn. S. MARK, XIT. Sept. 14, Even.
the tilings that are God's. And they marrelled
at hiin. Then come unto him the Sadducees,
which say there is no resurrection ; and they
asked him, sayincr, jSIaster, I^Ioses wrote imto us,
If a man's brother die. and leave his wife hchincl
hiiih, and leave no children, that his brother
should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his
brother. Now there were seven brethren : and
the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
And the second took her, and died, neither left
lie any seed : and the tliird likewise. And the
seven had her, and left no seed : last of all the
woman died also. In the resurrection therefore,
when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of
them ] for the seven had her to wife. And Jesus
answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore
err, beaiuse ye know not the scriptures, neither
the power of God ? For when they shall rise
from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given
in marriage ; but are as the angels Avhich are in
heaven. "And as touching the dead, that they
rise : have ye not read in the book of Moses,
how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I
am the God of Abmham, and the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob ? He is not the God of
the dead, but the God of the livmg : ye therefore
do greatly err. And one of the scribes came, and
having heard them reasoning together, and per-
ceiving that he had answered them well, asked
him, Which is the first commandment of all?
And Jesus answered him. The first of all the
comniimdments is, Hear. O Israel ; The Lord our
God is one Lord : and thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
March 16, Mom. S. MARK, XII. Sept. \o, Eom.
Strength : this is the first commandment. And i
the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love!
thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other |
commandment greater than these. And the scribe
said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the
truth : for there is one God ; and there is none
other but he : and to love him with all the heart,
and with all the understanding, and Avith all the
soul, and with all the strength, and to love his
neighbour as himself, is more than all whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus
saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him.
Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And
no man after that durst ask him any question.
March IC, Morning ; Sept. 15, Evening.
A ND Jesus answered and said, while he taught
J\. in the temple. How say the scribes that
Christ is the son of David ? For David himself
said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make
thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore
himself cidleth him Lord ; and whence is he
then his son 1 And the common people heard
him gladly. And he said unto them in his doc-
trine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in
long clothing, and love salutations in the market-
places, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
and the uppermost rooms at feasts : which de-
vour widows^ houses, and for a pretence make
long prayers : these shall receive greater dam-
nation. And Jesus sat over against the treasury,
and beheld how the people cast money into the
treasury : and many that were rich cast in much.
And there came a certain poor widow, and she
threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
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And he called unto him his disciples, and saith
unto them, Yerily I say unto you, That this poor
widow hath cast more in, than all they which
have cast into the treasury : for all they did cast
in of theii- abundance ; but she of her want did
cast in all that she had, even all her living.
CHAPTER XIII.
And as he went out of the temple, one of his
disciples saith unto him, Master, see what
manner of stones and what buildings are here !
And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou
these great buildings \ there shall not be left one
stone upon another, that shall not be thrown
down. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives
over against the temple, Peter and James and
John and Andrew asked him privately, TeU us,
when shall these things be ] and what shall he
the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled ?
And Jesus answering them began to say, Take
heed lest any man deceive you : for many shaU
come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and
shall deceive many. Ajid when ye shall hear of
wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled :
for such things must needs be ; but the end shall
not he yet. For nation shall rise ag;\inst nation,
and kingdom against kingdom : and there shall
be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall
be femines and troubles : these are the begin-
nings of sorrows. But take heed to yourselves :
for they shall deliver you up to councils ; and in
the synagogues ye shall be beaten : and ye shall
be brought before rulers and kings for my sake,
for a testimony against them. And the gospel
must .first be published among all nations. But
when they shall lead you, and deliver you up,
Marckn,Mom. S. MARK, XIII. Sept, 16, Even.
take no thought beforehand Avhat ye shall speak,
neither do ye premeditate : but whatsoever shall
be given you in that hour, that speak ye : for it
is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. Now
the brother shall betray the brother to death, and
the father the son ; and children shall rise up
against their parents, and shall cause them to be
put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men
for my name's sake : but he that shall endure
unto the end, the same shall be saved.
March 17, Morning ; Sept. 16, Evening.
BUT when ye shall see the abomination of
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
standing where it ought not, (let him that read-
eth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea
flee to the mountains : and let him that is on
the housetop not go down into the house, neither
enter therein., to take any thing out of his house :
and let him that is in the field not turn back
again for to take up his garment. But woe to
them that are with child, and to them that give
suck in those days ! And pray ye that your
flight be not in the winter. For in those days
shall be affliction, such as was not from the
beginning of the creation wliich God created unto
this time, neither shall be. And except that the
Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should
be saved : but for the elect's sake, whom he
hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. And
then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is
Christ ; or, lo, he is there ; believe him not : for
false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and
shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it
were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed :
behold, I have foretold you all things. But in
March IS,, Mom. S. MARK, X IT. Sept. 11, Even.
those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
darkened, and the moon shaU not give her light,
and the stars of heaven shall fall and the powers
that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then
shall they see the Son of man coming in the
clouds with great power and glory. And then
shall he send his angels, and shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost
part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When her
branch is yet tei^der, and putteth forth leaves,
ye know that summer is near : so ye in like
manner, when ye shaU see these things come to
pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall
not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven
and earth shall pass away : but my words shall
not pass away. But of that day and that hour
knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are
in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take
ye heed, watch and pray : for ye know not when
the time is. For the Son of man is as a man
taking a far journey, who left his house, and
gave authority to his servants, and to every man
his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the
master of the house cometh, at even, or at mid-
night, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning :
lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And
what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
CHAPTER XIY.
March IS, Morning; Sept. 17, Evening.
AFTER two days was the feast of the pass-
over, and of unleavened bread : and the
March 18, Mom. S. MARK, XIV. Sept 17, Even.
chief priests and the scribes sought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there
be an uproar of the people. And being in
Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he
sat at meat, there came a woman having an ala-
baster box of ointment of spikenard very pre-
cious ; and she brake the box, and poured it on
his head. And there were some that had indig-
nation within themselves, and said. Why was
this waste of the ointment made ? For it might
have been sold for more than three hundred
pence, and have been given to the poor. And
they murmured against her. And Jesus said.
Let her alone ; why trouble ye her ? she hath
wrought a good work on me. For ye have the
poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye
may do them good : but me ye have not always.
She hath done what she could : she is come
aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Verily I say unto you. Wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached throughout the whole world,
this also that she hath done shall be spoken of
for a memorial of her. And Judas Iscariot, one
of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to
betray him unto them. And when they heard
it, they were glad, and promised to give him
money. And he sought how he might con-
veniently betray him. And the first day of
unleavened bread, when they killed the passover,
his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou
that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the
passover i And he sendeth forth two of his
disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the
city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a
March 19, Morn. S. MARK, XIV. Sept. IS, Hven.
pitcher of water : follow him. And wheresoever
he shall go in, say ye to the good man of the
house, The Master saitli, Where is the guest-
chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my
disciples ? And he will shew you a large upper
room furnished and prepared : there make ready
for us. And his disciples went forth, and came
into the city, and found as he had said unto
them : and they made ready the passover. And
in the evening he cometh with the twelve. And
as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say
unto you. One of you which eateth with me shall
betray me. And they began to be sorrowful,
and to say unto him one by one, Is it I ? and
another said, J5 it I ? And he answered and
said unto them. It is one of the twelve, that dip-
peth with me in the dish. The Son of man
indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to
that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed !
good were it for that man if he had never i)een
born. And as they did eat, Jesus took bread,
and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and
said, Take, eat : this is my body. And he took
the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave
it to them : and they all drank of it. And he
said unto them. This is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many. Verily I say
unto you, I Avill drink no more of the fruit of the
vine, until that day that I drink it new in the
kingdom of God. And when they had sung an
hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
M(irchl9, Morning; Sept. IS, Evening.
AND Jesus saitli unto them, AH ye shall be
jl\. offended because of me this night : for it
12 written, I will smite the shepherd, and the
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sheep shall be scattered. But after that I am
risen, I will go before you into Galilee. But
Peter said unto him, Although all shall be of-
fended, yet tcill not I. And Jesus saith unto
him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even
in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou
shalt deny me thrice. But he spake the more
vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not
deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they
all. And they came to a place which was named
Gethsemane : and he saith to his disciples. Sit
ye here, while I shall pray. And he taketh with
him Peter and James and John, and began to be
sore amazed, and to be very heavy ; and saith
unto them, JNIy soul is exceeding sorrowful unto
death : tarry ye here, and watch. And he went
forward a little, and fell on the ground, and
prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might
pass from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all
things are possible unto thee ; take away this
cup from me : nevertheless not what I will, but
what thou wilt. And he cometh, and findeth
them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon,
sleepest thou ? couldest not thou watch one hour /
Watch ye and pmy, lest ye enter into tempta-
tion. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is
weak. And again he went away, and prayed,
and spake the same words. And when he re-
turned, he found them asleep again, (for their
eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to an-
swer him. And he cometh the third time, and
saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your
rest : it is enough, the hour is come ; behold, the
Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Else up, let us go ; lo, he that betrayeth me is at
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hand. And immediately, while he yet spake, com-
eth Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great
multitude with swords and stares, from the chief
priests and the scribes and the elders. And he
that betrayed him had given them a token,
saying. Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is
he ; take him, and lead him away safely. And
as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to
him, and saith, Master, master ; and kissed him.
And they laid their hands on him, and took him.
And one of them that stood by drew a sword,
and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut
off his ear. And Jesus answered and said unto
them. Are ye come out, as against a thief, with
swords and icith staves to take me ? I was daily
with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me
not : but the scriptures must be fulfilled. And
they all forsook him, and fled. And there
followed him a certain young man, having a linen
cloth cast about his naked body ; and the young
men laid hold on him : and he left the linen
eloth, and tied from them naked.
J/rtrcA 20, Morning; Sept. 19, Evening.
AND they led Jesus away to the high priest :
j\. and with him were assembled all the chief
priests and the elders and the scribes. And
Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace
of the high priest : and he sat with the servants,
and warmed himself at the fire. And the chief
priests and all the council sought for witness
against Jesus to put him to death ; and found
none. For many bare false witness against him,
but their witness agreed not together. And
there arose certain, and bare false witness against
him, saying, We heard him say, I will destroy
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this temple that is made with hands, and
within three days I will build another made
without hands. But neither so did their witness
agree together. And the high priest stood up in
the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest
thou nothing? what is it which these witness
against thee ? But he held his peace, and an-
swered nothing. Again the high priest asked
him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the
Son of the Blessed ? And Jesus said, 1 am :
and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the
right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes,
and saith. What need we any further wit-
nesses ? Ye have heard the blasphemy : what
think ye 1 And they all condemned him to be
guilty of death. And some began to spit on
him, and to cover his fiice, and to buffet him,
and to say unto him, Prophesy : and the ser-
vants did strike him with the palms of their
hands. And as Peter was beneath in the palace,
there cometh one of the maids of the high priest :
and when she saw Peter warming himself, she
looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast
with Jesus of Nazareth. But he denied, saying,
I know not, neither understand I what thou
sayest. And he went out into the porch ; and
the cock crew. And a maid saw him again, and
began to say to them that stood by. This is one
of them. And he denied it again. And a little
after, they that stood by said again to Peter,
Surely thou art one of them : for thou art a
Galilsean, and thy speech agreeth thereto. But
he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know
not this man of whom ye speak. And the
March, 21, Morn. S. MARK, XV. Sept. 20, Even.
second time the cock crew. And Peter called to
mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before
the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
And when he thought thereon, he wept.
CHAPTER XV.
March 21, Morning ; Sept. 20, Evening.
AND straightway in the morning the cliief
- priests held a consultation with the elders
and scribes and the whole councii and bound
Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him
to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the
King of the Jews ? And he answering said unto
him, Thou sayest it And the chief priests ac-
cused him of many things : but he answered
nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying,
Answerest thou nothing ? behold how many
things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet
answered nothing ; so that Pilate marvelled.
Now at that feast he released unto them one
prisoner, whomsoever they desired. And there
was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with
them that had made insurrection with him, who
had committed murder in the insurrection. And
the multitude crying aloud began to desire him
to do as he had ever done unto them. But Pilate
answered them, saying. Will ye that I release
unto you the King of the Jews ? For he knew
that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
But the chief priests moved the people, that he
should rather release Barabbas unto them. And
Pilate answered and said again unto them, AYhat
will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye
call the King of the Jews ? And they cried out
again, Crucify him. Then Pilate said unto
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\ MarcJi2l,Morn. S. MARK, XV. Sept. 20. Even.
them, AVhy, what evil hath he done ? And they
cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, re-
leased Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus,
when he had scourged hiTn, to be crucified. And
the soldiers led him away into the hall, called
Prsetorium ; and they call together the whole
band. And they clothed him with purple, and
platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his
head, and began to salute him. Hail, King of the
Jews ! And they smote him on the head with
a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their
knees worshipped him. And when they had
mocked him, they took off the purple from him,
and put his own clothes on him, and led him out
to crucify him. And they compel one Simon a
Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the
country, the father of Alexander and Eufus, to
bear his cross. And they bring him unto the
place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The
place of a skull. And they gave him to drink
wine mingled with myrrh : but he received it
not. And when they had crucified him, they
parted his garments, casting lots upon them,
what every man should take. And it was the
third hour, and they crucified him. And the
superscription of his accusation was written over,
THE KING OF THE JEWS. And with him
they crucify two thieves ; the oneon his right hand,
and the other on his left. And the scripture
Wiis fulfilled, which saith, And he Wiis numbered
with the transgressors. And they that passed
by railed on him, wagging their heads, and
saying. Ah, thou that de'stroyest the temple, and
buildest it in three days, save thyself, and come
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JIarch 22, Mom. S. MAEK, XY. Sept. 21, Ei-en.
down from the cross. Likewise also the chief
priests mocking said among themselves with the
scribes. He saved others ; himself he cannot save.
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from
the cross, that we may see and believe. And they
that were crucified with him reviled him. And
when the sixth hour wa5 come, there was dark-
ness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saving, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which
is, being interpreted. My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken rae ? And some of them that
stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he
calleth Elias. And one ran and filled a spuuge
full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and
gave him to drink, saying, Let alone ; let us see
Avhether Elias will come to take him down.
And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up
the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent
in twain from the top to the bottom. And when
the centurion, which stood over against him, saw
that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he
said, Truly this man was the Son of God. There
were also women looking on afar off: among
whom was Mary Magdalene, and ^lary the
mother of James the less and of Joses, and
Salome ; (who also, when he was in Galilee, fol-
lowed him, and ministered unto him ;) and many
other women which came up with him unto
Jerusalem.
March 22, Morning ; Sept. 21, Evening.
AND now when the even was come, because it
J\. was the preparation, that is, the day before
the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable
counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of
March l^, Morn. S. MARK, XVI. Sept. 21, Even.
God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and
craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled
if he were already dead : and calling unto him
the centurion, he asked him whether he had been
any while dead. And when he knew it of the
centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he
bought fine linen, and took him down, and
wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a
sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and
rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
And Mary INIagdalene and Mary the tnother of
Joses beheld where he wa.s laid.
CHAPTER XVI.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Mag-
dalene, and JSlary the another of James, and
Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him. And very early in the
morning the lirst day of the week, they came
unto the seiDulchre at the rising of the sun. And
they said among themselves, Who shall roll us
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre ?
And when they looked, they saw that the stone
was rolled away : for it was very great. And
entering into the sepulclu'e, they saw a young
man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long
white garment ; and they were affrighted. And
he saith unto them, Be not affrighted : Ye seek
Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified : he is
risen ; he is not here : behold the place where
they laid him. But go your way, tell his dis-
ciples and Peter that he goeth before you into
Galilee : there shall ye see him, as he said unto
you. And they went out quickly, and fled from
the sepulchre ; for they trembled and were a-
mazed : neither said they any thing to any man;
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for they were afraid. Now when Jesus was risen
early the first day of the week, he appeared first
to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast
seven devils. And she went and told them that
had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
And they, when they had heard that he was
alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
After that he appeared in another form unto two
of them, as they walked, and went into the
country. And they went and told it unto the
residue : neither believed they them. Afterward
he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat,
and upbraided them with their unbelief and
hardness of heart, because they believed not
them which had seen him after he w;is risen.
And he said unto them. Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature. He
that belie veth and is baptized shall be saved ;
but he that believeth not shall be damned. And
these signs shall follow them that believe ; In
my name shall they cast out devils ; they shall
speak with new tongues ; they shall t;ike up ser-
pents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it
shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on
the sick, and they shall recover. So then after
the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received
up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of
God. And they went forth, and preached every
where, the Lord working with them, and con-
firming the word with signs following. Amen.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
St. LUKE.
CHAPTER I.
March 23, Morning ; Sept. 22, Evening.
FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand
to set forth in order a declaration of those
things which are most surely believed among us,
even as they delivered them unto us, which from
the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers
of the word ; it seemed good to me also, having
had perfect understanding of all things from the
very first, to write unto thee in order, most
excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know
the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast
been instructed.
THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of
Judsea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the
course of Abia : and his wife was of the daugh-
ters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And they were both righteous before God, walk-
ing in all the commandments and ordinances of
the Lord blameless. And they had no child,
because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both
were now well stricken in years. And it cjime
to pass, that while he executed the priest's office
before God in the order of his course, according
to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to
burn incense when he went into the temple of
the Lord. And the whole multitude of the
people were praying without at the time of
incense. And there appeared unto him an angel
of the Lord standing on the right side of the
altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him,
! he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But
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the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias :
for thy prayer is heard ; and thy wife Elisabeth
shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his
name John. And thou shalt have joy and glad-
ness ; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For
he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and
shall drink neither ^\'ine nor strong drink ; and
he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from
his mother's womb. And many of the children
of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and
power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers
to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom
of the just ; to make ready a people prepared
for the Lord. And Zacharias said unto the
angel. Whereby shall I know this ? for I am an
old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
And the angel answering said unto him, I am
Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God ; and
am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee
these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be
dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that
these things shall be performed, because thou
believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled
in their seiison. And the people waited for
Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long
in the temple. And w^hen he came out, he could
not speak unto them : and they perceived that
he had seen a vision in the temple : for he beck-
oned unto them, and remained speechless. And
it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his
ministration were accomplished, he departed to
his own house. And after those days his wife
Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months,
j saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the
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diiys wherein he looked on ?7ie, to take away my
reproach among men.
March 24, Morning ; Sept. 23, Evening, to v. 57.
AND in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was
Jl\. sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named
Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose
name was Joseph, of the house of David ; and
the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel
came in unto her, and said. Hail, thou that art
highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed
art thou among women. And when she saw A-im,
she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her
mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary :
for thou hast found favour with God. And,
behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of
the Highest : and the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David : and he shall
reign over the house of Jacob for ever ; and of
his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said
Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I
know not a man ? And the angel answered and
said unto her. The Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee, and the power of the Highest shall over-
shadow thee : therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the
Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth,
she hath also conceived a son in her old age:
and this is the sixth month with her, who was
called barren. For with God nothing shall be
impossible. And Mary said, Behold the hand-
maid of the Lord ; be it unto me according to
thy word. And the angel departed from her.
March 25, Morn. S. LUKE, I. Sept. 24, Even.
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the
hill country with haste, into a city of Juda ;
and entered into the house of Zacharias, and
saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that,
when Elisabeth heard the salutiition of Mary, the
babe le;iped in her womb ; and Elisabeth was
filled with the Holy Ghost : and she spake out
with a loud voice, and said. Blessed art thou
among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb. And whence is this to me, that the
mother of my Lord should come to me ? For,
Id, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded
in mine ears, the babe leaped in my w^omb for
joy. And blessed is she that believed : for
there shall be a performance of those things
which were told her from the Lord.
March 25, Morning; Sept. 24, Evening, from v. 57.
AND Mary said, My soul doth magnify the
Lord, and my spirit bath rejoiced in God
my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low
estate of his handmaiden : for, behold, from
henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great
things ; and holy is his name. And his mercy is
on them that fear hhn from generation togenera-
' tion. He hath shewed strength with his arm ;
I he hath sc^ittered the jDroud in the imagination
■ of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty
from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
He hath filled the hungry M'ith good things ; and
the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath holpen
j his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy ;
as he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his
seed for ever. And Mary abode with her about
three months, and returned to her own house.
March 25, Morn. S. LUKE, I. Sept. 24, Even.
Ver. 57. Now Elisabeth's full time came that
she should be delivered ; and she brought forth
a son. And her neighbours and her cousins
heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy
upon her ; and they rejoiced with her. And it
came to pass, that on the eighth day they came
to circumcise the child ; and they called him
Zacharias, after the name of his father. And
his mother answered and said, Not so ; but he
shall be called John. And they said unto her,
There is none of thy kindred that is called by
this name. And they made signs to his father,
how he would have him called. And he asked
for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name-
is John. And they marvelled all. And his
mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue
loosed, and he spake, and praised God. And
fear came on all that dwelt round about them :
and all these sayings were noised abroad through-
out all the hill country of Judsea. And all they
that heard them laid them up in their hearts,
saying, What manner of child shall this be !
And the hand of the Lord was with him. And
his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy
Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the
Lord God of Israel ; for he hath visited and
redeemed his people, and hath raised up an horn
of salvation for us in the house of his serv^ant
David ; as he spake by the mouth of his holy
prophets, which have been since the world began :
that we should be saved from our enemies, and
from the hand of all that hate us ; to perform
the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remem-
ber his holy covenant ; the oath which he sware
to our father Abraham, that he would grant
March 26, Mom. S. LUKE, II. Sept. 25, Even.
unto US, that we being delivered out of the hand
of our enemies might serve him without fear, in
holiness and righteousness before him, all the
days of our life. And thou, child, shalt be called
the prophet of the Highest : for thou shalt go
before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways ;
to give knowledge of salvation unto his people
by the remission of their sins, through the tender
mercy of our God ; whereby the dayspring from
on high hath visited us, to give light to them
that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace. And
the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and
was in the deserts till the day of his shewing
unto Israel
CHAPTER II.
March 20, Morning ; Sept. 25, Evening.
AISTD it came to pass in those days, that there
went out a decree from Csesar Augustus,
that all the world should be taxed. {And this
taxing was first made when C}Tenius was gover-
nor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every
one into his own city. And Joseph also went
up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,
into Judseji, unto the city of David, which is
Ciilled Bethlehem ; (because he was of the house
and lineage of David :) to be taxed with Mary
his espoused wife, being great with child. And
so it was, that, while they were there, the days
were accomplished that she should be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and
wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him
in a manger ; because there was no room for
them in the inn. And there were in the same
March 27 , Morn. S. LUKE, II. ' Sept. 26,' Even.
country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping
watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the
angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory
of the Lord shone round about them : and they
were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them,
Fear not : for, behold, I bring you good tidings
of great joy, which shall be to all people. For
unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this
shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there >vas with the angel a multi-
tude of the heavenly host praising God, and
saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men. And it came
to pass, as the angels were gone away from them
into heaven, the shepherds said one to another,
Let us nov/ go even unto Bethlehem, and see this
thing which is come to pass, Avhich the Lord hath
made known unto us. And they came with
haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
babe lying in a manger. And when they had
seen it, they made known abroad the saying
which was told them concerning this child. And
all they that heard it wondered at those things
which were told them by the shepherds. But
Mary kept all these things, and pondered them
in her heart. And the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God for all the things
that they had heard and seen, as it was told
unto them.
March 27, Morning ; Sept. 26, Evening.
A ND when eight days were accomplished for
J\. the circumcising of the child, his name was
called JESUS, which was so named of the angel
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before he was conceived in the womb. And
when the days of her purification according to
the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought
him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord ;
(as it is wTitten in the law of the Lord, Every
male that openeth the womb shall be allied holy
to the Lord ;) and to ofter a sacrifice according
to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A
pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. And,
behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose
name was Simeon ; and the same man was just
and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel :
and tlie Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was
revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he
should not see death, before he had seen the
Lord's Clirist. And he came by the Spirit into
the temple : and when the parents brought in
the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom
of the law, then took he him up in his arms, and
blessed God, and said. Lord, now lettest thou thy
servant depart in peace, according to thy word :
for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which
thou hast prepared before the face of all people ;
a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of
thy people Israel. And Joseph and his mother
marvelled at those things which were spoken of
him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto
Mary his mother. Behold, this child is set for the
fall and rising again of many in Israel ; and for
a sign which shall be spoken against ; (yea, a
sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,)
that the thoughts of many hearts may be re-
vealed. And there was one Anna, a prophetess,
the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser :
she was of a great age, and had lived with an
March 27, Mcmi. S. LUKE, II. Seijt. 26, Even.
husband seven years from her virginity ; and
she was a widow of about fourscore and four
years, which departed not from the temple, but
served God with fastings and prayers night and
day. And she coming in that instant gave
thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of
him to all them that looked for redemption in
Jerusalem. And when they had performed all
things according to the law of the Lord, they re-
turned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit,
filled with wisdom : and the grace of God was
upon him. Now his parents went to Jerusalem
every year at the feast of the passover. And
when he Avas twelve years old, they went up to
Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And
when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned,
the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem ; and
Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But
they, supposing him to have been in the com-
pany, went a day's journey; and they sought
him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
And when they found him not, they turned
back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it
came to pass, that after three days they found
him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the
doctors, both hearing them, and asking them
questions. And all that heard him were aston-
ished a,% his understanding and answers. And
when they saw him, they were amazed : and his
mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus
dealt with us ? behold, thy father and I have
sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them.
How is it that ye sought me 1 wist ye not tliat I
must be about my Father's business ? Aad they
March 2S, Morn. S. LUKE, III. Sept. 27, Even.
understood not the saying which he spake unto
them. And he went down with them, and came
to Nazareth, and was subject unto them : but
his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and
in favour with God and man.
CHAPTER III.
March 28, 3Iornii]g; Sept. 27, Evening, to v. 23.
NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Csesar, Pontius Pilate being go-
vernor of Judiea, and Herod being tetrarch of
Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea
and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias
the tetrarch of Abilene, Annas and Caiaphas
being the high priests, the word of God came
unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
And he came into all the country about Jordan,
preaching the baptism of repentance for the re-
mission of sins ; as it is written in the book of
the words of Esaias the prophet, saying. The
voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain
and iiill shall be brought low ; and the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall
he made smooth ; and all flesh shall see the sal-
vation of God. Then said he to the multitude
that came forth to be baptized of him, O genera-
tion of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from
the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits
worthy of repentance, and begin not to say with-
in yourselves, We have Abraham to our father :
for I say unto you. That God is able of these
stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And
March 28, Morn. . S. LUKE, III. Sept. 27, Even.
now also the axe is laid unto the root of the
trees : every tree therefore which bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the
fire. And the people asked him, saying, What
shall we do then ? He answereth and saith unto
them. He that hath two coats, let him impart to
him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let
him do likewise. Then came also publicans to
be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what
shall we do ? And he said unto them. Exact no
more than that which is appointed you. And
the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying,
And what shall we do 1 And he said unto them,
Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely ;
and be content with your wages. And as the
people were in expectation, and all men mused
in their hearts of John, whether he were the
Christ, or not ; John answered, saying unto them
all, I indeed baptize you with water ; but one
mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose
shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall bap-
tize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire :
whose fim is in his hand, and he will througlily
purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into
his garner ; but the chaff he will burn with fire
unquenchable. And many other things in his
exhortation preached he unto the people. But
Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for
Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all
the evils which Herod had done, added yet this
above all, that he shut up John in prison. Now
■when all the people were baptized, it came to
pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying,
the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost de-
scended in a bodily siiape like a dove upon him,
3Iarch 28, MorTu S. LUKE, III. Sept. 27, Even. \
and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou
art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well pleased, j
Ver. 23. And Jesus himself began to be about I
thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the
son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, which
was the son of Matthat, which was the son of i
Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was j
the son of Janna, wliich was the son of Joseph, ;
which was the son of ISIattathias, which was the ;
S071 of Amos, which was the son of Naum, Avhich j
was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
which was the son of Maath, which was the son \
of Mattathias, which was the son of Seniei, which I
was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, !
which was the son of Joanna, which was the son \
of Ehesa, which was the soji of Zorobabel, which i
was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of
Neri, which was the son of Melchi, which was
the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam,
which was the son of Elmodam, which wjis the
son of Er, which was the son of Jose, which was
the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim,
which was the son of ]Matthat, which was the son
of Levi, which Avas the son of Simeon, which was
the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph,
which was the son of Jonan, which was the son
of Eliakim, which was the son of Melea, which
was the son of Menan, which was the son of
Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which
was the son of David, which was the son of Jesse,
which was the son of Obed, which was the son of
Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was
the son of Naasson, which was the son of Amina-
d?ib, which was the son of Aram, which was the
son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which i
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3farch 29, Morn. S. LUKE, IV. Sept. 28, Even.
was the son of Juda, which was the son of Jacob,
which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of
Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which
was the son of Nachor, which was the son of
Saruch, which was the son of Eagau, which was
the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber,
which was the son of Sala, which was the son of
Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which
was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe,
which was the son of Lamech, which was the son
of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which
was the son of Jared, which was the son of
Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, which
was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth,
which was the son of Adam, which was the soth
of God.
CHAPTER IV.
March 29, Morning ; Sept. 28, Evening.
A ND Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost re-
XjL turned from Jordan, and was led by the
Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days
tempted of the devil. And in those days he did
eat nothing : and when they were ended, he
afterward hungered. And the devil said unto
him. If thou be the Son of God, command this
stone that it be made bread. And Jesus an-
swered him, saying. It is written. That man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word of
God. And the devil, taking him up into an
high mountain, shewed unto him all the king-
doms of the world in a moment of time. And
the devil said unto him, All this power will I
give thee, and the glory of them : for that is de-
livered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I
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I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all
j shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said
j unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan : for it is
j written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
j and him only shalt thou serve. And he brought
I him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of
j the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the
j Son of God, cast thyself down from hence : for
it is written. He shall give his angels charge over
i thee, to keep thee : and in their hands they shall
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot
i against a stone. And Jesus answering said unto
j him, It is said. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
j thy God. And when the devil had ended all the
j temptation, he departed from him for a season.
I And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit
into Galilee : and there went out a fame of him
; through all the region round about. And he
taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
March 30, Morning; Sept. 30, Evening.
AND he came to Xazareth, where he had been
Jlx. brought up : and, as his custom was, he
went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
stood up for to read. And there was delivered
unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And
when he had opened the book, he found the
place where it was written. The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent
me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliver-
ance to the captives, and recovering of sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And
he closed the book, and he gave it again to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all
March 30, Mom. S. LUKE, IV. Sept. 30, Even.
them that were in the synagogue were fastened
on him. And he began to say unto them, This
day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And
all bare him witness, and Avondered at the gra-
cious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
And they said, Is not this Joseph's son ? And
he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me
this proverb, Physician, heal thyself : whatsoever
we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here
in thy country. And he said, Verily I say unto
you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in
Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was
shut up three years and six months, when gi^at
famine was throughout all the land ; but unto
none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of
Eliseus the prophet ; and none of them was
cleansed, saving Nciaman the Syrian. And all
they in the synagogue, when they heard these
things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and
thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the
brow of the hill whereon their city was built,
that they might cast him down headlong. But
he passing through the midst of them Avent his
way, and came down to Capernaum, a city of
Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
And they were astonished at his doctrine : for
his word was with power. And in the synagogue
there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean
devil, and cried out with a loud voice, saying,
Let us alone ; what have we to do with thee,
thou Jesus of Nazareth ? art thou come to destroy
us ? I know thee who thou art ; the Holy One
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of God. And Jesus rebuked him. saying, Hold
thy peace, and come out of him. And when the
devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out
of him, and hurt him not. And they were all
amazed, and spake among themselves, saying,
What a word is this ! for with authority and
ix>wer he commandeth the unclean spirits, and
they come out. And the fame of him went out
into every place of the country round about.
And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered
into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother
was taken with a great fever ; and they besought
him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked
the fever ; and it left her : and immediately she
arose and ministered unto them. Xow when the
sun was setting, all they that had any sick with
divers diseases brought them unto him ; and he
laid his hands on every one of them, and healed
them. And devils also came out of many, crying
out. and saying. Thou art Christ the Son of God.
And he rebuking them suffered them not to
speak : for they knew that he was Christ. And
when it was day, he departed and went into a
desert place : and the people sought him, and
came imto him, and stayed him, that he should
not depart from them. And he said unto them,
I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities
also : for therefore am I sent. And he preached
in the synagogues of Galilee.
CHAPTER Y.
March 31, Morning ; Oct. 1, Evening.
AND it came to pass, that, as the people pressed
JrV_ upon him to hear the word of God, he stood
by the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships
March 31, Mom. S. LUKE, V. Oct. 1, Even.
standing by the lake : but the fishermen were
gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
And he entered into one of the ships, which was
Simon^s, and prayed him that he would thrust
out a little from the land. And he sat down,
and taught the people out of the ship. Now
when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon,
Launch out into the deep, and let down your
nets for a draught. And Simon answering said
unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night,
and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy
word I will let down the net. And when they
had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of
fishes : and their net brake. And they beckoned
unto their partners, which were in the other ship,
that they should come and help them. And
they came, and filled both the ships, so that they
began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he
fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from
me ; for I am a sinful man, Lord. For he was
astonished, and all that were with him, at the
draught of the fishes which they had taken : and
so was also James, and John, the sonsof Zebedee,
which were partners with Simon. And Jesus
said unto Simon, Fear not ; from henceforth thou
shaft catch men. And when they had brought
their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed
him. And it came to pass, when he was in a
certain city, behold a man full of leprosy : who
seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him,
saying. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me
clean. And he put forth his hand, and touched
him, saying, I will : be thou clean. And imme-
diately the leprosy departed from him. And he
charged him to tell no man : but go, and shew
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thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing,
according as Closes commanded, for a testimony
unto them. But so much the more went there a
fame abroad of him : and great multitudes came
together to hear, and to be healed by him of
their infirmities. And he withdrew himself into
the wilderness, and j)rayed.
April 1, 'Morning: Orf. 2, Evening.
A XD it c<ime to pass on a certain day, as he
XjL was teaching, that there were Pharisees
and doctors of the law sitting by, which were
come out of every town of Galilee, and Judsea,
and Jerusalem : and the power of the Lord was
present to heal them. And, behold, men brought
in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy :
and they sought means to bring him in, and to
lay hirii before him. And when they could not
find by what icay they might bring him in
because of the multitude, they went upon the
housetop, and let him down through the tiling
with h is couch into the midst before Jesus. And
when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man,
thy sins are forgiven thee. And the scribes and
the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is
thi^ which speaketh blasphemies ? Who can
forgive sins, but God alone ? But when Jesus
perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto
them. What reason ye in yoiu: hearts I Whether
is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee ; or
to say, Illse up and walk ? But that ye may
know that the Son of man hath power upon earth
to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the
palsy,) I say unto thee. Arise, and take up thy
couch, and go into thine house. And imme-
diately he rose up before them, and took up that
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whereon he lay, and departed to his own house,
glorifying God. And they were all amazed, and
they glorified God, and were filled with fear,
saying, We have seen strange things to day. And
after these things he went forth, and saw a pub-
lican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of cus-
tom : and he said unto him, Follow me. And
he left all, rose up, and followed him. And Levi
made him a great feast in hisbwn house: and there
was a great company of publicans and of others
that sat down with them. But their scribes and
Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying,
Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and
sinners 1 And Jesus answering said unto them.
They that are whole need not a physician ;
but they that are sick. I came not to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance. And they
said unto him, Why do the disciples of John
fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the
disciples of the Pharisees ; but thine eat and
drink ? And he said unto them, Can ye make
the children of the bridechamber fast, while the
bridegroom is with them ? But the days will
come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away
from them, and then shall they fast in those
days. And he spake also a parable unto them ;
No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon
an old ; if otherwise, then both the new maketh
a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the
new agreeth not with the old. And no man
putteth new wine into old bottles ; else the new
wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and
the bottles shall perish. But new wine must
be put into new bottles ; and both are preserved.
No man also having drunk old wine straight-
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way desireth new : for he saith, The old is
better.
CHAPTER VI.
April 2, Morning ; Oct. 3, Evening.
AND it came to pass on the second sabbath
J\. after the first, that he went through the
corn fields ; and his disciples plucked the ears
of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
And certain of the Pharisees said unto thera,
Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on
the sabbath days \ And Jesus answering them
said, Have ye not read so much as this, what
David did, when himself was an hungred, and
they which were with him ; how he went into
the house of God, and did take and eat the
shewbread, and gave also to them that were with
him ; which it is not lawful to eat but for the
priests alone ? And he said unto them, That the
Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. And it
came to pass also on another sabbath, that he
entered into the synagogue and taught : and
there was a man whose right hand was withered.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him,
whether he would heal on the sabbath day ; that
they might find an accusation against him. But
he knew their thoughts, and said to the man
which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand
forth in the midst. And he arose and stood
forth. Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask
you one thing ; Is it lawful on the sabbath days
to do good, or to do evil ] to save life, or to
destroy it l And looking round about upon
them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy
hand. And he did so : and his hand was restored
whole as the other. And they were filled with
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madness ; and communed one with another what
they might do to Jesus. And it came to pass
in those days, that he went out into a mountain
to pray, and continued all night in prayer to
God. And when it was day, he called unto him
his disciples : and of them he chose twelve, whom
also he named apostles ; Simon, (whom he also
named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James
and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew
and Thomas, James the son of Alphseus, and
Simon called Zelotes, and Judas the brother of
James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the
traitor. And he came down with them, and
stood in the plain, and the company of his disci-
ples, and a great multitude of people out of all
Judsea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of
Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to
be healed of their diseases ; and they that were
vexed with unclean spirits : and they were
healed. And the whole multitude sought to
touch him : for there went virtue out of him,
and healed them all.
April 3, Morning ; Oct. 4, Evening,
AND he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and
Xlu said, Blessed be ye poor : for your's is the
kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger
now : for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that
weep now : for ye shall laugh. Blessed are ye,
when men shall hate you, and when they shall
separate you from their company, and shall re-
proach you, and cast out your name as evil, for
the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day,
and leap for joy : for, behold, your reward is
great in heaven : for in the like manner did their
fathers unto the prophets. But woe unto you
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that are rich 1 for je have received your conso-
lation. Woe unto you that are full ! for ye shall
hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now ! for ye
shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you, when all
men shall speak well of you I for so did their
fathers to the lalse x^rophets. But I say unto
you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to
them which hate you, bless them that cm'se you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you.
And unto him that smiteth thee on the 07ic cheek
offer also the other ; and him that taketh away
thy cloke forbid not to taJce thy coat also. Give
to every man that asketh of thee ; and of him
that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do
ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them
which love you, what thank have ye ? for sinners
also love those that love them. And if ye do
good to them which do good to you, what thank
have ye ? for sinners also do even the same.
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to
receive, what thank have ye ? for sinners also
lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But
love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend,
hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall
be great, and ye sliall be the children of the
Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and
to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your
Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall
not be judged: condemn not, and j-e shall not
be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven :
give, and it shall be given unto you ; good
measure, pressed down, and shaken together,
and running over, shall men give into 3'our
j bosom. For with the same measure that ye
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mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the
blind lead the blind ? shall they not both fall
into the ditch ? The disciple is not above his
master : but every one that is perfect shall be as
his master. And why beholdest thou the mote
that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not
the beam that is in thine own eye ? Either how
canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me
pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou
thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine
own eye? Thou hj'-pocrite, cast out first the
beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou
see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy
brother's eye. For a good tree bringeth not forth
corrupt fruit ; neither doth a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit. For every tree is known by
his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather
figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil
man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of
the heart his mouth speaketh. And why call ye
me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say ? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my
sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to
whom he is like : he is like a man which built
an house, and digged deep, and laid the foun-
dation on a rock : and when the flood arose, the
stream beat vehemently upon that house, and
could not shake it : for it was founded upon a
rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is
like a man that without a foundation built an
house uj)on the earth ; against which the stream
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did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell ;
and the ruin of that house was great.
CHAPTER YII.
April 4, Morning ; Oct. 5, Evening.
"lyrOW when he had ended all his savings in
Jl]M the audience of the people, he entered into
Capernaum. And a certain centurion's servant,
who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to
die. And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto
him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that
he would come and heal hi^ servant. And when
they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly,
' saying, That he was worthy for whom he should
do this : for he loveth our nation, and he hath
■ built us a synagogue. Then Jesus went with
{ them. And when he was now not far from the
j house, the centurion sent friends to him, saj^ing
I unto him. Lord, trouble not thyself : for I am not
[ worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to
come unto thee : but say in a word, and my
servant shall be healed. For I also am a man
set under authority, having under me soldiers,
and I say unto one. Go, and he goeth ; and to
another, ' Come, and he cometh ; and to my
servant. Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus
heard these things, he marvelleii at him, and
turned him about, and said unto the people that
followed him, I say unto you, I have not found
so great faith, no, not in Israel. And they that
were sent, returning to the house, found the
j servant whole that had been sick. And it came
I to pass the day after, that he went into a city
j Civlled Nain ; and many of his disciples went with
April 5, Morn. S. LUKE, TIT. Oct. G, Ei;en.
him, and much people. Now when he came nigh
to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead
man carried out, the only son of his mother, and
she was a widow : and much people of the city
was with her. , And when the Lord saw her, he
had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep
not. And he came and touched the bier : and
they that bare him stood still. And he said,
Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he
that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And
he delivered him to his mother. And there
came a fear on all : and they glorified God, say-
ing. That a great prophet is risen up among us ;
and. That God hath visited his people. And this
rumour of him went forth throughout all Judsea,
and throughout all the region round about . And
the disciples of John shewed him of all these
things. And John calling unto him two of his
disciples sent them to Jesus, saying. Art thou he
that should come ? or look we for another ? When
the men were come unto him, they said, John
Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou
he that should come ? or look we for another ?
And in that same hour he cured many of their
infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits ; and
unto many that icere blind he gave sight. Then
Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and
tell John what things ye have seen and heard ;
how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers
are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,
to the poor the gospel is preached. And blessed is
Ae, whosoever shall not be offended in nie.
April 5, Morning ; Oct. 6, Evening.
ND when the messengers of John were de-
parted, he began to speak unto the people
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concerning John, "What went ye out into the
wilderness for to see ? A reed shaken with the
wind ? But what went ye out for to see ? A
man clothed in soft raiment ? Behold, they
which are croroeously apparelled, and live deli-
cately, are in kings' courts. But what went ye
out for to see ? A jjrophet ? Yea, I say unto
you, and much more than a prophet. This is hcj
of whom it is written. Behold, I send my mes-
senger before thy face, which shall prepare thy
way before thee. For I say unto you, Among
those that are born of women there is not a
greater prophet than John the Baptist : but he
that is least in the kingdom of God is greater
than he. And all the people that heard him-y
and the publicans, justified God, being baptized
with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees
and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against
themselves, being not baptized of him. And
the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the
men of this generation ? and to what are they
like ? They are lilve unto children sitting in the
marketplace, and calling one to another, and say-
ing, We have piped unto you, and ye have not
danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have
not wept. For John the Riptist came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine ; and ye say. He
hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating
and drinking ; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous
man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans
and sinners ! But wisdom is justified of all her
children. And one of the Pharisees desired him
that he would eat with him. And he went
into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a
April 5, ^fom. S. LUKE, YH. Oct. 6, Even.
inner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in
the Pharisee^s house, brought an alabaster box of
ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weep-
ing, and began to wash his feet with tears, and
(lid wipe them with the hairs of her head, and
kissed his feet, and anointed them with the oint-
ment. Now when the Pharisee which had
bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, say-
ing. This man, if he were a prophet, would have
known who and what manner of woman this is
that toucheth him : for she is a sinner. And
Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have
somew^hat to say unto thee. And he saith,
Master, say on. There was a certain creditor
which had two debtors : the one owed five
hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when
they liad nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them
both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love
him most ? Simon answered and said, I suppose
that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said
unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he
turned to the woman, and said unto Simon,
Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine
house, thou gavest me no water for my feet : but
she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped
them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest
me no kiss : but this woman since the time I
came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My
head with oil thou didst not anoint : but this
woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are
many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to
whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
And they that sat at meat with him began to
April 6, Morn. S. LUKE, VIIL Oct. 7, Even.
say within themselves, Who is this that fortjfiveth
sins also \ And he said to the woman, Thy faith
hath saved thee ; go in peace.
CHAPTER VIII.
April 6, Morning ; Oct. 7, Evening.
A ND it came to pass afterward, that he went
JTX. throughout every city and village, preach-
ing and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom
of God : and the twelve were with him, and
certain women, which had been healed of evil
spirits and infirmities, ISlary called ]\Iagdalene,
out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna the
wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and
many others, which ministered unto him of their
substance. And when much people were gathered
together, and were come to him out of every city,
he spake by a parable : A sower went out to sow
his seed : and as he sowed, some fell by the way
side ; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of
the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock ;
and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered
away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell
among thorns ; and the thorns sprang up with it,
and choked it. And other fell on good ground,
and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold.
And when he had said these things, he cried, He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his
disciples asked him, saying, What might this
parable be ? And he said. Unto you it is given
to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God :
but to others in parables ; that seeing they might
not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Now the parable is this : The seed is the word of
God. Those by the way side are they that hear ;
April 6, Mom. S. LUKE, VIII. Oct. 7, Even.
then coraeth the devil, and taketh away the
word out of their hearts, lest they should believe
and be saved. They on the rock are they, which,
when they hear, receive the word with joy ; and
these have no root, which for a while believe,
and in time of temptation fall away. And that
which fell among thorns are they, which, when
they have heard, go forth, and are choked with
cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and
bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the
good ground are they, which in an honest and
good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and
bring forth fruit with patience. No man, when
he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a
vessel, or putteth it under a bed ; but setteth it
on a candlestick, that they which enter in may
see the light. For nothing is secret, that shall
not be made manifest ; neither any thing hid,
that shall not be known and come abroad. Take
heed therefore how ye hear : for whosoever hath,
to him shall be given ; and whosoever hath not,
from him shall be taken even that which he
seemeth to have. Then came to him his mother
and his brethren, and could not come at him for
the press. And it was told him by certain which
said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand with-
out, desiring to see thee. And he answered and
said unto them, My mother and my brethren
are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he
went into a ship with his disciples : and he said
unto them. Let us go over unto the other side of
the lake. And they launched forth. But as
they sailed he fell asleep : and there came down
a storm of wind on the lake ; and they were
April 7, Morn. S. LUKE, YIII. Oct. 8, Even.
filled iL-^ith water, and were in jeopardy. And
they came to him, and awoke him, saying, jNIaster,
master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked
the wind and the raging of the water : and they
ceased, and there was a cahn. And he said unto
them, Where is your faith ? And they being
afraid wondered, saying one to another, What
manner of man is this ! for he commandeth even,
the winds and water, and they obey him.
April 7, 3Iorning ; Oct. 8, Evening.
A ND they arrived at the country of the Gadar-
J\. enes, which is over against Galilee. And
when he went forth to land, there met him out of
the city a certain man, which had deviLs long time,
and ware no clothes, neither abode in an?/ house,
but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried
out, and fell down before him, and with a loud
voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
thou Son of God most high ? I beseech thee,
torment me not. (For he had commanded the
unclean spirit to come out of the man. For
oftentimes it had caught him : and he was kept
bound with chains and in fetters ; and he brake
the bands, and was driven of the devil into the
wilderness.) And Jesus asked him, saying,
What is thy name 1 And he said, Legion :
becjiuse many devils were entered into him.
And they besought him that he would not com-
mand them to go out into the deep. And there
was there an herd of many swine feeding on the
mountain : and they besought him that he would
suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered
them. Then went the devils out of the man,
and entered into the swine : and the herd ran
violently down a steep place into the lake, and
April 7, Mom. S. LUKE, YIII, Oct. 8, Even.
were choked. When they that fed tliem saw
what was done, they fled, and went and told it
in the city and in the country. Then they went
out to see what was done ; and came to Jesus,
and found the man, out of whom the devils were
departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed,
and in his right mind : and they were afraid.
They also which saw it told them by what means
he that was possessed of the devils was healed.
Then the whole nuiltitude of the country of the
Gadarenes round about besought him to depart
from them ; for they were taken with great fear :
and he went up mto the ship, and returned back
again. Now the man out of whom the devils
were departed besought him that he might be
with him : but Jesus sent him away, saying,
Ileturn to thine own house, and shew how great
things God hath done unto thee. And he went
his way, and published throughout the whole
city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was
returned, the people gladly received him : for
they were all waiting for him. And, behold,
there came a man named Jairus, and he was a
ruler of the synagogue : and he fell down at
Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would
come into his house : for he had one only
daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay
a dying. But as he went the people thronged
him. And a woman having an issue of blood
twelve years, which had spent all her living upon
physicians, neither could be healed of any, came
behind him, and touched the border of his
garment : and immediately her issue of blood
stanched. And Jesus said, Who touched me ?
April S, Morn. S. LUKE, IX. Oct. 9, Even.
"When all denied, Peter and they that were with
him said, ^Master, the multitnde throng thee and
press thee, and sayest thou. Who touched me ?
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me :
for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
And when the woman saw that she was not hid,
she came trembling, and falling down before him,
she declared unto him before all the people for
what cause she had touched him, and how she
was healed immediately. And he said unto her,
Daughter, be of good comfort : thy faith hath
made thee whole ; go in peace. While he yet
spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
synagogue's house, saying to him. Thy daughter
is dead ; trouble not the ]SIaster. But when
Jesus heard if. he answered him, saying, Fear
not : believe only, and she shall be made whole.
And when he came into the house, he suffered
no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and
John, and the father and the mother of the
maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her : but
he said, Weep not ; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that
she was dead. And he put them all out, and
took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid,
arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose
straightway : and he commanded to give her
meat. And her parents were astonished : but
he charged them that they should tell no man
what was done.
CHAPTER IX.
April 8, Morning ; Oct. 9, Evening.
THEN he called his twelve disciples together,
and gave them power and authority over all
Jpril 8, Morn. S. LUKE, IX. Oct. 9, Even.
devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them
to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the
sick. And he said unto them, Take nothino; for
you7' journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither
bread, neither money ; neither have two coats
apiece. And whatsoever house ye enter into,
there abide, and thence depart. And whosoever
will not receive you, when ye go out of that city,
shake off the very dust from your feet for a
testimony against them. And they departed,
and went through the towns, preaching the
gospel, and healing every where. Now Herod
the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him :
and he was perplexed, because that it was said
of some, that John was risen from the dead ;
and of some, that Elias had appeared ; and of
others, that one of the old prophets was risen
again. And Herod said, John have I beheaded :
but who is this, of whom I hear such things ?
And he desired to see him. And the apostles,
when they were returned, told him all that they
had done. And he took them, and went aside
privately into a desert place belonging to the
city called Bethsaida. And the people, when
they knew it, followed him : and he received
them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of
God, and healed them that had need of healing.
And when the day began to wear away, then
came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the
multitude away, that they may go into the towns
and country round about, and lodge, and get
victuals : for we are here in a desert place. But
he said unto them. Give ye them to eat. And
they said, We have no more but five loaves and
two fishes ; except we should go and buy meat
April S, Morn. S. LUKE, IX. Oct. 9, Even.
for all this people. For they were about five
thousand men. And he said to his disciples,
jSIake them sit down by fifties in a company.
And they did so, and made them all sit down.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes,
and looking up to heaven, he biassed them, and
brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the
multitude. And they did eat, and were all
filled : and there was taken up of fragments that
remained to them twelve baskets. And it came
to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples
were with him : and he asked them, saying,
"Whom say the people that I am \ They answer-
ing said, John the Biiptist ; but some say, Ehas;
and others say, that one of the old prophets is
risen again. He said unto them, But whom say
ye that I am ? Peter answering said, The Christ
of God. And he straitly charged them, and
commanded them to tell no man that thing ;
sayiag, The Son of man must suffer many things,
and be rejected of the elders and chief priests
and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third
day. And he said to therii all. If any man will
come after me. let him deny himself, and take
up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever
will save his life shall lose it : but whosoever will
lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the
whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away ?
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my
words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,
when he shall come in his o\xn glory, and in his
Father's, and of the holy angels. But I tell you of a
truth, there be some standing here, which shall not
j taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
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April 9, Morn. S. LUKE, IX, Oct. 10, Even.
April 9, Morning; Oct. 10, Evening.
A iSTD it came to pass about an eight days after
x\_ these sayings, he took Peter and John and
James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance
■was altered, and his raiment icas white and
glistering. And, behold, there talked with him
two men, which were JNIoses and Elias : who
appeared in glory, and spake of his decease
which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. But
Peter and they that were with him were heavy
with sleep : and when they were awake, they
saw his glory, and the two men that stood with
him. And it came to pass, as they departed
from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is
good for us to be here : and let us make three
tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses,
and one for Elias : not knowing what he said.
While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and
overshadowed them : and they feared as they
entered into the cloud. And there came a voice
out of the cloud, saying. This is my beloved Son :
hear him. And when the voice was past, Jesus
was found alone. And they kept it close, and
told no man in those da^'s any of those things
which they had seen. And it came to pass, that
on the next day, when they were come down
from the hill, much people met him. And,
behold, a man of the company cried out, saying,
Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son : for
he is mine only child. And, lo, a spirit taketh
him, and he suddenly crieth out ; and it teareth
him that he foameth again, and bruising him
hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy
disciples to cast him out ; and they could not.
April 10, Morn. S. LUKE, IX. Oct. 11, Even.
And Jesus answering said, faithless and per-
verse generation, how long shall I be with you,
and siitfer you '? Bring thy son hither. And as
he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down,
and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the imclean.
spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him
again to his father. And they were all amazed
at the mighty power of God. But while they
wondered every one at all things which Jesus
did, he said unto his disciples, Let these sayings
sink down into your ears : for the Son of man
shall be deUvered into the hands of men. But
they understood not this saying, and it was hid
from them, that they perceived it not : and they
feared to ask him of that saying. Then there
arose a reasoning among them, which of them
should be greatest. And Jesus, perceiving the
thought of their heart, took a child, and set him
by him, and said unto them, Whosoever shall
receive this child in my name receiveth me : and
whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that
sent me : for he that is least among you all, the
same shall be great. And John answered and
said, IMaster, we saw one casting out devils in
thy name ; and we forbad him, because he
followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto
him, Forbid him not : for he that is not against
us is for us.
Jpril 10, Morning ; Oct. 11, Evening.
AND it came to pass, when the time was come
J\. that he should be received up, he stedfastly
set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent mes-
sengers before his face : and they went, and en-
tered into a village of the Samaritans, to make
ready for him. And they did not receive him,
April 10, Mom. S. LUKE, X. Oct. 11, Even.
because his face was as though he would go to
Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and
John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we
command fire to come down from heaven, and
consume them, even as Elias did ? But he turned,
and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what
manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man
is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save
them. And they went to another village. And
it came to pass, that, as they went in the way,
a certain man said unto him. Lord, I will follow
thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said
unto him. Foxes have holes, and birds of the air
have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where
to lay his head. And he said unto another,
Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to
go and bury my fether. Jesus said unto him,
Let the dead bury their dead : but go thou and
preach the kingdom of God. And another also
said. Lord, I will follow thee ; but let me first go
bid them farewell, which are at home at my
house. And Jesus said unto him. No man,
having put his hand to the plough, and looking
back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
CHAPTER X.
After these things the Lord appointed other
seventy also, and sent them two and two before
his face into every city and place, whither he
himself would come. Therefore said he unto
them. The harvest truly is great, but the
labourers are few : pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he would send forth labourers
into his harvest. Go your ways : behold, I send
you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither
purse, nor scrip, nor shoes : and salute no man
April 11, Morn. S. LUKE, X. Oct. 12, Even.
by the way. And into whatsoever house ye
enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if
the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest
upon it : if not, it shall turn to you again. And
in the same house remain, eating and drinking
such things as they give : for the labourer is
worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they
receive you, eat such things as are set before you :
and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto
them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto
you. But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they
receive you not. go your ways out into the streets
of the same, and say, Even the very dust of your
city, which cleaveth on us, we dowijDe off against
you : notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that
the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But
I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in
that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe
unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida !
for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre
and Sidon, which have been done in you, they
had a great while ago repented, sitting in sack-
cloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for
you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted
to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. He
that heareth you heareth me ; and he that de-
spiseth you despiseth me ; and he that despiseth
me despiseth him that sent me.
A2>ril 11, Morning; Oct. 12, Evening.
AND the seventy returned again with joy, say-
jlIl ing. Lord, even the devils are subject unto
us through thy name. And he said unto them,
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April 11, Mo7'n. S. LUKE, X. Oct. 12, Even.
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on ser-
pents and scorpions, and over all the power of
the enemy : and nothing shall by any means
hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not,
that the spirits are subject unto you ; but rather
rejoice, because your names are written in hea-
ven. In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and
said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto
babes : even so, Father ; for so it seemed good
in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of
my Father : and no man knoweth who the Son
is, but the Father ; and who the Father is, but
the Son, and he to Avhom the Son will reveal
him. And he turned him unto his disciples,
and said privately. Blessed are the eyes which
see the things that ye see : for I tell you, that
many prophets and kings have desired to see
those things which ye see, and have not seen
theTn ; and to hear those things which ye hear,
and have not heard them. And, behold, a cer-
tain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying,
Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life ?
He said unto him. What is written in the law ?
how readest thou? And he answering said.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind ; and thy neigh-
bour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou
hast answered right : this do, and thou shalt
live. But he, willing to justify himself, said
unto Jesus, And Avho is my neighbour ? And
Jesus answering said, A certain man went down
jipril 11, Hlom. S. LUKE, X. Oct. 12, Even.
from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves,
■which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded
him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And
by chance there came down a certain priest that
way : and when he saw him, he passed by on
the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he
was at the place, came and looked on him, and
passed by on the other side. But a certain
Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was :
and when he saw him, he had compassion oji
him, and went to him,imd bound up his wounds,
pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own
beast, and brought him to an inn. and took care
of him. And on the morrow when he departed,
he took out two pence, and gave them to the
host, and said unto him. Take care of him ; and
whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come
again, I will repay thee. "Which now of these
three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him
that fell among the thieves ? And he said, He
that shewed mercy on him. Then sidd Jesus
unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. Now it
came to pass, as they went, that he entered into
a certain village : and a certain woman named
Martha received him into her house. And she
had a sister allied iNIary, which also sat at Jesus'
feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cum-
bered about much serving, and came to him,
and said. Lord, dost thou not care that my sister
hath left me to serve alone ? bid her therefore
that she help me. And Jesus answered and
said unto her, INIartha, ]SIartha, thou art careful
and troubled about many things : but one thing
is needful : and ]Mary hath chosen that good
part, which shall not be taken away from her.
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April 12, Morn. S. LUKE, XL Oct. 13, Even.
CHAPTER XL
AiJril 12, Morning ; Oct. 13, Evening.
A ND it came to pass, that, as he was praying
J\. in a certain place, when he ceased, one of
his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to
pray, as John also taught his disciples. And he
said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our
daily bread. And forgive us our sins ; for we
also forgive every one that is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us
from evil. And he said unto them, Which of
you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at
midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me
three loaves ; for a friend of mine in his journey
is come to me, and I have nothing to set before
him? And he from within shall answer and
say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and
my children are with me in bed ; I cannot rise
and give thee. I say unto you. Though he will
not rise and give him, because he is his friend,
yet because of his importunity he will rise and
give him as many as he needeth. And I say
unto you. Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek,
and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth ;
and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened. If a son shall ask
bread of any of you that is a father, will he give
him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish
give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg,
will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being-
April 12, Mom. S. LUKE, XI. Oct. 13, Even.
evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children : how much more shall your heavenly-
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him ? And he was casting out a devil, and it
was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil
was gone out, the dumb spake ; and the people
wondered. But some of them said, He casteth
out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the
devils. And others, tempting him, sought of
him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their
thoughts, said unto them. Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation ; and a
house divided against a house falleth. If Satan
also be divided against himself, how shall his
kingdom stand ? because ye say that I cast out
devils through Beelzebub. And if I by Beel-
zebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons
cast them out ? therefore shall they be your judges.
But if I with the finger of God cast out devils,
no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace,
his goods are in peace : but when a stronger
than he shall come upon him, and overcome
him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein
he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is
not with me is against me : and he that gathereth
not with me scattereth. When the unclean
spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through
dry places, seeking rest ; and finding none, he
saith, I will return unto my house whence I
came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it
swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh
to him seven other spirits more wicked than
himself ; and they enter in, and dwell there :
and the last state of that man is worse than the
April 13, Mom. S. LUKE, XI. Oct. 14, Even.
first. And it came to pass, as he spake these
things, a certain woman of the company lifted
up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the
womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou
hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed
are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
'April 13, Morning ; Oct. 14, Evening.
AND when the people were gathered thick to-
J\. gether, he began to say, This is an evil
generation : they seek a sign ; and there shall
no sign be given it, but tlie sign of Jonas the
prophet. For as Jonas was a sign unto the
Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to
this generation. The queen of the south shall
rise up in the judgment with the men of this
generation, and condemn them : for she came
from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon ; and, behold, a greater than
Solomon is here. The men of Nineve shall rise
up in the judgment with this generation, and
shall condemn it : for they repented at the
preaching of Jonas ; and, behold, a greater than
Jonas is here. No man, when he hath lighted a
candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under
a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which
come in may see the light. The light of the
body is the eye : therefore when thine eye is
single, thy wliole body also is full of light ; but
when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of
darkness. Take heed therefore that the light
which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole
body therefore be full of light, having no part
dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when
the bright shining of a candle doth give thee
light. And as he spake, a certain Pharisee be-
April 13, Morn. . S. LUKE, XI. Oct. 11, Even.
sought liim to dine "with him : and he went in,
and sat do^\^l to meat. And Avhen the Pharisee
saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed
before dinner. And the Lord said unto him.
Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of
the cup and the platter ; but your inward part
is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools,
did not he that made that which is without
make that which is within also ? But rather
give alms of such things as ye have ; and, be-
hold, all things are clean unto you. But woe
unto you, Pharisees ! for ye tithe mint and rue
and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment
and the love of God : these ought ye to liave
done, and not to leave the other imdone. 'Woe
unto you, Pharisees ! for ye love the uppermost
seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the
markets. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ! for ye are as graves which appear
not, and the men that walk over them are not
avTAie of them. Then answered one of the law-
yers, and said imto him, Master, thus saying
thou reproachest us also. And he said. Woe
; unto you also, ye lawyers ! for ye lade men with
I burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves
I touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
! Woe unto you ! for ye build the sepulchres of
' the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
I Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds
j of your fathers : for they indeed killed them,
' and ye budd their sepulchres. Therefore also
I said the wisdom of God, I will send them pro-
phets and apostles, and some of them they shall
' slay and persecute : that the blood of all the
prophets, which was shed from the foundation of
Apnl 14, Morn. S. LUKE, XIL Oct. 15, Even.
the world, may be required of this generation ;
from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacha-
rias, which perished between the altar and the
temple : verily I say unto you, It shall be re-
quired of this generation. Woe unto you, law-
yers ! for ye have taken away the key of know-
ledge : ye entered not in yourselves, and them
that were entering in ye hindered. And as he
said these things unto them, the scribes and the
Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to
provoke him to speak of many things : laying
wait for him, and seeking to catch something out
of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
CHAPTER XII.
April 14, Morning ; Oct. 15, Evening.
IN the mean time, when there were gathered
together an innumerable multitude of people,
insomuch that they trode one upon another, he
began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware
ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypo-
crisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall
not be revealed ; neither hid, that shall not be
known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken
in darkness shall be heard in the light ; and
that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets
shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. And I
say unto you my friends. Be not afraid of them
that kill the body, and after that have no more
that they can do. But I will forewarn you
whom ye shall fear : Fear him, which after he
hath killed hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I
say unto you, Fear him. Are not five sparrows
sold for two farthings, and not one of them is
forgotten before God ? But even the very hairs
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Ajn-il 14, Mom. S. LUKE, XII. Oct. 15, Even.
of your head are all numbered. ' Fear not there-
fore : ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Also I say unto you, "Whosoever shall confess
me before men, him shall the Son of man also con-
fess before the angels of God : but he that denieth
me before men shall be denied before the angels
of God. And whosoever shall speak a word
against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him :
but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy
Ghost it shall not be forgiven. And when they
bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magis-
trates, and powers, take ye no thought how or
what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
for the Holy Ghost shall teiich you in the same
hour what ye ought to say. And one of the
company said unto him, blaster, speak to my
brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
And he said unto him, Man, who made me a
judge or a divider over you ? And he said unto
them. Take heed, and beware of covetousness :
for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance
of the things which he possesseth. And he
Spake a parable unto them, saying. The ground
of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully :
and he thought within himself, saying. What
shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow
my fruits ? And he said, This will I do : I will pull
down my barns, and buQd greater ; and there
will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And
I wdl say to my soul. Soul, thou hast much
goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease,
eat, drink, and be merr\\ But God said unto
him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be re-
quired of thee : then whose shall those things
be, which thou hast pro^•ided ? So is he that
April 15, Morn. S. LUKE, XII. Oct. 16, Even.
layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God. And he said nnto his disciples,
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for
your life, what ye shall eat ; neither for the body,
what ye shall put on. The life is more than
meat, and the body is more than raiment. Con-
sider the ravens : for they neither sow nor reap ;
which neither have storehouse nor bam ; and
God feedeth them : how much more are ye better
than the fowls ? And Avhich of you with taking
thought can add to his stature one cubit ? If ye
then be not able to do that thing which is least,
why take ye thought for the rest I Consider the
lilies how they grow ; they toil not, they spin
not ; and yet I say nnto you, that Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day
in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven ;
how much more loill he clothe you, ye of little
faith ? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or
what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful
mind. For all these things do the nations of the
world seek after : and your Father knoweth that
ye have need of these things. But rather seek
ye the kingdom of God ; and all these things
shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock ;
for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you
the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms ;
provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a trea-
sure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief
approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
April If), Morning; Oct. IC, Evening.
LET your loins be girded about, and your
lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto
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AprU 15, Morn. S. LUKE, XII. ' Oct. 16, Even.
men that Avait for their lord, -when he will return
from the wedding ; that when he coraeth and
knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when
he Cometh shall find watching : verily I say
unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make
them to sit down to meat, and will come forth
and sers^e them. And if he shall come in the
second watch, or come in the third watch, and
find them so, blessed are those sers-ant«. And
this know, that if the goodman of the house had
known what hour the thief would come, he
would have watched, and not have suff"ered his
house to be broken through. Be ye therefore
ready also : for the Son of man cometh at an
hour when ye think not. Then Peter said unto
him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us,
or even to all ? And the Lord said, Who then
is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord
shall make ruler over his household, to give them
their portion of meat in due season ? Blessed is
that servant, whom his lord when he cometh
shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you,
that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord
delayeth his coming ; and shall begin to beat
the menservants and maidens, and to eat and
drink, and to be drunken ; the lord of that ser-
vant will come in a day when he looketh not for
him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and
will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his
portion with the unbelievers. And that ser-
vant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared
not himsdf, neither did according to his will,
shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that
April 15, Mom. S. LUKE, XII. Oct. 16, Even.
knew not, and did commit things worthy of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For
unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be
much required : and to whom men have com-
mitted much, of him they will ask the more. I
am come to send fire on the earth ; and what
will I, if it be already kindled ? But I have a
baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I
straitened till it be accomplished ! Suppose ye
that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell
you. Nay ; but rather division : for from hence-
forth there shall be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three. The
father shall be divided against the son, and the
son against the father ; the mother against the
daughter, and the daughter against the mother ;
the mother in law against her daughter in law,
and the daughter in law against her mother in
law. And he said also to the people, When ye
see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye
say. There cometh a shower ; and so it is. And
when ye see the south wind blow, ye say. There
will be heat ; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypo-
crites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of
the earth ; but how is it that ye do not discern
this time ? Yea, and why even of yourselves
judge ye not what is right ? When thou goest
with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou
art in the way, give diligence that tliiau niayest
be delivered from him ; lest he hale thee to the
judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer,
and the officer cast thee into prison. I tell thee,
thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid
the very last mite.
April 16, Morn. S. LUKE, XIII. Oct. 17, Even,
CHAPTER XIIL
Jpril 16, Morning ; Oct. 17, Evening.
THERE were present at that season some
that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood
Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And
Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that
these Galilneans were sinners above ail the Gali-
keans, because they suffered such things ? I tell
you, Xay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish. Or those eighteen, uix)n whom
the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think
ye that they were sinners above all men that
dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you. Nay : but,
except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
He spake also this parable ; A certain tnan had
a fig tree planted in his vineyard ; and he came
and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then
said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold,
these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig
tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cum-
bereth it the ground ? And he answering said
unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I
shall dig about it, and dung it : and if it bear
fruit, icell : and if not, theii after that thou shalt
cut it down. And he was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there
was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and was bowed together, and
could in nowise lift up herself. And when Jesus
saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her,
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
And he laid his hands on her : and immediately
she was made straight, and glorified God. And
the ruler of the synagogue answered with indig-
nation, because that Jesus had healed on the
April 17, Morn. S. LUKE, XIII. . Oct. 18, Even,
sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are
six days in which men ought to work : in them
therefore come and be healed, and not on the
sabbath day. The Lord then answered him, and
said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on
the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall,
and lead him away to watering ? And ought
not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years,
be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day ?
And when he had said these things, all his
adversaries were ashamed: and all the people
rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done
by him.
April 17, Morning ; Oct. 18, Evening.
THEN said he. Unto what is the kingdom
of God like ? and whereunto shall I re-
semble it ? It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which a man took, and cast into his garden ; and
it grew, and waxed a great tree ; and the fowls
of the air lodged in the branches of it. And
again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the king-
dom of God ? It is like leaven, which a woman
took and hid in three measures of meal, till the
whole was leavened. And he went through the
cities and villages, teaching, and journeying to-
ward Jerusalem. Then said one unto him. Lord,
are there few that be saved ? And he said unto
them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for
many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and
shall not be able. When once the master of the
house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and
ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the
door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he
shall answer and say unto you, I know you not
April IS, Mom. S. LUKE, XIY. Oct. 19, Even.
whence ye are : then shall ye begin to say, We
have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou
hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I
tell you, I know you not whence ye are ; depart
from nie, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall
see Abraham, and Isaiic, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you your-
selves thrust out. And they shall come from the
east, and from the west, and from the north, and
from the soutli, and shall sit down in the king-
dom of God. And, behold, there are last which
shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
The same day there aime certain of the Phari-
sees, saying unto him. Get thee out, and depart
hence : for Herod will kill thee. And he said
unto them. Go ye, and tell that fox. Behold, I
cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to
morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow,
and the day following : for it cannot be that a
prophet perish out of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest
them that are sent unto thee ; how often would
I have gathered thy children together, as a hen
doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye
would not ! Behold, your house is left unto you
desolate : and verily I say unto you, Ye shall
not see me, until the time come when ye shall
say. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of
the Lord.
CHAPTER XIV.
Jprll 18, Morning; Oct. 19, Evening.
4ND it came to pa.ss, as he went into the
jlJl house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat
Jpi-il 18, Morn. S. LUKE, XIV. ' Oct. 19, Even.
bread on the sabbath day, that they watched
him. And, behold, there was a certain man
before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus
answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees,
saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day ?
And they held their peace. And he took him,
and healed him, and let him go ; and answered
them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or
an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway
pull him out on the sabbath day? And they
could not answer him again to these things.
And he put forth a parable to those which were
bidden, when he marked how they chose out the
chief rooms ; saying unto them. When thou art
bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down
in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man
than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee
and him come and say to thee, Give this man
place ; and thou begin with shame to take the
lowest room. But when thou art bidden, go
and sit down in the lowest room ; that when he
that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee,
Friend, go up higher : then shalt thou have
worship in the presence of them that sit at meat
with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall
be abased ; and he that humbleth himself shall
be exalted. Then said he also to him that bade
him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper,
CiiW not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither
thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours ; lest they
also bid thee again, and a recompence be made
thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the
poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : and thou
shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recompense
thee : for thou shalt be recompensed at the resur-
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rection of the just. And when one of them that
sat at meat with him heard these things, he said
unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in
the kingdom of God. Then said he unto him, A
certain man made a great supper, and bade many :
and sent his servant at supper time to say to
them that were bidden, Come ; for all things are
now ready. And they all with one consent began
to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have
bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go
and see it : I pray thee have me excused. And
another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen,
and I go to prove them : I pray thee have me
excused. And another said, I have married a
wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that ser-
vant came, and shewed his lord these things.
Then the master of the house being angry said
to his servant. Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the
poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the
blind. And the servant said. Lord, it is done as
thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into
the highways and hedges, and compel them to
come in, that my house may be filled. For I say
unto you. That none of those men which were
bidden shall taste of my supper.
April 19, Morning; Oct. 20, Evening.
A ND there went great multitudes with him :
x\_ and he turned, and said unto them, K
any man come to me, and hate not his father,
and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren,
and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot
be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear
his cross, and come after me, cannot be my
April 19, Morn. S. LUKE, XV. Oct 20, Even.
disciple. For which of you, intending to build a
tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the
cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and
is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin
to mock him, saying, This man began to build,
and was not able to finish. Or what king, going
to make war against another king, sitteth not
down first, and consulteth whether he be able
with ten thousand to meet him that cometh
against him with twenty thousand? Or else,
while the other is yet a great way off", he sendeth
an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that for-
saketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my
disciple. Salt is good : but if the salt have lost
his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned ? It
is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dung-
hill ; hut men cast it out. He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear.
CHAPTER XV.
Then drew near unto him all the publicans
and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees
and scribes murmured, saying, This manreceiveth
sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake
this parable unto them, saying, What man of
you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of
them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the
wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until
he find it ? And when he hath found it, he
layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when
he cometh home, he calleth together his friends
and neighbours, saying unto them. Rejoice with
me ; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in
April 20, 3Iom. S. LUKE, XV. Oct. 21 , Even,
heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than
over ninety and nine just persons, which need
no repentance. Either what woman having ten
pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not
liffht a candle, and sweep the house, and seek
diligently till she find it '/ And when she hath
found it, she calleth her friends and her neigh-
bours together, saying, Eejoice with me ; for I
have found the piece which I had lost. Like-
wise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God over one sinner that
repenteth.
April 20, irorning ; Oct. 21, Evening.
A ND he said, A certain man had two sons :
.XIl and the younger of them said to his father,
Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth
to me. And he divided unto them his living.
And not many days after the younger son
gathered all together, and took his journey into
a far country, and there wasted his substance
with riotous living. And when he had spent
all, there arose a mighty famine in that land ;
and he began to be in want. And he went and
joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and
be sent him into his fields to feed swine. And
he would fiiin have filled his belly with the
husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave
unto him. And when he came to himself, he
said, How many hired servants of my father's
have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father,
and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven, and before thee, and am no more
worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of
thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to
April 20, Morn. S. LUKE, XV. Oct. 21, Even.
his father. But when he was yet a great way
off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and
ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And
the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned
against he:iven, and in thy sight, and am no
more worthy to be called thy son. But the father
said to his servants. Bring forth the best robe,
and put it on him ; and put a ring on his hand,
and shoes on his feet : and bring hither the
fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat, and be
merry : for this my son was dead, and is alive
again ; he was lost, and is found. And they
began to be merry. Now his elder son was in
the field : and as he came and drew nigh to the
house, he heard musick and dancing. And he
called one of the servants, and asked what these
things meant. And he said unto him, Thy
brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the
fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and
sound. And he was angry, and would not go
in : therefore came his father out, and in treated
him. And he answering said to his father, Lo,
these many years do I serve thee, neither trans-
gressed I at any time thy commandment : and
yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might
make merry with my friends : but as soon as
this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy
living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the
fatted calf. And he said unto him. Son, thou
art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be
glad : for this thy brother was dead, and is alive
again ; and was lost, and is found.
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CHAPTER XVI.
April 21, Morning; Oct. 22, Evening.
A "ND he said also unto his disciples, There was
jl\. a certain rich man, which had a steward ;
and the same was accused unto him that he had
wasted his goods. And he called him, and said
unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee ?
give an account of thy stewardship ; for thou
mayest be no longer steward. Then the steward
said within himself. What shall I do ? for my
lord taketh away from me the stewardship : I
cannot dig ; to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved
what to do, that, when I am put out of the
stewardship, they may receive me into their
houses. So he called every one of his lord's
debtors unto him, and said unto the first. How
much owest thou unto my lord ? And he said,
An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto
him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and
write fifty. Then said he to another. And how
much owest thou ? And he said, An hundred
measures of wheat. And he said unto him. Take
thy bill, and MTite fourscore. And the lord
commended the unjust steward, because he had
done wisely : for the children of this world are
in their generation wiser than the children of
light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves
friends of the manmion of unrighteousness ;
that, when ye fail, they may receive you into
everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in
that which is least is faithful also in much : and
he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in
the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to
your trust the true riches ? And if ye have not
April 21, Mom. S. LUKE, XVI. Oct. 22, Even.
been faithful in that which is another man's,
who shall give you that which is your own ? No
servant can serve two masters : for either he will
hate the one, and love the other ; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye
cannot serve God and mammon. And the
Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all
these things : and they derided him. And he
said unto them, Ye are they which justify your-
selves before men ; but God knoweth your
hearts : for that which is highly esteemed among
men is abomination in the sight of God. The
law and the prophets were until John : since that
time the kingdom of God is preached, and every
man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven
and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to
fail. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and
marrieth another, committeth adultery : and
whosoever marrieth her that is put away from
her husband committeth adultery. There was a
certain rich man, which was clothed in purple
and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day :
and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell
from the rich man's table : moreover the dogs
came and licked his sores. And it came to pass,
that the beggar died, and was carried by the
angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man also
died, and was buried ; and in hell he lift up his
eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar
off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried
and said. Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am
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tormented in this flame. But Abraham said,
Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiv-
edst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
things : but now he is comforted, and thou art
tormented. And beside all this, between us and
you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they
which would pass from hence to you cannot ;
neither can they pass to us, that would come from
thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore,
father, that thou wouldest send him to my ftither's
house : for I have five brethren ; that he may
testify unto them, lest they also come into this
place of torment. Abraham saith unto him,
They have Moses and the prophets ; let them
hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham :
but if one went unto them from the dead, they
will repent. And he said unto him. If they hear
not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
CHAPTER XVn.
April 22, Morning; Oct. 23, Evening.
THEN said he unto the disciples. It is im-
possible but that ofleuces will come : but
woe unto him., through whom they come ! It
were better for him that a millstone were hanged
about his neck, and he cast into the seti, than
that he should ofiend one of these little ones.
Take heed to yourselves : If thy brother trespass
against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent,
forgive him. And if he trespass against thee
seven times in a day, and seven times in a day
turn again to thee, saying, I repent ; thou shalt
forgive him. And the apostles said unto the
Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, K
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ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might
say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up
by the root, and be thou planted in the sea ;
and it should obey you. But which of you,
having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will
say unto him by and by, when he is come from
the field, Go and sit down to meat ? and will not
rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I
may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I
have eaten and drunken ; and afterward thou
shalt eat and drink 1 Doth he thank that ser-
vant because he did the things that were com-
manded him 1 I trow not. So likewise ye, when
ye shall have done all those things which are
commanded you, say, We are unprofitable ser-
vants : we have done that which was our duty to
do. And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem,
that he passed through the midst of Samaria and
Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village,
there met him ten men that were lepers, which
stood afar off : and they lifted up their voices,
and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And
when he saw them, he said unto them. Go shew
yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass,
that, a? they went, they were cleansed. And
one of them, when he saw that he was healed,
turned back, and with a loud voice glorified
God, and fell down on his face at his feet,
giving him thanks ; and he was a Samaritan.
And Jesus answering said, Were there not
ten cleansed ? but where are the nine ? There
are not found that returned to give glory to
God, save this stranger. And he said unto
him, Arise, go thy way : thy faith hath made
thee whole.
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April 23, Morning ; Oct. 24, Evening.
A^
ND when he was demanded of the Pharisees,
when the kiagdoui of God should come, he
answered them and said, The kingdom of God
Cometh not with observation : neither shall they
say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for. behold, the king-
dom of God is within you. And he said unto
the disciples. The days will come, when ye shall
desire to see one of the days of the Son of man,
and ye shall not see it. And they shall say to
you. See here ; or, see there : go not after them^
nor follow them. For as the lightning, that
lighteneth out of the one part under heaven,
shineth unto the other part under heaven ; so
shall also the Son of man be in his day. But
first must he suffer many things, and be rejected
of this generation. And as it was in the days
of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son
of man. Tliey did eat, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came,
and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was
in the days of Lot ; they did eat, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and
destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the
day when the Son of man is revealed. In that
day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and
his stuff in the house, let him not come down to
take it away : and he that is in the field, let him
likewise not retiu-n back. Remember Lot's wife.
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it ;
and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve
it. I tell you, in that night there shall be two
April 24, Morn. S. LUKE, XVITI. Oct. 25, Even,
men in one bed ; the one shall be taken, and the
other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding
together ; the one shall be taken, and the other
left. Two meoi shall be in the field ; the one
shall be taken, and the other left. And they
answered and said unto him. Where, Lord ?
And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body
is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
CHAPTER XVIII.
April 24, Morning ; Oct. 25, Evening.
A ND he spake a parable unto them to this end,
jljL that men ought always to pray, and not to
faint ; saying, There was in a city a judge, which
feared not God, neither regarded man : and there
was a widow in that city ; and she came unto
him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And
he would not for a while : but afterward he said
within himself. Though I fear not God, nor re-
gard man ; yet because this widow troubleth me,
I wiU avenge her, lest by her continual coming
she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what
the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge
his own elect, which crychiy and night unto him,
though he bear long with them l I tell you that
he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless
when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith
on the earth ? And he spake this parable unto
certain which trusted in themselves that they
were righteous, and despised others : Two men
went up into the temple to pray; the one a
Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee
stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank
thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I
April 24, Mom. ' S. LUKE, XVIIL Oct. 25, Even.
fast twice in the week. I give tithes of all that I
possess. And the publican, standing afar otf,
would not lift up so much as his eyes unto
heaven, but smote upon his brei^t, saying, God
be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man
went down to his house justified rather than the
other : for every one that exalteth himself shall
be abased ; and he that humbleth himscK shall
be exalted. And they brought unto him also
infants, that he would touch them : but when
his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But
Jesus called them unto him, and said. Suffer
little children to come unto me, and forbid them
not : for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily
I say unto you. Whosoever shall not receive the
kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise
enter therein. And a certain ruler iisked him,
saying. Good Master, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life ? And Jesus said unto him, Why
callest thou me good ? none is good, save one,
that is; God. Thou knowest the commandments,
Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not
steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy
father and thy mother. And he said, All these
have I kept from my youth up. Now when
Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet
lackest thou one thing : sell all that thou hast,
and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven : and come, foUow me. And
when he heard this, he was very sorrowful : for
he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he
was very sorrowful, he said. How hardly shall
they that have riches enter into the kingdom of
God ! For it is easier for a Ciimel to go through
a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into
April io, Morn. S. LUKE, XVIII. Oct. 26, Even.
the kingdom of God. And they that heard it
said, Who then can be saved ? And he said,
The things which are impossible with men are
possible with God. Then Peter said, Lo, we have
left all, and followed thee. And he said unto
them. Verily I say unto you, There is no man
that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or
wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
who shall not receive manifold more in this
present time, and in the world to come life
everlasting,
April 25, Morning; Oct. 26, Evening.
THEN he took unto him the twelve, and said
unto them. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem,
and all things that are written by the prophets
concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and
shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and
spitted on : and they shall scourge him. and put
him to death : and the third day he shall rise
again. And they understood none of these things :
and this saying was hid from them, neither knew
they the things which were spoken. And it
came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto
Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side
begging : and hearing the multitude pass by, he
asked what it meant. And they told him, that
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. And he cried,
saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on
me. And they which went before rebuked him,
that he should hold his peace : but he cried so
much the more, I'hou son of David, have niercy
on me. And Jesus stood, and commanded him
to be brought unto him : and when he Avas come
near, he asked him, saying, What wilt thou that
Jpril 26, Morn. S. LUKE, XIX. Oct. 27, Even,
I shall do unto thee ? And he said, Lord, that
I may receive my sight. And Jesus said un^o
him, Receive thy sight : thy faith hath saved
thee. And immediately he received his sight,
and followed him, glorifying God : and all the
people, -when thev saw it, gave praise unto God.
CHAPTER XIX.
And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
And, behold, there v:as a man named Zaccha^us,
which was the chief among the publicans, and
he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who
he was ; and could not for the press, because he
was little of stature. And he ran before, and
climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him : for
he was to pass that v:ay. And when Jesus came
to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and
said unto him, Zacchasus, make haste, and come
down ; for to day I must abide at thy house.
And he made haste, and came down, and received
him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all
murmured, saying. That he was gone to be guest
with a man that is a sinner. And Zacchaeus
stood, and said unto the Lord ; Behold, Lord,
the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if
I have taken any thing from any man by false
accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus
said unto him. This day is salvation come to this
house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save
that which was lost.
April 26, Morning ; Oct. 27, Evening.
A ND as they heard these things, he added and
Xjl spake a parable, because he was nigh to
Jerusalem, and because they thought that the
kingdom of Grod should immediately appear.
April 26, Mom. S. LUKE, XIX. Oct. 27, Even.
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into
a far country to receive for himself a kingdom,
and to return. And he called his ten servants,
and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto
them, Occupy till I come. But his citizens hated
him, and sent a message after him, saying. We
will not have this man to reign over us. And
it came to pass, that when he was returned, hav-
ing received the kingdom, then he commanded
these servants to be called unto him, to whom he
had given the money, that he might know how
much every man had gained by trading. Then
came the first, saying, L^rd, thy pound hath gained
ten pounds. And he said unto him. Well, thou
good servant : because thou hast been faithful
in a very little, have thou authority over ten
cities. And the second came, saying. Lord, thy
pound hath gained five pounds. And he said
likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is
thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a
napkin : for I feared thee, because thou art an
austere man : thou takest up that thou layedst not
down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. And
he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth wiU
I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knew-
est that I was an austere man, taking up that I
laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow :
wherefore then gavest not thou my money into
the bank, that at my coming I might have re-
quired mine own with usury ] And he said
unto them that stood by. Take from him the
pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
(And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten
pounds.) For I say unto you, That unto every
April 27, Mom. S, LUKE, XIX. Oct. 28. Ecen.
one which hath shall be given ; and from him
that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken
away from him. But those mine enemies, which
would not that I should reign over them, bring
hither, and slay them before me.
April 27, ilorning ; Oct. 28, Evening.
AND when he had thus spoken, he went
_ before, ascending ujd to Jerusalem. And
it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Beth-
phage and Bethany, at the mount called the
mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
Baying, Go ye into the village over against you ;
in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt
tied, whereon yet never man sat : loose him, and
bring him hither. And if any man ask you,
Why do ye loose him ? thus shall ye say unto
him, Beaiuse the Lord hath need of him. And
they that Avere sent went their way, and found
even as he had said unto them. And as they
"were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said
unto them, Why loose ye the colt ? And they
said, The Lord hath need of him. And they
brought him to Jesus : and they cast their gar-
ments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
And as he went, they spread their clothes in the
way. And when he was come nigh, even now
at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole
multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty
works that they had seen ; saying. Blessed he the
King that cometh in the name of the Lord :
peace in heaven, and glory in the highest. And
some of the Pharisees from among the multitude
said unto him. Master, rebuke thy disciples.
And he answered and said unto them, I t^ll you
April 28, Mom. S, LUKE, XX. Oct. 29, Even.
that, if these should hold their peace, the stones
would immediately cry out. And when he was
come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least
in this thy day, the things which belong nnto
thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine
eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that
thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and
compass thee round, and keep thee in on every
side, and shall lay thee even with the ground,
and thy children within thee ; and they shall
not leave in thee one stone upon another ; be-
cause thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
And he went into the temple, and began to cast
out them that sold therein, and them that bought ;
saying unto them. It is written. My house is the
house of prayer : but ye have made it a den of
thieves. And he taught daily in the temple.
But the chief priests and the scribes and the
chief of the people sought to destroy him, and
could not find what they might do : for all the
people were very attentive to hear him.
CHAPTER XX.
April 28, Morning ; Oct. 29, Evening.
AND it came to pass, that on one of those
Xa_ days, as he taught the people in the tem-
ple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests
and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
and spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what
authority doest thou these things ? or who is he
that gave thee this authority ? And he answered
and said unto them, I will also ask you one
thing ; and answer nie : The baptism of John,
was it from heaven, or of men ? And they rear
April 2S, Mor7i. S. LUKE, XX. Oct. 29, Even.
eoned with tliemselvee, savin q^, If vre shall say,
From heaven ; he will say, Why then believed ye
him not ? But and if we say, Of men ; all the
people will stone ns : for they be persuaded that
John was a prophet. And they answered, that
they could not tell whence it v:as. And Jesus
said unto them. Neither tell I you by what
authority I do these things. Then began he to
speak to the people this parable ; A certain man
planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husband-
men, and went into a far country for a long time.
And at the season he sent a servant to the hus-
bandmen, that they should give him of the fruit
of the vineyard : but the husbandmen beat him,
and sent him away empty. And again he sent
another servant : and they beat him also, and
entreated him shamefully, and sent him away
empty. And again he sent a third : and they
wounded him also, and cast him out. Then said
the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do M will
Bend my beloved son : it may be they will rever-
ence him when they see him. But when the
husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among
themselves, saying, This is the heir : come, let
us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's.
So they ca-st him out of tiie vineyard, and killed
him. What therefore shall the lord of the vine-
yard do unto them ] He shall come and destroy
these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard
to others. And when they heard it, they said,
God forbid. And he beheld them, and said,
What is this then that is wi'itten, The stone which
the builders rejected, the same is become the
head of the corner ? Whosoever shall fall upon
that stone shall be broken : but on whomsoever
April 29, Monu S. LUKE, XX. Oct. 30, Even.
it shall fall, it will grind him to jDOwder. And
the chief priests and the scribes the same hour
sought to lay hands on him ; and they feared
the people : for they perceived that he had
spoken this parable against them. And they
watched him, and sent forth spies, which should
feign themselves just men, that they might take
hold of his words, that so they might deliver
him unto the power and authority of the governor.
And they asked him, saying, ^Master, we know
that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither
acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest
the way of God truly : Is it lawful for us to give
tribute unto Cffisar, or no ? But he perceived
their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt
ye me ? Shew me a penny. Whose image and
superscription hath it ? They answered and
said, Caesar's. And he said unto them, Eender
therefore unto Ciesar the things which be Ca;sar's,
and unto God the things which be God's. And
they could not take hold of his M'ords before the
Eeople : and they marvelled at his answer, and
eld their peace.
April 29, Morning ; Oct. 30, Evening.
THEN came to him certain of the Sadducees,
which deny that there is any resurrection ;
and they asked him, saying, jSIaster, Moses wrote
unto us. If any man's brother die, having a wife,
and he die without children, that his brother
should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his
brother. There were therefore seven brethren :
and the first took a wife, and died without
children. And the second took her to Avife, and
he died childless. And the third took her ; and
in like manner the seven also : and they left no
April 29, Mom. S. LUKE, XXI. Oct. 30, Even.
children, and died. Last of all the woman died
also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife
of them is she ? for seven had her to wife. And
Jesus answering said unto them, The children of
this world marry, and are given in marriage :
but they which shall be accounted worthy to
obtain that world, and the resurrection from the
dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage :
neither am they die any more : for they are
equal unto the angels ; and are the children of
God, being the children of the resurrection. Now
that the dead are raised, even ]SIoses shewed at
the bush, when he caUeth the Lord the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of
the living : for all live unto him. Then certain
of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast
weU said. And after that they durst not ask
him any question at all. And he said unto
them. How say they that Christ is David's son ?
And David himself saith in the book of Psalms,
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my
right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot-
stool. David therefore caUeth him Lord, how is
he then his son ? Then in the audience of all
the people he said unto his disciples, Beware of
the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes,
and love greetings in the markets, and the highest
seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at
feasts ; which devour widows' houses, and for a
shew make long prayers : the same shall receive
greater damnation.
CHAPTER XXL
And he looked up, and saw the rich men cast>-
I ing their gifts into the treasury. And he saw
i
April 30, Morn, S, LUKE, XXI. Oct 31, Even.
also a certain poor widow casting in thither two
mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you,
that this poor widow hath cast in more than they
all : for all these have of their abundance cast ia
unto the offerings of God : but she of her penury
hath cast in all the living that she had.
April 30, Morning; Oct. 31, Evening.
A ND as some spake of the temple, how it was
Jl\. adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he
said, As for these things which ye behold, the
days will come, in the which there shall not be
left one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down. And they asked him, saying,
Master, but when shall these things be ? and
what sign will there be when these things shall
come to pass ? And he said. Take heed that ye
be not deceived : for many shall come in my
name, saying, I am Christ ; and the time draw-
eth near : go ye not therefore after them. But
when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be
not terrified : for these things must first come to
Eass ; but the end is not by and by. Then said
e unto them, Nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom : and great earth-
quakes shall be in divers places, and famines,
and pestilences ; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven. But before all
these, they shall lay their hands on you, and
persecute i/ow, delivering you up to the syna-
gogues, and into prisons, being brought before
kings and rulers for my name's sake. And it
shall turn to you for a testimony. Settle it
therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before
what ye shall answer : for I will give you a
mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries
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April 30, ^fom. S. LUKE, XXI. Oct. 31, Even.
shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. And ye
: shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, j
and kmsfolks, and friends ; and some of you
' shall they cause to be put to death. And ye
shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. I
j But there shall not an hair of your head perish. '
j In your patience possess ye your souls. And
I ^vhen ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with
armies, then know that the desolation thereof is
nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to
the mountains ; and let them which are in the
midst of it depart out ; and let not them that are
in the countries enter thereinto. For these be
the days of vengeance, that all things which are
written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them
that are with child, and to them that give suck,
in those days ! for there shall be great distress
in the land, and wrath upon this people. And
they shall foil by the edge of the sword, and shall
be led away captive into all nations : and Jeru-
salem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles,
until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,
and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of
nations, with perplexity ; the sea and the wares
roaring ; men's hearts failing them for fear, and
for looking after those things which are coming
on the earth : for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken. And then shall they see the Son of
man coming in a cloud with power and great
glory. And when these things begin to come to
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for
your redemption draweth nigh. And he spake
to them a parable ; Behold the fig tree, and all
the trees ; when they now shoot forth, ye see j
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May 2, Morn. S. LUKE, XXII. Nov. 2, Even.
and know of your own selves that summer is
now nigh at liancl. So likewise ye, when ye see
these thiurfs come to pass, know ye that the
kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say
unto you, This generation shall not pass away,
till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass
away : but my words shall not pass away. And
take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunk-
enness, and cares of this life, and so that day
come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall
it come on all them that dwell on the face of the
whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pnss,
and to stand before the Son of man. And in the
day time he was teaching in the temple ; and at
night he went out, and abode in the mount that
is called the mount of Olives. And all the
people came early in the morning to him in the
temple, for to hear him.
CHAPTER XXII.
May 2, Morning ; Kov. 2, Evening.
"VTOW the feast of unleavened bread drew
j3i nigh, which is called the Passover. And
the chief priests and scribes sought how they
might kill him ; for they feared the people. Then
entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot,
being of the number of the twelve. And he
went his Avay, and communed with the chief
priests and captains, how he might betray him
unto them. And they were glad, and covenanted
to give him money. And he promised, and
sought opportunity to betray him unto them in
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May 2, Mom. S. LUKE, XXII. Kov. 2, Even.
the absence of the multitude. Then came the
day of unleavened bread, when the passover
must be killed. And he sent Peter and John,
saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that \re
may eat. And they said unto him. Where wilt
thou that we prepare ? And he said unto them,
Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there
shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water ;
follow him into the house where he ent^reth in.
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house.
The ]\Iaster saitli unto thee. Where is the guest-
chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my
disciples ] And he shall shew you a large upper
room furnished : there make ready. And they
went, and found as he had said unto them : and
they made ready the passover. And when the
hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve
apostles with him. And he said unto them,
With desire I have desired to eat this passover
with you before I suffer : for I say unto you, I
will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled
in the kingdom of God, And he took the cup,
and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide
it among yourselves : for I say unto you, I will
not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the king-
dom of God shall come. And he took bread,
and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto
them, saying. This is my body which is given for
you : this do in remembrance of me. Likewise
also the cup after supper, saying. This cup is the
new testament in my blood, which is shed for
you. But, behold, the hand of him that betray-
eth me is with me on the table. And truly the
Son of man goeth, as it was determined : but
woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed !
May 3, Mom. S. LUKE, XXII. Nov. 3, Even.
And they began to enquire among themselves,
which of them it was that should do this thing.
And there was also a strife among them, which
of them should be accounted the greatest. And
he said unto them. The kings of the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them ; and they that exer-
cise authority upon them are called benefactors.
But ye shall not he so : but he that is greatest
among you, let him be as the younger ; and he
that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether
is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that
serveth ? is not he that sitteth at meat ? but I
am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they
which have continued with me in my temptations.
And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my
Father hath appointed unto me ; that ye may
eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and
sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.
May 3, Morning ; Nov. 3, Evening.
AND the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold,
jLjL Satan hath desired to have you, that he
may sift you as wheat ; but I have prayed for
thee, that thy faith fail not : and M'hen thou art
converted, strengthen thy brethren. And he
said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee,
both into prison, and to death. And he said, I
tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day,
before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou
knowest me. And he said unto them. When I
sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes,
lacked ye any thing ? And they said, Nothing.
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath
a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip:
and he that hath no sword, let him sell his
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May 3, Mom. S. LUKE, XXII. Xov.S.Eoen.
garment, aiid buy one. For I say unto you, that
this that is written must yet be accomplished in
me, And he was reckoned among the trans-
gressors : for the things concerning me have an
end. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two
swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to
the mount of Olives ; and his disciples also
followed him. And when he was at the place,
he said unto them. Pray that ye enter not into
temptation. And he was withdrawn from them
about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and
prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove
this cup from me : nevertheless not my will, but
thine, be done. And there appeared an angel
unto him from heaven, strengthening him. Ajid
being in an agony he prayed more earnestly :
and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood
falling down to the ground. And when he rose
up from prayer, and was come to his disciples,
he found them sleeping for sorrow, and said imto
them. Why sleep ye ? rise and pray, lest ye enter
into temptation. And while he yet spake, behold
a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one
of the twelve, went before them, and drew near
unto Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said unto
him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with
a kiss ? When they which were about him saw
what would follow, they said unto him. Lord,
shall we smite with the sword ? And one of
them smote the servant of the high jDriest, and
cut off his right ear. And Jesus answered and
said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his
ear, and healed him. Then Jesus said unto the
chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the
May 4, Mom. S. LUKE, XXII. Nov. 4, Even.
elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out,
as against a thief, with swords and staves?
Wlien I was daily with you in the temple, ye
stretched forth no hands against me : but this is
your hour, and the power of darkness.
May 4, Morning; Xov. 4, Evening.
THEN took they him, and led him, and
brought him into the high priest's house.
And Peter followed afar off. And when they
had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and
were set down together, Peter sat down among
them. But a certain maid beheld him as he sat
by the lire, and earnestly looked upon him, and
said, This man was also with him. And he
denied him, saying, Woman, I know hmi not.
And after a little while another saw him, and
said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said,
Man, I am not. And about the space of one
hour after another confidently affirmed, saying,
Of a truth this felloio also was with him : for he
is a Galilaean. And Peter said, Man, I know
not what thou sayest. And immediately, while
he yet spake, the cock crew. And the Lord
turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter
remembered the word of the Lord, how he had
said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt
deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept
bitterly. And the men that held Jesus mocked
him, and smote him. And when they had
blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and
asked him, saying. Prophesy, who is it that smote
thee ? And many other things blasphemously
spake they against him. And as soon as it Avas
day, the elders of the people and the chief priests
and the scribes came together, and led him into
May 5, Jtfbrjz. S. LUKE, XXIII, Nov. 5, Even.
their council, saying, Art thou the Christ ? tell
us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye
Avill not believe : and if I also ask you, ye will
not answer me, nor let me go. Hereafter shall
the Son of man sit on the right hand of the
power of God. Then said they all, Art thou then
the Son of God ? And he said unto them, Ye
say that I am. And they said, What need we
any fui'ther witness ? for we ourselves have heard
of his own mouth.
CHAPTER XXni.
May 5, Morning ; Kov. 5, Evening.
A ND the whole multitude of them arose, and
JLJL led him unto Pilate, And they began to
accuse him, saying, We found this fellow per-
verting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute
to Csesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
And Pilate asked him, saying. Art thou the King
of the Jews ? And he answered him and said,
Thou sayest it. Then said Pilate to the chief
priests and to the people, I find no fault in this
man. And they were the more fierce, saWng,
He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout
all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether
the man were a Galilsean, And as soon as he
knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction,
he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at
Jerusalem at that time. And when Herod saw-
Jesus, he was exceeding glad : for he was desirous
to see him of a long scrtso/i. be&iuse he had heard
many things of him ; and he hoj^ed to have seen
some miracle done by him. Then he questioned
with him in many words ; but he answered liim
May 5, Mom. S. LUKE, XXIII. Nov. 5, Even.
nothing. And the chief priests and scribes stood
and vehemently accused him. And Herod with
his men of war set him at nought, and mocked
him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and
sent him again to Pilate. And the same day Pilate
and Herod were made friends together : for before
they were at enmity between themselves. And
Pilate, when he had called together the chief
priests and the rulers and the people, said unto
them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one
that perverteth the people : and, behold, I,
having examined him before you, have found no
fault in this man touching those things whereof
ye accuse him : no, nor yet Herod : for I sent
you to him ; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is
done unto him. I will therefore chastise him,
and release him. (For of necessity he must
release one unto them at the feast.) And they
cried out all at once, saying. Away with this
man, and release unto us Barabbas : (who for a
certain sedition made in the city, and for murder,
was cast into prison.) Pilate therefore, willing
to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they
cried, saying. Crucify him, crucify him. And he
said unto them the third time, Why, what evil
hath he done ? I have found no cause of death
in him : I will therefore chastise him, and let
him go. And they were instant with loud voices,
requiring that he might be crucified. And the
voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as
they required. And he released unto them him
that for sedition and murder was cast into prison,
whom they had desired ; but he delivered Jesus
to their will.
May G, Morn. S. LUKE, XXIII. Nov. 6, Even.
May 6, Morning ; Nov. 6, Evening.
A XD as they led him away, they laid hold
J\. upon one Simon, a CyrenLan, coming out
of the country, and on him they laid the cross,
that he might bear it after Jesus. And there
followed him a great company of people, and of
women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of
Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for your-
selves, and for your children. For, behold, the
days are coming, in the which they shall say,
Blessed arc the barren, and the wombs that
never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains.
Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if
they do these things in a green tree, what shall
be done in the dry ? And there were also two
other, malefactors, led with him to be put to
death. And when they were come to the place,
which is culled Calvary, there they crucified him,
and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and
the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father,
forgive them ; for they know not what they do.
And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers
also with them derided him, saying, He saved
others ; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the
chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked
him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
and saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save
thyself. And a superscription also was written
over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and
Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
And one of the malefactors which were hanged
railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save
May 7, Mom. S. LUKE, XXIII. Nov. 7, Even.
thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked
him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seemg thou
art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed
justly ; for we receive the due reward of our
deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss.
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me
when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus
said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day
shalt thou be with me in paradise. And it was
about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness
over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the
sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple
was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had
cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy
hands I commend my spirit : and having said
thus, he gave up the ghost. Now when the
centurion saw what was done, he glorified God,
saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. And
all the people that came together to that sight,
beholding the things which were done, smote
their breasts, and returned. And all his ac-
quaintance, and the women that followed him
from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these
things.
May 7, Morning ; I^ov. 7, Evening,
A ND, behold, there was a man named Joseph,
XjL a counsellor ; and he was a good man, and
a just : (the same had not consented to the
counsel and deed of them ;) he was of Arimathsea,
a city of the Jews : who also himself waited for
the kingdom of God. This man went unto
Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he
took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid
it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein
never man before was laid. And that day was
May 7, Mom. S. LUKE, XXIV. Nov. 7, Even.
the preparation, and the sabbath dre^7 on. And
the women also, which came with him from
Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepidclire,
and how his body was laid. And they returned,
and prepared spices and ointments ; and rested
the sabbath dav according to the commandment.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early
in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre,
bringing the spices which they had prepared,
and certain others with them. And they found
the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And
they entered in, and found not the body of the
Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were
much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men
stood by them in shining garments : and as they
were afraid, and bowed down th^ir faces to the
earth, they said unto them, "SMiy seek ye the
living among the dead \ he is not here, but is
risen : remember how he spake unto you when
he was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of man
must be delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
And they remembered his words, and returned
from the sepulchre, and told all these things
unto the eleven, and to all the rest It was
Mary ]Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the
Tnother of James, and other women that were
with them, which told these things unto the
apostles. And their words seemed to them as
idle tales, and they believed them not. Then
arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre ; and
stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid
by themselves, and departed, wondering in him-
self at that which was come to pass.
May 8, Mom. S. LUKE, XXIV. Nov. 8, Even.
May 8, Morning ; Nov. 8, Evening.
AND, behold, two of them went that same day
Xx. to a village called Emmaus, which was
from Jerusalem about threescore fm^longs. And
they talked together of all these things which
had happened. And it came to pass, that, Avhile
they communed together and reasoned, Jesus him-
self drew near, and went with them. But their
eyes were holden that they should not know
him. And he said unto them, What manner of
communications are these that ye have one to
another, as ye walk, and are sad ? And the one of
them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said
unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem,
and hast not known the things which are come
to pass there in these days ? And he said unto
them. What things % And they said unto him,
Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a pro-
phet mighty in deed and word before God and
all the people : and how the chief priests and
our rulers delivered him to be condenmed to
death, and have crucified him. But we trusted
that it had been he which should have redeemed
Israel : and beside all this, to day is the third
day since these things were done. Yea, and
certain women also of our company made us
astonished, which were early at the sepulchre ;
and when they found not his body, they came,
saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels,
which said that he was alive. And certain of
them which were with us went to the sepulchre,
and found it even so as the women had said :
but him they saw not. Then he said unto them,
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the
prophets have spoken : ought not Christ to have
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May S, Morn. S. LUKE, XXIV. A^ov. 8, Even.
suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets,
he expounded unto them in all the scriptures
the things concerning himself. And they drew
nigh unto the village, whither they went : and
he made as though he would have gone further.
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with
us : for it is toward evening, and the day is far
spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them,
he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and
gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and
they knew him ; and he vanished out of their
sight. And they said one to another. Did not
our heart burn within us, while he talked with
us by the way, and while he opened to us the
scriptures ? And they rose up the same hour,
and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven
gathered together, and them that were with them,
saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath ap-
peared to Simon. And they told what things
were done in the way, and how he was known of
them in breaking of bread. And as they thus
spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them,
and saith unto them. Peace he unto you. But
they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed
that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto
them. Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts
arise in your hearts ? Behold my hands and my
feet, that it is I myself : handle me, and see ;
for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed
them his hands and his feet. And while they
yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said
unto them, Have ye hers any meat ? and they
May 9, Mom. S. JOHN, I. , JS'ov. 9, Even.
gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an
honeycomb. And he took it^ and did eat before
them. And he said imto them, These are the
words which I spake unto you, while I was yet
with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which
were written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures, and said unto
them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved
Christ to sufler, and to rise from the dead the
third day : and that repentance and remission
of sins should be preached in his name among all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are
witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send
the promise of my Father upon you : but tarry
ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued
with power from on high. And he led them out
as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands,
and blessed them. And it came to pass, while
he blessed them, he was parted from them, and
carried up into heaven. And they worshipped
him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy :
and were continually in the temple, praising and
blessing God. Amen.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
St. JOHN.
CHAPTER I.
May 9, Morning; Nov. 9, Evening.
IN the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him ; and without him
May 9, Morn. S. JOHN, I. Nov. 9, Even.
was not any thing made that was made. In him
was life ; and the life was the light of men. And
the light shineth in darkness ; and the darkness
comprehended it not. There was a man sent
from God, whose name ^cas John. The same
came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light,
that all men through him might believe. He
was not that Light, but icas sent to bear witness
of that Light That was the true Light, which
lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made
by him, and the world knew him not. He came
unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name : which were born, not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God. And the Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father.) full of grace and truth. John bare wit-
ness of him, and cried, saying. This was he of
whom I spake. He that cometh after me is pre-
ferred before me : for he was before me. And
of his fulness have all we received, and grace for
grace. For the law was given by Moses, hut
grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man
hath seen God at any time ; the only begotten
Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him. And this is the record of John,
when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Je-
rusalem to ask him. Who art thou ? And he
confessed, and denied not ; but confessed, I am
not the Christ. And they asked him, What
then ? Art thou Elias ? And he saith, I am
May 10, Mom. S. JOHN, I. Kov. 10, Evm.
not. Art thou that prophet ? And he answered,
No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou ?
that we may give an answer to them that sent
us. What sayest thou of thyself ? He said, I
am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the
prophet Esaias. And they which were sent were
of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said
unto him, W^hy baptizest thou then, if" thou be
not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet 1
John answered them, saying, I baptize with
water : but there standeth one among you, whom
ye know not ; he it is, who coming after me is
preferred before me, whose shpe's latchet I am
not worthy to unloose. These things were done
in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
May 10, Morning ; Kov, 10, Evening.
THE next day Jolm seeth Jesus coming unto
him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world. This is
he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which
is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And I knew him not : but that he should be
made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come
baptizing with water. And John bare record,
saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew
him not : but he that sent me to baptize with
water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou
shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining
on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the
Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that
this is the Son of God. Again the next day after
John stood, and two of Ins disciples ; and look-
May 10, Mom, S. JOHN, I. JS^ov. 10, Even.
ing upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold
the Lamb of God ! And the two disciples heard
him speak, and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus
turned, and saw them following, and saith unto
them. What seek ye? They said unto him,
Eabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, ^Mas-
ter,) where dwellest thou ? He saith unto them,
Come and see. They came and saw where he
dwelt, and abode with him that day : for it was
about the tenth hour. One of the two which
heard John speak, and foUowed him, was An-
drew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth
his own brother Simon, and saith unto him. We
have found the jNIessias, which is, being inter-
preted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus.
And when Jesus beheld him, he said. Thou art
Simon the son of Jona : thou shalt be called
Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. The
day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee,
and findeth I^hilip, and saith unto him. Follow
me. Kow Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of
Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael,
and saith unto him. We have found him, of
whom jSIoses in the law, and the prophets, did
write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
And Nathanael said unto hhn. Can there any
good thing come out of Nazareth ? Philip saith
imto him. Come and see. Jesus saw Nathanael
coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Is-
raelite indeed, in whom is no guile ! Nathanael
saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me ? Jesus
answered and said unto him. Before that PhUip
called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I
saw thee. Nathanael answered and saith unto
him, Eabbi, thou art the Son of God ; thou art the
Majj 11, Morn. S. JOHN, II. Aov. U,Even.
King of Israel. Jesus answered and said imto
him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under
the fig tree, believest thou ? thou shalt see greater
things than these. And he saith unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall
see heaven open, and the angels of God ascend-
ing and descending upon the Son of man.
CHAPTER II.
May 11, Morning ; Nov. 11, Evening.
AND the third day there was a marriage in
J\. Cana of Galilee ; and the mother of Jesus
was there : and both Jesus was called, and his
disciples, to the marriage. And when they
wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto
him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her.
Woman, what have I to do with thee ? mine
hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto
the servants. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do
it And there were set there six waterpots of
stone, after the manner of the purifying of the
Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith unto them. Fill the waterpots with
water. And they filled them up to the brim.
And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear
unto the governor of the feast. And they bare
it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the
water that was made wine, and knew not whence
it was : (but the servants which drew the water
knew ;) the governor of the feast called the bride-
groom, and saith unto him, Every man at the
beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when
men have Avell drunk, then that which is worse :
but thou hast . kept the good Avine until now.
This beginnintj of miracles did Jesus in Cana of
May 11, Mom. S. JOHIs^ II. Nov. 11, Even.
Galilee, and manifested forth his glory ; and his
disciples believed on him. After this he went
down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his
brethren, and his disciples : and they continued
there not many days. And the Jews' passover
was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
and found in the temple those that sold oxen
and sheep and doves, and the changers of money
sitting : and when he had made a scourge of
small cords, he drove them all out of the temple,
and the sheep, and the oxen ; and x>oured out
the changers^ money, and overthrew the tables ;
and said unto them that sold doves, Tiike these
things hence ; make not my Father^s house an
house of merchandise. And his disciples re-
membered that it was written, The zeal of thine
house hath eaten me up. Then answered the
Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest
thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these
things ? Jesus answered and said unto them,
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will
raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six
years was this temple in building, and wilt thou
rear it up in three days ? But he spake of the
temple of his body. When therefore he was
risen from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this unto them ; and they be-
lieved the scripture, and the word which Jesus
had said. Now when he was in Jerusalem at
the passover, in the feast day, many believed in
his name, when they saw the miracles which he
did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto
them, because he knew all men, and needed not
that any should testify of man ; for he knew
what was in man.
May 12, Mom. S. JOHN, III. A^ov. 12, Even.
CHAPTER III.
May 12, Morning ; JVb?;. 12, Evening.
THERE was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : the same
came to Jesus by night, and said unto him,
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come
from God : for no man can do these miracles
that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee. Except a man be born again, he can-
not see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith
unto him, How can a man be born when he is
old? can he enter the second time into his
mother's womb, and be born ? Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God. That which is born
of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto
thee. Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth
where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it coraeth, and
whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of
the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto
him. How can these things be ? Jesus answered
and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel,
and knowest not these things ? Verily, verily, I
say unto thee. We speak that we do know, and
testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our
witness. If I have told you earthly things, and
ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you
of heavenly things ? And no man hath ascended
up to heaven, but he that came down from
heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wil-
May 13, Mom, S. JOHN, IIL Nov. 13, Even.
derness, even so must the Son of man be lifted
up : that -whosoever beUeveth in him should not
perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent
not his Son into the world to condemn the
world ; but that the world through him might
be saved. He that believeth on him is not con-
demned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God. And
this is the condemnation, that light is come into
the world, and men loved darkness rather than
light, because their deeds were evil. For every
one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be
reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to
the light, that his deeds may be made manifest,
that they are wrought in God.
3/rtV 13, Jlorning; Nov. 13, Evening.
AFTER these things came Jesus and his dis-
jLjL ciples into the land of Jud^a ; and there
he tarried with them, and baptized. And John
also was baptizing in ^non near to Salim,
because there was much water there : and they
came, and were baptized. For John was not yet
cast into prison. Then there arose a question
between some of John's disciples and the Jews
about purifying. And they came unto John, and
said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee
beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,
behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to
him. John answered and said, A man can receive
nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
May 14, Mom. S. JOHN, IV. Kov. li,Evm.
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am
not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but
the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth
and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the
bridegroom's voice : this my joy therefore is ful-
filled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
He that cometh from above is above all : he that
is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the
earth : he that cometh from heaven is above all.
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testi-
fieth ; and no man receiveth his testimony. He
that hath received his testimony hath set to his
seal that God is true. For he whom God hath
sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth
not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father
loveth the Son, and hath given all things into
his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life : and he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life ; but the wrath of God
abideth on him.
CHAPTER IV.
May 14, Morning; JNov. 14, Evening.
WHEN therefore the Lord knew how the
Pharisees had heard that Jesus made
and baptized more disciples than John, (though
Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) he
left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
And he must needs go through Samaria. Then
cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob
gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was
there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well : and it was about
May \\, Mom. S. JOHN, IV. Kov.l^, Even.
the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Sa-
maria to draw water : Jesus saith unto her, Give
me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away
unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the
woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou,
being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a
woman of Samaria ? for the Jews have no deal-
ings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and
said unto her. If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to
drink ; thou wouldest have asked of him, and
he would have given thee living water. The
woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to
draw with, and the well is deep : from whence
then hast thou that living water ? Art thou
greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his children,
and his cattle ? Jesus answered and said unto
her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst
again : but whosoever drinketh of the water that
I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the
water that I shall give him shall be in him a
well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this
water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to
draw. Jesus saith unto her. Go, call thy hus-
band, and come hither. The woman answered
and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto
her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband : for
thou hast had five husbands ; and he whom thou
now hast is not thy husband : in that saidst
thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I
perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers
worshipped in this mountain ; and ye say, that
in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
May 15, Morn. S. JOHN, IV. ' Nov. 15, Even.
worship, Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe
me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in
this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the
Father. Ye worship ye know not what : we
know what we worship : for salvation is of the
Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when
the true worshippers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth : for the Father seeketh such
to worship him. God is a Spirit : and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that
Messias cometh, which is called Christ : when
he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus
saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled
that he talked with the woman : yet no man
said, What seekest thou ? or, Why talkest thou,
with her ? The woman then left her waterpot,
and went her way into the city, and saith to the
men, Come, see a man, which told me all things
that ever I did : is not this the Christ ? Then
they went out of the city, and came unto him.
May 15, Morning ; Nov. 15, Evening.
IN the mean while his disciples prayed him,
saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them,
I have meat to eat that ye know not of. There-
fore said the disciples one to another, Hath any
man brought him ought to eat ? Jesus saith
unto them. My meat is to do the will of him that
sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye,
There are yet four months, and then cometh
harvest ? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your
eyes, and look on the fields ; for they are white
already to harvest. And he that reapeth re-
ceiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
+— ■
May lo;Mom. S. JOHN, IV. Xov. 15, Even.
eternal : that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together. And herein, is that
saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no
labour ': other men laboured, and ye are entered
into their labours. And many of the Samaritans
of that city believed on him for the saying of the
woman, which testiiied, He told me all that ever
I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto
him, they besought him that he would tarry
with them : and he abode there two days. And
many more believed because of his own word ;
and said unto the woman, Now we believe, not
because of thy saying : for we have heard him
ourselves, and know that this is indeed the
Christ, the Saviour of the world. Now after
two days he departed thence, and went into
Galilee. For Jesus himself testified, that a pro-
phet hath no honour in his own country. Then
when he was come mto Galilee, the Gcdilseans
received him, having seen all the things that he
did at Jerusalem at the feast : for they also went
unto the feast. So Jesus came again into Cana
of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And
there was a certain nobleman, whose son was
sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus
was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went
unto him, and besought him that he would come
down, and heal his son : for he was at the point
of death. Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye
see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The
nobleman saith unto hun. Sir, come down ere
my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy
way ; thy son liveth. And the man believed
the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and
May 16, Morn. S. JOHN, V. Nov. 16, Even.
he went his way. And as he was now going down,
his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy
son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour
when he began to amend. And they said unto
him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left
him. So the father knew that it was at the
same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him,
Thy son liveth : and himself believed, and his
whole house. This is again the second miracle
that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea
into Galilee.
CHAPTER V.
May 16, Morning ; Kov. 16, Evening.
A FTER this there was a feast of the Jews ;
_lV- and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now
there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a
pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a
great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt,
withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
For an angel went down at a certain season into
the pool, and troubled the water : whosoever
then first after the troubling of the water stepped
in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
And a certain man was there, Avhich had an
infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus
saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a
long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt
thou be made whole ? The impotent man an-
swered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water
is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while
I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Jesus saith unto him. Rise, take up thy bed, and
walk. And immediately the man was made
whole, and took up his bed, and walked : and
May 16, Mom. S. JOHN. V. . ITov. 16, Even,
on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews
therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the
sabbath day : it is not lawful for thee to carry
thy bed. He answered them, He that made me
whole, the same said unto me. Take up thy bed,
and walk. Then asked they him, What man is
that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and
walk ? And he that was healed wist not who it
was : for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a
multitude being in thai place. Afterward Jesus
findeth him in the temple, and said unto him,
Behold, thou art made whole : sin no more, lest
a worse thing come unto thee. The man de-
parted, and told the Jews that it was Jesus,
which had made him whole. And therefore did
the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay
liim, because he had done these things on the
sabbath day. But Jesus answered them. My
Father worketh hitherto, and I work. There-
fore the Jews sought the more to kill him,
because he not only had broken the sabbath, but
said also that God was his Father, making him-
self equal with God. Then answered Jesus and
said unto them. Verily, verily, I say unto you.
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he
seeth the Father do : for what things soever he
doeth, these also doeth the Son like^vise. For
the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all
things that himself doeth : and he \vill shew him
greater works than these, that ye may marvel
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and
quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth
j whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man,
but hath committed all judgment unto the Son :
that all men should honour the Son, even as
May 17, Mom. S. JOHN, V. Nov. 17, Even.
they honour the Father. He that honoureth not
the Son honoureth not the Father which hath
sent him.
May 17, Morning ; Nov. 17, Evening.
TTERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that
V heareth my word, and believeth on him
that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into condemnation ; but is passed from
death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God : and they
that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life
in himself ; so hath he given to the Son to have
life in himself; and hath given him authority
to execute judgment also, beauise he is the Son
of man. Marvel not at this : for the hour is
coming, in the which all that are in the graves
shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they
that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life ; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own
self do nothing : as I hear, I judge : and my
judgment is just ; because I seek not mine own
will, but the will of the Father which hath sent
me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is
not true. There is another that beareth witness
of me ; and I know that the witness which he
witnesseth of me is true. Ye sent unto John,
and he bare witness unto the truth. But I
receive not testimony from man : but these
things I say, that ye might be saved. He was a
burning and a shining light: and ye were willing
for a season to rejoice in his light. But I have
greater witness than that of John : for the works
which the Father hath given me to finish, the
Maij 18, Mom. S. JOHN, YL Kov. 18, Even.
same works that I do. bear witness of me, that
the Father hath sent me. And the Father him-
self, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of
me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any
time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his
word abiding in you : for whom he hath sent,
him ye beUeve not. Search the scriptures ; for
in them ye think ye have eternal life : and they
are they which testify of me. And ye will not
come to me, that ye might have life. I receive
not honour from men. But I know you, that
ye have not the love of God in you. I am come
in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if
another shall come in his own name, him ye wUl
receive. How can ye believe, which receive
honour one of another, and seek not the honour
that Cometh from God only ? Do not think that
I will accuse you to the Father : there is one
that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have
believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye
believe not his Avritings, how shall ye believe
my words ?
CHAPTER VI.
May 18, Morning ; Nov. IS, Evening.
AFTER these things Jesus went over the sea
jLjL of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.
And a great multitude followed him, because
they saw his miracles which he did on them that
were diseased. And Jesus went up into a
mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a
great company come unto him, he saith unto
May 18, Morn. S. JOHN, TI. Kov. 18, Even.
Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these
may eat ? And this he said to prove him : for
he himself knew what he would do. Philip
answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread
is not sufficient for them, that every one of them
may take a little. One of his disciples, Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is
a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and
two small fishes : but what are they among so
many ? And Jesus said. Make the men sit down.
Now there was much grass in the place. So the
men sat down, in number about five thousand.
And Jesus took the loaves ; and when he had
given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and
the disciples to them that were set down ; and
likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples,
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing
be lost. Therefore they gathered them together,
and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of
the five barley loaves, which remained over and
above unto them that had eaten. Then those
men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus
did, said. This is of a truth that prophet that
should come into the Avorld, When Jesus there-
fore perceived that they would come and take
him by force, to make him a king, he departed
again into a mountain himself alone. And when
even was now come, his disciples went down
unto the sea, and entered into a ship, and went
over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was
now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that
blew. So when they had rowed about five and
twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking
May 19, Mom. S. JOHX, VI. Jiov. 19, Even.
on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship : and
they were afraid. But he saith unto them, It is
I ; be not afraid. Then they willingly received
him into the ship : and immediately the ship
was at the land wliither they went.
May 19, Morning ; ^Voi?. 19, Evening.
THE day following, when the people which
stood on the other side of the sea saw that
there was none other boat there, save that one
whereinto his disciples were entered, and that
Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat,
but that his disciples were gone away alone ;
(howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias
nigh unto the place where they did eat bread,
after that the Lord had given thanks :) when the
people therefore saw that Jesus was not there,
neither his disciples, they also took shipping,
and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
And when they had found him on the other side
I of the sea, they said unto him. Rabbi, when
I earnest thou hither ? Jesus answered them and
j said, Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye seek me,
I not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye
I did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour
not for the meat which perisheth, but for that
! meat which endnreth unto everlasting life, which
j the Son of man shall give unto you : for him
I hath God the Father sealed. Then said they
I unto him, What shall we do, that we might
i work the works of God ? Jesus answered and
I said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye
believe on him whom he hath sent They said
' therefore unto him, "What sign she west thou then,
\ that we may see, and believe thee ? what dost
thou work i Our fathers did eat manna in the
May 20, Morn. S. JOHN, VI. Nov. 20. Even.
desert ; as it is written, He gave them bread
from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, veril}'", I say unto you, Moses gave you not
that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth
you the true bread from heaven. For the bread
of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and
giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto
him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life :
he that cometh to me shall never hunger ; and
he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But
I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and
believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall
come to me ; and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. For I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of
hira that sent me. And this is the Father's will
which hath sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I should lose nothing, but should raise
it up again at the last day. And this is the will
of him that sent me, that every one which seeth
the Son, and believeth on him, may have ever-
lasting life : and I will raise him up at the last
day.
May 20, Morning ; Nov. 20, Evening.
THE Jews then murmured at him, because he
said, I am the bread which came down from
heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the
son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
how is it then that he saith, I came down from
heaven ? Jesus therefore answered and said unto
them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man
can come to me, except the Father which hath
sent me draw him : and I will raise him up at
the last day. It is written in the prophets, And
i May 20, Morn. S. JOHN, VI. Kov. 20, Even.
I they shall be all taught of God. Every man
I therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of
! the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any
! man hath seen the Father, save he Tvhich is
1 of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily,
j verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
\ me hath everlastino; life. I am that bread of
j life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilder-
j ness, and are dead. This is the bread which '
i cometh do\vn from heaven, that a man may
; eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread
j which came down from heaven : if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and
the bread that I will give is my flesh, which
j I will give for the life of the Avorld. The
Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, ;
: How can this man give us his flesh to eat i Then |
Jesus said unto them. Verily, verily, I say unto i
you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, j
and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the
last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my
blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in
him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I
live by the Father : so he that eateth me, even
he shall live by me. This is that bread which
came down from heaven : not as your fathers did
eat manna, and are dead : he that eateth of this
bread shall live for ever. These things said he
in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had
beard this, said, This is an hard saying ; who can
hear it \ When Jesus knew in himself that his
May 21, Mom. \ S. JOHN, VII. Nov. 21, Even.
disciples murmured at it, he said unto them,
Doth this offend you ? What and if ye shall see
the Son of man ascend up where he was before ?
It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profit-
eth nothing : the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life. But there are
some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew
from the beginning who they were that believed
not, and who should betray him. And he said,
Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come
unto me, except it were given unto him of my
Father. From that time many of his disciples
went back, and walked no more with him. Then
said Jesus unto the twelve. Will ye also go away ?
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom
shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life.
And we believe and are sure that thou art that
Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus
answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve,
and one of you is a devil? He spake of Judas
Iscariot the son of Simon : for he it Avas that
should betray him, being one of the twelve.
CHAPTER VII.
May 21, Morning ; Nov. 21, Evening.
A FTEE these things Jesus walked in Galilee :
J\. for he would not walk in Jewry, because
the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews'
feast of tabernacles was at hand. His brethren
therefore said unto him. Depart hence, and go
into Judsea, that thy disciples also may see the
works that thou doest. For there is no man that
doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh
to be known openly. If thou do these things,
shew thyself to the world. For neither did bis
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May 21, Morn. S. JOHN, VII. Nov. 21, Even.
brethren believe in hiin. Then Jesus said unto
them, My time is not vet come : but your time
is alway ready. The world amnot hate you ;
but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the
works thereof are evil. Go ye up unto this feast :
I go not up yet unto this feast ; for my time is
not yet full come. When he had said these
words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. But
when his brethren were gone up, then Avent he
also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were
in secret. Then the Jews sought him at the
feast, and said, Where is he ? And there was
much murmuring among the people concerning
him : for some said, He is a good man : others
said, Nay ; but he deceiveth the people. How-
beit no man spake openly of him for fear of the
Jews. Now about tlie midst of the feast Jesus
went up into the temple, and taught. And the
Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man
letters, having never learned ? Jesus answered
them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his
that sent me. If any man will do his will, he
shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God,
or ichether I speak of myself. He that sp&iketh
of himself seeketh his own glory : but he that
seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true,
and no unrighteousness is in him. Did not
Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
keepeth the law ? ^^"hy go ye about to kill me ?
The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil:
who goeth about to kill thee ? Jesus answered
and said unto them, I have done one work, and
ye all marvel. Moses therefore gave unto you
circumcision ; (not because it is of Moses, but
of the fathers ;) and ye on the sabbath day
Mmj 22, Mom. S. JOHIS", VII. Nov. 22, Even.
circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath day-
receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should
not be broken ; are ye ano:ry at me, because I
have made a man every whit whole on the sab-
bath day ? Judge not according to the appear-
ance, but judge righteous judgment.
May 22, Morning ; Nov. 22, Evening.
THEN said some of them of Jerusalem, Is
not this he, whom they seek to kill ? But,
lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing
unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this
is the very Christ ? Howbeit we know this man
whence he is : but when Christ cometh, no man
knoweth whence he is. Then cried Jesus in the
temple as he taught, saying. Ye both know me,
and ye know whence I am : and I am not come
of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye
know not. But I know him : for I am from
him, and he hath sent me. Then they sought
to take him : but no man laid hands on him,
because his hour was not yet come. And many
of the people beheved on him, and said, When
Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than
these which this man hath done ? The Pharisees
heard that the people murmured such things
concerning him ; and the Pharisees and the chief
priests sent officers to take him. Then said Jesus
! nnto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and
! then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek
' me, and shall not find me ; and where I am,
; thither ye cannot come. Then said the Jews
I among themselves. Whither will he go, that we
shall not find him *? will he go unto the dispersed
! among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
, -^„j^
May 22, Mom. S. JOHN, YII. Nov. 22, Even.
What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye
shall seek me, and shall not find me : and where
I am, thither ye cannot come ? In the last day,
that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,
saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me,
and drink. He that believe th on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water. (But this spake he of
the Spirit, which they that believe on him should
receive : for the Holy Ghost was not yet given ;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) Many
of the people therefore, when they heard this
saying, said. Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Others said, This is the Christ. But some said,
Shall Christ come out of Galilee ? Hath not the
scripture said. That Christ cometh of the seed of
David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where
David was ? So there w^as a division among the
people because of him. And some of them
would have taken him ; but no man laid hands
on him. Then came the officers to the chief
priests and PliarLsees ; and they said unto them,
Why have ye not brought him ? The officers
answered, Never man spake like this man. Then
answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also de-
ceived ] Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees
believed on him ] But this people who knoweth
not the law are cursed. Nicodemus saith unto
them, (he that Ciime to Jesus by night, being one
of them,) Doth our law judge any man, before
it hear him, and know what he doeth I They
answered and said unto him, Art thou also of
Galilee ? Search, and look : for out of Galilee
ariseth no prophet. And every man. went unto
his own house.
May 23, Mom. S. JOHN, VIIL Nov. 23, Even,
CHAPTER VIII.
May 23, Morning ; Nov. 23, Evening.
JESUS went unto the mount of Olives. And
early in the morning he came again into the
temple, and all the people came unto him ; and
he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes
and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken
in adultery ; and when they had set her in the
midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman
was taken in adulter}'", in the very act. Now
Moses in the law commanded us, that such
should be stoned : but what sayest thou ? This
they said, tempting him, that they might have
to accuse him. But Jesus stooped do^^m, and
with his finger wrote on the ground, as though
he heard them not. So when they continued
asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto
them, He that is without sin among you, let him
first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped
down, and wrote on the ground. And they
which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at
the eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was
left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none
but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where
are those thine accusers ? hath no man con-
demned thee ? She said. No man. Lord. And
Jesus said unto her. Neither do I condemn thee :
go, and sin no more. Then spake Jesus again
unto them, saying', I am the light of the world :
he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life. The Pharisees
therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of
May 23, Morn. S. JOHX, VIII. Xov. 23, Even.
thyself ; thy record is not true. Jesus answered
and said unto them, Though I bear record of
myself, ijd my record is true : for I know whence
I aime, and whither I go ; but ye cannot tell
whence I come, and whither I go. Ye judge
after the flesh : I judge no man. And yet ifl
judge, my judgment is true : for I am not alone,
but I and the Father that sent me. It is also
WTitten in your law, that the testimony of two
men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself,
and the Father that sent me beareth Avitness of
me. Then said they unto him. Where is thy
Father ? Jesus answered. Ye neither know me,
nor my Father : if ye had known me, ye should
have known my Father also. These words spake
Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the tem-
ple : and no man laid hands on him ; for his
hour was not yet come. Then said Jesus again
unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me,
and shall die in your sins : whither I go, ye can-
not come. Then said the Jews, Will he kill
himself ? because he saith. Whither I go, ye can-
not come. Aud he said unto them. Ye are from
beneath ; I am from above : ye are of this world ;
I am not of this world. I said therefore unto
you, that ye shall die in your sins : for if ye
believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your
sins. Then said they unto him. Who art thou ?
And Jesus saith unto them. Even the same that
I said unto you from the beginning. I have
many things to say and to judge of you : but he
that sent me is true ; and I speak to the world
those things which I have heard of him. They
understood not that he spake to them of the
Father,
May 24, Mom. S. JOHN, VIII. Nov. 24, Even.
have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye
know that I am he, and that I do nothing of
myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I
speak these things. And he that sent me is
with me : the Father hath not left me alone ; for
I do always those things that please him. As
he spake these words, many believed on him.
May 24, Morning; Nov. 24, Evening.
THEN said Jesus to those Jews which be-
lieved on him, If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed ; and ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free. They answered him, We be Abraham's
seed, and were never in bondage to any man :
how sayest thou. Ye shall be made free ? Jesus
answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
And the servant abideth not in the house for
ever : hut the Son abideth ever. If the Son
therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
indeed. I know that ye are Abraham^s seed ;
but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no
place in you. I speak that which I have seen
with my Father : and ye do that which ye have
seen with your father. They answered and said
unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye
would do the works of Abraham. But now ye
seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the
truth, which I have heard of God : this did not
Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father.
Then said they to him. We be not born of forni-
cation ; we have one Father, even God. Jesus
said unto them, If God were your Father, ye
would love me : for I proceeded forth and camei
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May 2i, Mom. S. JOHN, Till. ' Kov. 2i, Even.
from God ; neither came I of myself, but he sent
me. Why do ye not understand my speech ?
even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are
of your fiither the devil, and the lusts of your
fether ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. AVhen he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar,
and the father of it. And because I tell you the
truth, ye believe me not Which of you con-
vinceth me of sm ? And if I say the truth, why
do ye not believe me ? He that is of God heareth
God's words : ye therefore hear them not, be-
cause ye are not of God. Then answered the
Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that
thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil ? Jesus
answered, I have not a devil ; but I honour my
Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I seek
not mine own glory : there is one that seeketh
and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, K
a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know
that thou hast a deviL Abraham is dead, and the
prophets ; and thou sayest, If a man keep my
saying, he shall never taste of death. Art thou
greater than our fiither Abraham, which is dead ?
and the prophets are dead : whom makest thou
thyself ? Jesus answered. If I honour myself,
my honour is nothing : it is my Father that
honoureth me ; of whom ye say, that he is your
God : yet ye have not known him ; but I know
him : and if I should say, I know him not, I
shall be a liar like unto you : but I know him,
and keep his saying. Your father Abraham re-
joiced to see my day : and he saw it, and was
May 25, Morn. S. JOHN, IX. Nov. 25, Even.
glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art
not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen
Abraham ? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Then took they up stones to cast at him : but
Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple,
going through the midst of them, and so pass-
ed by.
CHAPTER IX.
May 25, Morning ; Nov. 25, Evening.
AND as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which
j\. was blind from his birth. And his disci-
ples asked him, saying. Master, who did sin,
this man, or his parents, that he Avas born blind ?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned,
nor his parents : but that the works of God
should be made manifest in him. I must work
the works of him that sent me, while it is day :
the night cometh, when no man can w^ork. As
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on
the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he
anointed the eyes of the blind man with the
clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He
went his way therefore, and washed, and came
seeing. The neighbours therefore, and they
which before had seen him that he was blind,
said. Is not this he that sat and begged ? Some
said. This is he : others said, He is like him :
hut he said, I am he. Therefore said they unto
him, How were thine eyes opened ? He answer-
ed and said, A man that is called Jesus made
clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me,
May 25, Mom. S. JOHN, IX. Nov. £5, Even.
Go to the pool of Siloam, and wasli : and I went
and washed, and I received sight. Then said
they unto hiin, Where is he ? He said, I know
not. They brought to the Pharisees him that
aforetime was blind. And it was the sabbath
day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his
eyes. Then again the Pharisees also asked him
how he had received his sight. He said unto
them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed,
and do see. Therefore said some of the Phari-
sees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth
not the sabbath day. Others said. How can a
man that is a sinner do such miracles I And
there was a division among them. They say
unto the blind man again. What sayest thou of
him, that he hath opened thine eyes ? He said,
He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe
concerning him, that he had been blind, and re-
ceived his sight, until they called the parents of
him that had received his sight. And they asked
them, saying. Is this your son, who ye say was
born blind \ how then doth he now see ] His
parents answered them and said. We know that
this is our son, and that he was born blind : but
by what means he now seeth, we know not ; or
who hath opened his eyes, we know not : he is
of age ; ask him : he shall speak for himself.
These ivords spake his parents, because they
feared the Jews : for the Jews had agreed al-
ready, that if any man did confess that he was
Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Therefore said his parents, He is of age ; ask
him. Then again called they the man that was
blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise :
we know that this man is a sinner. He answered
May 26, M(ym. S. JOHN, IX. Nov. 26, Even.
and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I
know not : one thing I know, that, whereas I
was blind, now I see. Then said they to him
again, AVhat did he to thee? how opened he
thine eyes ? He answered them, I have told you
already, and ye did not hear : wherefore would
ye hear it again 1 will ye also be his disciples ?
Then they reviled him, and said. Thou art his
disciple ; but we are Moses^ disciples. We
know that God spake unto Moses : as for this
fellow, we know not from whence he is. The
man answered and said unto them. Why herein
is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from
whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Now we know that God heareth not sinners :
but if any man be a worshipper of God, and
doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world
began was it not heard that any man opened the
eyes of one that was born blind. If this man
were not of God, he could do nothing. They
answered and said unto him, Thou wast alto-
gether bom in sins, and dost thou teach us ?
And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they
had cast him out ; and when he had found him,
he said unto him. Dost thou believe on the Son
of God 1 He answered and said. Who is he,
Lord, that I might believe on him ? And Jesus
said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it
is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord,
I believe. And he worshipped him.
May 26, Morning ; Nov. 26, Evening.
A ND Jesus said, For judgment I am come into
JLX. this world, that they which see not might
see ; and that they which see might be made
blind. And some of the Pharisees which were
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May 26, Mom. S. JOHN, X. Nov. 26, Even.
with him heard these words, and said unto him,
Are we blind also ? Jesus said unto them, If ye
were blind, ye should have no sin : but now ye
sav, We see ; therefore vour sin remaineth.
CHAPTER X
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth
not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth
up some other way, the same is a thief and a
robber. But he that entereth in by the door is
the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter
openeth ; and the sheep hear his voice : and he
calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them
out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep,
he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him :
for they know his voice. And a stranger will
they not follow, but will flee from him : for they
know not the voice of strangers. This parable
spake Jesus unto them : but they understood not
what things they were which he spake unto
them. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily,
verUy, I say unto you, I am the door of the
sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves
and robbers : but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door : by me if any man enter in, he
shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find
pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy : I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it
more abundantly, I am the good shepherd : the
good shejiherd giveth his life for the sheep. But
he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd,
whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf
coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth : and
the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling,
May 27, Mom. S. JOHN, X. Nov. 27, Even.
and careth not for the sheep. I am the good
shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of
mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know
I the Father : and I lay down my hfe for the
sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not
of this fold : them also I must bring, and they
shall hear my voice ; and there shall be one fold,
and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father
love me, because I lay doAvn my life, that I might
take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it
down, and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.
There was a division therefore again among the
Jews for these sayings. And many of them
said. He hath a devil, and is mad ; why hear ye
him ? Others said. These are not the words of
him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the
eyes of the blind ?
May 27, Morning ; Nov. 27, Evening.
A ND it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedi-
JLlL cation, and it was winter. And Jesus
walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then
came the Jews round about him, and said unto
him, How long dost thou make us to doubt ? If
thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus an-
swered them, I told you, and ye believed not :
the works that I do in my Father's name, they
bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because
ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me : and I give unto them eternal
life ; and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand. My Fa-
ther, which gave them me, is greater than all ;
May 28, Morn. S. JOHN, XL " Nov. 28, Even.
and no man is able to pluck them out of my
Father's hand. I and my Father are one. Then
the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I
shewed you from my Father ; for which of those
works do ye stone me ? The Jews answered
him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not ;
but for blasphemy ; and because that thou, being
a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered
them. Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye
are gods ? If he called them gods, unto whom
the word of God came, and the scripture cannot
be broken ; say ye of him, whom the Father hath
sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blas-
phemest ; because I said, I am the Son of God ]
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me
not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, be-
lieve the works : that ye may know, and believe,
that the Father is in me, and I in him. There-
fore they sought again to take him : but he
escaped out of their hand, and went away again
beyond Jordan into the place where John at first
baptized ; and there he abode. And many re-
sorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle :
but all things that John spake of this man were
true. And many believed on him there.
CHAPTER XL
May 28, Morning ; Nov. 28, Evening.
"VfOW a certiiin man was sick, named Lazarus,
XN of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sis-
ter Martha. (It was that Mary which anointed
the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with
her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) There-
fore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord,
May 29, Mom. S. JOHN, XI, Nov. 29, Even,
behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. ^\Tien Jesus
heard that, he said. This sickness is not unto
death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of
God might be glorified thereby. Now Jesus
loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When
he had heard therefore that he was sick, he
abode two days still in the same place where he
was. Then after that saith he to his disciples,
Let us go into Judsea again. His disciples say
unto him, Master,- the Jews of late sought to
stone thee ; and goest thou thither again ? Jesus
answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ?
If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not,
because he seeth the light of this world. But if
a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because
there is no light in him. These things said he :
and after that he saith unto them. Our friend
Lazarus sleepeth ; but I go, that I may awake
him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord,
if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus
spake of his death : but they thought that he
had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said
Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And
I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,
to the intent ye may believe ; nevertheless let us
go unto him. Then said Thomas, which is called
Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also
go, that we may die with him.
May 29, Morning; Nov. 29, Evening.
THEN when Jesus came, he found that he
had lain in the grave four days already.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about
fifteen furlongs off : and many of the Jews came
to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning
their brother. Then Martha, as soon as she
May 29, Morru • S. JOHX, XL Xov. 29, Even.
heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him :
but Mary sat still in the house. Then said Mar-
tha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here,
my brother had not died. But I know, that
even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God
will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy bro-
ther shall rise again. ISIartha saith unto him,
I know that he shall rise again in the resurrec-
tion at the last day. Jesus said unto her. I am
the resurrection, and the life : he that belie veth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live :
and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die. Believest thou this I She saith unto
him. Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the
Clirist, the Son of God, which should come into
the world. And when she had so said, she went
her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, say-
ing. The JNIaster is come, and calleth for thee.
As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and
came unto him. Now Jesus was not yet come
into the town, but was in that place where Mar-
tha met him. The Jews then wliich were with
her in the house, and comforted her, when they
saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out,
followed her, saying. She goeth unto the grave
to weep there. Then when Mary was come
where Jesus was, and saw him. she fell down at
his feet, saying imto him. Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died. When
Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews
also weeping which came with her, he groaned
in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where
have ye laid him ? They said unto him. Lord,
come and see. Jesus wept. Then said the Jews,
Behold how he loved him ! And some of them
May 30, Morn. S. JOHN, XL Dec. 1, Even.
said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes
of the blind, have caused that even this man
should not have died? Jesus therefore again
groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It
Avas a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said.
Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of
him that was dead, saith unto him. Lord, by this
time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four
days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto
thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou should-
est see the glory of. God ? Then they took away
the stone from the 'place where the dead was
laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said,
Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
And I knew that thou hearest me always : but
because of the people which stand by I said it,
that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a
loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that
was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
graveclothes : and his face was bound about with
a napkin. Jesus saith unto them. Loose him,
and let him go. Then many of the Jews which
came to Mary, and had seen the things which
Jesus did, believed on him. But some of them
went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them
what things Jesus had done.
May 30, Morning; Dec. 1, Evening.
THEN gathered the chief priests and the
Pharisees a council, and said, What do we ?
for this man doeth many miracles. If we let
him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and
the Romans shall come and take away both our
place and nation. And one of them, named
Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year,
May 30, Mom. S. JOHN, XII. Dec. 1, Even.
said unto them, Ye know nothing at alL, nor con-
sider that it is expedient for us, that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole
nation perish not. And this spake he not of
himself : but being high priest that year, he pro-
phesied that Jesus should die for that nation ;
and not for that nation only, but that also he
should gather together in one the children of
God that were scattered abroad. Then from that
day forth they took counsel together for to put
him to death. Jesus therefore walked no more
openly among the Jews ; but went thence unto a
country near to the wilderness, into a city called
Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
And the Jews^ passover was nigh at hand : and
many went out of the country up to Jerusalem
before the passover, to purify themselves. Then
sought they for Jesus, and spake among them-
selves, as they stood in the temple. What think ye,
that he will not come to the feast ? Now both the
chief priests and the Pharisees had given a com-
mandment, that, if any man knew where he were,
he should shew it, that they might take him.
CHAPTER XII.
Then Jesus six days before the passover came
to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been
dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they
made him a supper ; and Martha served : but
Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table
with him. Tlien took Mary a pound of oint-
ment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the
feet of Jasus, and wiped his feet with her hair :
and the house was filled with the odour of the
ointment. Then said one of his disciples, Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
May 30, Mom. S, JOHN, XII. Dec. 1, Even.
Why wns not this ointment sold for three hundred
pence, and given to the poor ? This he said, not
that he cared for the poor ; but because he was
a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put
therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone : against
the day of my burying hath she kept this. For
the poor always ye have with you ; but me ye
have not always. Much people of the Jews
therefore knew that he was there : and they
came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they
might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from
the dead. But the chief priests consulted that
they might put Lazarus also to death ; because
that by reason of him many of the Jews went
away, and believed on Jesus. On the next day
much people that were come to the feast, when
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
took branches of palm trees, and went forth to
meet him, and cried, Hosanna : Blessed is the
King of Israel that cometh in the name of the
Lord. And Jesus, when he had found a young
ass, sat thereon ; as it is written, Fear not,
daughter of Sion : behold, thy King cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt. These things understood
not his disciples at the first : but when Jesus
was glorified, then remembered they that these
things were written of him, and that they had
done these things unto him. The people there-
fore that was with him when he called Lazarus
out of his grave, and raised him from the dead,
bare record. For this cause the people also met
him, for that they heard that he had done this
miracle. The Pharisees therefore said among
themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing ?
behold, the world is gone after him.
May 31, Mom. S. JOKN", XII. Dec. 2, Even.
May 31, Morning; Dec. 2, Evening.
A XD there M-ere certain Greeks among them
J\. that came up to worship at the feast : the
same came therefore to Philip, which was of
Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying,
Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and
telleth Andrew : and again Andrew and Philip
tell Jesus. And Jesus answered them, saying,
The hour is come, that the Son of man should be
glorified. Verily, verily, I say imto you, Except
a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone : but if it die, it bringeth forth
much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it ;
and he that hateth his life in this world shall
keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me,
let him follow me ; and where I am, there shall
also my ser^-ant be : if any man serve me, him
will my Father honour. Now is my soul troubled ;
and what shall I say ] Father, save me from this
hour : but for this cause aune I unto this hour.
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a
voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified
it, and will glorify it again. The people there-
fore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it
thundered : others said. An angel spake to him.
Jesus answered and said. This voice came not
because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the
judgment of this world : now shall the prince of
this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up
from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This
he said, signifying what death he should die.
The people answered him. We have heard out of
the law that Christ abideth for ever : and how
sayest thou. The Son of man must be lifted up ?
who is this Son of man ? Then Jesus said unto
May 31, Mom. S. JOHX, XII. Dec. 2, Even.
them, Yet a little while is the lisht with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkiiess
come upon you : for he that walketh in darloiess
knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have
light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
children of light. These things spake Jesus, and
departed, and did hide himself from them. But
though he had done so many miracles before
them, yet they believed not on him : that the
saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spake, Lord, Avho hath believed our
report ? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord
been revealed ? Therefore they could not believe,
because that Esaias said again. He hath blinded
their eyes, and hardened their heart ; that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand
with their heart, and be converted, and I should
heal them. These things said Esaias, when he
saw his glory, and spake of him. Nevertheless
among the chief rulers also many believed on
him ; but because of the Pharisees they did not
confess him, lest they should be put out of the
synagogue ; for they loved the praise of men
more than the praise of God. Jesus cried and
said. He that believeth on me, believeth not on
me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth
me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light
into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
should not abide in darkness. And if any man
hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not :
for I came not to judge the world, but to save
the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth
not my words, hath one that judgeth him : the
word that I have spoken, the same shall judge
him in the last day. For I have not spoken of
June 1, Mom. S. JOHN, XIIT. Dec. 3, Evev,
myself ; but the Father which sent me, he gave
me a commandment, what I should say, and
Avhat I should sj^eak. And I know that his
commandment is life everlasting : whatsoever I
speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me,
so I spea,k.
CHAPTER XIII.
June 1, Morning; Dec. 3, Evening.
1^ OW before the feast of the passover, when
JAI Jesus knew that his hour was come that
he should depart out of this world unto the
Father, having loved his own which were in the
world, he loved them unto the end. And supper
being ended, the devil having now put into the
heart of Judas Isciiriot, Simon's son. to betray
him ; Jesus knowing that the Father had given
all things into his hands, and that he was come
from God, and went to God ; he riseth from
supper, and laid aside his garments ; and took a
towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth
water into a bason, and began to wjxsh the dis-
ciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to
Simon Peter : and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
dost thou wash my feet ? Jesus answered and
said unto him. What I do thou knowest not now ;
but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith unto
him. Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus
answered him. If I wash thee not, thou hast no
part with me. Simon Peter saith unto him,
Lord, not my feet only, but also imj hands and
my head. Jesus saith to him. He that is washed
needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean
every whit : and ye are clean, but not all. For
he knew who should betray him ; therefore said
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June 2, Mom. S. JOHN, XIII. Dec. 4, Even.
he, Ye are not all clean. So after he had washed
their feet, and had taken his garments, and was
set down again, he said unto them, Know ye
what I have done to you ? Ye call me Master
and Lord : and ye say well ; for so I am. If I
then, your Lord and Master, have washed your
feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
For I have given you an example, that ye should
do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The servant is not greater than his
lord ; neither he that is sent greater than he that
sent him. If ye know these things, happy are
ye if ye do them. I speak not of you all : I
know whom I have chosen : but that the scrip-
ture may be fulfilled. He that eateth bread with
me hath lifted up his heel against me. Now I
tell you before it come, that, when it is come to
pass, ye may believe that I am he. Verily,
verily, I say unto you. He that receiveth whom-
soever I send receiveth me ; and he that receiveth
me receiveth him that sent me.
June 2, Morning ; Dec. 4, Evening.
WHEN Jesus had thus said, he was troubled
in spirit, and testified, and said. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall
betray me. Then the disciples looked one on
another, doubting of whom he spake. Now there
was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples,
whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore
beckoned to him, that he should ask who it
should be of whom he spake. He then lying on
Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it ?
Jesus answered. He it is, to whom I shall give a
sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had
dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the
June 3, Mom. S. JOHJf, XIV. Dec. 5, Even.
son of Simon. And after the sop Satan entered
into hini. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou
doest, do quickly. Now no man at the table
knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
For some of them thought, because Judas had
the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy
those things that we have need of against the
feast ; or, that he should give something to the
poor. He then having received the sop went
immediately out : and it was night. Therefore,
when he was gone out, Jesus said. Now is the
Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If God be glorified u\ him, God shall also glorify
liim in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
Little children, yet a little while I am with you.
Ye shall seek me : and as I Siud unto the Jews,
Whither I go, ye cannot come ; so now I say to
you. A new commandment I give unto you,
That ye love one another ; as I have loved you,
that ye also love one another. By this shall all
men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have
love one to another. Simon Peter said unto him,
Lord, whither goest thou ? Jesus answered him.
Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ;
but thou shalt follow me afterwards. Peter said
unto him. Lord, why cannot I follow thee now?
I will lay down my life for thy sake. Jesus
answered him. Wilt thou lay down thy life for
iny sake ? Verily, verily, I say unto thee. The
cock shall not crow, till thou bast denied me
thrice.
CHAPTER XIV.
June 3, Morning ; Dec. 5, Evening.
LET not your heart be troubled : ye believe in
God, believe also in me. In my Father's
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June 3, Moi-n. S. JOHN, XIV. Dec. 5, Even.
house are many mansions : if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself ; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye
know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know
not whither thou goest ; and how can we know
the way 1 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also : and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father,
and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him. Have
I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou
not known me, Philip '] he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father ; and how sayest thou then,
Shew us the Father ? Believest thou not that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me? the
words that I speak unto you I speak not of my-
self : but the Father that dwelleth in me, he
doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me : or else believe
me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also ; and greater works
than these shall he do ; because I go unto my
Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing
in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep
my commandments. And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another Comforter, that he
may fibide with you for ever ; even the Spirit of
June 3, Mom. ' S. JOHN, XIV. Dec. 5, Even.
truth ; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him : but ye
know him ; for he dwelleth with you, and shall
be in you. I will not leave you comfortless : I
will come to you. Yet a little while, and the
world seeth me no more ; but ye see me : because
I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall
know that I am in my Father, and ye in me,
and I in you. He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me : and
he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to
hiuL Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord,
how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us,
and not unto the world ? Jesus answered and
said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep
my words : and my Father will love him, and
we will come unto him, and make our abode
with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not
my sayings : and the word which ye hear is not
mine, but the Father's which sent me. These
things have I spoken unto you, being yet present
with you. But the Comforter, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you : not as the world giveth,
give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I
said unto you, I go away, and come again unto
you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because
I said, I go unto the Father : for my Father is
greater than I. And now I have told you before
it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass,
Jtme 4, Mom. S. JOHN, XV. Dec. 6, Even.
ye might believe. Hereafter I will not talk much
with you : for the prince of this world cometh, and
hath nothing in me. But that the world may know
that I love the Father ; and as the Father gave me
commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
CHAPTER XV.
June 4, Morning ; Bee. 6, Evening.
I AM the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman. Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away : and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean
through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can-
not bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the
vine ; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I
am the vine, ye are the branches : He that abid-
eth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit : for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered ; and men gather them,
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my Avords abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that
ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye be my disciples.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved
you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love ; even
as I have kept my Father's commandments, and
abide in his love. These things have I spoken
unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and
that your joy might be full. This is my com-
mandment, That ye love one another, as t have
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June 4, Mom. S. JOHN, XY. Dec. 6, Even.
loved you. Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye
are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you. Henceforth I call you not servants ; for
the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth :
but I have called you friends ; for all things that
I have heard of my Father I have made known
unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have
chosen you. and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain : that whatsoever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you. These
things I command you, that ye love one another.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me
before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the
world would love his own : but because ye are
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of
the world, therefore the world hateth you. Ee-
member the word that I said unto you, The
servant is not greater than his lord. If they
have prsecuted me. they will also persecute
you ; if they have kept my saying, they will
keep your's also. But all these things will they
do unto you for my name's sake, because they
know not him that sent me. If I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had sin :
but now they have no cloke for their sin. He
that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had
not done among them the works which none
other man did, they had not had sin : but now
have they both seen and hated both me and my
Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word
might be fulfilled that is written in their law,
They hated me without a cause. But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
June 5, Morru S. JOHN, XVI. Dec. 7, Even.
the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which pro-
ceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me :
and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have
been with me from the beginning.
CHAPTER XVI.
June 5, Morning ; Dec. 7, Evening.
THESE things have I spoken unto you, that
ye should not be offended. They shall put
you out of the synagogues : yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever kiQeth you will think that he
doeth God service. And these things will they
do unto you, because they have not known the
Father, nor me. But these things have I told
you, that when the time shall come, ye may re-
member that I told you of them. And these
things I said not unto you at the beginning,
because I was with you. But now I go my way
to him that sent me ; and none of you asketh
me, Whither goest thou ? But because I have
said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled
your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth ;
It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I
go not away, the Comforter will not come unto
you ; hut if I depart, I will send him unto you.
And when he is come, he will reprove the world
of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment :
of sin, because they believe not on me ; of righ-
teousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see
me no more ; of judgment, because the prince of
this world is judged. I have yet many things
to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,
he will guide you into all truth : for he shall not
speak of himself ; but whatsoever he shall hear,
June 6, Morn. S. JOHN, XVI. Dec. S, Even.
that shall he speak : and he will shew you things
to come. He shall glorify me : for he shall re-
ceive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All
things that the Father hath are mine : therefore
said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew
it unto you.
.June 6", Morning; Dec. 8, Evening.
A LITTLE while, and ye shall not see me :
and again, a little while, and ye shall see
me, because I go to the Father, Then said some
of his disciples among themselves, What is this
that he saith unto us, A little whde. and ye shall
not see me : and again, a little while, and ye
shall see me : and. Because I go to the Father ?
They said therefore, What is this that he saith,
A little while ? we a\nnot tell what he saith.
Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask
him, and said unto them, 'Do ye enquire among
yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye
shall not see me : and again, a little while, and
ye shall see me ? Yerily, verily, I Sciy unto you,
That ye shall weep and lament, but the world
shall rejoice : and ye shall besorrowfid, but your
sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when
she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is
come : but as soon as she is delivered of the
child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for
joy that a man is born into the world. And ye
now therefore have sorrow : but I wUl see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy
no man taketh from you. And in that day ye
shall ask me nothing. Yerily, verily, I say unto
you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye
asked nothing in my name : ask, and ye shall
June 7, Morn. S. JOHX, XVII. Dec. 9, Even.
receive, that your joy may be full. These things
have I spoken unto you in proverbs : but the
time Cometh, when I shall no more speak unto
you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of
the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my
name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray
the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth
you, because ye have loved me, and have believed
that I came out from God. I came forth from
the Father, and am come into the world : again,
I leave the world, and go to the Father. His
disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou
plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we
sure that thou knowest all things, and needest
not that any man should ask thee : by this we
believe that thou eamest forth from God. Jesus
answered them, Do ye now believe ? Behold,
the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall
be scattered, every man to his own, and shall
leave me alone : and yet I am not alone, because
the Father is with me. These things I have
spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation :
but be of good cheer ; I have overcome the
world.
CHAPTER XVII.
June 7, Morning ; Dec. 9, Evening.
THESE Avords spake Jesus, and lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour
is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorify thee : as thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as
many as thou hast given him. And this is life
eternal, that they might know thee the only true
June 7, Mom, S. JOHN, XVII. Dec. 9, Even.
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I
have glorified thee on the earth : I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do. And
now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own
self with the glory which I had with thee before
the world was. I have manifested thy name
unto the men which thou gavest me out of the
world : thine they were, and thou gavest them
me ; and they have kept thy word. Now they
have known that all things whatsoever thou hast
given me are of thee. For I have given unto
them the words which thou gavest me ; and
they have received them, and have known surely
that I cjime out from thee, and they have believed
that thou didst send me. I pray for them : I
pray not for the world, but for them which thou
hast given me ; for they are thine. And all
mine are thine, and thine are mine ; and I am
glorified in them. And now I am no more in
the world, but these are in the world, and I
come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine
own name those whom thou hast given me, that
they may be one, as we are. \\'hile I was with
them in the world, I kept them in thy name :
those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none
of them is lost, but the son of perdition ; that
the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come
I to thee ; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my joy fulfilled in them-
selves. I have given them thy word ; and the
world hath hated them, because they are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of
the' world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil. They are not of the world, even
June 8,Mor7i. S. JOHN, XVIII. Dec. 10, Even.
as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through
thy truth : thy word is truth. As thou hast
sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. And for their sakes I
sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. Neither pray I for these
alone, but for them also which shall believe on
me through their word ; that they all may be
one ; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us : that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me. And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them ;
that they may be one, even as we are one : I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one ; and that the Avorld may know
that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as
thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they
also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am ; that they may behold my glory,
which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me
before the foundation of the world. righteous
Father, the world hath not known thee : but I
have known thee, and these have known that
thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto
them thy name, and will declare it : that the
love wherewith tliou hast loved me may be in
them, and I in them.
CHAPTER XVIII.
June 8, Morning ; Dec. 10, Evening,
WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he
went forth with his disciples over the
brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the
which he entered, and his disciples. And Judas
also, which betrayed him, knew the place : for
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June S, Morn. S. JOHN, XYIIL Dec. 10, Eveii.
Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
Judas then, having received a band of men and
officers from the chief priests and Pharisees,
Cometh thither with lanterns and torches and
weapons. Jesus therefore, knowing all things
that should come upon hun, went forth, and said
unto them, Whom seek ye ? They answered
him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them,
I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him,
stood with them. As soon then as he had said
unto them, I am he, they went backward, and
fell to the ground. Then 5\sked he them again,
Whom seek ye ? And they said, Jesus of Naza-
reth. Jesus answered, I have told you that I
am he : if therefore ye seek me, let these go their
way : that the saying might be fulfilled, which
he spake, Of them which ^hou gavest me have I
lost none. Then Simon Peter having a sword
drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and
cut off his right ear. The servant's name was
Malchus. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up
thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my
Father hath given me, shall I not drink it ?
Then the band and the captain and officers of
the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, and led
him away to Annas first ; for he was father in
law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that
same year. Now Caiaphas was he, which gave
counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that
one man should die for the people. And Simon
Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple :
that disciple was known unto the high priest,
and went in with Jesus into the palace of the
high priest. But Peter stood at the door with-
out. Then went out that other disciple, which
June 9, Mom. S. JOHN, XVIII. Dec.U, Even.
■was known unto the high priest, and spake unto
her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto
jter, Art not thou also one of this man's
disciples ? He saith, I am not. And the ser-
vants and ofl&cers stood there, who had made a
fire of coals ; for it was cold : and they warmed
themselves : and Peter stood with them, and
warmed himself. The high priest then asked
Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. Jesus
answered him, I spake openly to the world ; I
ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple,
whither the Jews always resort ; and in secret
have I said nothing. Why askest thou me ? ask
them which heard me, what I liave said unto
them : behold, they know what I said. And
when he had thus spoken, one of the officers
which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of
his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest
so ? Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil,
bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest
thou me ? Now Annas had sent him bound unto
Caiaphas the high priest. And Simon Peter
stood and warmed himself. They said therefore
unto him. Art not thou also one of his disciples ?
He denied it, and said, I am not. One of the
servants of the high priest, being his kinsman
whose ear Peter cut otf, saith. Did not I see thee
in the garden with him? Peter then denied
again : and immediately the cock crew.
June 9, Morning : Dec. 11, Evening.
THEN led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the
hall of judgment : and it was early ; and
they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defiled ; but that they might
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June 9, Mora. S. JOHN, XYIII. Dec. 11, Even.
eat the passover. Pilate then went out unto
them, and said, "What accusation bring je against [
this man ? They answered and said unto him, I
If he were not a malefactor, we would not have I
delivered him up unto thee. Then said Pilate |
unto them. Take ye him, and judge him according
to Tour law. The Jews therefore said unto him,
It is not lawfal for us to put any man to death :
that the sa}Tng of Jesus might be fulfilled, which
he spake, signifying what death he should die.
Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again,
and called Jesus, and said imto him. Art thou
the King of the Jews ? Jesus answered him,
Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others
teli it thee of me ? Pilate answered. Am I a
Jew ? Thine own nation and the chief priests
have delivered thee unto me : what hast thou
done ? Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of
this world : if my kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight, that I should not
be delivered to the Jews : but now is my kingdom
not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto him,
Art thou a king then ? Jesus answered, Thou
sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born,
and for this cause came I into the world, that I
should bear witness unto the truth. Every one
that is of the truth heareth my voice. Pilate
saith imto him. What is truth ? And when he
had said this, he went out again unto the Jews,
and saith imto them, I find in him no fault at
all. But ye have a custom, that I should release
unto you one at the passover : will ye therefore
that I release unto you the King of the Jews ?
Then cried they all again, saying. Not this man,
but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
June 10, Mom. S. JOHN, XIX. Dec. 12, Even.
CHAPTER XIX.
June 10, Morning ; Dec. 12, Evening.
THEN Pilate therefore took Jesus, and
scourged him. And 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 agam, 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 saith
unto them. Behold the 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.
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was
the more afraid ; and went again into the judg-
ment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art
thou ? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then
saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto
me? knowest thou not that I have power to
crucify thee, and have 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 delivered me unto thee
hath the 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
Caesar's friend : whosoever maketh himself a
king speaketh against Caesar. When Pilate
therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus
June 10, Morn. S. JOHX, XIX. Dec. 12, Even.
forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a
place that is called the Pavement, but in the
Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation
of the passover, and about the sixth hour : and
he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King ! But
they cried out, Away with him, away with him,
crucify him. Pilate saith unto them. Shall I
crucify your King ? The chief priests answered,
We have no king but Ctesar. Then delivered he
him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
they took Jesus, and led him away. And he
bearing his cross went forth into a place called
the 'place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew
Golgotha : where they crucified him, and two
other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in
the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it
on the cross. And the writinsr was, JESUS OF
NAZAEETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
This title then read many of the Jews : for the
-place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the
city : and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek,
and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the
Jews to Pilate, Write not, Tlie King of the
Jews ; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
Pilate answered. What I have written I have
written. Then the soldiers, when they had
crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made
four parts, to every soldier a part ; and also his
coat : now the coat was without seam, woven
from the top throughout. They said therefore
among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast
lots for it, whose it shall be : that the scripture
might be fulfilled, which saith. They parted my
raiment among them, and for my vesture they did
cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
June 12, Mom. S. JOHN, XIX. Dec. IZ, Even.
Junel2, Morning ; Dec. 13, Evening.
NOW there stood by the cross of Jesus his
mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the
loife of Cleophas, and ISIary Magdalene. When
Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his
mother. Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he
to the disciple. Behold thy mother ! And from
that hour that disciple took her unto his own
home. After this, Jesus 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 spunge
with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put
it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and
he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The
Jews therefore, because it was the preparation,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross
on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an
high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might
be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the
first, and of the other which was crucified with
him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw
that he was dead already, they brake not his
legs : but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced
his side, and forthwith came there out l^lood and
water. And he that saw it bare record, and his
record is true : and he knoweth that he saith
true, that ye might believe. For these things
were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled,
A bone of him shall not be broken. And again
another scriptiu-e saith. They shall look on him
whom they pierced. And after this Joseph of
June 13, 3Iom. S. JOHN, XX. Dec. 14, Even.
Arimathsea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly
for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he
might take away the body of Jesus : and Pilate
gave him leave. He came therefore, and took
the body of Jesus. And there came also Nico-
demus, which at the first came to Jesus by
night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about an hundred pound weight. Then took
they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen
clothes with the spices, as the manner of the
Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he
was crucified there was a garden ; and in the
garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man
yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because
of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre
was nigh at hand.
CHAPTER XX.
June 13, Morning; Dec. 14, Evening.
THE first day of the week cometh ^Mary
^Magdalene early, when it was yet dark,
unto the 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 where they have
laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that
other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So
they ran both together : and the other disciple
did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the
linen clothes lying ; yet went he not in. Then
cometh Simon Peter following him, and went
into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes
June 13, Morn. S. JOHN, XX. Dec. U, Even.
lie, and the napkin, that was about his head, not
lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together
in a place by itself. Then went in also that
other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre,
and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew
not the scripture, that he must rise again from
the dead. Then the disciples went away again
unto their own home. But Mary stood without
at the sepulchre weeping : and as she wept, she
stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and
seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the
head, and the other at the feet, where the body of
Jesus had lain. And they say unto her. Woman,
why weepest thou 1 She saith unto them,
Because they have taken away my Lord, and I
know not where they have laid him. And when
she had thus said, she turned herself back, and
saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was
Jesus. Jesus saith unto her. Woman, why
weepest thou ? whom seekest thou ? She, sup-
posing him to be the gardener, saith unto him.
Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where
thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself,
and saith unto him, Rabboni ; which is to say,
Master. Jesus saith unto her. Touch me not ;
for I am not yet ascended to my Father : but go
to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend
unto my Father, and your Father ; and to my
God, and your God. Mary Magdalene came and
told the disciples that she had seen the Lord,
and that he had spoken these things unto her.
June 14, J[oni. S. JOHN, XX. Dec. 15, IJven.
June 14, Morning; Dec. 15, Evening.
THEN the same day at evenincr, being the
first dm/ of the week, when the doors were
shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst,
and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And
when he had so said, he shewed unto them his
hands and his side. Then were the disciples
glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus
to them again, Peace be unto you : as my Father
hath sent me, even so send t you. And when
he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith
unto them, Eeceive ye the Holy Ghost : whose
soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto
them ; aiid whose soever sins ye retam, they are
retained. But Thomas, one of the twelve, called
Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
The other disciples therefore said unto Mm, We
have seen the Lord. But he said unto them,
Except I shall see in his hands the print of the
nails, and put my finger into the print of the
nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will
not believe. And after eight days again his
disciples were within, and Thomas with them :
then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood
in the midst, and said. Peace be unto you. Then
saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and
behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand,
and thrust it into my side : and be not faitliless,
but believing. And Thomas answered and said
unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith
unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me,
thou hast believed : blessed are they that have
not seen, and yet have believed. And many
j other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of
+
June 15, Morn. S. JOHN, XXL Dec. 16, Even.
his disciples, which are not written in this book :
but these are written, that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God ; and that
believing ye might have life through his name.
CHAPTER XXI.
June 15, Morning; Dec. 16, Evening,
AFTER these things Jesus shewed himself
jljL again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias ;
and on this wise shewed he himself. There were
together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didy-
mus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the
sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing.
They say unto him, We also go with thee. They
went forth, and entered into a ship immedi-
ately ; and that night they caught nothing. But
when the morning was now come, Jesus stood
on the shore : but the disciples knew not that it
was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Chil-
dren, have ye any meat ] They answered him,
No. And he said unto them. Cast the net on
the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.
They cast therefore, and now they were not able
to draw it for the multitude of fishes. There-
fore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto
Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter
heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's
coat unto him., (for he was naked,) and did cast
himself into the sea. And the other disciples
came in a little ship ; (for they Avere not far
from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,)
dragging the net with fishes. As soon then as
they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals
there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus
June 15, Morn. S. JOHX, XXI. Dec. 16, Even.
saith unto them. Bring of the fish which ye have
now caught. Sunon Peter went up, and drew
the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred
and fifty and three ; and for all there were so
many, yet was not the net broken. Jesus saith
unto them, Come and dine. And none of the
disciples durst ask him. Who art thou ? knowing
that it was the Lord. Jesus then cometh, and
taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish like-
wise. This is now the third time that Jesus
shewed hunseK to his disciples, after that he was
risen from the dead. So when they had dined,
Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas,
lovest thou me more than these ? He saith unto
him. Yea, Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee.
He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith
to him again the second time, Simon, son of
Jonas, lovest thou me ? He saith unto him.
Yea, Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee. He
saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto
him the third time, Sunon, son of Jonas, lovest
thou me ? Peter was grieved because he said
unto him the third time, Lovest thou me ? And
he said unto him. Lord, thou knowest all things ;
thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto
him, Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto
thee. When thou wast young, thou girdedst thy-
self, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but
when thou shalt be old, thoti shalt stretch forth
thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry
tJue whither thou wouldest not. This spake he,
signifying by what death he should glorify God.
And when he had spoken this, he saith imto
him. Follow me. Then Peter, turning about,
seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following ;
Ju7ie 16, Morn. THE ACTS, I. Jan. 2, Even.
which also leaned on his breast at supper, and
said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee ?
Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and
what shall this man do ? Jesus saith unto him.
If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to
thee ? follow thou me. Then went this sajdng
abroad among the brethren, that that . disciple
should not die : yet Jesus said not unto him, He
shall not die ; but. If I will that he tarry till I
come, what is that to thee ? This is the disciple
which testifieth of these things, and wrote these
things : and we know that his testimony is true.
And there are also many other things which
Jesus did, the which, if they should be written
every one, I suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the books that should be
written. Amen.
ACTS OP THE APOSTLES.
CHAPTER L
June 16, Morniag ; Jan. 2, Evening.
THE former treatise have I made, Theophi-
lus, of all that Jesus began both to do and
teach, until the day in which he was taken up,
after that he through the Holy Ghost had given
commandments unto the apostles whom he had
chosen : to whom also he shewed himself alive
after his passion by many infallible proofs, being
seen of them forty days, and speaking of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God : and,
being assembled together with them, comm^mded
them that they should not depart from Jerusalem,
but wait for the promise of the Father, which,
Ju)iel6,Mor7t. THE ACTS, I. Jan. 2, Even.
saith he^je have heard of me. For John truly
baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
When they therefore were come together, they
asked of him, sa}-ing. Lord, wilt thou at this
time restore again the kingdom to Israel ? And
he said unto them. It is not for you to know the
times or the seasons, which the Father hath put
in his own power. But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you :
and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jeru-
salem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when
he had spoken these things, while they beheld,
he was tiiken up ; and a cloud received him out
of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly
toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men
stood by them in white apparel ; which also said.
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven ? this same Jesus, which is taken up
from you into heaven, shall so come in like
manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the
mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a
sabbath day's journey. And when they were
come in, they went up into an upper room,
where abode both Peter, and James, and John,
and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew,
and ]Matthew, James the son of Alpha?us. and
Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
These all continued with one accord in prayer
and supplication, with the women, and Mary the
mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. And
in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the
disciples, and said, (the number of names together
June 17, M(ym. THE ACTS, II. Jan. 3, Even.
were about an hundred and twenty.) Men and
brethren, this scripture must needs have been
fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of
David spake before concerning Judas, which was
guide to them that took Jesus. For he was
niunbered with us, and had obtained part of this
ministry. Now this man purchased a field with
the reward of iniquity ; and falling headlong, he
burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
gushed out. And it was known unto all the
dwellers at Jerusalem ; insomuch as that field is
called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is
to say, The field of blood. For it is written in
the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be deso-
late, and let no man dweU therein : and his
bishoprick let another take. Wherefore of these
men which have companied with us all the time
that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
beginning from the baptism of John, unto that
same day that he was taken up from us, must
one be ordained to be a witness with us of his
resurrection. And they appointed two, Joseph
called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and
Matthias. And they prayed, and said, Thou,
Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew
whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he
may take part of this ministry and apostleship,
from which Judas by transgression fell, that he
might go to his own place. And they gave forth
their lots ; and the lot fell upon Matthias ; and
he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
CHAPTER IL
June 17, Morning ; Jan. 3, Evening.
AND when the day of Pentecost was fully
Jl\.. come, they were all with one accord in one
Jwie 17, Morn. THE ACTS, IT. Ja7i. 3, Even.
place. And suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing micrhty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were sitting. And there
appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of
fixe, and it sat upon each of them. And they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began
to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave
them utterance. And there were dwelhng at
Jerusalem Jews, devout men. out of every nation
under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad,
the multitude came together, and were con-
founded, because that every man heard them
speak in his own language. And they Avere all
amazed and marvelled, saying one to another,
Behold, are not all these which speak GaUlseans ?
and how hear we every man in our own tongue,
wherein we were born ? Parthians, and jMedes,
and Elamites, and the dwellers in jMesopotamia,
and in Judcea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and
Asia, Phiygia, and Pamphylia, in Egy])t, and in
the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of
Eome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians,
we do hear them speak in our tongues the won-
derful works of God. And they were all amazed,
and were in doubt, saying one to another. What
meaneth this ? Others mocking said. These men
are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up
with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said
unto them. Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that
dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you,
and hearken to my words : for these are not
drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third
hour of the day. But this is that which was
spoken by the prophet Joel ; And it shall come
to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour
June 18, Morn. THE ACTS, II. Jan. 4, Even.
out of my Spirit upon all flesh : and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams : and on my servants and
on my handmaidens I will pour out in those
days of my Spirit ; and they shall prophesy :
and I will shew wonders in heaven above, and
signs in the earth beneath ; blood, and fire, and
vapour of smoke : the sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before that
great and notable day of the Lord come : and it
shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
June 18, Morning ; Jan. 4, Evening.
E men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus
Y
of Nazareth, a man approved of God
among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, as
ye yourselves also know : him, being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucified and slain : whom God hath raised
up, having loosed the pains of death : because it
was not possible that he should be holden of it.
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw
the Lord always before my face, for he is on my
right hand, that I should not be moved : there-
fore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was
glad ; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope :
because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption. Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life ; thou shalt make me full of joy
with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let
me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David,
June 18, Mam. THE ACTS, II. Jan. 4, Even.
that he is both dead and biiried, and his sepul-
chre is with lis unto this day. Therefore being
a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his
loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up
Christ to sit on his throne ; he seeing this before
spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul
wa« not left in hell, neither his flesh did see
corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being
by the right hand of God exalted, and having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy
Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now
see and hear. For David is not ascended into
the heavens : but he saith himself, The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore
let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that
God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified, both Lord and Christ. Kow when
they heard this, they were pricked in their heart,
and said unto Peter and to the rest of the
apostles. Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them. Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the
promise is unto you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off. even as many as the Lord
our God shall call. And with many other words
did he testify and exhort, saying. Save yourselves
from this untoward generation. Then they that
gladly received his word were baptized : and
the same day there were added vMo them about
three thousand souls. And they continued
June 19, Morn. THE ACTS, III. Jan. 5, Even.
stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellow-
ship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
And fear came upon every soul : and many
wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
And all that believed were together, and had all
things common ; and sold their possessions and
goods, and parted them to all Tnen, as every man
had need. And they, continuing daily with one
accord in the temple, and breaking bread from
house to house, did eat their meat with gladness
and singleness of heart, praising God, and ha\dng
favour with all the people. And the Lord added
to the church daily such as should be saved.
CHAPTER III.
June 19, Morning ; Jan. 5, Evening.
NOW Peter and John went up together into
the temple at the hour of prayer, being the
ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his
mother's womb was carried, whom they laid
daily at the gate of the temple which is called
Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into
the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about
to go into the temple asked an alms. And Peter,
fastening his eyes upon him with John, said.
Look on us. And he gave heed unto them,
expecting to receive something of them. Then
Peter said. Silver and gold have I none ; but
such as I have give I thee : In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he
took him by the right hand, and lifted him up :
and immediately his feet and ancle bones received
strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked,
and entered with them into the temple, walking,
and leaping, and praising God. And all the
people saw him walking and praising God : and
June. 19, Morn. THE ACTS, III. Jan. 5, Even.
they knew that it wos he which sat for alms at
the Beautiful crate of the temple : and they w^ere
filled with wonder and amazement at that which
had happened unto him. And as the lame man
which was healed held Peter and John, all the
people ran together unto them in the porch that
is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. And
when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people,
Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or
why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our
own power or holiness we had made this man to
walk I The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and
of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified
his Son Jesus ; whom ye delivered up, and denied
him in the presence of Pilate, when he was deter-
mined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy
One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be
granted unto you ; and killed the Prince of
life, whom God hath raised from the dead ;
whereof we are witnesses. And his name through
faith in his name hath made this man strong,
whom ye see and know : yea, the faith which is by
him hath given him this perfect soundness in
the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I
wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did
also your rulers. But those things, which God
before had shewed by the mouth of all his pro-
phets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so
fulfilled. Eepent ye therefore, and be converted,
that your sins may be blotted out, when the
times of refreshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord ; and he shall send Jesus Christ,
which before was preached unto you : whom the
heaven must receive until the times of restitu-
tion of all things, which God hath spoken by
June 20, Morn. THE ACTS, IV. Jan. 7, Even.
the mouth of all his holy prophets since the
■world began. For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God
raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto
me ; him shall je. hear in all things whatsoever
he shall say unto you. And it shall come to
pass, that every soul, which will not hear that
prophet, shall be destroyed from among the
people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel
and those that follow after, as many as have
spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the
covenant which God made with our fathers,
saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you
first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent
him to bless you, in turning away every one of
you from his iniquities.
CHAPTER IV.
June 20, Morning ; Jan. 7, Evening.
AND as they spake unto the people, the priests,
jl\. and the cjiptain of the temple, and the
Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that
they taught the people, and preached tlirough
Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they
laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto
the next day : for it was now eventide. How-
beit many of them which heard the word
believed ; and the number of the men was
about five thousand. And it came to pass on
the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and
scribes, and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas,
and John, and Alexander, and as many as were
of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered
June 20, 3[(ym. THE ACTS, IT. Jan. 7, Even,
together at Jerusalem. And when they had set
them in the midst, they asked. By what power,
or by what name, have ye done this ? Then
Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto
them. Ye rulers of the people, and elders of
Israel, if we this day be examined of the good
deed done to the impotent man, by what means
he is made whole ; be it known unto you all,
and to all the people of Israel, that by the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified,
whom God raised from the dead, even by him
doth this man stand here before you whole.
This is the stone which was set at noucrht of you
builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there
is none other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved. Now when
they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant
men, they marveUed ; and they took knowledge
of them, that they had been with Jesus. And
beholding the man which was healed standing
with them, they could say nothing against it.
But when they had commanded them to go aside
out of the council, they conferred among them-
selves, saying, What shall we do to these men ?
for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done
by them is manifest to all them that dwell in
Jerusalem ; and we cannot deny it. But that
it spread no further among the people, let us
straitly threaten them, that they speak hence-
forth to no man in this name. And they called
them, and commanded them not to speak at all
nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and
John answered and said unto them. Whether it
June 20, Mom. THE ACTS, IV. Jan. 7, Even.
be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you
more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot
but speak the things which we have seen and
heard. So when they had further threatened
them, they let them go, finding nothing how
they might punish them, because of the people :
for all men glorified God for that which was
done. For the man was above forty years old,
on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
And being let go, they went to their own
company, and reported all that the chief priests
and elders had said unto them. And when they
heard that, they lifted up their voice to God
with one accord, and said. Lord, thou art God,
which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea,
and all that in them is : who by the mouth of
thy ser^'^ant David hast said. Why did the
heathen rage, and the people imagine vain
things 1 The kings of the earth stood up, and
the rulers were gathered together against the
Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth
against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast
anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with
the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were
gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand
and thy counsel determined before to be done.
And now. Lord, behold their threatenings : and
grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness
they may speak thy word, by stretching forth
thine hand to heal ; and that signs and wonders
may be done by the name of thy holy child
Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was
shaken where they were assembled together ;
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
they spake the word of God with boldness.
June 21, 3Iorn. THE ACTS, V. Jan. 8, Even.
June 21, Morning; Jan. 8, Evening.
A ISTD the multitude of them that believed were
J\. of one heart and of one soul : neither said
any of them that ought of the things which he
possessed was his own ; but they had all things
common. And with great power gave the
apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus : and great grace was upon them all.
Neither was there any among them that hicked :
for as many as were possessors of lauds or houses
sold them, and brought the prices of the things
that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles'
feet ; and distribution was made imto every man
according as he had need. And Joses, who by
the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is,
being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a
Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, having
land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it
at the apostles' feet.
CHAPTER V.
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sap-
phira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back
'part of the price, his wife also being privy to it,
and brought a certiiin part, and laid it at the
apostles' feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why
hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the
land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine
own ? and after it was sold, was it not in thine
own power I why liast thou conceived this thing
in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but
unto God. And Ananias hearing these words
fell down, and gave up the ghost : and great
fear came on all them that heard these things.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and
June 22, Morn. THE ACTS, V. Jan. 9, Even.
carried him out, and buried him. And it was
about the space of three hours after, when his
wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And
Peter answered unto her. Tell me whether ye
sold the land for so much ? And she said. Yea,
for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is
it that ye hare agreed together to tempt the
Spirit oi the Lord ? behold, the feet of them
which have buried thy husband are at the door,
and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down
straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost :
and the young men came in, and found her dead,
and, carrying her forth, bui:ied her by her hus-
band. And great fear came upon all the church,
and upon as many as heard these things. And
by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people ; (and they
were all with one accord in Solomon^s porch.
And of the rest durst no man join himself to
them : but the people magnified them. And
believers were the more added to the Lord, mul-
titudes both of men and women.) Insomuch that
they brought forth the sick into the streets, and
laid them on beds and couches, that at the least
the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow
some of them. There came also a multitude out
of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bring-
ing sick folks, and them which were vexed with
unclean spirits : and they were healed every
one.
.June 22, Morning ; Jan. 9, Evening.
THEN the high priest rose up, and all they
that were with him, (which is the sect of
the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
and laid their hands on the apostles, and put
June 22, Morn. THE ACTS, V. Jan. 9, Even.
them ill the common prison. But the angel of the
Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought
them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the
temple to the people all the words of this life.
And when they heard that, they entered into the
temple early in the morning, and taught. But
the high priest came, and they that were with
him. and called the coimcil together, and all the
senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the
prison to have them brought. But when the
officers came, and found them not in the prison,
they returned, and told, saying, The prison truly
found we shut with all safety, and the keepers
standing without before the doors : but when we
had opened, we found no man within. Now
when the high priest and the oiptain of the
temple and the chief priests heard these things,
they doubted of them whereunto this would
grow. Then came one and told them, saying,
Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are
standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
Then went the captain with the officers, and
brought them without violence : for they feared
the people, lest they should have been stoned.
And when they had brought them, they set them
before the council : and the high priest asked
them, saying. Did not we straitly command you
that ye should not teach in tliis name I and,
behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doc-
trine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon
us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered
and said, We ought to obey God rather than
men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus,
whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him
hath God exalted with his right hand to he a
June 22, Mom. THE ACTS, V. Jan. 9, Even.
Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to
Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his
■witnesses of these things ; and so is also the
Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that
obey him. When they heard that, they were cut
to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
Then stood there up one in the council, a Phari-
see, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in
reputation among all the people, and commanded
to put the apostles forth a little space ; and said
unto them. Ye men of Israel, take heed to your-
selves what ye intend to do as touching these
men. For before these daj^s rose up Theudas,
boasting himself to be somebody ; to whom a
number of men, about four hundred, joined
themselves : who was slain ; and all, as many as
obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to
nought. After this man rose up Judas of Gali-
lee in the days of the taxing, and drew away
much people after him : he also perished ; and
all, eveii as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
And now I say unto you, Kefrain from these
men, and let them alone : for if this counsel or
this work be of men, it will come to nought :
but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest
haply ye be found even to fight against God.
And to him they agreed : and when they had
called the apostles, and beaten them, they com-
manded that they should not speak in the name
of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed
from the presence of the council, rejoicing that
they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his
name. And daily in the temple, and in every
house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus
Christ.
June 23, J/ora. THE ACTS, VI. Jan. 10, Even.
CHAPTER VI.
June 23, Morning ; Jan. 10, Evening.
A ND in those days, when the number of the
J\. disciples was multiplied, there arose a mur-
muring of the Grecians against the Hebrews,
because their widows were neglected in the daily
ministration. Then the twelve called the mul-
titude of the disciples iinto them, and said, It is
not reason that we should leave the word of God,
and serve tables. "Wherefore, brethren, look ye
out among you seven men of honest report, fiiU j
of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may
appoint over this business. But we will give
ourselves continually to prayer, and to the
ministry of the word. And tliis saying pleased
the whole multitude : and they chose Stephen, a
man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and
Philip, and Prochorus, and Xicanor, and Timon,
and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of An-
tioch : whom they set before the apostles : and
when they had prayed, they kid their hands on
them. And the word of God increased ; and
the number of the disciples multiphed in Jeru-
salem greatly ; and a great company of the
priests were obedient to the faith. And Stephen,
full of faith and power, did great wonders and
miracles among the people. Then there arose
certiiin of the synagogue, which is called the
synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and
Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia,
disputing with Stephen. And they were not
able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which
he spake. Then they suborned men, which said,
We have heard him speak blasphemous words
against Moses, and against God. And they
! Jiine 25, Mom. THE ACTS, VII. Jan. 11, Even.
Stirred up the people, and the elders, and the
scribes, and came upon him., and caught him,
and brought him to the council, and set up false
witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to
speak blasphemous words against this holy
place, and the law : for we have heard him say,
that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this
place, and shall change the customs which Closes
delivered us. And all that sat in the council,
looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had
been the face of an angel.
CHAPTER VII.
June 25, Morning; Jan. 11, Evening.
THEN said the high priest. Are these things
so? And he said, Men, brethren, and
fathers, hearken ; The God of glory appeared
unto our father Abraham, when he Avas in Meso-
potamia, before he dwelt in Charran, and said
unto him. Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and come into the land which I
shall shew thee. Then came he out of the land
of the Chaldseans, and dwelt in Charran : and
from thence, when his father was dead, he re-
moved him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not
so 'much as to set his foot on : yet he promised
that he would give it to him for a possession, and
to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should
sojourn in a strange land ; and that they should
bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil
four hundred years. And the nation to whom
they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God :
and after that shall they come forth, and serve
June 25, Mom. THE ACTS, YII. Jaru 11, Even,
me in this place. And he gave him the covenant
of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac,
and circumcised him the eighth day ; and Isaac
begat Jacob ; and Jacob begat the twelve patri-
archs. And the ]xitriarchs, moved with envy,
sold Joseph into Egypt : but God was with him,
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and
gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of
Pharaoh king of Egypt ; and he made him go-
vernor over Eg}-pt and all his house. Now there
came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and
Chanaan, and great affliction : and our fathers
found no sustenance. But when Jacob heard
that there was com in Egypt, he sent out our
fathers first. And at the second time Joseph was
made known to his brethren ; and Josephs kin-
dred was made known unto Pharaoh. Then sent
Joseph, and called his ftither Jacob to him, and
all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So
Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and
our fathers, and were carried over into Sychem,
and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought
for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the
father of Sychem. But when the time of the
promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in
Egypt, till another king arose, which knew not
Joseph. The same dealt subtilly with our kin-
dred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they
cast out their young children, to the end they
might not live. In which time Moses was born,
and was exceeding fair, and nourished up lq his
father's house three months : and when he was
cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and
nourished him for her own son. And Moses was
June 25, Mom. THE ACTS, VII. Jan. 11, Even.
learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and
was mighty in words and in deeds. And when
he was full forty years old, it came into his heart
to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And
seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him,
and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote
the Egyptian : for he supposed his brethren
would have understood how that God by his
hand would deliver them : but they understood
not. And the next day he shewed himself unto
them as they strove, and would have set them at
one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren ; why do
ye wrong one to another 1 But he that did his
neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who
made thee a ruler and a judge over us ? Wilt
thou kdl me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yes-
terday? Then fled Moses at this saying, and
was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he
begat two sons. And when forty years were
expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness
of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of
fire in a bush, W^hen Moses saw it, he wondered
at the sight : and as he drew near to behold it,
the voice of the Lord cjime unto him, sayinrj, I
am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes
from thy feet : for the place where thou standest
is holy ground. I have seen, I have seen the
afiliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I
have heard their groaning, and am come down
to deliver them. And now come, I will send
thee into Egypt.
June 26, Mom. THE ACTS. YU. Jan. 12, Even.
June 26, Morning ; Jan. 12, Evening,
THIS IMoses whom they refused, saying, "Who
made thee a ruler and a judfre ? the same
did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the
hand of the angel which appeared to him in the
bash. He brought them out, after that he had
shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,
and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty
years. This is that Moses, which said unto the
children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me ; him shall ye hear. This is he, that
was in the church in the wilderness with the
angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers : who received the lively
oracles to give unto us : to whom our fathers
would not obey, but thrust him from them, and
in their hearts turned back again into Eg>^t,
saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before
us : for as for this Moses, which brought us out
of the land of Egj'pt, we wot not what is become
of him. And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced
in the works of their own hands. Then God
turned, and gave them up to worship the host of
heaven ; as it is written in the book of the pro-
phets, ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me
slain beasts and sacrifices hy the space of forty
years in the wilderness ? Yea, ye took up the
tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god
Remphan, figures which ye made to worship
them : and I will carry you away beyond Ba-
bylon. Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness
in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking
unto Moses, that he should make it according to
Jtme 26, Morii. THE ACTS, VII. Jan. 12, Even.
the fashion that he had seen. Which also our
fathers that came after brought in with Jesus
into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God
drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the
days of David ; who found favour before God,
and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of
Jacob. But Solomon built him an house. How-
beit the most High dwelleth not in temples made
with hands ; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my
throne, and earth is my footstool : what house
will ye build me ? saith the Lord : or what is the
place of my rest ? Hath not my hand made all
these things ? Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised
in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy
Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye. Which
of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ?
and they have slain them which shewed before
of the coming of the Just One ; of whom ye have
been now the betrayers and murderers : who
have received the law by the disposition of
angels, and have not kept it. When they heard
these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being
full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into
heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God, and said, Be-
hold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of
man standing on the right hand of God. Then
they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped
their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
and cast him out of the city, and stoned him :
and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a
young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And
they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and say-
ing. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. - And he
June 27, Morn. THE ACTS, Vm. Jan. 13, Even,
kneeled down, and cried ^\'ith a loud voice, Lord,
lay not this sin to their charge. And when he
had said this, he fell asleep.
CHAPTEE YIII.
And Saul was consenting unto his death.
And at that time there was a great persecution
against the church whicli was at Jerusalem ; and
they were all scattered abroad tliroughout the
regions of Judrea and Samaria, except the apos-
tles. And devout men carried Stephen to his
burial, and made great lamentation over him.
As for Saul, he made havock of the church,
entering into every house, and haling men and
women committed them to prison. Therefore
they that were scattered abroad went every
where preaching the word.
Jurie 27, Morning; Ja)i. 13, Evening.
THEN Philip went down to the city of Sa^
maria, and preached Christ unto them.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto
those things which Philip spake, hearing and
seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean
spirits, cr}'ing with loud voice, came out of many
that were possessed with them : and many taken
with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
And there was great joy in that city. But there
was a certain man, called Simon, which before-
time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched
the people of Samaria, giving out that himself
was some great one : to whom they all gave heed,
from the least to the greatest, saying, This man
is the great power of God. And to him they
had regard, beciiuse that of long time he had be-
witched them with sorceries. But when they be-
lieved Philip preaching the things concerning
June 27, Mom. THE ACTS, VIII. Jan. 13, Even.
the kincrdom of God, and the name of Jesus
Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Then Simon himself believed also : and when he
was baptized, he continued with Philip, and won-
dered, beholding the miracles and signs which
were done. Now when the apostles which were
at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received
the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and
John : who, when they were come down, prayed
for them, that they might receive the Holy
Ghost : (for as yet he was fallen upon none of
them : only they were baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on
them, and they received the Holy Ghost. And
when Simon saw that through laying on of the
apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he
oifered them money, saying. Give me also this
power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may
receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto
him. Thy money perish with thee, because thou
hast thought that the gift of God may be pur-
chased with money. Thou hast neither part nor
lot in this matter : for thy heart is not right in
the sight of God. Repent therefore of this thy
wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought
of thine heart may be forgiven thee. For I per-
ceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and
in the bond of iniquity. Then answered Simon,
and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none
of these things which ye have spoken come upon
me. And they, when they had testified and
preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jeru-
salem, and preached the gospel in many villages
of the Samaritans.
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Jime 28, Mom. THE ACTS, VIII. Jan. 14, Even.
June 28, Morning; Jan. 14, Evening.
A XD the aiigel of the Lord spake unto Philip,
J\. saying. Arise, and go toward the south unto
the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto
Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went :
and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of
great authority under Candace queen of the
Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her trea-
sure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
was returning, and sitting in his chariot read
Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto
Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him
read the prophet Esaias. and said, Understandest
thou what thou readest / And he said, How can
I, except some inan should guide me ] And he
desired Philip that he would come up and sit
with him. The place of the scripture which he
read was this. He Avas led as a sheep to the
slaughter ; and like a lamb dumb before his
shearer, so opened he not his mouth : in his
humiliation his judgment was taken away: and
who shall declare his generation ] for his life is
tiiken from the earth. And the eunuch answered
Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh
the prophet this ? of himself, or of some other
man \ Then Philip opened his mouth, and began
at the same scripture, and preached unto him
Jesus. And as they went on their way, they
aime unto a certain water : and the eunuch said.
See, hert is water ; what doth hinder me to be
baptized ? And Philip said, If thou believest
with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he an-
swered and said, 1 believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God. And h.e commanded the chariot
June -30, M&rn. THE ACTS, IX. Jan. 15, Even.
to stand still : and they went down both into
the water, both Philip and the eunuch ; and he
baptized liim. And when they were come up
out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught
away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more :
and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip
was found at Azotus : and passing through he
preached in all the cities, till he came to Csesarea.
CHAPTER IX.
June 30, Morning ; Jan. 15, Evening.
AND Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and
J\. slaughter against the disciples of the Lord,
went unto the liigh priest, and desired of him
letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he
found any of this way, whether they were men
or women, he might bring them bound unto
Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near
Damascus : and suddenly there shined round
about him a light from heaven : and he fell to
the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him,
Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he
said. Who art thou. Lord ? And the Lord said,
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard
for thee to kick against the pricks. And he
trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do ? And the Lord said unto
him. Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be
told thee what thou must do. And the men
which journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Saul
arose from the earth ; and when his eyes were
opened, he saw no man : but they led him by the
hand, and brought him into Damascus. And
he was three days without sight, and neither did
Ju}i€ 30, Morn. THE ACTS, IX. Jan. 15, Even.
eat nor drink. And there was a certain disciple
at Damascus, named Ananias ; and to him said
the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said.
Behold, I am here. Lord. And the Lord said
unto him, Arise, and go into the street Avhich ls
called Straight, and enquire in the house of
Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus : for, behold,
he prayetli, and hath seen in a vision a man
named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand
on him, that he might receive his sight. Then
Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many
of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy
saints at Jerusalem : and here he hath authority
from the chief priests to bind aU tliat call on thy
name. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy
way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear
my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the
children of Israel : for I will shew him how
great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
And Ananias went his way, and entered into
the house ; and putting his hands on him said,
Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared
unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent
me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be
filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately
there fell from his eyes as it had been scales :
and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and
was baptized. And when he had received meat,
he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain
days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
And straightway he preached Christ in the
s}aiagogues, that he is the Son of God. But all
that heard him were amazed, and said ; Is not
this he that destroyed them which called on this
name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that
July 1, Mom. THE ACTS, IX. Jan. 16, Even,
intent, that he might bring them bound unto the
cliief priests ? But Saul increased the more in
strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt
at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
July 1, Morning ; Jan. 16, Evening.
A ND after that many days were fulfilled, the
J\. Jews took counsel to kill him: but their
laying await "wa-s known of Saul. And they
watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Then the disciples took him by night, and let
him down by the wall in a basket. And when
Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join
himself to the disciples : but they were all afraid
of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the
apostles, and declared unto them how he had
seen the Lord in the way, and that he had
spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly
at Damascus in the name of Jesus. And he
was with them coming in and going out at Jeru-
salem. And he spake boldly in the name of the
Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians :
but they went about to slay him. Which when
the brethren knew, they brought him down to
Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. Then had
the churches rest throughout all Judaea and
Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and
walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the com-
fort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied. And
it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all
quarters, he came down also to the saints which
dwelt at Lydda. And there he found a certain
man named ^neas, which had kept his bed eight
years, and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said
unto him, ^neas, Jesus Christ maketh thee
July 2, Mom. THE ACTS, X. Jan. 17, Even.
■whole : arise, and make thy bed. And he arose
immediately. And all that dwelt at Lydda and
Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. Now
there was at Joppa a certain disciple named
Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas :
this woman was full of good works and alms-
deeds which she did. And it came to pass in
those days, that she was sick, and died : whom
when they had washed, they laid her in an upper
chamber. And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to
Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter
was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring
him that he would not delay to come to them.
Then Peter arose and went with them. When
he was come, they brought hun into the upper
chamber : and all the widows stood by him
weeping, and shewing the coats and garments
which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down,
and prayed ; and turning him to the body said,
Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes : and
when she saw Peter, she sat up. And he gave
her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had
called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
And it was kno^^Ti throughout all Joppa ; and
many believed in the Lord. And it came to
pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with
one Simon a tanner.
CHAPTER X.
■ Jvly 2, Morning ; Jan. 17, Evening.
THERE was a certain man in Csesarea called
Cornelius, a centurion of the band called
the Italian hand, a devout man, and one that
feared God with all his house, which gave much
Jiilij 2, Mom. THE ACTS, X. Jan. 17, Even.
alms to the people, and prayed to God alwaj.
He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth
hour of the day an angel of God coming in to
him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And
when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said.
What is it. Lord 1 And he said unto him. Thy
prayers and thine alms are come up for a me-
morial before God. And now send men to
Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is
Peter : he lodgeth with one Simon a tanner,
whose house is by the sea side : he shall tell
thee what thou oughtest to do. And when the
angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed,
he called two of his household servants, and a
devout soldier of them that waited on him con-
tinually ; and when he had declared all these
things unto them, he sent them to Joppa. On
the morrow, as they went on their journey, and
drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon
the housetop to pray about the sixth hour : and
he became very hungry, and would have eaten :
but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel
descending unto him, as it had been a great
sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to
the earth : wherein were all manner of fourfooted
beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping
things, and fowls of the air. And there came a
voice to him, Pdse, Peter ; kill, and eat. But
Peter said. Not so. Lord ; for I have never eaten
any thing that is common or unclean. And the
voice spalce unto him again the second time,
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou
common. This was done thrice : and the vessel
was received up again into heaven. Now while
July 3, Morn. THE ACTS, X. Jan. 18, Even.
Peter doubted in himself what this vision which
he had seen should mean, behold, the men which
were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for
Simon's house, and stood before the gate, and
called, and asked whether Simon, which was
surnamed Peter, were lodged there. While
Peter thought on the rision, the Spirit said unto
him. Behold, three men seek thee. Arise there-
fore, and get thee down, and go with them,
doubting nothing : for I have sent them. Then
Peter went down to the men which were sent
unto him from Cornelius ; and said. Behold, I
am he whom ye seek : what is the cause where-
fore ye are come ] And they said, Cornelius the
centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God,
and of good report among all the nation of the
Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to
send for thee into his house, and to hear words
of thee. Then CiiUed he them in, and lodged
them. And on the morrow Peter went away
with them, and certain brethren from Joppa
accompanied him.
Juhj 3, ilorning; Jan. 18, Evening.
AND the morrow after they entered into
Caesarea. And CorneHus waited for them,
and had called together his kinsmen and near
friends. And as Peter was coming in, Cor-
nelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and
worshipped him. But Peter took him up, say-
ing. Stand up ; I myself also am a man. And
as he talked with him, he went in, and found .
many that were come together. And he said
unto them. Ye know how that it is an unlawful
thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company,
or come unto one of another nation : but God
July 3, Morn. THE ACTS, X. Jan. 18, Even.
hath shewed me that I should not call any man
common or unclean. Therefore came I U7ito you
without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for : I
ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for
me ? And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was
fasting until this hour ; and at the ninth hour
I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood
before me in bright clothing, and said, Cornelius,
thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in
remembrance in the sight of God. Send there-
fore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose sur-
name is Peter ; he is lodged in the house of one
Simon a tanner by the sea side : who, when he
oometh, shall speak unto thee. Immediately
therefore I sent to thee ; and thou hast well done
that thou art come. Now therefore are we all
here present before God, to hear all things that
are commanded thee of God. Then Peter opened
Ids mouth, and said. Of a truth I perceive that
God is no respecter of persons ; but in every
nation he that feareth him, and worketh righte-
ousness, is accepted with him. The word which
God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching
peace by Jesus Christ : (he is Lord of all :) that
word, I say, ye know, which was published
throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee,
after the baptism which John preached ; how
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power : who went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil ; for God was with him. And we are
witnesses of all things M'hich he did both in the
land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem ; whom they
slew and hanged on a tree : him God raised up
the third day, and shewed him openly ; not to
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all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before
of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with
him after he rose from the dead. And he com-
manded us to preach unto the people, and to
testify that it is he which was ordained of God
' to he the Judge of quick and dead. To him give
. all the prophets witness, that through his name
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remis-
sion of sins. While Peter yet spake these words,
i the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the
I word. And they of the circumcision which
I believed were astonished, as many as came with
I Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was
! poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they
I heard them speak with tongues, and magnify
i God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid
I water, that these should not be baptized, which
i have received the Holy Ghost as well as we ]
j And he commanded them to be baptized in the
name of the Lord. Then prayed they liim to
tarry certain days.
'' CHAPTER XL
July 4, Morning; Jan. 19, Evening.
A ND the apostles and brethren that were in
J\. Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also
received the word of God. And when Peter was
come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the cir-
cumcision contended with him, saying. Thou
wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat
with them. But Peter rehearsed the matter
from the beginning, and expounded it by order
unto them, saying, I was in the city of Joppa
praying : and in a trance I saw a vision, A
certain vessel descend, as it had been a great
July 4, Morn. THE ACTS, XI. Jan. 19, Even.
sheet, let down from heaven by four corners ;
and it came even to me : upon the which when
I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw
fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts,
and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And
I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter ;
slay and eat. But I said, Not so, Lord : for
nothing common or unclean hath at any time
entered into my mouth. But the voice answered
me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed,
that call not thou common. And this was done
three times : and all were drawn up again into
heaven. And, behold, immediately there were
three men already come unto the house where I
was, sent from Caesarea unto me. And the
spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting.
Moreover these six brethren accompanied me,
and we entered into the man's house : and he
shewed us how he had seen an angel in his
house, which stood and said unto him. Send men
to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is
Peter ; who shall tell thee words, whereby thou
and all thy house shall be saved. And as I
began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as
on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the
word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed
baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then as God
gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who
believed on the Lord Jesus Christ ; what was I,
that I could withstand God ? When they heard
these things, they held their peace, and glorified
God, saying. Then hath God also to the Gentiles
granted repentance unto life. Now they which
were scattered abroad upon the persecution that
July 4, Mom. THE ACTS, XI. Jan. 19, Eveiu
arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice,
and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to
none but unto the Jews only. And some of
them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which,
when they were come to Antioch. spake unto the
Grecians, preacliing the Lord Jesus. And the
hand of the Lord was with them : and a ^eat
number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Then tidings of these things came unto the ears
of the church which was in Jerusalem : and they
sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as
Antioch. Who. when he came, and had seen
the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them
all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave
unto the Lord. For he was a good man, and fuU
of the Holy Ghost and of faith : and much
people was added unto the Lord. Then departed
Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul : and when
he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch.
And it came to pass, that a whole year they
assembled themselves with the church, and
taught much people. And the disciples were
called Christians first in Antioch. And in these
days came prophets from Jerusalem unto An-
tioch. And there stood up one of them named
Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there
should be great dearth throughout all the world :
which came to pass in tlie days of Claudius
Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according
to his ability, determined to send relief unto the
brethren which dwelt in Judaea : winch also they
did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul.
July 5, Morn. THE ACTS, XII. Jan. 20, Even.
CHAPTER XII.
July 5, Morning; Jan. 20, Evening.
NOW about that time Herod the king stretched
forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
And he killed James the brother of John with
the sword. And because he saw it pleased the
Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also.
(Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And
when he had apprehended him, he put him in
prison, and delivered Aim to four quaternions of
soldiers to keep him ; intending after Easter to
bring him forth to the people. Peter therefore
was kept in prison : but prayer was made with-
out ceasing of the church unto God for him.
And when Herod would have brought him forth,
the same night Peter was sleeping between two
soldiers, bound with two chains : and the keep-
ers before the door kept the prison. And, be-
hold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and
a light shined in the prison : and he smote
Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying,
Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from
his hands. And the angel said unto him. Gird
thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he
did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment
about thee, and follow me. And he went out,
and followed him ; and wist not that it was
true which was done by the angel ; but thought
he saw a vision. When they were past the firet
and the second ward, they came unto the iron
gate that leadeth unto the city ; which opened
to them of his own accord : and they went out,
and passed on through one street ; and forthwith
the angel departed from him. And when Peter
July 5, Mom. THE ACTS, XII. Jan. 20, Even.
was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and
hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod,
and fr(rm all the expectation of the people of the
Jews. And when he had considered the thing,
he came to the house of Mary the mother of
John, whose surname was Mark ; where many
were gathered together praying. And as Peter
knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came
to hearken, named Rhoda. And when she knew
Peter s voice, she opened not the gat€ for glad-
ness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before
the gate. And they said unto her, Thou art mad.
But she constantly affirmed that it was even so.
Then said they, It is his angel. But Peter con-
tinued knocking : and when they had opened
th^ door, and saw him, they were astonished.
But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to
hold their peace, declared unto them how the
Lord had brought him out of the prison. And
he said, Go shew these things unto James, and
to the brethren. And he departed, and went
into another place. Now as soon as it was day,
there was no small stir among the soldiers, what
was become of Peter. And when Herod had
sought for him, and found him not, he examined
the keepers, and commanded that they should be
put to death. And he went down from Judaea
to Csesarea, and there abode. And Herod M'as
highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon :
but they came with one accord to him, and,
having made Blastus the king's chamberlain
their friend, desired peace ; because their country
was nourished by the king's country. And upon
a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat
July 6, Mom. THE ACTS, XIII. Jan. 21, Even.
upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the
voice of a god, and not of a man. And im-
mediately the angel of the Lord smote him,
because he gave not God the glory : and he was
eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. But the
•word of God grew and multiplied. And Barna-
bas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when
they had fulfilled thei7' ministry, and took with
them John, whose surname was JMark.
CHAPTER XIII.
JiUy 6, Morning; Ja7i. 21, Evening.
"VrOW there were in the church that was at
-LM Antioch certain prophets and teachers ; as
Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger,
and Lucius of Gyrene, and Manaen, which had
been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and
Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and
fasted, the Holy Ghost said. Separate me Barna-
bas and Saul for the work whereunto I have
called them. And when they had fiisted and
prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent
them away. So they, being sent forth by the
Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia ; and from
thence they sailed to Cypms. And when they
were at Salamis, they preached the word of God
in the synagogues of the Jews : and they had
also John to their minister. And when they
had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they/
found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jer
whose name was Bar-jesus : which was with/
deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, ap/ /
man ; who called for Barnabas and S/ X
desired to hear the word of God. B/ x^ *'
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July Q, Morn. THE ACTS, XII I. Jan. 21, Even. \
the sorcerer (for so i^ his name by interpretation) i
withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy
from the fiiith. Then Saul, (who also is called
Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes
on him, and said, full of all subtilty and all
{ mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of
; all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert
i the right ways of the Lord ] And now, behold,
the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou
shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.
And immediately there fell on him a mist and a
I darkness ; and he went about seeking some to
I lead him by the hand. Then the deputy, when
he saw what was done, believed, being astonished
at the doctrine of the Lord. Now when Paul
and his company loosed from Paphos, they came
to Perga in Pamphyha : and John departing
from them returneil to Jerusalem. But when
they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch
in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day, and sat down. And after the
reading of the law and the prophets the rulers
of the synagogue sent unto them, sajing, Ye men
and brethren, if ye have any word of exhorta-
tion for the people, say on. Then Paul stood
up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of
I Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. The
God of this people of Israel chose our fathers,
and exalted the people when they dwelt as
strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high
arm brought he them out of it. And about t^e
time of forty years suffered he their manners in
the wilderness. And when he had desti'oyed
seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided
j,;heir land to them by lot. And after that he
Julij 7, Mom. THE ACTS, XIII. Jan. 22, Even.
gave unto them judges about the space of four
hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the pro-
phet. And afterward they desired a king : and
God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man
of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty
years. And when he had removed him, he
raised up unto them David to be their king ; to
whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have
found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine
own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. Of
this man^s seed hath God according to his pro-
mise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus : when
John had first preached before his coming the
baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom
think ye that I am ? I am not he. But, behold,
there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his
feet I am not worthy to loose.
July 7, Morning ; Jan. 22, Evening.
MEN and brethren, children of the stock of
Abraham, and whosoever among you fear-
eth God, to you is the word of this salvation
sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and
their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet
the voices of the prophets which are read every
sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in con-
demning him. And though they found no
cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate
that he should be slain. And when they had
fulfilled all that was written of him, they took
him down from the tree, and laid him in a
sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead :
and he was seen many days of them which came
up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are
his witnesses unto the people. And we declare
July 7, Mom. THE ACTS, XIII. Jan. 22, Even.
unto you glad tidiugs, how that the promise
which was made unto the fathers, God hath ful-
filled the same unto us their children, in that he
hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written
in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day
have I begotten thee. And as concerning that
he raised him up from the dead, noio no more to
return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will
give yoa the sure mercies of David. Wherefore
he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For
David, after he had served his own generation
by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid
unto his fiithers, and saw corruption : but he,
whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
Be it known unto you therefore, men and breth-
ren, that through this man is preached unto you
the forgiveness of sins : and by him all that
believe are justiiied from all things, from which
ye could not be justified by the law of iSIoses.
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which
is spoken of in the prophets ; Behold, ye despis-
ers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work
in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise
believe, though a man declare it unto you. And
when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue,
the Gentiles besought that these words might be
preached to them the next sabbath. Now when
the congregation was broken up, many of the
Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and
Barnabas : who, speaking to them, persuaded
them to continue in the grace of God. And the
next sabbath day came almost the whole city
together to hear the word of God. But when
the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled
July 8, Morn. THE ACTS, XIV. Jan. 23, Even.
with envy, and spake against those things which
were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blas-
pheming. Then Paul and Barnabas Avaxed bold,
and said, It was necessary that the word of God
should first have been spoken to you : but seeing
ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy
of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I
have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that
thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of
the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this,
they were glad, and glorified the word of the
j Lord : and as many as were ordained to eternal
life believed. And the word of the Lord was
published throughout all the region. But the
Jews stirred up the devout and honourable
women, and the chief men of the city, and raised
persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and ex-
pelled them out of their coasts. But they shook
ofi" the dust of their feet against them, and came
unto Iconium. And the disciples were filled
with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
CHAPTER XIV.
July 8, Morning ; Jan. 23, Evening.
A ND it came to pass in Iconium, that they
j\. went both together into the synagogue of
the Jews, and so spake, that a great nmltitude
both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles,
and made their minds evil afiected against the
brethren. Long time therefore abode they
speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testi-
mony unto the word of his grace, and granted
signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Juhj S, Mom. THE ACTS, XIY. Jan. 23, Even.
But the multitude of the city was divided : and
part held with the Jews, and part with the apos-
tles. And when there was an assault made both
of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their
rulers, to use them despitefullv, and to stone
them, they were ware of it, and fled nnto Lystra
and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the
region that lieth roimd about : and there they
preached the gospel. And there sat a certain
man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a crip-
ple from his mother^s womb, who never had
walked : the same heard Paul speak : who sted-
fastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had
faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, Stand
upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
And when the people saw what Paul had done,
they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech
of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in
the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas,
Jupiter ; and Paid, Mercurius, because he was
the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter,
which was before their city, brought oxen and
garlands unto the gates, and would have done
sacrifice with the people. Which when the
apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent
their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying
out, and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things I
We also are men of like passions with you, and
preach unto you that ye should turn from these
vanities unto the living God, which made heaven,
and earth, and the sea, and all things that are
therein : who in times past suffered all nations
to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless he left
not himself without witness, in that he did good,
and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful sea-
July 9, Morn. THE ACTS, XV. Jan. 24, Even.
sons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
And with these sayings scarce restrained they
the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto
them. And there came thither certain Jews
from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the
people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out
of the citj'-, supposing he had been dead. How-
beit, as the disciples stood round about him, he
rose up, and came into the city : and the next
day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. And
when they had preached the gospel to that city,
and had taught many, they returned again to
Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, confirming
the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them
to continue in the faith, and that we must through
much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
And when they had ordained them elders in
every church, and had prayed Avith fasting, they
commended them to the Lord, on whom they
believed. And after they had passed throughout
Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. And when
they had preached the word in Perga, they went
down into Attalia : and thence sailed to Antioch,
from whence they had been recommended to the
grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
And when they were come, and had gathered
the church together, they rehearsed all that God
had done with them, and how he had opened
the door of faith unto the Gentiles. And there
they abode long time with the disciples.
CHAPTER XV.
\ily 9, Morning ; Jan. 24, Evening.
ND certain men which came down from
Judsea taught the brethren, and said, Ex-
A^
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July 9, Morn. THE ACTS, XV. Jan. 24, Even.
cept ye be circumcised after the manner of
Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and
disputation with them, they determined that
Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them,
should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and
elders about this question. And being brought
on their way by the church, they passed through
Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion
of the Gentiles : and they caused great joy unto
all the brethren. And when they were come to
JeriLsalem, they were received of the church, and
of the apostles and elders, and they declared all
things that God had done with them. But there
rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
believed, saying, That ic was needful to circum-
cise them, and to command them to keep the law
of Moses. And the apostles and elders came
together for to consider of this matter. And
when there had been much disputing, Peter rose
up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye
know how that a good while ago God made
choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth
should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them
witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he
did unto us ; and put no ditterence between us
and them, purifving their hearts by faith. Now
therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon
the neck of the disciples, which neither our
fathers nor we were able to bear ] But we believe
that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
we shall be saved, even as they. Then all the
multitude kept silence, and gave audience to
Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and
July 9, Mo^-n. THE ACTS, XV. Jan. 24, Even,
wondei*s God had wrought among the Gentiles
by them. And after they had held their peace,
James answered, saying, Men and brethren,
hearken unto me : Simeon hath declared how
God at the lirst did visit the GentUes, to take
out of them a people for his name. And to this
agree the words of the prophets ; as it is written,
After this I will return, and will build again the
tabernacle of David, which is fallen down ; and
I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will
set it up : that the residue of men might seek
after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom
my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all
these things. Known unto God are all his works
from the beginning of the world. Wherefore
my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which
from among the Gentiles are turned to God : but
that we write unto them, that they abstain from
pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and
from things strangled, and from blood. For
Moses of old time hath in every city them that
preach him, being read in the synagogues every
sabbath day. Then pleased it the apostles and
elders, with the whole church, to send chosen
men of their own company to Antioch with Paul
and Barnabas ; namely., Judas surnamed Barsa-
bas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren :
and they wrote letters by them after this manner ;
The apostles and elders and brethren send greet-
ing unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles
in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia : Forasmuch as
we have heard, that certain which went out
from us have troubled you with words, subvert-
ing your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised,
and keep the law : to whom we gave no such
July 10, Morn. THE ACTS, XV. Jan. 26, Even.
commandment : it seemed good unto us, being
assembled with one accord, to send chosen men
unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
men that have hazarded their lives for the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent there-
fore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the
same things by mouth. For it seemed good to
the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no
greater burden than these necessary things ;
that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and
from blood, and from things strangled, and from
fornication : from which if ye keep yourselves,
ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
>. July 10, 3Ioniing: Jan. 26, Evening.
SO when they were dismissed, they came to
Antioch : and when they had gathered the
multitude together, they delivered the epistle :
which when they had read, they rejoiced for the
consolation. And Judas and Sila.s, being prophets
also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many
words, and confirmed them. And after they had
tarried there a space, they were let go in peace
from the brethren unto the apostles. Notwith-
standing it pleased Silas to abide there still.
Paul also and Biirnabas continued in Antioch,
teaching and preaching the word of the Lord,
with many others also. And some days after
Paul said unto Barnabas. Let us go again and
visit our brethren in every city where we have
preached the word of the Lord, and see how they
do. And Barnabas determined to take with
them John, whose surname was iSIark. But Paul
thought not good to take him with them, who i
departed from them from Pamphylia, and went ;
not with them to the work. And the contention
July 10, Morn. THE ACTS, XVI. Jan. 26, Even.
was so sharp between them, that they departed
asunder one from the other : and so Barnabas
took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus ; and Paul
chose Silas, and departed, being recommended
by the brethren unto the grace of God. And
he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming
the churches.
CHAPTER XVI.
Then came he to Derbe and Lystra : and,
behold, a certain disciple was there, named
Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which
was a Jewess, and believed ; but his father was
a Greek : which was well reported of by the
brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. Him
would Paul have to go forth with him ; and took
and circumcised him because of the Jews which
were in those quarters : for they knew all that
his father was a Greek. And as they went
through the cities, they delivered them the
decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the
apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
And so were the churches established in the
faith, and increased in number daily. Now
when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the
region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the
Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, after
they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go
into Bithynia : but the Spirit suffered them not.
And they passing by JMysia came down to Troas.
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night ;
There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed
him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help
us. And after he had seen the vision, im-
mediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia,
assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us
July II, Morn. THE ACTS, XYI. Jan. 21 , Even.
for to preach the gospel unto thera. Tlierefore
loosing from Troas, we came with a straight
course to Samothracia, and the next day to Nea-
polis ; and from thence to Philippi, which is the
chief city of that part of JMacedonia, and a
colony : and we were in that city abiding certain
days. And on the sabbath we went out of the
city by a river side, where prayer was wont to
be made ; and we sat down, and spake unto the
women which resorted thither. And a certain
woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the
city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard
us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she
attended unto the things which were spoken of
Paul. And when she was baptized, and her
household, she besought iis, saying, If ye have
judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my
house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
July 11, Morning ; Jan. 27, Evening.
A KD it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a
jl\. certain damsel possessed with a spirit of
divination met us. which brought her masters
much gain by soothsaying : the same followed
Paul and us, and cried, sa^-ing, These men are
the servants of the most high God, which shew
unto us the way of salvation. And this did she
many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and
said to the spirit, I command thee in the name
of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he
came out the same hour. And when her masters
saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they
caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the
marketplace unto the rulers, and brought them
to the magistrates, saying. These men, being Jews,
do exceedingly trouble our city, and teach cus-
July 11, Morn. THE ACTS, XVI. Jan. 27, Even.
toms, which are not lawful for us to receive,
neither to observe, being Eomans. And the
multitude rose up together against them : and
the magistrates rent off their clothes, and com-
manded to beat them. And when they had laid
many stripes upon them, they cast them into
prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely :
who, havmg received such a charge, thrust them
into the inner prison, and made their feet fost in
the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas
prayed, and sang praises unto God : and the
prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was
a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the
prison were shaken : and immediately all the
doors were opened, and every one's bands were
loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking
out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors
open, he drew out his sword, and would have
killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had
been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice,
saying, Do thyself no harm : for we are all here.
Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and
came trembling, and fell down before Paul and
Silas, and brought them out, and said. Sirs, what
must I do to be saved ? And they said, Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house. And they spake unto
him the word of the Lord, and to all that were
in his house. And he took them the same hour
of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was
baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when
he had brought them into his house, he set meat
before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with
all his house. And when it was day, the magis-
trates sent the Serjeants, saying, Let those men
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go. And the keeper of the prison told this
saying to Paul. The magistrates have sent to let
you go : now therefore depart, and go in peace.
But Paul said vmto them, They have beaten us
openly uncondemned, being Eomans, and have
cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us
out privily ] nay verily ; but let them come
themselves and fetch us out. And the Serjeants
told these words unto the magistrates : and they
feared, when they heard that l;hey were Romans.
And they came and besought them, and brought
them out, and desired them to depart out of the
city. And they went out of the prison, and
entered into the home of Lydia : and when they
had seen the brethren, they comforted them,
and departed.
CHAPTER XYII.
Jiili/ 12, Morning ; Jan. 2S, Evening.
"T^rOW when they had pa.ssed through Araphi-
Xl polis and Apollonia, they came to Thessa-
lonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews : and
Paul, as Ills manner was, went in unto them,
and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of
the scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ
must needs have suffered, and risen again from
the deiid ; and that this Jesus, whom I preach
unto you. is Christ. And some of them believed,
and consorted with Paul and Silas ; and of
the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the
chief women not a few. But the Jews which
believed not, moved with envy, took unto them
certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered
a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and
assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring
July 13, Mom. THE ACTS, XVII. Jan. 29, Even. I
them out to the people. And wheji they found \
them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren
unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that
have turned the world upside down are come
hither also ; whom Jason hath received : and
these all do contrary to the decrees of Csesar,
saying that there is another king, om Jesus.
And they troubled the people and the rulers of
the city, when they heard these things. And
when they had tiiken security of Jason, and of
the other, they let them go. And the brethren
immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night
unto Berea : who coming thither went into the
synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble
than those in Thessalonica, in that they received
the word with all readiness of mind, and searched
the scriptures daily, whether those things were
so. Therefore many of them believed ; also of
honourable women which were Greeks, and of
men, not a few. But when the Jews of Thessa-
lonica had knowledge that the word of God was
preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also,
and stirred up the people. And then imme-
diately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it
■were to the sea : but Silas and Timotheus abode
there still. And they that conducted Paul
brought him unto Athens : and receiving a com-
mandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come
to him with all speed, they departed,
July 13, Morning; Jan. 29, Evening.
*VrOW while Paul waited for them at Athens,
Xl his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw
the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore dis-
puted he in the synagogue with the Jews, and
with the devout persons, and in the market daily
July 13, Morn. THE ACTS, XYII. Jan. 29, Even.
with them that met with hira. Then certain
philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks,
encountered him. And some said, What will
this babbler say I other some, He seemeth to be
a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached
unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they
took him, and brought him unto Ai*eopagus,
saying. May we know what this new doctrine,
whereof thou speakest, is ? For thou bringest
certain strange things to our ears : we would
know therefore what these things mean. (For
all the Athenians and strangers which were there
spent their time in nothing else, but either to
tell, or to hear some new thing.) Then Paul
stood in the midst of IVIars' hill, and said. Ye
men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye
are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and
beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this
inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I
unto you. God that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven
and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
hands ; neither Is worshipped with men's hands,
as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth
to all life, and breath, and all things ; and hath
made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell
on all the tiice of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of
their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord,
if haply they might feel after him, and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us : for
in him we live, and move, and have our being ;
as certain also of your own poets have said. For
we are also hLs offspring. Forasmuch then as we
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JuIyl4,Monu THE ACTS, XVIII. Jan. 30, Even.
are the offspring of God, we ought not to think
that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or
stone, graven by art and man's device. And the
times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent :
because he hath appointed a day, in the which
he will judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath
given assurance unto all men, in that he hath
raised him from the dead. And when they heard
of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked : and
others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit
certain men clave unto him, and believed : among
the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a
woman named Damaris, and others with them.
CHAPTER XVIII.
July 14, Morning ; Jan. 30, Evening.
AFTER these things Paul departed from
XjL Athens, and came to Corinth ; and found
a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,
lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla ;
(because that Claudius had commanded all Jews
to depart from Rome :) and came unto them.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode
with them, and wrought : for by their occupa-
tion they were tentmakers. And he reasoned in
the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the
Jews and the Greeks. And when Silas and
Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was
pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews
that Jesus was Christ. And when they opposed
themselves, and bksphemed, he shook his rai-
ment, and said unto ihem, Your blood h& upon
July 14, Morn. THE ACTS, XVIII. Jan. 30, Even.
your own heads ; I am clean : from henceforth
I will go unto the Gentiles. And he departed
thence, and entered into a certain man's house,
named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose
house joined hard to the synagogue. And
Crispus, the chief ruler of the sjTiagogue, be-
lieved on the Lord with all his house ; and
many of the Cbrinthians hearing believed, and
were baptized. Then spake the Lord to Paul in
the night by a vision. Be not afraid, but speak,
and hold not thy peace : for I am with thee, and
no man shall set on thee to hurt thee : for I have
much people in this city. And he continued
there a year and six months, teaching the word
of God among them. And when Gallio was the
deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection
"with one accord against Paul, and brought him
to the judgment seat, saying, This fellow per-
suadeth men to worship God contrary to the
law. And when Paul was now about to open
7m mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were
a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, ye Jews,
reason would that I should bear with you : but
if it be a question of words and names, and of
your law, look ye to it ; for I will be no judge
of such matters. And he drave them from the
judgment seat. Then all the Greeks took Sos-
thenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat
him before the judgment seat. And Gallio
cared for none of those things. And Paul after
this tarried there yet a good while, and then took
his leave of the brethren, and saUed thence into
Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila ;
having shorn his head in Cenchrea : for he had
a vow. And he came to Ephesus, and left them
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July 15, Morn. THE ACTS, XIX. Jan. 31, Even.
there : but he himself entered into the synagogue,
and reasoned with the Jews. When they desired
him to tarry longer time with th^m, he consented
not ; but bade them farewell, saying, I must by
all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusa-
lem : but I will return again unto you, if God
will. And he sailed from Ephesus. And when
he had landed at Csesarea, and gone up, and
saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
And after he had spent some time tlure^ he
departed, and went over all the country of
Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all
the disciples.
July 15, Morning; Jan. 31, Evening.
A ND a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
J\. Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty
in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man
was instructed in the way of the Lord ; and
being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught
diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only
the baptism of John. And he began to speak
boldly in the synagogue : whom when Aquila
and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto
them, and expounded unto him the way of God
more perfectly. And when he was disposed to
pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting
the disciples to receive him : who, when he was
come, helped them much which had believed
through grace : for he mightily convinced the
Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scrip-
tures that Jesus was Christ.
CHAPTER XIX.
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was
at Corinth, Paul having passed through the
upper coasts came to Ephesus : and finding
Juhj 1-3, Morn. THE ACTS, XIX. Jan. 31, Even.
certain disciples, he said unto them, Have ye
received the HoIt Ghost since ye believed ] And
they said imto him, We have not so much as
heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And
he said unto them. Unto what then were ye
])aptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the
baptism of repentance, saying unto the people,
that they should beheve on him which should
come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When
they heard this, they were baptized in the name
of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his
hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them ;
and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
And all the men were about twelve. And he
went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for
the space of three months, disputing and per-
suading the things concerning the kingdom of
God. But when divers were hardened, and
beheved not, but spake evil of that way before
the multitude, he departed from them, and sepa-
rated the disciples, disputing daily in the school
of one Tyrannus. And this continued by the
space of two years ; so that all they which dwelt
in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both
Jews and Greeks. And God wrought special
mii-acles by the hands of Paul : so that from his
body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs
or aprons, and the diseases departed from them,
and the evil spuits went out of them. Then
certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took
upon them to call over them which had evil
spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We
adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew,
July 16, Morn. THE ACTS, XIX. Feb. I, Even.
and chief of the priests, which did so. And the
evil spuit answered and said, Jesus I know, and
Paul I know ; but who are ye ? And the man
in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and
overcame them, and prevailed against them, so
that they fled out of that house naked and
wounded. And this was known to all the Jews
and Greeks also dwelling at Ej^hesus ; and fear
fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus
was magnified. And many that believed came,
and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many
of them also which used curious arts brought
their books together, and burned them before all
men : and they counted the price of them, and
found it fifty thousand incces of silver. So
mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Juhj 16, Morning; Feb. 1, Evening.
A FTER these things were ended, Paul purposed
j\. in the spirit, when he had passed through
Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, say-
ing, After I have been there, I must also see
Rome. So he sent into Macedonia two of them
that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Eras-
tus ; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
And the same time there arose no small stir
about that way. For a certain man named De-
metrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines
for Diana, brought no small gain unto the crafts-
men ; whom he called together with the work-
men of like occupation, and said. Sirs, ye know
that by this craft we have our wealth. More-
over ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus,
but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath
persuaded and turned away much people, saying
that they be no gods, which are made with hands :
July 16, Mom. THE ACTS, XIX. Feb. 1, Even.
SO that not only this our craft is in danger to
be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the
great goddess Diana should be despised, and her
magnificence should be destroyed, whom all
Asia and the world worshippeth. And when
they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath,
and cried out, saying. Great is Diana of the
Ephesians. And the whole city was filled with
confusion : and having caught Gains and Aris-
tarchus, men of ISIacedonia, Paul's companions
in travel, they rushed with one accord into the
theatre. And when Paul would have entered in
unto the people, the disciples suflered him not.
And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his
friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he
would not adventure himself into the theatre.
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another :
for the assembly was confused ; and the more
part knew not w^herefore they were come to-
gether. And they drew Alexander out of the
multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And
Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would
have made his defence unto the people. But
when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one
voice about the space of two hours cried out,
Great is Diana of the Ephesiiins. And when
the townclerk had appeas^ the people, he said,
Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that
knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians
is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and
of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken
against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing
rashly. For ye have brought hither these men,
which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet
■My 17, Morn. THE ACTS, XX. Feb. 2, Even.
blasphemers of your goddess. Wherefore if
Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with
him, have a matter against any man, the law is
open, and there are deputies : let them implead
one another. But if ye enquire any thing con-
cerning other matters, it shall be determined in
a lawful assembly. For we are in danger to be
called in question for this day's uproar, there
being no cause whereby we may give an account
of this concourse. And when he had thus
spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
CHAPTER XX.
July 17, Morning ; Feb. 2, Evening.
A ND after the uproar was ceased, Paul called
J\. unto him the disciples, and embraced
them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
And when he had gone over those parts, and had
given them much exhortation, he came into
Greece, and there abode three months. And
when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was
about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return
through Macedonia. And there accompanied
him into Asia Sopater of Berea ; and of the
Thessalonians, Aristarcbus and Secundus ; and
Gains of Derbe, and Timotheus ; and of Asia,
Tychicus and Trophinms. These going before
tarried for us at Troas. And we sailed away
from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread,
and came unto them to Troas in five days ;
where we abode seven days. And upon the first
day of the week, when the disciples came to-
gether to break bread, Paul preached unto them,
ready to depart on the morrow ; and continued
his speech until midnight. And there were many
July IS, Morn. THE ACTS, XX. Feb. 3, Even,
lights in the upper chamber, -where they were
gathered together. And there sat in a window
a certain young man named Eutychus, being
fiillen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long-
preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell
down from the third loft, and was taken up
dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him,
and embracing Mm said. Trouble not yourselves ;
for his life is in him. WTien he therefore was
come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten,
and talked a long while, even till break of day,
so he departed. And they brought the young
man alive, and were not a little comforted. And
we went before to ship, and sailed imto Assos,
there intending to take in Paul : for so had he
appointed, minding himself to go afoot. And
when he met with us at Assos, we took him in,
and came to INIitylene. And we sailed thence,
and came the next day over against Chios ; and
the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried
at Trogyllium ; and the next day we came to
Miletus. For Paul had determined to sail by
Ephesus, because he Avould not spend the time
in Asia : for he hasted, if it were ]X)ssible for
him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
July 18, Morning; Feb. 3, Evening.
4 ND from l^Iiletus he sent to Ephesus, and
XjL called the elders of the church. And when
they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye
know, from the first day that I came into Asia,
after what manner I haA'e been -with you at all
seasons, serving the Lord ^vith all humility of
mind, and with many tears, and temptations,
which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews :
and how I kept back nothing that was profitable
Juhj 18, Mom. THE ACTS, XX. Feb. d, Even,
unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught
you publickly, and from house to house, testify-
ing both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound
in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the
things that shall befall me there : save that the
Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that
bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of
these things move me, neither count I my life
dear unto myself, so that I might finish my
course with joy, and the ministry, which I have
received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel
of the grace of God. And now, behold, I know
that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching
the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I
am pure from the blood of all men. For I have
not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel
of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves,
and to all the flock, over the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the
chm-ch of God, which he hath purchased with
his own blood. For I know this, that after my
departing shall grievous wolves enter in among
you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own
selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things,
to draw away disciples after them. Therefore
watch, and remember, that by the space of three
years I ceased not to warn every one night and
day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend
you to God, and to the word of his grace, which
is able to build you up, and to give you an in-
heritance among all them which are sanctified.
I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or
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July 19, Mom. THE ACTS, XXI. Feb. 4, Even
apparel. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these |
hands have ministered unto my necessities, and
to them that were with me. I have shewed you
all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember the words of
the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed
to give than to receive. And when he had thus
spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them
all. And they all wept sore, and" fell on PauFs
neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for
the words which he spake, that they should see
hLs face no more. And they accompanied him
unto the ship.
CHAPTER XXL
July 19, Morning; Feb. 4, Evening.
A ND it came to pass, that after we were gotten
juL. from them, and had launched, we came
with a straight course unto Coos, and the day
following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto
Patara : and finding a ship sailing over unto
Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. Now
when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on
the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed
at Tyre : for there the ship was to unlade her
burden. And finding disciples, we tarried there
seven days : who said to Paul through the Spirit,
that he should not go up to Jerusalem. And
when we had accomplished those days, we de-
parted and went our way ; and they all brought
us on our way, with wives and children, till loe
were out of the city : and we kneeled down on
the shore, and prayed. And when we had taken
our leave one of another, we took ship ; and they
returned home again. And when we had finished
Jtdy 20, M<ym. THE ACTS, XXI. Feb. 5, Even.
our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais,
and saluted the brethren, and abode with them
one day. And the next day we that were of Paul's
company departed, and came unto Csesarea : and
we entered into the house of Philip the evange-
list, which was one of the seven ; and abode with
him. And the same man had four daughters,
virgins, which did prophesy. And as we tarried
there many days, there came down from Judaea
a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when
he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and
bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus
saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at
Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle,
and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gen-
tiles. And when we heard these things, both
we, and they of that place, besought him not to
go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered. What
mean ye to weep and to break mine heart ? for I
am ready not to be bound only, but also to die
at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased,
saying, The will of the Lord be done. And after
those days we took up our carriages, and went
up to Jerusalem. There went with us also cer-
tain of the disciples of Csesarea, and brought
with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple,
with whom we should lodge.
July 20, Morning ; Feb. 5, Evening.
AN D when we were come to Jerusalem, the
. brethren received us gladly. And the daij
following Paul went in with us unto James ;
and all the elders were present. And when he
had saluted them, he declared particularly what
tilings God had wrought among the Gentiles by
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July 20, Mcyrn. THE ACTS, XXI. Feb. 5, Even.
his ministry. And when they heard it, they
glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest,
brother, how many thousands of Jews there are
which beUeve ; and they are all zealous of the
law : and they are informed of thee, that thou
teachest all the Jews which are among the Gen-
tiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought
not to circumcise their children, neither to walk
after the customs. What is it therefore ? the
multitude must needs come together : for they
will hear that thou art come. Do therefore this
that we say to thee : "VVe have four men which
have a vow on them ; them take, and purify
thyself with them, and be at charges with them,
that they may shave their heads : and all may
know that those things, whereof they were in-
formed concerning thee, are nothing ; but tlmt
thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepe^t
the law. As touching the Gentiles which believe,
we have written aiid concluded that they observe
no such thing, save only that they keep them-
selves from things offered to idols, and from
blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Then Paul took the men, and the next day
purifying himself with them entered into the
temple, to signify the accomplishment of the
days of purification, until that an offering should
be offered for every one of them. And when the
seven days were almost ended, the Jews which
were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple,
stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
crying out. Men of Israel, help : This is the
man, that teacheth all men every where against
the people, and the law, and this place : and
further brought Greeks also into the temple, and
July 21, Morn. THE ACTS, XXI. Feb. 6, Even.
hath polluted this holy place. (For they had
seen before with him in the city Trophimus an
Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had
brought into the temple.) And all the city was
moved, and the people ran together : and they
took Paul, and drew him out of the temple : and
forthwith the doors were shut. And as they
went about to kill him, tidings came unto the
chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem
was in an uproar. Who immediately took
soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto
them : and when they saw the chief captain and
the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. Then the
chief captain came near, and took him, and com-
manded liivi to be bound with two chains ; and
demanded who he was, and what he had done.
And some cried one thing, some another, among
the multitude : and when he could not know
the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him
to be carried into the castle. And when he came
upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of
the soldiers for the violence of the people. For
the multitude of the people followed after, crying,
Away with him.
July 21, Morning ; Feb. 6, Evening.
A ND as Paul was to be led into the castle, he
JLjL said unto the chief captain. May I speak
unto thee 1 Who said, Canst thou speak Greek ?
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these
days mad est an uproar, and leddest out into
the wilderness four thousand men that were
murderers 1 But Paul said, I am a man which
am, a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of
no mean city : and, I beseech thee, suffer me to
speak unto the people. , And when he had given
July 21, Mom. THE ACTS, XXII. Feb. 6, Even.
him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beck-
oned with the hand unto the people. And when
there was made a great silence, he spake unto
them in the Hebrew tonsfue, saving,
CHAPTER XXn.
Men, brethren, and fathei-s, hear ye my defence
which I make now unto you. (And when they
heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to
them, they kept the more silence : and he saith.)
I am verOy a man uhich am a Jew, born in
Tarsus, a city in Cihcia, yet brought up in this
city at the feet of Gamaliel, a ncZ taught according
to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers,
and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this
day. And I persecuted this way unto the death,
binding and delivering into prisons both men
and women. As also the high priest doth bear
me witness, and all the estate of the elders : from
whom also I received letters unto the brethren,
and went to Damascus, to bring them which were
there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
And it aime to pass, that, as I made my journey,
and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon,
suddenly there shone from heaven a great hght
round about me. And I fell unto the ground, and
heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me ? And I answered. Who
art thou. Lord ? And he said unto me, I am
Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. And
they that were with me saw indeed the light,
and M-ere afraid ; but they heard not the voice
of him that spake to me. And I said, What
shall I do, Lord ? And the Lord said unto me.
Arise, and go into Damascus ; and there it shaU
be told thee of all things which are appointed for
Jvly 22, Moiiu THE ACTS, XXII. Feb. 7, Even.
thee to do. And when I could not see for the
glory of that light, being led by the hand of
them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
And one Ananias, a devout man according to
the law, having a good report of all the Jews
which dwelt there, came unto me, and stood, and
said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight.
And the same hour I looked up upon him. And
he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,
that thou shouldest know his will, and see that
Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his
mouth. For thou shalt be his witness unto all
men of what thou hast seen and heard. And
now why tarriest thou ? arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of
the Lord. And it came to pass, that, when I
was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed
in the temple, I was in a trance ; and saw him
saying unto me. Make haste, and get thee quickly
out of Jerusalem : for they will not receive thy
testimony concerning me. And I said. Lord,
they know that I imprisoned and beat in every
synagogue them that believed on thee : and
when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed,
I also was standing by, and consenting unto his
death, and kept the raiment of them that slew
him. And he said unto me. Depart : for I will
send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. And
they gave him audience unto this word, and then
lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such
a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he
should live.
July 22, Morning ; Feb. 7, Evening.
AND as they cried out, and cast off their
_ clothes, and threw dust into the air, the
JvXy 22, Morn. THE ACTS, XXIII. Feb. 7, Even.
chief captain commanded him to be brought into
the castle, and bade that he should be examined
by scourging ; that he might know wherefore
they cried so against him. And as they bound
him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion
that stood by. Is it lawful for you to scourge a
man that is a Eoman, and uncondemned ? When
the centurion heard that he went and told
the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou
doest : for this man is a Eoman. Then the
chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me,
art thou a Eoman ? He said. Yea. And the
chief captain answered, With a great sum ob-
tained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I
was free born. Then straightway they departed
from him which should have examiaed him :
and the chief captain also was afraid, after he
knew that he was a Eoman, and because he had
bound him. On the morrow, because he would
have known the certainty wherefore he was
accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his
bands, and commanded the chief priests and all
their council to appear, and brought Paul down,
and set him before them,
CHAPTEE XXIII.
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council,
said, Men and brethren, I have lived in aU good
conscience before God until this day. And the
high priest Ananias commanded them that stood
by him to smite him on the mouth. Then said
Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou
whited wall : for sittest thou to judge me after
the law, and commandest me to be smitten con-
trary to the law ? And they that stood by said,
Eevilest thou God's high "priest? Then said
July 23, Mom. THE ACTS, XXIII. Feb. S, Even.
Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high
priest : for it is written, Thou shalt not speak
evil of the ruler of thy people. But when Paul
perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and
the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council,
Men aiid brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a
Pharisee : of the hope and resurrection of the
dead I am called in question. And when he
had so said, there arose a dissension between the
Pharisees and the Sadducees : and the multitude
was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is
no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit : but the
Pharisees confess both. And there arose a great
cry : and the scribes that ivere of the Pharisees'
part arose, and strove, saying. We find no evil
in this man : but if a spirit or an angel hath
spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
And when there arose a great dissension, the
chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been
pulled in pieces of them, commanded the sol-
diers to go down, and to take him by force from
among them, and to bring him into the castle.
And the night following the Lord stood by him,
and said. Be of good cheer, Paul : for as thou
hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou
bear witness also at Rome.
July 23, Morning ; Feb. 8, Evening.
A ND when it was day, certain of the Jews
J\. banded together, and bound themselves
imder a curse, saying that they would neither
eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And
they were more than forty which had made this
conspiracy. And they came to the chief priests
and elders, and said. We have bound ourselves
under a great curse, that we will eat nothing
July 23, Mon\. THE ACTS, XXIII. Feb. 8, Even.
until we have slain Paul. Now therefore ye
with the council signify to the chief captain that
he bring him down unto you to morrow, as
though ye would enquire something more per-
fectly concerning him : and we, or ever he come
near, are ready to kill him. And when Paul's
sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went
and entered into the castle, and told Paul. Then
Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and
said, Bring this young man unto the chief cap-
tain : for he hath a certain thing to tell him.
So he took him, and brought him to the chief
captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me
unto him. and prayed me to bring this young
man unto thee, who hath something to say unto
thee. Then the chief captain took him by the
hand, and went with him aside privately, and
asked him^ What is that thou hast to t^U me ?
And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire
thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to
morrow into the council, as though they would
enquire somewhat of him more perfectly. But
do not thou yield unto them : for there lie in
wait for him of them more than forty men,
which have bound themselves with an oath, that
they will neither eat nor drink till they have
killed him : and now are they ready, looking
for a promise from thee. So the chief captain
then let the young man depart, and charged him,
See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these
things to me. And he called unto him two centu-
rions, saying. Make ready two hundred soldiers
to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and
ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third
hour of the night ; and provide tJiem beasts, that
-f
July 24, Morn. THE ACTS, XXIV. Feb. 9, Even.
they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto
Felix the governor. And he wrote a letter after
this manner : Claudius Lysias unto the most
excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting. This
man was taken of the Jews, and should have
been killed of them : then came I with an army,
and rescued him, having understood that he was
a Roman. And when I would have known the
cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him
forth into their council : whom I perceived to be
accused of questions of their law, but to have
nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of
bonds. And when it was told me how that the
Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway
to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers
also to say before thee what they had against
him. Farewell. Then the soldiers, as it was
commanded them, took Paul, and brought him
by night to Antipatris. On the morrow they
left the horsemen to go with him, and returned
to the castle : who, when they came to Csesarea,
and delivered the epistle to the governor, pre-
sented Paul also before him. And when the
governor had read the letter, he asked of what
province he was. And when he understood that
he was of Cilicia ; I will hear thee, said he, when
thine accusers are also come. And he commanded
him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
CHAPTER XXIV.
July 24, Morning ; Feb. 9, Evening,
AND after five days Ananias the high priest
J\. descended with the elders, and v-ith a cer-
tain orator named Tertullus, who informed the
governor agamst Paul. And when he was called
July 24, Morn. THE ACTS, XXIV. Feb. 9, Even.
forth, Tertullus began to accuse Aim, saving,
Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness,
and that very worthy deeds are done unto this
nation by thy providence, we accept it always,
and in all places, most noble Felix, with all
thankfulness. Notwithstanding, that I be not
further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou
wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow,
and a mover of sedition among all the Jews
throughout the world, and a ringleader of the
sect of the Nazarenes : who also hath gone about
to profane the temple : whom we took, and would
have judged according to our law. But the chief
captain Lysias came upon us, and with great
violence took him away out of oiu* hands, com-
manding his accusers to come unto thee : by ex-
amining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge
of all these things, whereof we accuse him. And
the Jews also assented, saying that these things
were so. Then Paul, after that the governor had
beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch
as I know that thou hast been of many years a
judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully
answer for myself : because that thou mayest
understand, that there are yet but twelve days
since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
And they neither found me in the temple dis-
puting with any man, neither raising up the
people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the
city : neither can they prove the things whereof
they now accuse me. But this I confess unto
thee, that after the way which they call heresy,
Bo worship I the God of my fathers, believing
all things which are written in the law and
July 24, Morn. THE ACTS, XXIV. Feb. 9, Even.
in the prophets : and have hope toward God,
which they themselves also allow, that there
shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the
just and unjust. And herein do I exercise
myself, to have always a conscience void of
offence toward God, and toward men. Now after
many years I came to bring alms to my nation,
and offerings. Whereupon certain Jews from
Asia found me purified in the temple, neither
with multitude, nor with tumult. Who ought
to have been here before thee, and object, if they
had ought against me. Or else let these same
here say, if they have found any evil doing in
me, while I stood before the council, except it be
for this one voice, that I cried standing among
them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I
am called in question by you this day. And
when Felix heard these things, having more
perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them,
and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall
come down, I will know the uttermost of your
matter. And he commanded a centurion to keep
Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he
should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister
or come unto him. And after certain days, when
Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a
Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him con-
cerning the faith in Christ. And as he reasoned
of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to
come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way
for this time ; when I have a convenient season,
I will call for thee. He hoped also that money
should have been given him of Paul, that he
might loose him : wherefore he sent for him the
oftener, and communed with him. But after
July ^Q, Morn. THE ACTS, XXV. Feb. \0, Even.
two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room :
and FeKx, -willing to shew the Jews a pleasure,
left Paul bound.
CHAPTER XXY.
July 26, Morning ; Feb. 10, Evening.
n^rOW when Festus was come into the province,
JJM after three days he ascended from Csesarea
to Jerusalem. Then the high priest and the
chief of the Jews informed him against Paul,
and besought him, and desired favour against
him, that he would send for him to Jerusiilem,
laying wait in the way to kiU him. But Festus
answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea,
and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
Let them therefore, said he, which among you
are able, go down with me, and accuse this man,
if there be any wickedness in him. And when
he had tarried among them more than ten days,
he went down unto Caesarea ; and the next day
sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul
to be brought. And when he was come, the
Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood
round about, and laid many and grievous com-
plaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
While he answered for himself. Neither against
the law of the Jews, neither against the temple,
nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing
at all. But Festus, willing to do the Jews a
pleasure, answered Paul, and said. Wilt thou go
up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
things before me ? Then said Paul, I stand at
Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be
judged : to the Jews have I done no wrong, as
thou very weU knowest. For if I be an offender,
July 26, Mom. THE ACTS, XXV. Feb. 10, Even.
or have committed any thing worthy of death, I
refuse not to die : but if there be none of these
things whereof these accuse me, no man may
deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Csesar.
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the
council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto
Caesar? unto Csesar shalt thou go. And after
certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came
unto Caesarea to salute Festus. And when they
had been there many days, Festus declared Paulas
cause unto the king, saying. There is a certain
man left in bonds by Felix : about whom, when
I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the
elders of the Jews informed me., desiring to have
judgment against him. To whom I answered,
It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver
any man to die, before that he which is accused
have the accusers face to face, and have licence
to answer for himself concerning the crime laid
against him. Therefore, when they were come
hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat
on the judgment seat, and commanded the man
to be brought forth. Against whom when the
accusers stood up, they brought none accusation
of such things as I supposed : but had certain
questions against him of their own superstition,
and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul
affirmed to be alive. And because I doubted of
such manner of questions, I asked him whether
he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged
of these matters. But when Paul had appealed
to be reserved unto the hciiring of Augustus, I
commanded him to be kept till I might send him
to Caesar. Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I
would also hear the man nivself. To morrow,
July 27 , Mom. THE ACTS, XXVI. Feb. 11, Even.
said he, thou shalt hear hinu And on the mor-
row, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with
great pomp, and was entered into the place of
hearing, with the chief captains, and principal
men of the city, at Festus^ commandment Paul
was brought forth. And Festus said. King
Agrippa, and all men which are here present
with us, ye see this man, about whom all the
multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both
at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought
not to live any longer. But when I found that
he had committed nothing worthy of death, and
that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I
have determined to send him. Of whom I have
no certain thing to WTite unto my lord. Where-
fore I have brought him forth before you, and
specially before thee, king Agrippa, that, after
examination had, I might have somewhat to
write. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to
send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the
crimes laid against him.
CHAPTER XXVI.
July 27, Morning ; Feb. 11, Evening.
THEN Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art
permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul
stretched forth the hand, and answered for him-
self : I think myself happy, king Agrippa^
because I shall answer for myself this day before
thee touching all the things whereof I am ac-
cused of the Jews : especially because I know
thee to be expert in all customs and questions
which are among the Jews : wherefore I beseech
thee to hear me patiently. ]\Iy manner of life
from my youth, which was at the first among
July 27, Mom. THE ACTS, XXVI. Feb. 11, Even.
mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the
Jews ; which knew me from the beginning, if
they would testify, that after the most straitest
sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. And now
I stand and am judged for the hope of the
promise made of God unto our fathers : unto
which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving
God day and night, hope to come. For which
hope^s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the
Jews. Why should it be thought a thing in-
credible with you, that God should raise the
dead ? I verily thought with myself, that I
ought to do many things contrary to the name of
Jesus of Nazareth. Which thing I also did in
Jerusalem : and many of the saints did I shut
up in prison, having received authority from the
chief priests ; and when they were put to death,
I gave my voice against them. And I punished
them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them
to blaspheme ; and being exceedingly mad against
them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with autho-
rity and commission from the chief priests, at
midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from
heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining
round about me and them which journeyed with
me. And when we were all fallen to the earth,
I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in
the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou me 1 it is hard for thee to kick against the
pricks. And I said, Who art thou. Lord ? And
he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But
rise, and stand upon thy feet : for I have ap-
peared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee
a minister and a witness both of these things
July 21, Mom, THE ACTS, XXVI. Feb. W, Even.
which thou hast seen, and of those thin^ in the
which I will appear unto thee ; delivering thee
from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto
whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and
to turn them from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan unto God, that they may
receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among
them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Whereupon, kmg Agrippa, I was not disobe-
dient unto the heavenly vision : but shewed first
unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and
throughout all the coasts of Judaja, and then to
the Gentiles, that they should repent and tm-n to
God, and do works meet for repentance. For
these causes the Jews caught me in the temple,
and went about to kill me. Having therefore
obtained help of God, I continue unto this day,
witnessing both to small and great, saying none
other things than those which the prophets and
Moses did say should come : that Christ should
suffer, and that he should be the first that should
rise from the dead, and shoiild shew Ught unto
the people, and to the Gentiles. And as he thus
spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice,
Paul, thou art beside thyself ; much learning
doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not
mad, most noble Festus ; but speak forth the
words of truth and soberness. For the king
knoweth of these things, before whom also I
speak freely : for I am persuaded that none of
these things are hidden from him ; for this
thing was not done in a comer. King Agrippa,
believest thou the prophets ? I know that thou
believest. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost
thou persuadest me to be a Christian. And Paul
July 28, Mom. THE ACTS, XXVIT. Feb. 12, 13, Even.
said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also
all that hear me this day, were both almost, and
altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Apd when he had thus spoken, the king rose up,
and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat
with them : and when they were gone aside, they
talked between themselves, saying, This man
doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
Then said Agrippa unto Festus. This man might
have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed
unto Caesar.
CHAPTER XXVIL
July 28, Morning ; Feb. 12, Evening, to v. 18 ; Feb. 13,
Evening, from v. 18.
A ND when it was determined that we should
J\. sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and
certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a
centurion of Augustus' band. And entering
into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched,
meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia ; one
Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being
with us. And the next day we touched at Sidon.
And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave
him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh
himself. And when we had launched from
thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the
winds were contrary. And when we had sailed
over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came
to Myra, a city of Lycia. And there tlie centurion
found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy ;
and he put us therein. And when we had sailed
slowly many days, and scarce were come over
against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we
sailed under Crete, over against Salmone ; and,
hardly passing it, came unto a place which is
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July 28, Mom. THE ACTS, XXVII. Fch. 12, 13, Even.
called The fair havens ; nigh whereunto was the
city of Lasea. Now when much time was spent,
and when sailing was now dangerous, because
the fast was now already past, Paul admonished
them, and said unto them. Sirs, I perceive that
this voyage will be with hurt and much damage,
not only of the lading and ship, but also of our
lives. Nevertheless the centurion beheved the
master and the owner of the ship, more than
those things which were spoken by Paul. And
because the haven was not commodious to winter
in, the more part advised to depart thence also,
if by any means they might attain to Phenice,
and there to winter ; which is an haven of Crete,
and lieth toward the south west and north west.
And when the south wind blew softly, supposing
that they had obtained their purpose, loosing
thence, they sailed close by Crete. But not long
after there^ arose against it a tempestuous wind,
called Euroclydon. And when the ship was
caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we
let her drive. And running under a certain
island which is called Clauda, we had much work
to come by the boat : which when they had taken
up, they used helps, undergirding the ship ; and,
fearing lest they should Ml into the quicksands,
strake sail, and so were driven.
Ver. 18. And we being exceedingly tossed with
a tempest, the next clay they lightened the ship ;
and the third day we cast out with our own hands
the tackling of the ship. And when neither sun
nor stars in many days appeared, and no small
tempest lay on «s, ail hope that we should be
saved was then taken away. But alter long
abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them,
July 28, Morn. THE ACTS, XXVII. Feb. 12, 13, Even.
and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto
me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have
gained this harm and loss. And now I exhort
you to be of good cheer : for there shall be no
loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
For there stood by me this night the angel of
God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear
not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Csesar :
and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail
with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer :
for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was
told me. Howbeit we must be cast upon a cer-
tain island. But when the fourteenth night was
come, as we were driven up and down in Adria,
about midnight the shipmen deemed that they
drew near to some country ; and sounded, and
found it twenty fathoms : and when they had
gone a little further, they sounded again, and
found it fifteen ftithoms. Then fearing lest we
should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four
anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the
ship, when they had let down the boat into the
sea, under colour as though they would have cast
anchors out of the foreship, Paul said to the
centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide
in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Then the soldiers
cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought
them all to take meat, saying, This day is the
fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued
fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I
pray you to take some meat : for this is for your
health : for there shall not an hair fall from the
head of any of you. And when he had thus
July 29, Mom. THE ACTS, XXVm. Feb. 14, Even.
spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God
in presence of them all : and when he had broken
-ii, he began to eat. Then were they all of good
cheer, and they also took some meat. And we
were in all in the ship two hundred threescore
and sixteen souls. And when they had eaten
enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the
wheat into the sea. And when it was day, they
knew not the land : but tliey discovered a certain
creek with a shore, into the which they were
minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they
committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed
the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to
the wind, and made toward shore. And falling
into a place where two seas met, they ran the
ship aground ; and the forepart stuck fast, and
remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was
broken with the violence of the waves. And
the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners,
lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
But the centiu-ion, willing to save Paul, kept
them from their purpose ; and commanded that
they which could swim should cast themselves
first into the sea, and get to land : and the rest,
some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the
ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped
all safe to land.
CHAPTEE XXVHL
July 29, Morning ; Feb. 14, Evening.
A ND when they were escaped, then they knew
JLJL that the island was called Melita. And
the barbarous people shewed us no little kind-
ness : for they kindled a fire, and received us
July 29, Mom. THE ACTS, XXVIII. Feb. 14, Even.
every one, because of the present rain, and be-
cause of the cold. And when Paul had gathered
a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire,
there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened
on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the
venomous beast hang on his hand, they said
among themselves, No doubt this man is a mur-
derer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet
vengeance suflFereth not to live. And he shook
oflF the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
Howbeit they looked when he should have
swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly : but after
they had looked a great while, and saw no harm
come to him, they changed their minds, and said
that he was a god. In the same quarters were
possessions of the chief man of the island, whose
name was Publius ; who received us, and lodged
us three days courteously. And it came to pass,
that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and
of a bloody flux : to whom Paul entered in, and
prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed
him. So when this was done, others also, which,
had diseases in the island, came, and were
healed : who also honoured us with many
honours ; and when we departed, they laded us
with such things as were necessary. And after
three months we departed in a ship of Alex-
andria, which had wintered in the isle, whose
sign was Castor and Pollux. And landing at
Syracuse, we tarried there three days. And from
thence we fetched a compass, and came to
Rhegium: and after one day the south wind
blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
where we found brethren, and were desired to
tarry with them seven days : and so we went
July 30, Mcrm. THE ACTS, XXVIII. Feb. 15, Even.
toward Rome. And from thence, when the
bretlu'en heard of us. they came to meet us as
far as Appii foram. and The tliree taverns : whom
when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took cou-
rage. And when we came to Rome, the centu-
rion deUvered the prisoners to the captain of the
guard : but Paul was suffered to dwell by him-
self with a soldier that kept him.
July 30, Morning ; Feb. 15, Evening.
A ND it came to pass, that after tliree days
J\. Paul called the chief of the Jews together :
and when they were come together, he said unto
them, jNIen and brethren, though I have com-
mitted nothing against the people, or customs of
our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. Who,
when they had examined me, would have let iiu
go, because there was no cause of death in me.
But when the Jews spake against it, I was con-
strained to appeal unto Cnesar ; not that I had
ought to accuse my nation of. For this a\use
therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to
speak with you : because that for the hope of
Israel I am bound with this chain. And they
said unto him, We neither received letters out
of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the
brethren that came shewed or spake any harm
of thee. But we desire to hear of thee what
thou thiiikest : for as concerning this sect, we
know that every where it is spoken against.
And when they had appointed him a day, there
a\me many to him into his lodging ; to whom
he expounded and testified the kingdom of God,
persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of
the law of ISIoses, and out of the prophets, from
July 31, Morn. EOMANS, I. Fd>. IG, JEven.
morning till evening. And some believed the
things which were spoken, and some believed
not. And when they agreed not among them-
selves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken
one w^ord, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias
the prophet unto ou.r fathers, saying, Go unto
this people, and say, Hearing ye sliall hear, and
shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see,
and not perceive : for the heart of this people is
waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,
and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should
see with thei7' eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and should be con-
verted, and I should heal them. Be it known
therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is
sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear
it. And when he had said these Avords, the
Jews departed, and had great reasoning among
themselves. And Paul dwelt two whole years
in his own hired house, and received all that
came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of
God, and teaching those things which concern
the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no
man forbidding; him.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
ROMANS.
CHAPTER I.
July 31, Morning; Feb. 16, Evening.
PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to he
an apostle, separated unto the gospel of
God, (which he had promised afore by his pro-
phets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son
Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the
July 31, Mom. EOMANS, L Feb. 16, Even.
seed of David accordingr to the flesh ; and de-
clared to he the Son of God with power, accord-
ing to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection
from the dead : by whom we have received grace
and apostleship. for obedience to the faith among
all nations, for his name : among whom are ye
also the called of Jesus Christ : to all that be in •
Eome, beloved of God, called to he saints : Grace
to you and peace from God our Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God
through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith
is spoken of throughout the whole world. For
God is my witness, whom I sers'e with my spirit
in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I
make mention of you always in my prayers ;
making request, if by any means now at length
I might have a prosperous journey by the will of
God to come unto you. For I long to see you,
that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift,
to the end ye may be established ; that is, that
I may be comforted together with you by the
mutual faith both of you and me. Now I would
not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes
I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hither-
to,) that I might have some fruit among you also,
even as among other Gentiles. I am debtor both
to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians ; both to
the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in
me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you
that are at Home also. For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ : for it is the power of
God imto Siilvation to eveiy one that believeth ;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from
faith to faith: "as it is written, The just shall
July 31, Mom. ROMANS, I. Feb. 16, Even.
live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and un-
righteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness ; because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath
shewed it unto them. For the invisible things
of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; so
that they are without excuse : because that, when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful ; but became vain in
their imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools, and changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God
also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves : who changed the
truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who
is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God
gave them up unto vile affections : for even their
women did change the natural use into that
which is against nature : and likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another ; men
with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their
error which Wiis meet. And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a. reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not convenient ; being filled
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with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, mur-
der, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, back-
biters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evd things, disobedient to parents,
without understanding, covenantbreakers, with-
out natural affection, implacable, unmerciful :
who knowing the judgment of God, that they
which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, bat have pleasure in them
that do them.
CHAPTER IL
Aug. 1, Morning; Feb. 17, Evening."
THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, man,
whosoever thou art that judgest : for
wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things. But we are sure that the judgment of
God is according to truth against them which
commit such things. And thinkest thou this,
O man, that judgest them which do such things,
and doest the same, that thou shalt esaipe the
judgment of God ? Or despisest thou the riches
of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffer-
ing ; not knowing that the goodness of God
leadeth thee to repentance ? But after thy hard-
ness and impenitent heart treasurest up imto
thyself wrath against the day of wrath and reve-
lation of the righteous judgment of God ; who
will render to every man according to his deeds :
to them who by patient continuance in welldoing
seek for glory and honour and immortality,
eternal life : but unto them that are contentious,
and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteous-
Aug. 2, Morn. ROMANS, II. Feb. 18, Even.
ness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and
anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil,
of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but
glory, honour, and peace, to every man that
Avorketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the
Gentile : for there is no respect of persons with
God. For as many as have sinned without law
shall also perish without law : and as many as
have sinned in the law shall be judged by the
law ; (for not the hearers of the law are just be-
fore God, but the doers of the law shall be jus-
tified. For when the Gentiles, which have not
the law, do by nature the things contained in the
law, these, having not the law, are a law unto
themselves : which shew the work of the law
v\rritten in their hearts, their conscience also bear-
ing witness, and their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the
day when God shall judge the secrets of men by
Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Jng. 2, Morning ; Fei. 18, Evening.
BEHOLD, thou art called a Jew, and restest
in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
and knowest his will, and approvest the things
that are more excellent, being instructed out of
the law ; and art confident that thou thyself art
a guide of the bhnd, a light of them which are
in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher
of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of
the truth in the law. Thou therefore which teach-
est another, teachest thou not thyself ? thou that
preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
thou that sayest a man should not commit adul-
tery, dost thou commit adultery 1 thou that
abhorrest idols, dost thou counnit sacrilege ? thou
Aug. 3, Mom. ROMANS, III. Feb. 19, IJven.
that inakest thy boast of the law, through break-
ing the law dishonourest thou God ? For the
name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
through you, as it is written. For circumcision
verily profiteth, if thou keep the law : but if
thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision
is made uncircumcision. Therefore if the uncir-
cumcision keep the righteousness of the law. shall
not his uncircumcision be counted for circum-
cision ? And shall not uncircumcision which is
by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by
the letter and circumcision dost transgress the
law ? For he is not a Jew, which is one out-
wardly ; neither is that circumcision, which is
outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is
one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose
praise is not of men, but of God.
CHAPTER III.
Aug. 3, Morning ; Ftb. 19, Evening.
WHAT advantage then hath the Jew ? or
what profit is there of circumcision ?
Much every way : chiefly, because that unto
them were committed the oracles of God. For
what if some did not believe ? shall their unbelief
make the fiiith of God without eflect ? God for-
bid : yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;
as it is written. That thou might^st be justified
in thy saying.s, and mightest overcome when
thou art judged. But if our unrighteousness
commend the righteousness of God, what shall
we say ? Is God unrighteous who taketh ven-
geance ? (I speak as a man) God forbid : for
then how shall God judge the world .? For if
Aug. 3, Mom. ROMANS, III. Feb. 19, Even.
the truth of God hath more abounded through
my lie unto his glory ; why yet am I also judged
as a sinner *? and not rather, (as we be slander-
ously reported, and as some affirm that we say,)
Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
damnation is just. What then I are we better
than they ? No, in no wise : for we have before
proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are
all under sin ; as it is written, There is none
righteous, no, not one : there is none that under-
standeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are to-
gether become unprofitable ; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open
sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used
deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips :
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness :
their feet are swift to shed blood : destruction
and misery are in their ways : and the way of
peace have they not known : there is no fear of
God before their eyes. Now we know that what
things soever the law saith, it saith to them who
are under the law : that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become guilty
before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight : for
by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now
the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the
prophets ; even the righteousness of God which
is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe : for there is no diff'erence : for
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God ; being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : whom
Aug. 4, Morn. ROMANS, IV. Feb. 20, Even.
God hath set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God ; to declare, I say, at this
time his righteousness : that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which belie veth in Jesus.
Where is boa,sting then ? It is excluded. By
what law ? of works ? Nay : but by the law of
faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is
justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Is he the God of the Jews only ? is he not also
of the Gentiles ? Yes, of the Gentiles also :
seeing it is one God, which shall justify the cir-
cumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through
faith. Do we then make void the law through
faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law.
CHAPTEE IV.
Ai/g. 4, Morning : Feb. 20, Evening.
WHAT shall w^e say then that Abraham
our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath
found ? For if Abraham were justified by works,
he hath whereof to glory ; but not before God.
For what saith the scripture ? Abraham believed
God, and it was counted unto him for righteous-
ness. Now to him that worketh is the reward
not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him
that worketh not, but believeth on him that
justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness. Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man, unto whom God
imputeth righteousness without works, saying,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man
to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh
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this blessedness then upon the circumcision only,
or upon the uncircumcision also ? for we say that
faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
How was it then reckoned ? when he was in cir-
cumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in cir-
cumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he
received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had yet being
uncircumcised : that he might be the father of
all them that believe, though they be not cir-
cumcised ; that righteousness might be imputed
unto them also : and the father of circumcision
to them who are not of the circumcision only,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith of
our father Abraham, which he had being yet un-
circumcised. For the promise, that he should
be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham,
or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith. For if they which are of
the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the jjro-
mise made of none effect : because the law work-
eth wrath : for where no law is, there is no
transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it
might be by grace ; to the end the promise might
be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which
is of the law, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham ; who is the father of us all,
(as it is written, I have made thee a father of
many nations,) before him whom he believed,
even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth
those things which be not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he
might become the father of many nations, ac-
cording to that which was spoken. So shall thy
seed be. And being not weak in faith, he con-
Jug. 5, Mom. ROMANS, V. Feb. 21, Even.
sidered not his own body now dead, when he
was about an hundred years old, neither yet the
deadness of Sarah's womb : he staggered not at
the promise of God through unbelief ; but was
strong in faith, giving glory to God ; and being
fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he
was able also to perform. And therefore it was
imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was
not written for his sake alone, that it was im-
puted to him ; but for us also, to whom it shall
be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up
Jesus our Lord from the dead ; who was delivered
for our offences, and was raised again for our
justification.
CHAPTER V.
Aug. 5, Morning ; Feb. 21, Evening.
THEEEFOEE being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ : by whom also we have access by
faith into this grace wherein we stand, and re-
joice in hope of the glory of God. And not only
so^ but we glory in tribulations also : knowing
that tribulation worketh patience ; and patience,
experience ; and experience, hope : and hope
maketh not ashamed ; because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us. For when we were yet
without strength, in due time Clirist died for the
ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will
one die : yet peradventure for a good man some
would even dare to die. But God commendeth
his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then,
being now justified by his blood, we shall be
Aug. 5, Mom. ROMANS, V. Feb. 21, Even.
saved from wrath through him. For if, when
we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of his Son, much more, being recon-
ciled, we shall be saved by his hie. And not
only so, but we also joy in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now re-
ceived the atonement. Wherefore, as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin ; and so death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned : (for until the law sin was in
the world : but sin is not imputed when there
is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not
sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgres-
sion, who is the figure of him that was to come.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift.
For if through the offence of one many be dead,
much more the grace of God, and the gift by
grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath
abounded unto many. And not as it was by
one that sinned, so is the gift : for the judgment
was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is
of many offences unto justification. For if by
one man's offence death reigned by one ; much
more they which receive abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by
one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence
of one judgment came upon all men to condem-
nation ; even so by the righteousness of one the
free gift came upon all men unto justification of
life. For as by one man's disobedience many were
made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous. Moreover the law
entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more
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abound : that as sin hath reigned unto death, even
so might grace reign through righteousness unto
eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
: CHAPTER VI.
Aug. 6, Morning ; Feb. 22, Evening.
WHAT shall we say then ? Shall we con-
tinue in sin, that grace may abound '?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin,
live any longer therein ? Know ye not, that so
many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death ? Therefore we are
buried with him by baptism into death : that
like as Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life. For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also in the liJceness of his resurrection :
knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he
that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be
dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him : knowing that 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 our Lord. Let not sin
therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither
yield ye your members as instruments of un-
righteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves
unto God, as those that are alive from the dead.
Aug. 7, Mom. ROMANS, VII. Feb. 23, Even.
and your members as instruments of righteous-
ness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion
over you : for ye are not under the law, but
under grace. What then ? shall we sin, because
we are not under the law, but under grace ? God
forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are
to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or
of obedience unto righteousness^ But God be
thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but
ye have obeyed from the heart that form of
doctrine which was delivered you. Being then
made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness. I speak after the manner of men
because of the infirmity of your flesh : for as ye
have yielded your members servants to unclean-
ness and to iniquity unto iniquity ; even so now
yield your members servants to righteousness
unto holiness. For when ye were the servants
of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What
fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are
now ashamed 1 for the end of those things is
death. But now being made free from sin, and
become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto
holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the
wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is
eteriial life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
CHAPTER VII.
Aug. 7, Morning ; Feb. 23, Evening.
KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them
that know the law,) how that the law hath
dominion over a man as long as he liveth ? For
the woman which hath an husband is bound by
the law to her husband so long as he liveth ;
Aug. 7, Mom. E03IAKS, YII. Feb. 23, Even.
but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from
the law of her husband. So then if, while her
husband Uveth, she be married to another man,
she shall be called an adulteress : but if her hus-
band be dead, she is free from that law ; so that
she is no adidteress, though she be married to
another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also
are become dead to the law by the body of
Christ ; that ye should be married to another,
tven to him who is raised from the dead, that
we should brmg forth fruit unto God. For when
we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which
were by the law, did work in our members to
bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held ; that we should seiwe in newness
of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
What shidl we say then ? Is the law sin ? God
forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the
law : for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking
occasion by the commandment, wrought in me
all manner of concupiscence. For without the
law sin was dead. For I was alive without the
law once : but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died. And the commandment,
which was ordained to life, I found to he unto
death. For sin, taking occasion by the com-
mandment, deceived me, and by it slew 7ne.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the command-
ment holy, and just, and good. Was then that
which is good made death unto me ? God for-
bid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working
death in me by that which is good ; that sin
by the commandment might become exceeding
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sinfiil. For we know that the law is spiritual :
but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which
I do I allow not : for what I would, that do I not ;
but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that
which I would not, I consent unto the law that
it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that
in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing : for to will is present with me ; but hoio
to perform that which is good I find not. For
the good that I would I do not : but the evil
which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that
I would not. it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that,
when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man : but I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind, and bring-
ing me into captivity to the law of sin which is
in my members. O wretched man that I am !
who shall deliver me from the body of this death ?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So
then with the mind I myself serve the law of
God ; but with the flesh the law of sin.
CHAPTER VIII.
Aug. 8, Morning ; Feb. 24, Evening.
THERE is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spu-it of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, aiid for sin.
Aug. S, Mom. ROMANS, Till. Feb. 2i, Even.
condemned sin in the flesh : that the righteous-
ness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they
that are after the flesh do mind the things of the
flesh ; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded
is death ; but to be spiritually minded is life
and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God : for it is not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be. So then they that
are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are
not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any
man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead
because of sin ; but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he
that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that
dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall 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 sons of God.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage
again to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit
of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are the children of God : and if children, then
heirs ; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ ;
if so be that we sufter with him, that we may be
also glorified together.
Aug. 9, Morru ROMANS, VIII. Feb. 25, Even.
Aug. 9, Morning; Feb. 25, Evening.
FOR I reckon that the sufferings of this pre-
sent time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not
willmgly, but by reason of him who hath sub-
jected the same in hope, because the creature
itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the chil-
dren of God. For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now. And not only they, but ourselves
also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for
the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
For we are saved by hope : but hope that is
seen is not hope : for what a man seeth,
why doth he yet hope for ? But if we hope
for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities : for we know not what we should
pray for as we ought : but the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the
hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,
because he maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of God. And we know
that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called accord-
ing to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate to he conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. Moreover whom he did
Atig. 10, Mom. ROMANS, IX. Feb. 26, Everu
predestinate, them he also called : and whom he
called, them he also justified : and whom he jus-
tified, them he also glorified. What shall we
then say to these things ? If God he for us, who
can be against us ? He that spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us all things ? I
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's
elect ? It is God that justifieth. Who is he j
that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea I
rather, that is risen again^ who is even at the I
right hand of God, who also maketh intercession 1
for us. Who shall separate us from the love of i
Christ ? shall tribulation, or distress, or perse- |
cution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or j
sword ? As it is written. For thy sake we are I
killed all the day long ; we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that
loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither '
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor j
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, j
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CHAPTER IX.
Aug. 10, Morning; Feb. 26, Evening.
I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my con-
science also bearing me witness in the Holy
Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual
sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that my-
self were accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are
Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and
the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of
Aug. 10, M(ym. ROMANS, IX. Feb. 26, Even.
the law, and the service of God, and the promises ;
whose are the fathers, and of whom as concern-
ing the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God
blessed for ever. Amen. Not as though the
word of God hath taken none effect. For they
are not all Israel, which are of Israel : neither,
because they are the seed of Abraham, are they
all children : but. In Isaac shall thy seed be
caUed. That is. They which are the children of
the flesh, these are not the children of God : but
the children of the promise are counted for the
seed. For this is the word of promise, At this
time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only this ; but when Rebecca also had
conceived by one, even by our father Isaac ; (for
the children being not yet born, neither having
done any good or evil, that the purpose of God
according to election might stand, not of works,
but of him that calleth ;) it was said unto her,
The elder shall serve the younger. As it is
written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated. What shall we say then ? Is there un-
righteousness with God ? God forbid. For he
saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I
will have mercy, and I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion. So then it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scrip-
ture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same
purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew
my power in thee, and that my name might be
declared throughout all the earth. Therefore
hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and
whom he will he hardeneth.
Aug. 11, Mom. ROMANS, IX. Feb. 27, Eceiu
Aug. 11, Morning ; Feb. 27, Evening.
THOU wilt say then unto me, Why doth he
yet find fault ? For who hath resisted his
wlQ 1 Nay but, man, who art thou that repliest
against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him.
that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the
same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto dishonour ? IVhat if God, willing
to shew his wrath, and to make his power known,
endured with much long-suflFeriug the vessels
of wrath fitted to destruction : and that he might
make known the riches of his glory on the ves-
sels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto
glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the
Jews only, but also of the Gentiles ? As he
saith also in Osee, I will call them my people,
which were not my people ; and her beloved,
which was not beloved. And it shall come to
pass, that in the place where it was said unto
them. Ye are not my people ; there shall they be
called the children of the living God. Esaias
also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number
of the children of Israel be as the sand of the
sea, a remnant shall be saved : for he will finish
the work, and cut it short in righteousness :
because a short work wiU the Lord make upon
the earth. And as Esaias said before, Except
the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had
been as Sodonia, and been made like unto
Gomorrha, What shall we say then ? That the
GentQes, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even the righte-
ousness which is of faith. But Israel, which
followed after the law of righteousness, hath not
Aug. 12, Morii. EOMANS, X. Feb. 28, Even.
attained to the law of righteousness. Where-
fore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but
as it were by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumblingstone ; as it is writ-
ten, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and
rock of offence : and whosoever believeth on him
shall not be ashamed.
CHAPTER X.
Aug. 12, Morning; Feb. 28, Evening.
BRETHREN, my heart's desire and prayer to
God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of
God, but not according to knowledge. For they
being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going
about to establish their own righteousness, have
not submitted themselves unto the righteousness
of God. For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to every one that believeth. For
Moses describeth the righteousness which is of
the law. That the man which doeth those things
shall live by them. But the righteousness which
is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine
heart, Who shall ascend into heaven ? (that is,
to bring Christ down from above :) or, Who
shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring
up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith
it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth,
and in thy heart : that is, the word of faitli^
which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation. For
Aug. 13, Mom. EOJIANS, XI. ^ March 1, Even.
the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him
shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek : for the same
Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call
on him in whom they have not believed ? and
how shall they believe in him of whom they
have not heard ? and how shall they hear with-
out a preacher ? and how shall they preach,
except they be sent ? as it is written. How
bejiutiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good
things ! But they have not all obeyed the
gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath be-
lieved our report ? So then fiiith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But
I say. Have they not heard *? Yes verily, their
sound went into all the earth, and their words
unto the ends of the world. But I say, Did not
Israel know ? First Moses saith, I will provoke
you to jealousy by them that are no people, and
by a foolish nation I will anger you. But Esaias
is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
sought me not ; I was made manifest imto them
that asked not after me. But to Israel he saith,
All day long I have stretched forth my hands
unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
CHAPTER XL
Aug. 13, Morning ; March 1, Evening.
IS AY then, Hath God cast away his people ?
God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of
the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people which he
Aug. 13, Mom. ROMANS, XL March 1, Even.
foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith
of Elias ? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy
prophets, and digged down thine altars ; and I
am left alone, and they seek my life. But what
saith the answer of God unto him ? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who
have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace. And
if by grace, then is it no more of works : other-
wise grace is no more grace. But if it be of
works, then is it no more grace : otherwise work
is no more work. What then ? Israel hath not
obtained that which he seeketh for ; but the
election hath obtained it, and the rest were
blinded (according as it is written, God hath
given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they
should not see, and ears that they should not
hear ;) unto this day. And David saith. Let
their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a
stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them :
let their eyes be darkened, that they may not
see, and bow down their back alway. I say
then, Have they stumbled that they should fall ?
God forbid : but rather through their fall sal-
vation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke
them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the
riches of the world, and the diminishing of them
the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their
fulness ? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch
as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify
mine office : if by any means I may provoke to
emulation them which are my flesh, and might
save some of them. For if the casting away of
Aug, 14, Mom. ROMANS, XI. March 2, Even.
them be the reconciling of the world, what shall
the receiving of them be, but life from the dead ?
For if the firstfniit be holy, the lump is also
holy : and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and
thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in
among them, and with them partakest of the
root and fatness of the olive tree ; boast not
against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou
wilt say then. The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in. Well ; because of
unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest
by faith. Be not highminded, but fear : for if
God spared not the natural branches, take heed
lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore
the goodness and severity of God : on them
which fell, severity ; but toward thee, good^ness,
if thou continue in his goodness : otherwise thou
also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they
abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in :
for God is able to graff them in again. For if
thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild
by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature
into a good olive tree : how much more shall
these, which be the natural branches, be grafted
into their own olive tree ?
Atip. 14, Morning; March 2, Evening.
FOR I would not, brethren, that ye should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be
wise in your own conceits ; that blindness in part
is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be
saved : as it is written, There shall come out of
Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away imgod-
+
Jug. 15, Mor7i. ROMANS, XII. Mar. 3, Feb. 29, Even.
liness from Jacob : for this is my covenant unto
them, when I shall take away their sins. As
concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your
sakes : but as touching the election, they are
beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and
calling of God are without repentance. For as
ye in times past have not believed God, yet have
now obtained mercy through their unbelief : even
so have these also now not believed, that through
your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For
God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he
might have mercy upon all. the depth of the
riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and
his ways past finding oat ! For who hath known
the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his
counsellor ? or who hath first given to him, and
it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of
him, and through him, and to him, are all things :
to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
CHAPTER XII.
Avg. 15, Morning; March 3, Feb. 29, Evening.
I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. And be not
conformed to this world : but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God. For I say, through the grace given
unto me, to every man that is among you, not to
think of himself more highly than he ought to
think ; but to think soberly, according as God
hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Aug. 15, Morn: ROMANS, XII. Mar. 3, Feb. 29, Even.
For as we have many members in one body, and
all members have not the same office : so we,
bemg many, are one body in Christ, and every
one members one of another. Having then gifts
differing according to the grace that is given to
us, whether prophecy, let us ^prophesy according
to the proportion of faith ; or ministry, let us
luait on our ministering : or he that teacheth, on
teaching ; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation :
he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity ; he
that ruleth, with diligence ; he that sheweth
mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be without
dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil ; cleave
to that which is good. Be kindly atfectioned
one to another with brotherly love ; in honour
preferring one another ; not slothful in business ;
fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord ; rejoicing in
hope ; patient in tribulation ; continuing instant
in prayer ; distributing to the necessity of saints ;
given to hospitality. Bless them which perse-
cute you : bless, and curse not. Eejoice with
them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
weep. Be of the same mind one toward another.
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of
low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide
things honest in the sight of all men. If it be
possible, a5 much as lieth in you, live peaceably
with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not your-
selves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it
is written. Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith
the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger,
feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so
doing thou sbalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be
not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Aug. IC, Mom. ROMANS, XIII. March 4, Even.
CHAPTER XIII.
Aug. 16, Morning ; March 4, Evening.
LET every soul be subject unto the higher
powers. For there is no power but of God :
the powers that be are ordained of God. Whoso-
ever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the
ordinance of God : and they that resist shall
receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are
not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt
thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that
which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the
same : for he is the minister of God to thee for
good. But if thou do that which is evil, be
afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain :
for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Where-
fore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath,
but also for conscience sake. For for this cause
pay ye tribute also : for they are God's ministers,
attending continually upon this very thing.
Eender therefore to all their dues : tribute to
whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ;
fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another :
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou
shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt
not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and
if there be any other commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no
ill to his neighbour : therefore love is the ful-
filling of the law. And that, knowing the time,
that now it is high time to awake out of sleep :
for now is our salvation nearer than when we
Aug. 17, Mom. ROMANS, XIV. March 5, Even.
believed. The night is far spent, the day is at
hand : let us therefore Ciist off the works of dark-
ness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let
us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting
and drunkenness, not in chambering and Avan-
tonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not pro-
vision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof,
CHAPTER XIV.
^j«7. 17, Morning; J/arc/i 5, Evening.
HDI that is weak in the faith receive ye, but
not to doubtful disputations. For one be-
lieveth that he may eat all things : another, who
is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth
despise him that eateth not ; and let not him
which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God
hath received him. Who art thou that judgest
another man's servant ? to his own master he
standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up :
for God is able to make him stand. One man
esteemetli one day above another : another es-
teemeth every day alike. Let every man be
fully persuaded in his own mind. He that re-
gardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord;
and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord
he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to
the Lord, for he giveth God thanks ; and he that
eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth
God thanks. For none of us liveth to him-
self, and no man dieth to himself. For
whether we live, we live unto the Lord ; and
whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether
we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For
to this end Clirist both died, and rose, and
Atiif. 17, Morn. EOMANS, XIV. March 5, Even.
revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead
and living. But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy
brother ? for we shall all stand before the judg-
ment seat of Christ. For it is written, As 1 live,
saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and
every tongue shall confess to God. So then every
one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more :
but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his
brother's way. I know, and am persuaded by
the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of
itself : but to him that esteemeth any thing to
be uncleim, to him it is unclean. But if thy
brother be grieved with thij meat, now walkest
thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy
meat, for whom Christ died. Let not then your
good be evil spoken of: for the kingdom of God
is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, and
peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that
in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to
God, and approved of men. Let us therefore
follow after the things which make for peace,
and things wherewith one may edify another.
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things
indeed are pure ; but it is evil for that man who
eateth with offence. It is good neither to eat
flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby
thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made
weak. Hast thou faith? have it to thyself
before God. Happy is he that condemneth not
himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he
thatdoubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth
not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Aug. 19, .\fom. ROMANS, XVI. 3Iarch 7, Even.
their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have
been made partakers of their spiritual things,
their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal
thmgs. When therefore I have performed this,
and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come
by you into Spain. And I am sure that, when
I come unto you. I shall come in the fulness of
the blessing of the gospel of Christ. Now I be-
seech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's
sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive
together with me in your prayers to God for me ;
that I may be delivered from them that do not
believe in Judaea ; and that my service which I
have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the siiints ;
that I may come unto you with joy by the will
of God, and may with you be refreshed. Now
the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
CHAPTER XVI.
Aii{j. 19, Morning , March 7, Evening.
I COMMEND unto you Phebe our sister,
which is a servant of the church which is at
Cenchrea : that ye receive her in the Lord, as
becometh samts, and that ye assist her in what-
soever business she hath need of you : for she
hath been a succourer of many, and of myself
also. Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in
Christ Jesus : who have for my life laid down
their own necks : unto whom not only I give
thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Likewise greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my wellbeloved Eprenetus, who is the
firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. Greet Mary,
who bestowed much labour on us. Salute
Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my
Aug. 19, Morn. ROMANS, XVI. March 7 , Even.
fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apos-
tles, who also were in Christ before me. Greet
Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Salute
Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my
beloved. Salute Apelles approved in Christ.
Salute them which are of Aristobulus^ household.
Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that
be of the household of Narcissus, which are in
the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who
labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis,
which laboured much in the Lord. Salute Eufus
chosen ia the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hennas, Patrobas,
Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his
sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are
with them. Salute one another with an holy
kiss. The churches "of Christ salute you. Now
I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause
divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine
which ye have learned ; and avoid them. For
they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus
Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words
and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the sim-
ple. For your obedience is come abroad unto all
unen. I am glad therefore on your behalf : but
yet I would have you wise unto that which is
good, and simple concerning evil. And the God
of peace shall bmise Satan under your feet
shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you. Amen. Timotheus my workfellow,
and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kins-
men, salute you. I Tertius, who wrote this
epistle, salute you in the Lord. Gains mine host,
and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus
Aug. 20, 3Iom. I. CORIXTHIANS, I. March 8, Even.
the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and
Quartus a brother. The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen. Now to him
that is of power to stablish you according to my
gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, accord-
ing to the revelation of the mystery, which was
kept secret since the world began, but now is
made manifest, and by the scriptures of the pro-
phets, according to the commandment of the
everlasting God, made known to all nations for
the obedience of faith : to God only wise, be
glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
"Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe
servant of the church at Cenchrea.
FIRST EPISTLE OF PALL THE APOSTLE TO THE
COEIXTHIAXS.
CHAPTER I.
Atig. 20, Morning ; March 8, Evening.
PAUL, called to he an apostle of Jesus Christ
through the will of Gxxi, and Sostheues our
brotlier, unto the church of God which is at
Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ
Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every
place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our
Lord, both their 's and our's : Grace be unto you,
and peace, from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on
your behalf, for the grace of God which is given,
you by Jesus Christ ; that in every thing ye are
enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all
Atcg. 20, Mam. I. CORINTHIANS, I. Marc7i 8, Even.
knowledge ; even as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed ia you : so that ye come behind in no
gift ; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ : who shall also confirm you unto the end,
that ye may he blameless in the day of our Lord
Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were
called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord. Noav I beseech you, brethren, by the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak
the same thing, and that there be no divisions
among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined to-
gether in the same mind and in the same judg-
ment. For it hath been declared unto me of
you, my brethren, by them ivhich are of the
house of Chloe, that there are contentions among
you. Now this I say, that every one of you
saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of
Cephas ; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided ?
was Paul crucified for you ? or were ye baptized
in the name of Paul ? I thank God that I bap-
tized none of you, but Crispus and Gains ; lest
any should say that I had baptized in mine own
name. And I baptized also the household of
Stephanas : besides, I know not whether I bap-
tized any other. For Christ sent me not to
baptize, but to preach the gospel : not with
wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should
be made of none efi'ect. For the preaching of
the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but
unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise, and will bring to nothing the under-
standing of the prudent. Where is the wise ?
where is the scribe i where is the disputer of
this world ? hath not God made foolish the
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Aug. 21, 3Iom. I. CORINTHIANS, IT. March 9, Even.
wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wis-
dom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
save them that believe. For the Jews require a
sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom : but we
preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stum-
blingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ;
but unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wis-
dom of God. Because the foolishness of God is
wiser than men ; and the weakness of God is
stronger than men.
Aug. 21, Morning: March 9, Evening.
FOE ye see your calling, brethren, how that
not many wise men after the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble, are called : but God
hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise ; and God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to confound the things
which are mighty ; and base things of the world,
and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought
things that are : that no flesh should glory in
his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righ-
teousness, and sanctification, and redemption :
that, according as it is written, He that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord.
CHAPTEK II.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring unto you the testimony of God. For
I determined not to know any thing among you,
save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I
was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in
Atig, 21, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, II. March 9, Even.
much trembling. And my speech and my preach-
ing loas not with enticing words of man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power :
that your faith should not stand in the wisdom
of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we
speak wisdom among them that are perfect : yet
not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes
of this world, that come to nought : but we speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world
unto our glory : which none of the princes of
this world knew : for had they known it, they
would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him. But God hath revealed
them unto us by his Spirit : for the Sj^irit search-
eth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him 1 even so the
things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit
of God. Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the spirit which is of God ;
that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God. Which things also we speak,
not in the words which man^s wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God : for they are foolishness unto him : neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all
things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For
who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he
Aug. 22, 3Iorn. I. CORINTHIAXS. HI. 3Iarch 10, Evm.
may instruct him ? But we have the mind of
Christ.
CHAPTEE III.
Aug. 22, Morning; March 10, Evening.
A XD L, brethren, could not speak unto you as
jl\. unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as
imto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk,
and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able
to hear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye
are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you
env>ing, and strife, and divisions, are ye not
carnal, and walk as men ? For while one saith,
I am of Paul ; and another, I am of Apollos ;
are ye not carnal ? Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed,
even as the Lord gave to every man ? I have
planted, Apollos watered ; but God gave the
increase. So then neither is he that planteth
any thing, neither he that watereth ; but God
that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth
and he that watereth are one : and every man
shall receive his own reward according to his
own labour. For we are labourers together with
God : ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's
building. According to the grace of God which
is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I
have laid the foundation, and another buildeth
thereon. But let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can
no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if any man build upon this foun-
dation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
stubble ; every mans work shall be made mani-
fest : for the day shall declare it, because it shall
Aug. 23, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, IV. Mar. 11, Even.
be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try every
man's work of what sort it is. If any man's
work abide which he hath built thereupon, he
shall receive a reward. If any man's work shaU
be burned, he shall sufl'er loss : but he himself
shall be saved ; yet so as by fire. Know ye not
that ye are the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man
defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ;
for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye
are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man
among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let
him become a fool, that he may be wise. For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness with
God. For it is written. He taketh the wise in
their own craftiness. And again. The Lord
knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are
vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. For
all things are your's ; whether Paul, or ApoUos,
or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come ; all are your's ; and
ye are Christ's ; and Clirist is God's.
CHAPTER lY.
Aug. 23, Morning ; March 11, Evening.
LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers
of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of
God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that
a man be found faithful. But with me it is a
very small thing that I should be judged of you,
or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine
own self. For I know nothing by myself ; yet
am I not hereby justified : but he that judgeth
me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before
the time, until the Lord come, who both will
Aug. 23, 3Iom. I. CORINTHIANS, IV. Mar. ii, Even.
bring to light the hidden things of darkness,
and will make manifest the counsels of the
hearts : and then shall every man have praise of
God. And these things, brethren, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for
your sakes ; that ye might learn in us not to
think of men above that which is written, that
no one of you be puffed up for one against
another. For who maketh thee to differ from
another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not
receive ? now if thou didst receive it, why dost
thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned
as kings without us : and I would to God ye did
reign, that we also miglit reign with you. For I
think that God hath set forth us the apostles
last, as it were appointed to death : for we are
made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels,
and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but
ye are wise in Christ ; we are weak, but ye are
strong ; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and
thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have
no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working
with our own hands : being reviled, we bless ;
being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed,
we intreat : we are made as the filth of the world,
and are the oflscouring of all things unto this
day. I write not these things to shame you, but
as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye
have ten thousand inst meters in Christ, yet have
ye not many fathers : for in Christ Jesus I have
begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I
beseech you, be ye followers of me. For this
cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is
Aug. 24, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, V. Mar. 12, Even.
my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who
shall bring you into remembrance of my ways
which be in Christ, as I teach every where in
every church.
Aug. 24, Morning ; March 12,'Evening.
"VTOW some are puflted up, as though I would
Xl not come to you. But I will come to you
shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the
speech of them which are puffed up, but the
power. For the kingdom of God is not in word,
but in power. What will ye ? shall I come unto
you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of
meekness ?
CHAPTER V.
It is reported commonly that there is fornica-
tion among you, and such fornication as is not so
much as named among the Gentiles, that one
should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed
up, and have not rather mourned, that he that
hath done this deed might be taken away from
among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but
present in spirit, have judged already, as though
I were present, concerniyig him that hath so done
this deed, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when ye are gathered together, and my spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to
deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction
of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the
day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not
good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump ? Purge out therefore the old
leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are
unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
sacrificed for us ; therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of
Aug. 25, M<ym. I. CORINTHIAXS, YI. Mar. 13, Even.
malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened
bread, of sincerity and truth. I wrote unto you
in an epistle not to company with fornicators :
yet not altogether with the fornicators of this
world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or
with idolaters ; for then must ye needs go out of
the world. But now I have written unto you
not to keep company, if any man that is called
a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idol-
ater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ;
with such an one no not to eat. For what have
I to do to judge them also that are without ? do
not ye judge them that are within ? But them
that are without God judgeth. Therefore put
away from among yourselves that wicked
person.
CHAPTER YI.
Aug. 25, Morning; March 13, Evening.
DARE any of you, having a matter against
another, go to law before the unjust, and
not before the saints ? Do ye not know that
the saints shall judge the world ? and if the
world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy
to judge the smallest matters ? Know ye not
that we shall judge angels ? how much more
things that pertain to this life ? If then ye
have judgments of things pertaining to this life,
set them to judge who are least esteemed in the
church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that
there is not a wise man among you ? no, not one
that shall be able to judge between his brethren ?
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that
before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is
utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law
Aug. 25, Mcrrn. I. CORINTHIANS, VI. Mar. 13, Even.
one with another. Why do ye not rather take
wrong ? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves
to be defrauded ? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud,
and that your brethren. Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God i Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you : but ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our
God. All things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient : all things are lawful
for me, but I will not be brought under the
power of any. Meats for the belly, and the
belly for meats : but God shall destroy both it
and them. Now the body is not for fornication,
but for the Lord ; and the Lord for the body.
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will
also raise up us by his own power. Know ye
not that your bodies are the members of Christ ?
shall I then take the members of Christ, and
make them the members of an harlot 1 God for-
bid. What? know ye not that he which is
joined to an harlot is one body ? for two, saith
he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto
the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every
sin that a man doeth is without the body ; but
he that committeth fornication sinneth against
his own body. What 1 know ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost whick is
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own? For ye are bought with a price;
mis ""
Aug. 2f5, Mom. I. CORIXTHIAXS, VII. Mar. 14, Even.
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
CHAPTER VII.
Aug. 26, Morning; March 14, Evening.
NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote
unto me : It is good for a man not to
touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornica-
tion, let every man have his own wife, and" let
every woman have her own husband. Let the
husband render unto the wife due benevolence :
and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
The wife hath not power of her o^vn body, but
the husband : and Hkewise also the husband
hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with
consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves
to fasting and prayer ; and come together again,
that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
But I speak this by permission, and not of com-
mandment. For I would that all men were even
as I myself. But every man hath his proper
gift of God, one after this manner, and another
after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and
widows. It is good for them if they abide even as
I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry :
for it is better to marry than to burn. And unto
the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord,
Let not the wife depart from her husband : but
and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or
be reconciled to her husband : and let not the
husband put away his wife. But to the rest
speak I, not the Lord : If any brother hath a
wife that beUeveth not, and she be pleased to
dwell with him, let him not put her away. And
Aug. 27, Morn. I. CORINTHIANS, VII. Mar. 15, Even.
the woman which hath an husband that believeth
not, and if he be jDleased to dwell with her, let
her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband
is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving
wife is sanctified by the husband : else were your
children unclean ; but now are they holy. But
if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A
brother or a sister is not under bondage in such
cases: but God hath called us to peace. For
what knowest thou, wife, whether thou shalt
save thy husband ? or how knowest thou, O man,
whether thou shalt save thy wife ? But as God
hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath
called every one, so let him walk. And so
ordain I in all churches. Is any man called
being circumcised ? let him not become uncir-
cumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision ? let
him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing,
and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping
of the commandments of God. Let every man
abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it :
but if thou mayest he made free, use it rather.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a ser-
vant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he
that is Ciilled, being free, is Christ's servant. Ye
are bought with a price ; be not ye the servants
of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is
called, therein abide with God.
Atig. 27, Morning: March J 5, Evening.
"I^TOW concerning virgins I have no command-
XI ment of the Lord : yet I give my judgment,
as one that hath obtiiined mercy of the Lord to
be faithful. I suppose therefore that this is good
for the present distress, I say, that it is good for
Aug. 27, Mom. L CORIXTHIAXS, YII. Mar. 15, Even.
a man so to be. Art thou bound unto a wife ?
seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a
■wife ? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry,
thou hast not sinned ; and if a virgin marn-, she
hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have
trouble in the flesh : but I spare you. But this
I say, bretliren. the time is short : it remaineth,
that both they that have wives be as though they
had none ; and they that weep, as though they
wept not ; and they that rejoice, as though they
rejoiced not ; and they that buy, as though they
possessed not ; and they that use this world, as
not abusing it: for the fashion of this world
passeth away. But I would have you without
carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for
the things that belong to the Lord, how he may
pleiise the Lord : but he that is married careth
for the things that are of the world, how he may
please /i is wife. There is difference also between
a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman
careth for the things of the Lord, that she may
be holy both in body and in spirit : but she that
is married careth for the things of the world, how
she may please her husband. And this I speak
for your own profit ; not that I may cast a snare
upon you, but for that which is comely, and that
ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself
uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower
of her age, and need so require, let him do what
he will, he sinneth not : let them marry. Never-
theless he that standeth stedfast in his heart,
having no necessity, but hath power over his oAvn
will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he
will keep his virgin, doeth weli So then he
Jug. 28, Mom. I. CORIJ^THIANS, YIII. liar. 16, Even.
that giveth her in marriage doeth well ; but he
that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her hus-
band liveth ; but if her husband be dead, she is
at liberty to be married to whom she will ; only
in the Lord. But she is happier if she so abide,
after my judgment : and I think also that I have
the Spirit of God.
CHAPTER VIII.
Jug. 28, Morning; March 16, Evening.
"VTOW as touching things offered unto idols,
-Ll we know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And
if any man think that he knoweth any thing,
he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
But if any man love God, the same is known of
him. As concerning therefore the eating of those
things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we
know that an idol is nothing in the world, and
that there is none other God but one. For though
there be that are called gods, whether in heaven
or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords
many,) but to us there is but one God, the Fa-
ther, of whom are all things, and we in him ;
and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we by him. Howbeit there is not in
every man that knowledge : for some with con-
science of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing
offered unto an idol ; and their conscience being
weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us not
to God : for neither, if we eat, are we the better ;
neither, if we eat not, are we tlie worse. But
take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's
become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Aug. 29, Morn. I. CORIXTHIAXS, IX. 3Iar. 17, Even,
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge
sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the con-
science of him which is weak be emboldened to
eat those things which are offered to idols ; and
through thy knowledge shall the weak brother
perish, for whom Christ died ] But when ye
sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak
conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if
meat make my brother to offend, I wlQ eat no
flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my
brother to offend.
CHAPTEE IX.
Aug. 29, Morning ; March 17, Evening.
AM I not an apostle 1 am I not free ? have I
JLjl. not seen Jesus Christ our Lord ? are not
ye my work in the Lord ? If I be not an apostle
unto others, yet doubtless I am to you : for the
seiil of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
Mine answer to them that do examine me is
this, Have we not power to eat and to drink ?
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife,
as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of
the Lord, and Cephas ? Or I only and Barnabas,
have not we power to forbear working ? Who
goeth a warfare any time at his own charges ?
who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the
fruit thereof ? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth
not of the milk of the flock ? Say I these things
as a man ? or saith not the law the same also ?
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt
not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out
the corn. Doth God take care for oxen ? Or
saith he it altogether for our sakes ? For our
sakes, no doubt, this is ^vritten : that he that
Attg. 29, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, IX. Mar. 17, Even.
ploweth should plow in hope ; and that he that
thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
If we have sown unto you spiritual thmgs, is it
a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things ?
If others be partakers of this power over you, are
not we rather ? Nevertheless we have not used
this power ; but suffer all things, lest we should
hinder the gospel of Christ. Do ye not know
that they which minister about holy things live
of the things of the temple ? and they which
wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ?
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which
preach the gospel should live of the gospel. But
I have used none of these things : neither have
I written these things, that it should be so done
unto me : for it were better for me to die, than
that any man should make my glorying void.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing
to glory of : for necessity is laid upon me ; yea,
woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel !
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward :
but if against my will, a dispensation of the
gospel is committed unto me. What is my
reward then ? Verily that, when I preach the
gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without
charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I
made myself servant unto all, that I might gain
the more. And unto the Jews I became as a
Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that
are under the law, as imder the law, that I
might gain them that are under the law ; to
them that are without law, as without law,
(being not without law to God, but under the
law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are
Aug. 30, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, X. 3Iar. 18, Even.
without law. To the weak became I as weak,
that I might gain the weak : I am made all
things to all men, that I might by all means
save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake,
that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Ivnow ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receive th the prize ? So run, that
ye may obtain. And every man that striveth
for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now
they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but
we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as
imcertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beat^th the
air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into
subjection : lest that by any means, when I have
preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
CHAPTER X.
Aug. 30, Morning ; March IS, Evening.
MOREOVER, brethren, I would not that ye
should be ignorant, how that all our
fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea ; and were all baptized unto
Moses in the cloud and in the sea ; and did all
eat the same spiritual meat ; and did all drink
the same spiritual drink : for they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them : and that
Rock was Christ. But with many of them God
was not well pleased : for they were overthrown
in the wilderness. Now these things were our
examples, to the intent we should not lust after
evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye
idolaters, as icere some of them ; as it is written.
The people sat down to eat and drmk, and rose
up to play. Neither let us commit fornication,
as some of them committed, and fell in one day
Avg. 30, M(yrn. , I. CORINTHIANS, X. Mar. 18, Even.
three and twenty thousand. Neither let ns
tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and
were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur
ye, as some of them also murmured, and were
destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things
happened unto them for ensamples : and they
are written for our admonition, upon whom the
ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him
that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
There hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to man : but God is faithful, who
will not suffer 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. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee
from idolatry. I speak as to wise men ; judge
ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of
Christ ? The bread which we break, is it not
the communion of the body of Christ ? For Ave
being many are one bread, and one body : for
we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold
Israel after the flesh : are not they which eat of
the sacrifices partakers of the altar 1 What say
I then ? that the idol is any thing, or that which
is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing ? But
I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacri-
fice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God :
and I would not that ye should have fellowship
with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be par-
takers of the Lord's table, and of the table of
devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ?
are we stronger than he ? All things are lawful
for me, but all things are not expedient : all things
Aug. n. Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XL Mar. 19, Even.
are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no
man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat,
asking no question for conscience sake : for the
earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. If
any of them that believe not bid you to a feast,
and ye be disposed to go ; Avhatsoever is set
before you, eat, asking no question for conscience
sake. But if any man say unto you. This is
offered in sacrifice imto idols, eat not for his sake
that shewed it, and for conscience sake : for the
earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the
other : for why is my liberty judged of another
man's conscience ? For if I by grace be a par-
taker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which
I give thanks ? "Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God. Give none offence, neither to the Jews,
nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God :
even as I ^^lease all men in all things, not seek-
ing mine own profit, but the 'profit of many, that
they may be saved.
CHAPTER XL
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of
Christ.
Aug. .31, Morning ; March 19, Evening.
NOW I praise you, brethren, that ye remem-
ber me in all tilings, and keep the ordi-
nances, as I delivered tlum to you. But I would
have you know, that the head of every man is
Christ ; and the head of the woman is the man ;
and the head of Christ is God. Every man
prayuig or prophesying, having his head covered,
dishonoureth lus head. But every woman that
Sept. 1, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XI. Mar. 2 0, Even.
prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered
dishonoureth her head : for that is even all one
as if she M^ere shaven. For if the woman be not
covered, let her also be shorn : but if it be a
shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let
her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to
cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and
glory of God : but the woman is the glory of the
man. For the man is not of the woman ; but
the woman of the man. Neither was the man
created for the woman ; but the woman for the
man. For this cause ought the woman to have
power on her head because of the angels. Never-
theless neither is the man without the woman,
neither the woman without the man, in the
Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so
is the man also by the woman ; but all things of
God. Judge in yourselves : is it comely that a
woman pray unto God uncovered 1 Doth not
even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have
long hair, it is a shame unto him ? But if a
woman have long hair, it is a glory to her : for
her hair is given her for a covering. But if any
man seem to be contentious, we have no such
custom, neither the churches of God.
Sept. 1, Morning ; March 20, Evening.
"VjTOW in this that I declare unto you I praise
_L 1 you not, that ye come together not for the
better, but for the worse. For first of all, when
ye come together in the church, I hear that there
be divisions among you ; and I partly believe it
For there must be also heresies among you, that
they which are approved may be made manifest
among you. When ye come together therefore
into one place, this is not to eat the Lord^s
Sept. 1, Mom. I. CORIXTHIAXS, XL Mar. 20, Even.
supper. For in eating every one taketh before
other his own supper : and one is hungry, and
another is drunken. What ? have ye not houses
to eat and to drink in ] or despise ye the church
of God, and shame them that have not ? What
shall I say to you ? shall I praise you in this ?
I praise you not. For I have received of the
Lord that which also I delivered unto you. That
the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was
betrayed took bread : and when he had given
thanks, he brake it, and said. Take, eat : this is
my body, which is broken for you : this do in
remembrance of me. After the same manner
also he took the cup, when he had supped, say-
ing. This cup is the new testament in my blood :
this do ye. as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance
of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till
he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this
bread, and drink th is cup of the Lord, unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the
Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For
he that eateth and drinketh unwortliily, eateth
and drinketh damnation to himself, not discern-
ing the Lord's body. For this cause many «r«3 weak
and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we
would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the
Lord, that we should not be condemned with the
world. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come
together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any
man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come
not together unto condemnation. And the rest
will I set in order when I come.
Sept 2, Morn. I. CORINTHIANS, XII. Mar. 2UJEven.
CHAPTER XII.
Sept. 2, Morning; March 21, Evening.
NOW concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I
would not have you ignorant. Ye know
that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these
dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I
five you to understand, that no man speaking
y the Spirit of God caUeth Jesus accursed : and
that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but
by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are
differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all. But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man
to profit withal. For to one is given by the
Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another the word
of knowledge by the same Spirit ; to another
faith by the same Spirit ; to another the gifts of
healing by the same Spirit ; to another the
working of miracles ; to another prophecy ; to
another discerning of spirits ; to another divers
kinds of tongues ; to another the interpretation
of tongues : but all these worketh that one and
the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as he will. For as the body is one,
and hath many members, and all the members
of that one body, being many, are one body : so
also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether ice he Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit. For
the body is not one member, but many. If the
foot shall say. Because I am not the hand, I
am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the
Sept. 3, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XII. Mar. 22, Even.
body ? And if the ear shall say. Because I am
not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it there-
fore not of the body ? If the whole body icere
an eye, where were the hearing ? If the whole
loere hearing, where v:ere the smelling ? But
now hath God set the members every one of
them in the body, as it hath pleaded him. And
if they were all one member, where were the
body ? But now are they many members, yet
but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the
head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay,
much more those members of the body, which
seem to be more feeble, are necessary : and those
members of the body, which we think to be less
honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant
honour ; and our uncomely parts have more
abundant comeliness. For our comely parts
have no need : but God hath tempered the body
together, having given more abundant honour
to that part which lacked : that there should be
no schism in the body ; but that the members
should have the same care one for another. And
whether one member suffer, all the members
suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all
the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the
body of Christ, and members in particidar.
Sept. 3, Morning; March 22, Evening.
A ND God hath set some in the church, first
Xx. apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teach-
ers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings,
helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are
all apostles ? are all prophets ] are all teachers ?
are all workers of miracles I have all the gifts of
healing ? do all speak with tongues ? do aU
Sept. 3, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XIII. Mar. 22, Even.
interpret ? But covet earnestly the best gifts :
and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
CHAPTER XIII.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and under-
stand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and
have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity sufFereth long, and is kind ; charity
envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but
rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things, be-
lieveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things. Charity never faileth : but whether
there he prophecies, they shall fail ; whether
there he tongues, they shall cease ; whether there
he knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part. But
when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away. When I
was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child : but when I became a
man, I put away childish things. For now we
see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to
face : now I know in part ; but then shall I
know even as also I am known. And now
abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the
greatest of these is charity.
Sept. 4, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XIV. Mar. 23, Even,
CHAPTER XIV.
Sept. 4, Morning ; March 23, Evening.
FOLLOW after charity, and desire spiritual
gifts, but ratlier that ye may prophesy. For
he that speaketh in an unhwimi tongue speaketh
not unto men, but unto God : for no man under-
standeth him ; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh
mysteries. But he that prophesieth speaketh
unto men to edification, and exhortation, and
comfort. He that speaketh in an iinknoicn
tongue edifieth himself ; but he that prophesieth
edifieth the church. I would that ye all spake
with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied : for
greater is he that prophesieth than he that
speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that
the church may receive edifying. Now, brethren,
if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what
shall I profit you. except I shall speak to you
either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by
f)rophesying, or by doctrine ? And even things
without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp,
except they give a distinction in the sounds, how
shall it be known what is piped or harped I For
if the trumpet give an uncerfciin sound, who
shall prepare himself to the battle ? So likewise
ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to
be understood, how shall it be known what is
spoken ? for ye shall speak into the air. There
are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the
world, and none of them is without signification.
Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice,
I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian,
and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto
me. Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of
spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the
Sept. 5, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XIV. 3Iar. 2^, Even.
edifying of the church. Wherefore let him that
speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he
may interpret. For if I pray in an unknown
tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding
is unfruitful. What is it then ? I will pray with
the spirit, and I will pray with the understand-
ing also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will
sing with the understanding also. Else when
thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he
that occupieth the room of the unlearned say
Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he un-
derstandeth not what thou sayest ? For thou
verily givest thanks well, but the other is not
edified. I thank my God, I speak with tongues
more than ye all : yet in the church I had rather
speak five words with my understanding, that
by my voice I might teach others also, than ten
thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Sept. 5, Morning ; March 24, Evening.
BRETHREN, be not children in understand-
ing : howbeit in malice be ye children, but
in understanding be men. In the law it is
written, With men of other tongues and other
lips will I speak unto this people ; and yet for
all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them
that believe, but to them that believe not : but
prophesying serveth not for them that believe
not, but for them which believe. If therefore
the whole church be come together into one
place, and all speak with tongues, and there come
in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will
they not say that ye are mad 1 But if all pro-
phesy, and there come in one that believeth not,
Sept.b, Morn. I. CORINTHIANS, XI V. J/ar. 2A.,Even,
or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is
judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his
heart made manifest : and so falling down on
Ms face he will worship God, and report that
God is in you of a truth. How is it then,
brethren ? when ye come together, every one of
you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue,
hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let
all things be done unto edifying. If any man
speak in an unhioimi tongue, lei it he by two, or
at the most by three, and that by course ; and
let one interpret But if there be no interpreter,
let him keep silence in the church ; and let him
speak to himself, and to God. Let the prophets
speak two or three, and let the other judge. If
any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by,
let the first hold his peace. For ye may all
prophesy one by one, that aU may learn, and all
may be comforted. And the spirits of the
prophets are subject to the prophets. For God
is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in
aU churches of the saints. Let your women keep
silence in the churches : for it is not permitted
unto them to speak ; but they are commanded
to be under obedience, as also saith the kw.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask
their husbands at home : for it is a shame for
women to speak iu the church. What ] came
the word of God out from you I or came it unto
you only ? If any man think himself to be a
prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that
the things that I write unto you are the com-
mandments of the Lord. But if any man be
ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore,
brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to
Sept. 6, Mcrrn. I. CORINTHIANS, XV. Mar. 25, Even.
speak with tongues. Let all things be done
decently and in order.
CHAPTER XY.
Sept. 6, Morning ; March 25, Evening.
MOREOVER, brethren, I declare unto you
the gospel which I preached unto you,
which also ye have received, and wherein ye
stand ; by which also ye are saved, if jq keep
in memory Avhat I preached unto you, unless ye
have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you
first of all that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sins according to the scrip-
tures ; and that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the scriptures :
and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the
twelve : after that, he was seen of above five
hundred brethren at once ; of whom the greater
part remain unto this present, but some are fallen
asleep. After that, he was seen of James ; then
of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen
of me also, as of one born out of due time. For
I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet
to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
church of God. But by the grace of God I am
what I am : and his grace which was bestowed
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, so we preach, and so
ye believed. Now if Christ be preached that he
rose from the dead, how say some among you
that there is no resurrection of the dead ? But
if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is
Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen.
Sept. 6, Mcynu I CORINTHIANS, XV. Mar. 25, Even.
then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also
vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of
God ; because we have testified of God that he
raised up Christ : whom he raised not up, if so be
that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not,
then is not Christ raised : and if Christ be not
raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins.
Then they also which are fellen asleep in Christ
are perished. If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
But now is Christ riseu from the dead, and
become the firstfruits 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. But
every man in his own order : Christ the first-
fruits ; afterward they that are Christ's at his
coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the
Father ; when he shall have put down all rule
and all authority and power. For he must reign,
till he hath put all 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 mani-
fest that he is excepted, which did put all things
under him. And when all things shall be sub-
dued 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 shall
they do which are baptized for the dead, if the
dead rise not at all ? why are they then baptized
for the dead ? and why stand we in jeopardy
every hour ? I protest by your rejoicing which I
have in Qirist Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If
Sept. 7, Morn. I. CORINTHIANS, XV. Mar. 26, Even.
after the manner of men I have fought with
beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if
the dead rise not ? let us eat and drink ; for to
morrow we die. Be not deceived : evil com-
nmnications corrupt good manners. Awake to
righteousness, and sin not ; for some have not
the knowledge of God : I speak this to your shame.
Sept. 7, Morning; March 26, Evening.
BUT some man will say, How are the dead
raised up? and with what body do they
come ? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die : and that which thou
sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,
but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of
some other grain : but God giveth it a body as
it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own
body. All flesh is not the same flesh : but there
is one hind of flesh of men, another flesh of
beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies ter-
restrial : but the glory of the celestial is one,
and the glory of the terrestrial is another. Tliere
is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the
moon, and another glory of the stars : for one
star diflereth from another star in glory. So also
is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption ; it is raised in incorruption : it is
sown in dishonour ; it is raised in glory : it is
sown in weakness ; it is raised in power : it is
sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
body. And so it is written. The first man
Adam was made a living soul ; the last Adam
ivas made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that
was not first which is spiritual, but that which
Sept.8, Horn. I. CORINTHIANS, XVI. Mar. 27, Even.
is natural ; and afterward that which is spiritual.
The first man is of the earth, earthy : the second
man is the Lord from heaven. As is the
earthy, such arc they also that are earthy :
and as i'.s the heavenly, such are they also
that are heavenly. And as we have borne
the image of the earthy, Ave shall also bear the
image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
of God ; neither doth corruption inherit incor-
ruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery ; We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in
a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal miist put on im-
mortality. So when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
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 ?
grave, where is thy victory ? the sting of death
is sin ; and the strength of sin is the law. But
thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my
beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in
vain in the Lord.
N
CHAPTER XVL
Sept. 8, Morning ; March 27, Evening.
OW concerning the collection for the saints,
as I have given order to the churches of
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Sept. S, Mom. I. CORINTHIANS, XVI. Mar. 27, Even.
Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of
the week let every one of you lay by him in store,
as God hath prospered him, that there be no
gatherings when I come. And when I come,
whomsoever ye shall approve by yoiir letters,
them will I send to bring your liberality unto
Jerusalem. And if it be meet that I go also,
they shall go with me. Now I will come unto
you, when I shall pass through Macedonia : for
I do pass through Macedonia. And it may be
that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that
ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever
I go. For I will not see you now by the way ;
but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord
permit. But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pente-
cost. For a great door and effectual is opened
unto me, and there are many adversaries. Now
if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you
without fear : for he worketh the work of the
Lord, as I also do. Let no man therefore despise
him : but conduct him forth in peace, that he
may come unto me : for I look for him with the
brethren. As touching our brother Apollos, I
greatly desired him to come unto you with the
brethren : but his will was not at all to come at
this time ; but he will come when he shall have
convenient time. Watch ye, stand fast in the
faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your
things be done with charity. I beseech you,
brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that
it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have
addicted themselves to the ministry of the
saints,) that ye submit yourselves unto such, and
to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and
Sept. 9, Mom, II. CORINTHIANS, I. Mar. 28, Even.
Fortunatus and Achaicus : for that which was
lacking on your part they have supplied. For
they have refreshed my spirit and your's : there-
fore acknowledge ye them that are such. The
churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Pris-
cilla salute you much in the Lord, with the
church that is in their house. All the brethren
greet you. Greet ye one another "w-ith an holy
kiss. The salutation of rue Paul with mine own
hand. If any man love not the Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha. The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ he with you. My
love he with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi
by Steplianas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timo-
theus.
SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
CORINTHIANS.
CHAPTER I.
Sept 9, Morning ; March 28, Evening.
PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will
of God, and Timothj^ our brother, unto the
church of God which is at Corinth, with all the
saints which are in all Achaia : Grace he to you
and peace from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God of all comfort ; who com-
fort^th us in all our tribulation, that we may be
able to comfort them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are com-
forted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ
abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth
Sept. 9, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, I. Mar. 28, Even.
by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is
for your consolation and salvation, which is
effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings
which we also suffer : or whether we be comforted,
it is for your consolation and salvation. And
our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye
are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye he also
of the consolation. For we would not, brethren,
have you ignorant of our trouble which came to
us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure,
above strength, insomuch that we despaired even
bf life : but Ave had the sentence of death in
ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in God which raiseth the dead : who delivered
us from so great a death, and doth deliver : in
whom we trust that he will yet deliver ws / ye
also helping together by prayer for us, that for
the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many
persons thanks may be given by many on our
behalf. For our rejoicing is this, the testimony
of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the
grace of God, we have had our conversation in
the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
For we write none other things unto you, than
what ye read or acknowledge ; and I trust ye
shall acknowledge even to the end ; as also ye
have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of
the Lord Jesus. And in this confidence I was
minded to come unto you before, that ye might
have a second benefit ; and to pass by you into
Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia
unto you, and of you to be brought on my way
toward Juda;a. When I therefore was thus
—
Sept. 10, Mom. II. CORINTHIAj^S, II. Mar. 29, Even.
minded, did I use lightness ? or the things that
I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh,
that with me there should be yea yea, and nay
nay ] But as God is true, our word toward you
was not yea and nay. For the Son of God,
Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by
us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus,
was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and
in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ,
and hath anointed us, is God ; who hath also'
sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in
our hearts.
Sept. 10, Morning ; March 29, Evening.
MOREOVER I call God for a record upon
my soul, that to spare you I came not as
yet unto Corinth. Not for thai we have dominion
over your faith, but are helpers of your joy : for
by faith ye stand,
CHAPTER II.
But I determined this with myself, that I
would not come again to you in heaviness. For
if I make you sorry, who is he tlien that maketh
me glad, but the same which is made sorry by
nie ? And I wrote this same unto you, lest-,
when I Clime, I should have sorrow from them
of whom I ought to rejoice ; having confidence
in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all For
out of much aflliction and anguish of heart I
wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye
should be grieved, but that ye might know the
love which I have more abundantly unto you.
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved
me, but in part : that I may not overcharge you
Sept. 11, Mom. II. CORINTHIANS, III. Mar. 30, Even.
all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment,
which was inflicted of many. So that contrari-
wise ye ought rather to forgive him^ and comfort
him, lest perhaps such a one should be swal-
lowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore
I beseech you that ye would confirm your love
toward him. For to this end also did I write,
that I might know the proof of you, whether ye
be obedient in all things. To whom ye forgive
any thing, I forgive also : for if I forgave any
thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes for-
gave I it in the person of Christ ; lest Satan
should get an advantage of us : for we are not
ignorant of Ms devices. Furthermore, when I
came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a
door was opened unto me of the Lord, I had no
rest ill my spirit, because I found not Titus my
brother : but taking my leave of them, I went
from thence into Macedonia.
Sept. 11, Morning; March 30, Evening,
"l^rOW thanks he unto God, which always
Jl^ causeth us to triumph in Christ, and mak-
eth manifest the savour of his knowledge by us
in every place. For we are unto God a sweet
savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in
them that perish : to the one we are the savour
of death unto death ; and to the other the savour
of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these
things ? For we are not as many, which corrupt
the word of God : but as of sincerity, but as of
God, in the sight of God speiik we in Christ.
CHAPTER III.
Do we begin again to commend ourselves ? or
need we, as some others, epistles of commenda-
tion to you, or Utters of commendation from
Sept. 11, Morn. 11. CORINTHIANS, III. Mar. 30, Even.
you ? Ye are our epistle \mtten in our hearts,
known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye
are manifestly declared to be the epistle of
Christ ministered by us, written not with ink,
but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in
tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
And such trust have we through Christ to God-
ward : not that we are sufiicient of ourselves to
think any thing as of ourselves ; but our suffi-
ciency is of God ; who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter,
but of the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the
spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of
death, written and enirraven in stones, was
glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory
of his countenance ; which glory was to be done
away : how shall not the ministration of the
spirit be rather glorious ? For ^ the ministra-
tion of condemnation be glory, imich more doth
the ministration of righteotiisness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no
glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that
excelleth. For if that which is done away was
glorious, much more that which remaineth is
glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope,
we use great plainness of speech : and not as
Moses, ichich put a vail over his face, that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the
end of that which is aboUshed : but their minds
were blinded : for until this day remaineth the
same vail untaken away in the reading of the
old testament ; which vail is done away in
Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is
read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless
Sept. U,Mom. II. CORINTHIANS, IV. Mar. 31, Even,
when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit : and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit
of the Lord.
CHAPTER IV.
Sept. 12, Morning ; March 31, Evening.
THEREFORE seeing we have this ministry,
as we have received mercy, we foint not ;
but have renounced the hidden things of dis-
honesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling
the word of God deceitfully ; but by manifesta-
tion of the truth commending ourselves to every
man's conscience in the sight of God. But if
our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost :
in whom the god of this world hath blinded the
minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image
of God, should shine unto them. For we preach
not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and
ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For
God, who commanded the light to shine out of
darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure
in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the
power may be of God, and not of us. We are
troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; loe
are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted,
but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ;
always bearing about in the body the dying of
the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might
Sept. U, Mom. II. CORINTHIANS, V. ApnL\,EverL
be made manifest in our body. For we which
live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus'
sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death
worketh in us, but life in you. We having the
same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
believed, and therefore have I spoken ; we also
believe, and therefore speak ; knowing that he
which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up
us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
For aU things are for your sakes, that the abun-
dant grace might through the thanksgiving of
many redound to the glory of God. For which
cause we faint not ; but though our outward
man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day
by day. For our light affliction, which is but
for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceed-
ing and eternal weight of glory ; while we look
not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen : for the things which
are seen are temporal ; but the things which are
not seen are eternal.
CHAPTER y.
Sept. 13, Morning; April 1, Evening.
FOR we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a build-
ing of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. For in this Ave groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our
house which is from heaven : if so be that being
clothed we shall not be found naked. For we
that are in this tabernacle do groan, being bur-
dened : not for that we would be unclothed, but
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
Sept. 13, Mcyrn. II. CORINTHIANS, V. April 1, Even.
up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for
the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given
unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we
are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are
at home in the body, we are absent from the
Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we
are confident, I say, and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be present with
the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether
present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat
of Christ ; that every one may receive the things
done in his body, according to that he hath done,
whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore
the terror of the Lord, we pereuade men ; but we
are made manifest unto God ; and I trust also
are made manifest in your consciences. For we
commend not ourselves again unto you, but give
you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may
have somewhat to answer them which glory in
appearance, and not in heart. For whether we
be beside ourselves, it is to God : or whether we
be sober, it is for your cause. For the love of
Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge,
that if one died for all, then were all dead : and
that he died for all, that they which live should
not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto
him which died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh : yea, though we have known Christ after
the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no
more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature : old things are passed away ;
behold, all things are become new. And all
things ar^ of God, who hath reconciled us to
Sept. 14, Morn. 11. CORINTHIANS, VI. April 2, Even.
himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us
the ministry of reconciliation ; to wit, that God
was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them ; and
hath committed unto us the word of reconcHia-
tion. Now then m'o are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God did beseech you by us : we pray
you in Christ^s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
For he hath made him to he sin for us, who knew
no sin ; that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him.
CHAPTER VL
Sept. 14, Morning ; April 2, Evening.
WE then, as workers together with him,
beseech you also that ye receive not the
grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have
heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of
salvation have I succoured thee : behold, now is
the accepted time ; behold, now is the day of
salvation.) Giving no otfence in any thing, that
the ministry be not blamed : but in all things
approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in
much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in
distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tu-
mults, in labours, in watchmgs, in fastings ; by
pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by
kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
by the word of truth, by the power of God, by
the armour of righteousness on the right hand
and on the left, by honour and dishonour, by
evil report and good report : as deceivers, and
yet true ; as unknown, and yet well known ; as
dying, and, behold, we live ; as chastened, and
not kiUed ; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing ; as
poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing,
Sept. 15, Mom. II. CORINTHIANS, VIL April 3, Even.
and yet possessing all things. O ye Corinthians,
our mouth is open unto you, our heart is en-
larged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are
straitened in your own bowels. Now for a
recompence in the same, (I speak as unto ray
children,) be ye also enlarged. Be ye not
unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for
what fellowship hath righteousness with un-
righteousness ? and what communion hath light
with darkness ? and what concord hath Christ
with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel ? and what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple
of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell
in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto
you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith
the Lord Almighty.
"CHAPTER VIL
Having therefore these promises, dearly be-
loved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness
of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the
fear of God.
Sept. 15, Morning; April 3, Evening.
RECEIVE us ; we have wronged no man, we
have corrupted no man, we have defrauded
no man. I speak not this to condemn you : for
I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to
die and live with you. Great is my boldness of
speech toward you, great is my glorying of you :
I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful
in all our tribulation. For, when we were come
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into ^Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we
were troubled on every side ; without were fight-
ings, within were fears. Nevertheless God, that
comforteth those that are cast down, comforted
us by the coming of Titus ; and not by his
coming only, but by the consolation wherewith
he was comforted in you, when he told us your
earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind
toward me ; so that I rejoiced the more. For
though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not
repent, though I did repent : for I perceive that
the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it
were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that
ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to
repentance : for ye were made sorry after a godly
manner, that ye might receive damage by us in
nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance
to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow
of the world worketh death. For behold this
selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly
sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea,
what clearing of yourselves, yea, ichat indigna-
tion, yea, what fear, yea, whai vehement desire,
yea, what zeal, yea, ichat revenge ! In all things
ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this
matter. Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I
did it not for his cause that had done the wrong,
nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that
our care for you in the sight of God might
appear unto you. Therefore we were comforted
in your comfort : yea, and exceedingly the more
joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit
was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted
any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed ; but
as we spake all things to you in truth, even so
Sept. 16, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, VIII. Apnl 4, Even.
our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found
a truth. And his inward aii'ection is more
abundant toward you, whilst he remerabereth
the obedience of you all, how with fear and
trembling ye received him. I rejoice therefore
that I have confidence in you in all things,
CHAPTEK VIII.
Sept. 16, Morning ; April 4, Evening,
MOREOVER, brethren, we do you to wit of
the grace of God bestowed on the churches
of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affiic-
tion the abundance of their joy and their deep
poverty abounded unto the riches of their
liberality. For to their power, I bear record,
yea, and beyond their power they were willing of
themselves ; praying us with much intreaty that
we would receive the gift, and talce upon us the
fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And
this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave
their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the
will of God. Insomuch that we desired Titus,
that as he had begun, so he would also finish in
you the same grace also. Therefore, as ye abound
in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and
knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your
love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion
of the forwardness of others, and to prove the
sincerity of your love. For ye know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye
through his poverty might be rich. And herein
I give my advice : for this is expedient for you,
who have begun before, not only to do, but also
Sept. 1 6, Mom. H. COEINTHIANS, VIII. April 4, Even.
to be forward a year ago. Now therefore perfonn
the doing of it ; that as there u-as a readiness to
will, so there may be a performance also out of
that which ye have. For if there be first a
willing mind, it is accepted according to that a
man bath, and not according to that he hath not
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye
burdened : but by an equality, that now at this
time your abundance may be a sujyply for their
want, that their abundance also may be a supply
for your want : that there may be equality : as
it is written, He that had gathered much had
nothing over ; and he that had gathered little
had no lack. But thanks be to God, which put
the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for
you. For indeed he accepted the exhortation ;
but being more forward, of his own accord he
went unto you. And we have sent with him
the brother, whose praise is in the gospel through-
out all the churches ; and not that only, but who
was also chosen of the churches to travel with us
with this grace, which is administered by us to
the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of
your ready mind : avoiding this, that no man
should blame us in this abundance which is
administered by us : providing for honest things,
not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the
sight of men. And we have sent with them our
brother, whom we have oftentimes proved dili-
gent in many things, but now much more
diligent, upon the great confidence which I have
in you. Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is
my partner and feUowhelper concerning you : or
our brethren be enquired of, they are the messen-
of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
Sept. 17, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, IX. Apnl 5, Even.
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the
churches, the proof of your love, and of our
boasting on your behalf.
CHAPTER IX.^
Sept. 17, Morning ; April 5, Evening.
FOR as touching tlie ministering to the saints,
it is superfluous for me to write to you : for
I know the forwardness of your mind, for which
I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia
was ready a year ago ; and your zeal hath pro-
voked very many. Yet have I sent the brethren,
lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this
behalf ; that, as I said, ye may be ready : lest
haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and
find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye)
should be ashamed in this same confident boast-
ing. Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort
the brethren, that they would go before unto you,
and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
ye had notice before, that the same might be
ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of
covetousness. But this I say. He which soweth
sparingly shall reap also sparingly ; and he which
soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Every man according as he purposeth in his
heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of
necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver. And
God is able to make all grace abound toward
you ; that ye, always having all sufficiency in
all things, may abound to every good work : (as
it is written, He hath dispersed abroad ; he hath
given to the poor : his righteousness remaineth
for ever. Now he that ministereth seed to the
sower both minister bread for your food, and
Sept. 18, Morru 11. CORINTHIANS, X. April 6, Even.
multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits
of your righteousness ;) being enriched in every
thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through
us thanksgi^T.ng to God. For the administra-
tion of this ser^'ice not only supplieth the want
of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God ; whiles by the experi-
ment of this ministration they glorify God for
your professed subjection unto the gospel of
Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto
them, and unto all nun ; and by their prayer
for you, which long after you for the exceeding
gnice of God in you. Thanks be mito God for
his unspeakable gift.
CHAPTEE X.
Sept. 18, Morning ; Ajyril 6, Evening.
NOW I Paul myself beseech you by the
meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in
presence am base among you, but being absent
am bold toward you : but I beseech you, that I
may not be bold when I am present with that
confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against
some, which think of us as if we walked accord-
ing to the flesh. For though we walk in the
flesh, we do not war after the flesh : (for the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds ;) casting down imaginations, and
every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and
having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience,
Avhen your obedience is fulfilled. Do ye look on
things after the outward appearance ? If any
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5ep«. 18, Jl/orn. IL CORINTHIANS, X. April 6, Even.
man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him
of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ^s,
even so are we Christ's. For though I should
boast somewhat more of our authority, Avhich the
Lord hath given us for edification, and not for
your destruction, I should not be ashamed : that
I may not seem as if I would terrify you by
letters. For his letters, say they, are weighty
and powerful ; but his bodily presence is weak,
and his speech contemptible. Let such an one
think this, that, such as we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such will we he also in deed
when we are present. For we dare not make
ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves
with some that commend themselves : but they
measuring themselves by themselves, and com-
jDaring themselves among themselves, are not
M-ise. But we will not boast of things without
our measure, but according to the measure of the
rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure
to reach even unto you. For we stretch not
ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
reached not unto you : for we are come as far as
to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ :
not boasting of things without our measure, that
is, of other men's labours ; but having hope,
when your faith is increased, that we shall be
enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
to preiich the gospel in the regions beyond you,
and not to boast in another man's line of things
made ready to our hand. But he that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord. For not he that com-
mendeth himself is approved, but whom the
Lord commendeth.
SepL 19, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, XI. April 7, Even.
CHAPTER XI.
Sept, 19, Morning; April 7, Evening.
WOULD to God ye could bear with me a
little in my foUy : and indeed bear with
me. For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband,
that I may present you as a chaste virgin to
Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the
serpent beguiled Eve through his subtiity, so
your minds should be corrupted from the sim-
plicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh
preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye
have not received, or another gospel, which ye
have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very
chiefest apostles. But though I be rude in
speech, yet not in knowledge ; but we have been
throughly made manifest among you in aU things.
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself
that ye might be exalted, because I have preached
to you the gospel of God freely ? I robbed other
churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
And when I was present with you, and wanted,
I was chargeable to no man : for that which was
lacking to me the brethren which came from
Macedonia supplied : and in all thiiiys I have
kept myself from being burdensome unto you,
and so will I keep myself. As the truth of
Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
boasting in the regions of Achaia. Where-
fore ] because I love you not ? God knoweth.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off
occasion from them which desire occasion ; that
wherein they glory, they may be found even as
Sept. 19, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, XL ApHl 7, Even.
we. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of
Christ. And no marvel ; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it
is no great thing if his ministers also be trans-
formed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose
end shall be according to their Avorks. I say
again, Let no man think me a fool ; if otherwise,
yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself
a little. That which I speak, I speak it not
after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this
confidence of boasting. Seeing that many glory
after the flesh, I will glory also. For ye suffer
fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. For
ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a
man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man
exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. I
speak as concerning reproach, as though we had
been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold,
(I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. Are they
Hebrews '? so am I. Are they Israelites ] so am
L Are they the seed of Abraham ? so am L
Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool)
I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more frequent, in
deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I
forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with
rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered ship-
wreck, a night and a day I have been in the
deep ; in journey ings often, in perils of waters,
in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own
countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils
in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils
in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in
weariness and painfulness, in watchings often,
Sept. 20, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, XII. Airril 8, Even.
in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold
and nakedness. Beside those things that are
without, that which cometh upon me daily, the
care of ail the churches. Who is weak, and I
am not weak I who is offended, and I burn not ?
Sept. 20, Morning; April 8, Evening.
IF I nmst needs glory, I will glory of the things
which concern mine infirmities. The God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is
blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king
kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison,
desirous to apprehend me : and through a window
in a basket was I let down by the wall, and
escaped his hands.
CHAPTER XII.
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years
ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or
whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God
knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third
heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in
the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell : God
knoweth ;) how that he wiis caught up into
paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it
is not lawful for a man to utter. Of such an
one will I glory : yet of myself I will not glory,
but in mine infirmities. For though I would
desire to glory, I shall not be a fool ; for I wiU
say the truth : but noio I forbear, lest any man
should think of me above that which he seeth
me to he, or that he heareth of me. And lest I
should be exalted above measure through the
abundance of the revelations, there was given to
Sept. 21, Morn. II. CORINTHIANS, XII. Apnl9,Even.
me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan
to bufiet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure. For this thiug I besought the Lord
thrice, that it might depart from me. And he
said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for
my strength is mnde perfect in weakness. Most
gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infir-
mities, that the power of Christ may rest upon
me. Therefore 1 take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in dis-
tresses for Christ's sake : for when I am weak,
then am I strong. I am become a fool in glorying ;
ye have compelled me : for I ought to have been
commended of you: for in nothingam I behind the
very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. Truly
the signs of an apostle were wrought among you
in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty
deeds. For what is it wherein ye were inferior to
other churches, except it he that I myself was
not burdensome to you ? forgive me this wrong.
Sept. 21, Morning ; April 9, Evening.
BEHOLD, the third time I am ready to come
to you ; and I will not be burdensome to
you : for I seek not your's, but you : for the
children ought not to lay up for the parents, but
the parents for the children. And I will very
gladly spend and be spent for you ; though the
more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
But be it so, I did not burden you : nevertheless,
being crafty, I caught you with guile. Did I
make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent
unto you ? I desired Titus, and with Uiyn I sent
a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you?
walked we not in the same spirit ? tvalked ive
not in the same steps ? Again, think ye that
Sept. 21, Mom. II. CORINTHIANS, XIII. April 5, Even.
we excuse ourselves unto you ? we speak before
God in Christ : but v:e do all things, dearly be-
loved, for your edifying. For I fear, lest, when
I come, I shall not find you such as I would,
and that I shall be found unto you such as ye
would not : lest there he debates, envyings,
wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swell-
ings, tumults : and lest, when I come again, my
God will humble me among you, and that I shall
bewail many which have sinned already, and have
not repent^ of the uncleanness and fornication
and lasciviousness which thev have committed.
CHAPTEE Xni.
This is the third time I am coming to you.
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall
every word be established. I told you before,
and foretell you, as if I were present, the second
time ; and being absent now I writ-e to them
which heretofore have sinned, and to all other,
that, if I come again, I will not spare : since ye
seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to
you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
For though he was crucified through weakness,
yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also
are weak in him, but we shall live with him by
the power of God toward you. Examine your-
selves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how
that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be repro-
bates ? But I trust that ye shall know that we
are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye
do no evil ; not that we should appear approved,
but that ye should do that which is honest,
though we be as reprobates. For we can do
nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For
Sept. 22, Morn. GALATIANS, I. April 10, Even.
we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are
strong : and this also we wish, even your per-
fection. Therefore I write these things being
absent, lest being present I should use sharpness,
according to the power which the Lord hath
given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of
good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and
the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Greet one another with an holy kiss. All the
saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and the communion
of the Holy Ghost, he with you all. Amen.
The second epistle to the Corinthians was ^v^itten from
Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.
THE EPISTLE OP PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ,
GALATIANS.
CHAPTER I.
Sept. 22, Morning; April 10, Evening.
PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by
man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the
Father, who raised him from the dead ;) and all
the brethren which are with me, unto the
churches of Galatia : Grace he to you and peace
from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus
Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he
might deliver us from this present evil world,
according to the will of God and our Father : to
whom he glory for ever and ever. Amen. I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that CiiUed you into the grace of Christ unto
another gospel : which is not another ; but there
be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
•f
Sept. 22, Morn. GALATIAXS, I. April 10, Even.
gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you
than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed. As we said before, so say I
now again, K any man preach any other gospel
unto you than that ye have received, let him be
accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God ?
or do I seek to please men ? for if I yet pleased
men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But
I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which
was preached of me is not after man. For I
neither received it of man, neither was I taught
it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye
have heard of my conversation in time past in
the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I
persecuted the church of God, and wasted it :
and profited in the Jews' religion above many
my equals in mine own nation, being more ex-
ceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from
my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him
among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not
with flesh and blood : neither went I up to
Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me ;
but I went into Arabia, and returned again imto
Damascus. Then after three years I went up to
Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him
fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I
none, save James the Lord's brother. Now the
things which I write unto you, behold, before
God, I lie not. Afterwards I came into the
regions of Syria and Cilicia ; and was unknown
by face unto the churches of Judsea which were
in Christ : but they had heard only. That he
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Sept. 23, M(mi. GALATIANS, II. April 11, Even.
which persecuted us in times past now preacheth
the faith which once he destroyed. And they
glorified God in me.
CHAPTER n.
Sept. 23, Morning; April 11, Evening.
THEN fourteen years after I went up again
to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took
Titus with mc also. And I went up by revela-
tion, and communicated unto them that gospel
which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately
to them which were of reputation, lest by any
means I should run, or had run, in vain. But
neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek,
was compelled to be circumcised : and that
because of false brethren unawares brought in,
who came in privily to spy out our liberty
which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might
bring us into bondage : to whom we gave place
by subjection, no, not for an hour ; that the
truth of the gospel might continue with you.
But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (what-
soever they were, it maketh no matter to me :
God accepteth no man's person :) for they who
seemed to he somewhat in conference added
nothing to me : but contrariwise, when they saw
that the gospel of the uncircumcision was com-
mitted unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision
wds unto Peter ; (for he that wrought effectually
in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision,
the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles :)
and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed
to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given
unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right
hands of fellowship ; that we should go unto the
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Sept. 23, Mom. ^ GALATIAXS, IL ~ April \\, Even.
heathen, and they unto the circumcision. Only
they would that we should remember the poor ;
the same which I also was forward to do. But
when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood
him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
For before that certain came from James, he did
eat with the Gentiles : but when they were
come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing
them which were of the circumcision. And the
other Jews dissembled likewise with him ; in-
somuch that Biirnabas also was carried away
with their dissimulation. But when I saw that
they walked not uprightly according to the truth
of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all.
If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of
Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why com-
pellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews ?
\Ve icho are Jews by nature, and not sinners of
the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified
by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus
Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
and not by. the works of the law : for by the
works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But
if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we
ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore
Christ the minister of sin ? God forbid. For if
I build again the things which I destroyed, I
make myself a transgressor. For I through the
law am dead to the law, that I might live unto
God. I am crucified with Christ : nevertheless
I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me : and
the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the
Sept. 24, 3/om. GALATIANS, III. Apnl 12, Even.
grace of God : for if righteousness come by the
kw, then Christ is dead in vain.
CHAPTER III.
Sept. 24, Morning : April 12, Evening.
O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched
you, that ye should not obey the trvith,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evi-
dently set forth, crucified among you ? This
only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit
by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith ? Are ye so foolish 1 having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh ?
Have ye suffered so many things in vain ? if it
he yet in vain. He therefore that niinistereth
to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among
you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by
the hearing of faith ? Even as Abraham believed
God, and it was accounted to him for righteous-
ness. Know ye therefore that they which are of
faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the heathen through faith, preached before
the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall
all nations be blessed. So then they which be
of fiiith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For
as many as are of the works of the law are under
the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one
that continueth not in all things which are
written in the book of the law to do them. But
that no man is justified by the law in the sight
of God, it is evident : for, The just shall live by
faith. And the law is not of faith : but, The
man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ
hath redeemed us from the corse of the law,
Sept. 24, Monu GALATIA^'S, III. April 12, Even,
being made a curse for iis : for it is written,
Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree : that
the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ : that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men ;
Though it he but a man's covenant, yet if it
he confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth
thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds,
as of many ; but as of one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ. And this I say, that the cove-
nant, that was confirmed before of God in
Christ, the law, which was four hundred and
thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it
should make the promise of none efiect. For if
the inheritance he of the law, it is no more of
promise : but God gave it to Abraham by
promise. Wherefore then serveth the law ? It
was added because of transgressions, till the seed
should come to whom the promise was made ;
and it wa^ ordained by angels in the hand of a
mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of
one, but God is one. Is the law then against the
promises of God ? God forbid : for if there had
been a law given which could have given life,
verily righteousness should have been by the
law. But the scripture hath concluded all under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe. But before
faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up
unto the faith which should afterwards be re-
vealed. Wherefore the law was our school-
master to bring ns unto Christ, that we might
be justified by fiiith. But after that faith is
Sept. 25, Morn. GALATIANS, IV. April 13, Even.
come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There
is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor female : for
ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye he
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
a<x;ording to the promise.
CHAPTER IV.
Sept. 25, Morning; Jpril 13, Evening.
NOW I say, That the heir, as long as he is a
child, differeth notliing from a servant,
though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and
governors until the time appointed of the father.
Even so we, when we were children, were in
bondage under the elements of the world : but
when the fulness of the time was come, God sent
forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, to redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons. And
because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant,
but a son ; and if a son, then an heir of God
through Christ. Howbeit then, when ye knew
not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have
known God, or rather are known of God, how
turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ?
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and
years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed
upon you labour in vain. Brethren, I beseech
Sept. 26, Morn. GALATIANS, IV. April 14, Even.
you, be as I am ; for I am as ye are : ye have
not injured me at all. Ye know how through
infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto
you at the first. And my temptation which was
in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected ; but
received me as an angel of God, even as Christ
Jesus. Where is then the blessednass ye spake
of ? for I bear you record, that, if it had been
possible, ye would have plucked out your own
eyes, and have given them to me. Am I there-
fore become your enemy, because I tell you the
truth i They zealously afiect you, hut not well ;
yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect
them. But it is good to be zeidously aff"ected
always in a good thing, and not only when I am
present -with you. IVIy little children, of whom
I travail in birth again untd Christ be formed in
you, I desire to be present with you now, and
to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of
you.
Sept. 26, Morning ; Ap)-U 14, Evening.
TELL me, ye that desire to l">e under the law,
do ye not hear the law ? For it is written,
that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-
maid, the other by a freewoman. But he who
teas of the bondwoman Avas born after the flesh ;
but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which
things are an allegory : for these are the two
covenants ; the one from the mount Sinai, which
gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this
Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth
to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage
with her children. But Jerusalem which is above
is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is
written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not ;
Sept 26, Mom. GALATIANS, V. Apnl 14, Even,
break forth and cry, thou that travailest not :
for the desolate hath many more children than
she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren,
as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But
as then he that wa,s born after the flesh perse-
cuted him that was horn after the Spirit, even so
it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scrip-
ture ? Cast out the bondwoman and her son :
for the son of the bondman shall not be heir
with the son of the freewoman. So then, breth-
ren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but
of the free.
CHAPTER V.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled
again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul
say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to
every man that is circumcised, that he is a
debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become
of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are jus-
tified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace. For
we through the Spirit wait for the hope of
righteousness by fliith. For in Jesus Christ
neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor un-
circumcision ; but faith which worketh by love.
Ye did run well ; who did hinder you that
ye should not obey the truth ? This persuasion
cometh not of him that calleth you. A little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump. I have con-
fidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be
none otherwise minded : but he that troubleth
you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,
why do I yet suffer persecution 1 then is the
S€2)t. 27, Manu GALATIANS, V. April 15, Even.
offence of the cross ceased. I would they were
even cut off which trouble you.
Sept. 27, Morning ; April 15, Evening.
FOE, brethren, ye have been called unto
liberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion
to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For
all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this ;
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But
if ye bite and devour one another, take heed
that ye be not consumed one of another. This
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ve shall not
fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh : and these are contrary the one to the
other : so that ye cannot do the things that ye
would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not
under the law. Now the works of the flesh are
manifest, which are these ; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatr}', witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emuLatious, wrath, strife, sedi-
tions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness,
revellings, and such like : of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told yon in time past, that
they which do such things sh:dl not inherit the
kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good-
ness, faith, meekness, temperance : against such
there is no law. And they that are Christ's
have crucified the flesh with the affections and
lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also
walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of
vain glory, provoking one another, envying one
another.
Sept. 28, Mom. GALATIANS, VI. April 16, Even,
CHAPTER VI.
Sept. 28, Morning; Apnl 16, Evening.
BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a
fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such
an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one
another^s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
For if a man think himself to be something,
when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But
let every man prove his own work, and then
shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not
in another. For every man shall bear his own
burden. Let him that is taught in the word
communicate unto him that teacheth in all good
things. Be not deceived ; God Ls not mocked :
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
And let us not be weary in well doing : for in
due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As
we have therefore opportunity, let us do good
unto all meAi, especially unto them who are of
the household of faith. Ye see how large a letter
I have written unto you with mine own hand.
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the
flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised ; only
lest they should suffer persecution for the cross
of Christ. For neither they themselves who are
circumcised keep the law ; but desire to have
you circumcised, that they may glory in your
flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
world. . For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
Sept. 30, Mom. EPHESIANS, I. April 17, Even.
availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a
new creature. And as many as walk according
to this rule, peace he, on them, and mercy, and
upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no
man trouble me : for I bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ he with your spirit.
Amen.
Tnto the Galatians written from Rome.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
EPHESIAXS.
CHAPTER L
Sept. 30, Morning ; April 17, Evening.
PAL^L, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will
of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus,
and to the faithful in Clirist Jesus : Grace be to
you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed he the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Oirist, who hath
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
'places in Christ : according as he hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world, that
•we should be holy and without blame before him '
in love : having predestinated us unto the adop- i
tion of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, to the :
praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath |
made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we j
have redemption through his blood, the forgive- |
ness of sins, according: to the riches of his grace ; ;
wherein he hath abounded toward us in all I
wisdom and prudence ; having made known ;
unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
Sept. 30, Morn. EPHESIANS, I. April 17, Even.
good pleasure which he hath purposed in him-
self : that in the dispensation of the fulness of
times he might gather together in one till things
in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which
are on earth ; even in him : in whom also we
have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all
things after the comisel of his own will : that we
should be to the praise of his glory, who first
trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of
your salvation : in whom also after that ye be-
lieved, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession,
unto the praise of his glory. Wherefore I also,
after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus,
and love unto all the saints, cease not to give
thanks for you, making mention of you in my
prayers ; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him. : the eyes of your understanding being en-
lightened ; that ye may know what is the hope
of his calling, and what the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the
exceeding greatness of his power to us- ward who
believe, according to the working of his mighty
power, which he wrought in Christ, when he
raised him from the dead, and set him at his
own right hand in the heavenly 'places, far above
all principality, and power, and might, and do-
minion, and every name that is named, not only
in this world, but also in that which is to come :
and hath put all things under his feet, and gave
L33J ■
Oct. 1, Morn. EPHESIAXS, II. AprU 18, Even.
him to he the head over all things to the church,
which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth
all in all.
CHAPTER IL
Oct. 1, Morning; April IS, Evening.
A ND you hath he quickened, who were dead
J\. in trespasses and sins ; wherein in time
past ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of
the au\ the spirit that now worketh'in the chil-
dren of disobedience : among whom also we all
had our conversation in times past in the lusts
of our tiesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
of the mind ; and were by nature the children
of -wTath, even as others. But God, who is rich
in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved
us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quick-
ened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved ;) and hath raised us up together, and
made xis sit together in heayenlj places in Christ
Jesus : that in the ages to come he might shew
the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus, For by grace
are ye saved through faith ; and that not of your-
selves : it is the gift of God : not of works, lest
any man should boast. For we are his work-
mansliip, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them. Wherefore remember,
that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by
hands ; that at that time ye were without Christ,
beincr aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,
Oct. 2, Mom: EPHESIANS, III. April 19, Even.
and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope, and without God in the world :
but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were
far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one,
and hath broken down the middle wall of par-
tition between us ; having abolished in his flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments con-
tained in ordinances ; for to make in himself of
twain one new man, so making peace ; and that
he might reconcile both unto God in one body
by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby :
and came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through
him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints,
and of the household of God ; and are built upon
the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief comer stone ;
in whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in
whom ye also are builded together for an habi-
tation of God through the Spirit.
CHAPTER III.
Oct. 2, Morning; ApHl 19, Evening.
FOR this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus
Christ for you Gentiles, if ye have heard of
the dispensation of the grace of God which is
given me to you-ward : how that by revelation
he made known unto me the mystery ; (as I
wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read,
ye may understand my knowledge in the mys-
tery oi' Christ) which in other ages was not made
Oct. 2, Mom. EPHESIANS, 111. April 19, Even,
known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed
unto his holy apostles and prophets by the
Spirit ; that the Gentiles should be fellowheirs,
and of the same body, and partakers of his pro-
mise in Christ by the gospel : whereof I was
made a minister, according to the gift of the
grace of God given unto me by the effectual
working of his power. Unto me, wlio am less
than the least of all saints, is this grace given,
that I should preach among the Gentries the
unsearchable riches of Christ ; aud to make all
men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been
hid in God, who created all things by Jesus
Christ : to the intent that now unto the princi-
palities and powers in heavenly places might be
known by the church the manifold wisdom of
God, according to the eternal purpose which he
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord : in whom we
have boldness and access with confidence by the
faith of him. Wherefore I desire that ye faint
not at my tribulations for you, which is your
glory. For this cause I bow my knees unto the
Father of our Xiord Jesus Christ, of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named, that
he Avould grant you, according to the riches of
his glory, to be strengthened with might by his
Spirit in the inner man ; that Christ may dwell
in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted
and grounded in love, may be able to compre-
hend with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height ; and to know the
love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye
might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now
unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly
Oct. 3, Mom. EPHESTANS, IV. April 20, Even.
above all that we ask or think, according to the
power that worketh in us, unto him he glory in
the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages,
world without end. Amen.
CHAPTER IV.
Oct. 3, Morning ; April 20, Evening.
I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, be-
seech you that ye walk worthy of the voca-
tion wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness
and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one
another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one
body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above
all, and through all, and in you all. But unto
every one of us is given grace according to the
measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he
saith, When he ascended up on high, he led cap-
tivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now
that he ascended, what is it but that he also de-
scended first into the lower parts of the earth ?
He that descended is the same also that ascended
up far above all heavens, that he might fill all
things.) And he gave some, apostles ; and some,
prophets ; and some, evangelists ; and some,
pastors and teachers ; for the perfecting of the
saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edify-
ing of the body of Christ : till we all come in the
unity of the foith, and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the mea-
sure of the stature of the fulness of Christ : that
we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and
fro, and carried about with every wind of doc-
Oct. ^, Mom. EPHESIANS, IV. April 21, Even.
trine, by the sleight of men. OTid cunning crafti-
ness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive ; but
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into
him in all things, which is the head, even Christ :
from whom the whole body fitly joined together
and compacted by that which every joint sup-
plieth, according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase of the
body unto the edifying of itself in love. This I
say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in
the vanity of their mind, having the understand-
ing darkened, being alienated from the life of
G^ through the ignorance that is in them, be-
cause of the blindness of their heart : who being
past feeling have given themselves over unto
lascivious ness. to work all uncleanness with
greediness. But ye have not so Iciirned Christ ;
if so be that ye have heard him, and have been
taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus : that ye
put off concerning the former conversation the
old man, which is corrupt according to the de-
ceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of
your mind ; and that ye put on the new man,
wliich after God is created in righteousness and
true holiness.
Oct. 4, Morning; April 21, Evening.
WHEREFORE putting away lying, speak
every man truth with his neighbour : for
we are members one of another. Be ye angry,
and sin not : let not the sun go down upon your
wrath : neither give place to the devil. Let him
that stole steal no more : but rather let him
labour, working with h is hands the thing which
is good, that he may have to give to him that
Oct. i, Mom. EPHESIANS, V. April 21, Even.
needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed
out of your mouth, but that which is good to the
use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto
the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of
God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of re-
demption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put
away from you, with all malice : and be ye kind
one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath for-
given you.
CHAPTER V.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear chil-
dren ; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved
us, and hath given himself for us an offering and
a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
But fornication, and aU uncleanness, or covetous-
ness, let it not be once named among you, as
becometh saints ; neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient :
but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know,
that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any in-
heritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Let no man deceive you with vain words : for
because of these things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye
therefore partakers with them. For ye were
sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the
Lord : walk as children of light : (for the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness
and truth ;) proving what is acceptable unto the
Lord. And have no feUowship with the unfruit-
ful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things
Oct. 5, Mom. EPHESIANS, V. April 22, Even.
which are done of them in secret. But all things
that are reproved are made manifest by the light :
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give
thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly,
not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time,
because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not
unwise, but understanding what the will of the
Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, where-
in is excess ; but be filled with the Spirit ;
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord ; giving thanks always
for all things unto God and the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ ; submitting
yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ocf. 5, Morning; Jpn7 22, Evening.
WIVES, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ
is the head of the church : and he is the saviour
of the body. Therefore as the church is subject
unto Christ, so let the wives he to their o^vn hus-
bands in every thing. Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and
gave himself for it ; that he might sanctify and
clciinse it with the washing of water by the word,
that he might present it to himself a glorious
church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such
thing ; but that it should be holy and without
blemish. So ought men to love their wives as
their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself. For no man ever yet hated his own
liesh ; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as
Oct. 6, Mom. EPHESIANS, VI. April 23, Even.
the Lord the church : for we are members of his
body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this
cause shall a man leave his father and mother,
and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two
shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery : but
I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular
so love his wife even as himself ; and the wife
see that she reverence her husband.
CHAPTER VI.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord : for
this is right. Honour thy father and mother ;
which is the first commandment with promise ;
that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest
live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke
not your children to wrath : but bring them up
in the nuture and admonition of the Lord. Ser-
vants, be obedient to them that are your masters
according to the flesh, with fear and trembling,
in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ ; not
with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but as the ser-
vants of Christ, doing the will of God from the
heart ; with good will doing service, as to the
Lord, and not to men : knowing that whatsoever
good thing any man doeth, the same shall he
receive of the Lord, whether he he bond or free.
And, ye masters, do the same things unto them,
forbearing threatening : knowing that your
Master also is in heaven ; neither is there respect
of persons Avith him.
Oct. 6, Morning ; April 23, Evening.
FINALLY, my brethren, be strong in the
Lord, and in the power of his might. Put
on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able
to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we
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Oct. 6, Mom. EPHESIANS, VI. April 23, Even.
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high 'places. Wherefore take unto
you the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to withstand in the evil day, and having
done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness ; and your feet shod
with the preparation of the gospel of peace ;
above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith
ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts
of the wicked. And take the helmet of salva-
tion, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the
word of God : praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
for all saints ; and for me, that utterance njay be
given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly,
to make known the mystery of the gospel, for
which I am an ambassador in bonds : that therein
I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. But
that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do,
Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister
in the Lord, shall make known to you all things :
whom I have sent unto you for the same pur-
pose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he
might comfort your hearts. Peace he to the
brethren, and love with faith, from God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace he
with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in
sincerity. Amen.
Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tycliicus.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
PHILIPPIANS.
CHAPTER I.
Oct. 7, Morning ; April 24, Evening.
PAUL and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus
Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus
which are at Philippi, with the bishops and
deacons : Grace be unto you, and peace, from God
our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I
thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
always in every prayer of mine for you all making
request with joy, for your fellowship in the gos-
pel from the first day until now ; being con-
fident of this very thing, that he which hath
begun a good work in you will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ : even as it is meet for
me to think this of you all, because I have you
in my heart ; inasmuch as both in my bonds,
and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel,
ye all are partakers of my grace. For God is my
record, how greatly I long after you all in the
bowels of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that
your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment ; that ye may
approve things that are excellent ; that ye may
be sincere and without offence till the day of
Christ ; being filled with the fruits of righteous-
ness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory
and praise of God. But I would ye should un-
derstand, brethren, that the things which hap-
pened unto me have fallen out rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel ; so that my bonds in
Oct. 7, Morn. PHILIPPIANS, I. April 24, Even.
Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all
other 'places ; and many of the brethren in the
Lord, waxiHg confident by my bonds, are much
more bold to speak the word without fear. Some
indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife ;
and some also of good will : the one preach
Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to
add affliction to my bonds : but the other of love,
knowing that I am set for the defence of the
gospel. What then ] notwithstanding, every
way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is
preached ; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will
rejoice. For I know that this shall turn to my
salvation through your prayer, and the supply
of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my
earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing
I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness,
as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified
in my body, whether it he by life, or by death.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my
labour : yet what I shall choose I wot not. For
I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to
depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far
better : nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more
needful for you. And having this confidence,
I know that I shall abide and continue with you
all for your furtherance and joy of faith ; that
your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus
Christ for me by my coming to you again. Onlj'
let your conversation be as it becometh the gos-
pel of Christ : that whether I come and see you,
or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind
striving together for the faith of the gospel ; and
Oct. 8, Morn. PHILIPPIANS, 11. April 25, Even.
in nothing terrified by your adversaries : which
is to them an evident token of perdition, but to
you of salvation, and that of God. For unto yoii
it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to
believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ;
having the same conflict which ye saw in me,
and now hear to be in me.
CHAPTER II.
Oct. 8, Morning ; April 25, Evening.
IF there he therefore any consolation in Christ,
if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of
the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye
my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same
love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory ; but
in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better
than themselves. Look not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the things of
others. Let this mind be in you, which was also
in Christ Jesus : who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God :
but made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was made
in the likeness of men : and being found in
fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name : that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth ; and
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Where-
fore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not
Oct. 8, Ucynu PHILIPPIAXS, II. AprU 25, Even.
as in my presence only, but now much more in
my absence, work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disput-
ings : that ye may be blameless and harmless,
the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of
a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye
shine as lights in the world ; holding forth the
word of life ; that I may rejoice in the day of
Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither
laboured in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon
the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and
rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do
ye joy, and rejoice with me. But I trust in the
Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you,
that I also may be of good comfort, when I know
your state. For I have no man likeminded, who
wdll naturally care for your state. For all seek
their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
with the father, he hath served with me in the
gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently,
so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
But I trust in the Lord that I also myseK shall
come shortly. Yet I supposed it necessary to
send to you Epaphroditus. my brother, and com-
panion in kibour, and fellowsoldier, but your
messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
For he longed after you all, and was full of
heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had
been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh unto
death : but God had mercy on him ; and not on
him only, but on me also, lest I should have
sorrow upon sorrow. I sent liim therefore the
Oct. 9, Mom. PHILIPPIANS, III. April 26, Even.
more carefully, that, when ye see hun again, ye
may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all glad-
ness ; and hold such in reputation : because for
the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not
regarding his life, to supply your lack of service
toward me.
CHAPTER III.
Oct. 9, Morning; Ajrril 26, Evening.
FINALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same things to you, to me
indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware
of the concision. For we are the circumcision,
which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh.
If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof
he might trust in the flesh, I more : circumcised
the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe
of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews ; as
touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal,
persecuting the church ; touching the righteous-
ness which is in the law, blameless. But what
things were gain to me, those I counted loss for
Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things, and do count them but
dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in
him, not having. mine own righteousness, which
is of the law, but that which is through the faith
of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by
faith : that I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
Oct. 10, Mom. PHILIPPIANS, IV. April 27, Even.
being made conformable unto his death ; if by
any means I might attain unto the resurrection
of the dead. Not as though I had already
attained, either were already perfect : but I follow
after, if that I may apprehend that for which
also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren,
I count not myself to have apprehended : but
this one thing I do, forgetting those things which
are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before, I press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect,
be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be other-
wise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained,
let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the
same thing. Brethren, be followers together of
me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us
for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I
have told you often, and now tell you even weep-
ing, that they are the enemies of the cross of
Christ : whose end is destruction, whose God is
their belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
who mind earthly things.) For our conversation
is in heaven ; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ : who shall change
our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto
his glorious body, according to the working
whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto
himself.
CHAPTER IV.
Oct. 10, Morning ; April 27, Evening.
THEREFORE, my brethren dearly beloved
and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand
Oct. 10, Morn. PHILIPPIANS, IV. April 27, Eveh.
fast in the Lord, mij dearly beloved. I beseech
Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of
the same mind in the Lord. And I intreat thee
also, true yokefellow, help those women which
laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement
also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose
names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the
Lord alway : and again I say, Rejoice. Let your
moderation be known unto all men. The Lord
is at hand. Be careful for nothing ; but in every
thing by prayer and supplication with thanks-
giving let your requests be made known unto
God. And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, what-
soever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report ; if there
he any virtue, and if there he any praise, think
on these things. Those things, which ye have
both learned, and received, and heard, and seen
in me, do : and the God of peace shall be with
you. But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now
at the last your care of me hath flourished again ;
wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked
opportunity. Not that I speak in respect of
want : for I have learned, in whatsoever state I
am, therewith to be content. I know both how
to be abased, and I know how to abound : every
where and in all things I am instructed both to
be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to
suffer need. I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me. Notwithstanding ye
have well done, that ye did communicate with
Oct.U,3Iom. COLOSSIANS, I. Jpril 28, Even, \
my affliction. Now ye Pliilippians know also, ;
that in the beginning of the gospel, when I de- !
parted from jNlacedonia, no church communicated
■with me as concerning giving and receiving, but
3^e only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once
and again unto my necessity. Not because I
desire a gift : but I desire fruit that may abound
to your account. But I have all, and abound : I
am full, having received of Epaphroditus the
things ivhkh icere sent from you, an odour of a
sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing
to God. But my God shall supply all your need
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever
and ever. Amen. Salute every saint in Christ
Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet
you. All the saints salute you, chiefly they that
are of Csesar's household. The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with you alL Amen.
It was written to the Pliilippians from Rome by Epapliro-
ditus.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
COLOSSIAXS.
CTIAPTER I.
Oct. 11, Morning ; Jpril 28, Evening.
PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will
of God, and Timotheus our brother, to the
saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are
at Colosse : Grace be unto you, and peace, from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We
give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, prapng always for you, since we
Oct. 11, Moi-n. COLOSSIANS, I. April 28, Even.
heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the
love which ye have to all the saints, for the hope
which is laid up for you in. heaveu, whereof ye
heard before in the word of the truth of the
gospel ; which is come unto you, as it is in all
the world ; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth
also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and
knew the grace of God in truth : as ye also
learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who
is for you a faithful minister of Christ ; who also
declared unto us your love in the Spirit. For
this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do
not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye
might be filled with the knowledge of his will in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding ; that ye
might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,
being fruitful in every good work, and increasing
in the knowledge of God ; strengthened with
all might, according to his glorious power, unto
all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness ;
giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in Kght ; who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness, and hath translated iis into
the kingdom of his dear Son : in whom we have
redemption through his blood, even the forgive-
ness of sins : who is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of every creature : for by him
were all things created, that are in heaven, and
that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be tlirones, or dominions, or principalities
or powers : all things were created by him, ana
for him : and he is before all things, and by him
all things consist. And he is the head of the
body, the church : who is the beginning, the
Oct. 12, ^ilomx. COLOSSIAXS, I. April 29, Even.
firstborn from the dead ; that in all things he
might have the preeminence. For it pleased the
Father that in him should all fulness dwell ;
and, having made peace through the blood of his
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto him-
self ; by him, I say, whether they be things in
earth, or things in heaven.
Oct. 12, Morning ; April 29, Evening.
AND you, that were sometime alienated and
L. enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight : if
ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,
and be not moved away from the hope of the
gospel, which ye have heard, and which was
preached to every creature which is under hea-
ven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister ; who
now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up
that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ
in my flesh for his body^s sake, which is the
church : whereof I am made a minister, accord-
ing to the dispensation of God which is given to
me for you, to fulfil the word of God ; er<;?i the
mystery which hath been hid from ages and
from generations, but now is made manifest to
his saints : to whom God Avould make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the
hope of glory : w^hom we preach, warnmg every
man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ;
that we may present every man perfect in Christ
Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving ac-
cording to his working, which worketh in me
mightilv.
Oct. 13, Mom. COLOSSIANS, II. April 30, Even.
CHAPTER II.
For I would that ye knew what great conflict
I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and
for as many as have not seen my face in the
flesh ; that their hearts might be comforted,
being knit together in love, and unto all riches
of the full assurance of understanding, to the
acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of
the Father, and of Christ ; in whom are liid all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And
this I say, lest any man should beguile you with
enticing words. For though I be absent in the
flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and
beholding your order, and the stedfastness of
your faith in Christ. As ye have therefore
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in
him : rooted and built up in him, and stablished
in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving.
Oct. 13, Morning ; Ajoril 30, Evening.
BEWARE lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tra-
dition of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all
the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are
complete in him, which is the head of all prin-
cipality and power : in whom also ye are cir-
cumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ : buried with
him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with
him through the faith of the operation of God,
who hath raised him from the dead. And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision
of your flesh, hath he quickened together with
Oct. 14, Mortu COLOSSIAXS, III. May 1, Even,
him, having forgiven you all trespasses ; blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was
against us, which was contrary to us, and took
it out of the way, nailing it to his cross \ and
having spoiled principalities and powers, he
made a shew of them openly, triumphing over
them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in
meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or
of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which
are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is
of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your
reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping
of angels, intruding into those things which he
hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind, and not holding the Head, from which all
the body by joints and bands having nourish-
ment ministered, and knit together, increaseth
with the increase of God. Wherefore if ye be
dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are
ye subject to ordinances, (touch not ; taste not ;
handle not ; which all are to perish Avith the
using ;) after the commandments and doctrines
of men ? Which things have indeed a shew of
wisdom in will worship, and humiUty, and neg-
lecting of the body ; not in any honour to the
satisfying of the flesh.
CHAPTER III.
Oct. 14, Moruiiig ; May 1, Evening.
IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth
on the right hand of God. Set your aflection on
things above, not on things on the earth. For
ye are dead, and your life is hid with. Christ in
Oct. 14, Morn. COLOSSIANS, III. May 1, Emriy
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 disobe-
dience : in the which ye also walked some time,
when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off
all these ; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth. Lie not one
to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man
with his deeds ; and have put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge after the image
of him that created him : where there is neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free : but Christ
is all, and in all. Put on therefore, as the elect
of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies,
kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-
suffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving
one another, if any man have a quarrel against
any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
And above all these things^M^ on charity, which
is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of
God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are
called in one body ; and be ye thankful. Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And
whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
and the Father by him.
Oct. 15, Mom. COLOSSIAJfS, IV. May 2, 3, Even.
Oct. 15, Morning ; May 2, Evening, to chap. 4 r. 7 ;
May 3, Evening, from chap. 4 f. 7.
WIVES, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Hus-
bands, love your wives, and be not bitter against
them. Children, obey your parents in all things :
for this is wellpleasing unto the Lord. Fathers,
provoke not your children to anger, lest they be
discouraged. Servants, obey in all things your
masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-
service, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of
heart, fearing God : and whatsoever ye do, do it
heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ;
knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the
reward of the inheritance : for ye serve the Lord
Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive
for the wrong which he hath done : and there is
no respect of persons.
CHAPTER IV.
Masters, give unto your servants that which
is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a
Master in heaven. Continue in prayer, and
watch in the same with thanksgiving ; withal
praying also for us, that God would open unto
us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of
Christ, for which I am also in bonds : that I may
make it manifest, as I ought to speak. AValk in
wisdom toward them that are without, redeem-
ing the time. Let your speech be alway with
grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how
ye ought to answer every man.
Fer. 7. All my state shall Tychicus declare
unto you, icho is a beloved brother, and a faith-
ful minister and fellowservant in the Lord : whom
I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that
Oct. 15, Mom. COLOSSIANS, IV. May 3, Even.
he might know your estate, and comfort your
hearts ; with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved
brother, who is on& of you. They shall make
known unto you all things which are done here.
Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and
Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom
ye received commandments : if he come unto
you, receive him ;) and Jesus, which is called
Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only
are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God,
which have been a comfort unto me. Epaphras,
who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth
you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers,
that ye may stand perfect and complete in all
the will of God. For I bear him record, that he
hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in
Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis. Luke, the
beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. Salute
the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nym-
phas, and the church which is in his house.
And when this epistle is read among you, cause
that it be read also in the church of the Laodi-
ceans ; and that ye likewise read the epistle from
Laodicea. And say to Archippus, Take heed to
the ministry which thou hast received in the
Lord, that thou fulfil it. The salutation by the
hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace
be with you. Amen.
Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and
OnesimuB.
FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
THESSALONIANS.
CHAPTER I.
Oct. 16, Morning; May 4, Evening.
PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the
church of the Thessalonians which is in
God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ ;
Grace he unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. We give
thanks to God always for you all, making men-
tion of you in our prayers ; remembering with-
out ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
knowing, brethren beloved, your election of Grod.
For our gospel came not unto you in word only,
but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and
in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of
men we were among you for your sake. And ye
became followers of us, and of the Lord, having
received the word in much affliction, with joy of
the Holy Ghost : so that ye were ensamples to
all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. For
from you sounded out the word of the Lord not
only in ^Lacedonia and Achaia, but also in every
place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad ;
so that we need not to speak any thing. For
they themselves shew of us what manner of
entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned
to God from idols to serve the living and true
God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom
he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which deli-
vered us from the wrath to come.
Hit-
Oct. 17, Mom. I. THESSALONIANS, II. May 5, Even.
CHAPTER 11.
Oct. 17, Morning; May 5, Evening.
FOR yourselves, brethren, know our entrance
in unto you, that it was not in vain : but
even after that we had suffered before, and were
shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi,
we were bold in our God to speak unto you the
gospel of God with much contention. For our
exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness,
nor in guile : but as we were allowed of God to
be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak ;
not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our
hearts. For neither at any time used we flatter-
ing words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetous-
ness ; God is witness : nor of men sought we
glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we
might have been burdensome, as the apostles of
Christ. But we were gentle among you, even
as a nurse cherisheth her children : so being
affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to
have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God
only, but also our own souls, because ye were
dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our
labour and travail : for labouring night and day,
because we would not be chargeable unto any of
you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and
justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves
among you that believe : as ye know how we
exhorted and comforted and charged every one
of you, as a father doth his children, that ye
would walk worthy of God,"who hath called you
unto his kingdom and glory. For this cause also
thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye
Oct. 18, Mom. I. THESSALONIANS, III. May 6, Even.
received the word of God which ye heard of lis,
ye received it not as the word of men, but as it
is in truth, the word of God, which effectually
worketh also in you that believe. For ye,
brethren, became followers of the churches of
God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus : for ye
also have suffered like things of your own coun-
trymen, even as they have of the Jews : who both
killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets,
and have persecuted us ; and they please not
God, and are contrary to all men : forbidding us
to speak to the Gentiles that they might be
saved, to fill up their sins alway : for the wrath
is come upon them to the uttermost. But we,
brethren, being taken from you for a short time
in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more
abundantly to see your face with great desire.
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even
I Paul, once and again ; but Satan hindered us.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of
rejoicing ? Are not even ye in the presence of
our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye
are our glory and joy.
CHAPTEE IIL
Oct. 18, Morning ; May 6, Evening.
WHEREFORE when we could no longer
forbear, we thought it good to be left at
Athens alone ; and sent Timotlieus, our brother,
and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in
the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to
comfort you concerni^ig your faith : that no man
should be moved by these afllictions : for your-
selves know that we are appointed thereunto.
For verily, when we were with you, we told you
Oct. 19, Morn. I. THESSALONIANS, IV. May 7, Even.
before that we should suffer tribulation ; even as
it came to pass, and ye know. For this cause,
when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know
your faith, lest by some means the tempter have
tempted you, and our labour be in vain. But
now when Timotheus came from you unto us,
and brought us good tidings of your faith and
charity, and that ye have good remembrance of
us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also
to see you : therefore, brethren, we were com-
forted over you in all our affliction and distress
by your faith : for now we live, if ye stand fast
in the Lord. For what thanks can we render to
God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we
joy for your sakes before our God ; night and
day praying exceedingly that we might see your
face, and might perfect that which is lacking in
your fiiith ? Now God himself and our Father,
and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto
you. And the Lord make you to increase and
abound in love one towaid another, and toward
all meu, even as we do toward you : to the end he
may stablish your hearts unblameable in holi-
ness before God, even our Father, at the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
CHAPTER IV.
Oct. 19, Morning; May 7, Evening.
FURTHERMORE then we beseech you,
brethren, and exhort you by the Lord
Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye
ought to walk and to please God, so ye would
abound more and more. For ye know what coin-
mandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For
this is the will of God, even your sanctification,
Oct. 19, 3Iom. I. THESSALOXIAXS, IV. May 7, Even.E^
that ye should abstain from fornication : that
every one of you should know how to possess
his vessel in sanctilication and honour ; not in
the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles
"which know not God : that no man go beyond
and defraud his brother in any matter : because
that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we
also have forewarned you and testified. For
God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but
unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth,
despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given
unto us his holy Spirit. But as touching bro-
therly love ye need not that I write unto you :
for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one
another. And indeed ye do it toward all the
brethren which are in all Macedonia : but we
beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and
more ; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do
your own business, and to work with your own
hands, as we commanded you ; that ye may walk
honestly toward them that are without, and that
ye may have lack of nothing. But I would not
have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even
as others which have no hope. For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with
him. For this we say unto you by the word of
the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep. For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first :
then we which are alive and remain shall be
Oct. 20, Morn. I. THESSALONIANS, Y. May 8, Even.
caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever
be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one an-
other with these words.
CHAPTEK Y.
Oct. 20, Morning ; May 8, Evening, v
BUT of the times and the seasons, brethren,
ye have no need that I write unto you.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of
the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For
when they shall say. Peace and safety ; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail
upon a woman with child ; and they shall not
escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye
are all the children of light, and the children of
the day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let
us watch and be sober. For they that sleep
sleep in the night ; and they that be drunken
are drunken in the night. But let us, who are
of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate
of faith and love ; and for an helmet, the hope
of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to
wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus
Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake
or sleep, we should live together with him.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify
one another, even as also ye do. And we beseech
you, brethren, to know them which labour among
you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish
you ; and to esteem them very highly in love for
their work's sake. And be at peace among your-
selves, Now we exhort you, brethren, warn
Oct. 21, Mom. II. THESSALONIANS, I. May D, Even.
them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded,
support the weak, be patient toward all men.
See that none render evil for evil unto any Tnan ;
but ever follow that which is good, both among
yourselves, and to all raen. Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing. In every thing give
thanks : for this is the will of God in Christ
Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit.
Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things ;
bold fast that which is good. Abstain from all
appearance of evil. And the very God of peace
sanctify you wholly ; and I pray (rOfZ your whole
spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that aiUeth you, who also will do it.
Brethren, pray for us. Greet all the brethren with
an holy kiss. I charge you by the Lord that this
epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from
Athens.
SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
THESSALONIANS.
CHAPTER L
Oct. 21, Morning ; 3I(iy 0, Evening.
PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ : Grace unto
you, and peace, from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to
thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth exceed-
ingly, and the charity of every one pf you
Oct. 22, Morri. II. THESSALONIANS, II. Maij 10, Eveiu
all toward each other aboundeth ; so that we
ourselves glory in you in the churches of God
for your patience and faith in all your perse-
cutions and tribulations that ye endure : lohich
is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of
God, that ye may be counted worthy of the king-
dom of God, for which ye also suffer : seeing it
is a righteous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you ; and to
you who are troubled rest with us, when the
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking ven-
geance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ :
who shall be punished with everlasting destruc-
tion from the presence of the Lord, and from the
glory of his power ; when he shall come to be
glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all
them that believe (because our testimony among
you was beheved) in that day. Wherefore also
we pray always for you, that our God would
count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the
good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of
fiiith with power : that the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in
him, according to the grace of our God and tlie
Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER IL
Oct. 22, Morning; May 10, Evening.
NOW we beseech you, brethren, by the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by
our gathering together unto him, that ye be not
soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as
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Oct. 22, M<ym. II. THESSALONIANS, II. Maij 10, Even.
that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man
deceive you by any means : for that day shall
not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of per-
dition ; who opposeth and exalteth himself above
all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; so
that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God. Eemember ye
not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things ? And now ye know what with-
holdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work :
only he who now letteth ivill let, until he be
taken out of the way. And then shall that
Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall con-
sume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming : even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and
with all deceivableuess of unrighteousness in
them that perish ; because they received not the
love of the truth, that they might be saved. And
for this cause God shall send them strong de-
lusion, that they should believe a lie : that they
all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are
bound to give thanks alway to God for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and beUef of
the truth : whereunto he called you by our
gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast,
and hold the traditions which ye have been
taught, whether by word, or our epistle. , Now
Oct. 23, Mom. II. THESSALONIANS, III. May \l,Even.
our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even
our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given
us everlasting consolation and good hope through
grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in
every good word and work.
CHAPTER III.
Oct. 23, Morning ; May 11, Evening.
FINALLY, brethren, pray for us, that the
word of the Lord may have free course, and
be glorified, even as it is with you : and that we
may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked
men : for all me7i have not faith. But the Lord
is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you
from evil. And we have confidence in the Lord
touching you, that ye both do and will do the
things which we command you. And the Lord
direct your hearts into the love of God, and into
the patient waiting for Christ. Now we com-
mand you, brethren, in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from
every brother that walketh disorderly, and not
after the tradition which he received of us. For
yourselves know how ye ought to follow us : for
we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you ;
neither did we eat any man's bread for nought ;
but wrought with labour and travail night and
day, that we might not be chargeable to any of
you : not because we have not power, but to
make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow
us. For even when we were with you, this we
commanded you, that if any would not work,
neither should he eat. For we hear that there
are some which walk among you disorderly,
working not at all, but are busy bodies. Now
Oct. 24, Morn. I. TIMOTHY, I. May 12, Even. \
them that are such we command and exhort by
our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they
work, and eat their own bread. But ye, breth-
ren, 1)6 not weary in well doing. And if any
man obey not our word by this epistle, note that
man, and have no company with him, that he
may be asliamed. Yet count him not as an
enemy, but admonish him as a brother. Now
the Lord of peace himself give you peace always
by all means. The Lord he with you all. The
salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which
is the token in every epistle : so I write. The
grace of our Lord Je.sus Christ he with you all.
Amen.
Tlie second epistle to the Tliessalonians was written from
Athens.
P
FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO
TIMOTHY.
CHAPTER I.
Oct. 24, Morning; Mai/ 12, Evening.
AUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
commandment of God our Saviour, and
Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope ; unto
Timothy, my own son in the faith : Grace, mercy,
ajid peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ
our Lord. As I besought thee to abide still at
Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou
mightest charge some that they teach no other
doctrine, neither give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister questions, rather
than godly edifying which is in faith : so do.
Oct. 24, Mcn-n. I. TIMOTHY, I. May 12, Even.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out
of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and
of faith unfeigned : from which some having
swerved have turned aside unto vain janghng ;
desiring to be teachers of the law ; understand-
ing neither what they say, nor whereof they
affirm. But we know that the law is good, if a
man use it lawfully ; knowing this, that the law
is not made for a righteous man, but for the law-
less and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of
fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
for whoremongers, for them that defile them-
selves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for
perjured persons, and if there be any other thing
that is contrary to sound doctrine ; according to
the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which
was committed to my trust. And I thank Christ
Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that
he counted me faithful, putting me into the
ministry ; who was before a blasphemer, and a
persecutor, and injurious : but I obtained mercy,
because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And
the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant
with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all ac-
ceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners ; of whom I am chief. Howbeit
for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first
Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsulfering,
for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting. Now unto
the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
wise God, he honour and glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
Oct. 25, Mora. I. TIMOTHY, II. May 13, Even.
Oct. 25, Morning ; May 13, Evening.
THIS charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,
according to the prophecies which went
before on thee, that thou by them mightest war
a good warfare ; liolding faith, and a good con-
science ; which some having put away concerning
faith have made shipwreck : of whom is H}'-
menseiis and Alexander ; whom I have delivered
unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
CHAPTER 11.
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplica-
tions, prayers, intercessions, aiid giving of thanks,
be made for all men ; for kings, and for all that
are in authority ; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For
this is good and acceptable in the sight of God
our Saviour ; who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For tliere is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus ; who gave
himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and
an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie
not ;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
verity. I will therefore that men pray every
where, Uftiug up holy hands, without wrath and
doubting. In like manner also, that women
adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shame-
facedness and sobriety ; not with broided hair,
or gold, or pearls, or costly array ; but (which
becometh women professing godliness) with good
works. Let the woman learn in silence with all
subjection. But I suifer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be
in silence. For Adam was first formed, then
Oct. 26, Morn. I. TIMOTHY, III. May 14, Even.
Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the
woman being deceived was in tiie transgression.
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-
bearing, if they continue in faith and charity and
holiness with sobriety.
CHAPTER IIi:
Oct. 26, Morning ; May 14, Evening.
THIS is a true saying, If a man desire the
office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband
of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour,
given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not given to
wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre ; but
patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; one that
i-uleth well his own house, having his children in
subjection with all gravity ; (for if a man know
not how to rule his own house, how shall he take
care of the church of God ?) not a novice, lest
being lifted up with pride he fall into the con-
demnation of the devil. Moreover he must have
a good report of them which are without ; lest
he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Likewise must the deacons he grave, not double-
tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of
filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in
a pure conscience. And let these also first be
proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon,
being found blameless. Even so must their
wives he grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in
all things. Let the deacons be the husbands of
one wife, ruling their children and their own
houses well. For they that have used the office
of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good
degree, and great boldness in the faith which is
Oct. 27, Morn. I. TIMOTHY, IV. May 15, Even.
in Christ Jesus. These things write I unto thee,
hoping to come unto thee shortly : but if I tarry
long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest
to behave thyself in the house of God, which is
the church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth. And without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness : God was mani-
fest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of
angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on
in the world, received up into glory.
CHAPTER lY.
Oct. 27, Morning; May 15, Evening. .
NOW the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doc-
trines of devils ; speaking lies in hypocrisy ;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron ;
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain
from meats, which God hath created to be re-
ceived with thanksgiving of them which believe
and know the truth. For every creature of God
is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be re-
ceived with thanksgiving : for it is sanctified by
the word of God and prayer. If thou put the
brethren in remembrance of these things, thou
shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nou-
rished up in the words of faith and of good doc-
trine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse
profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thy-
self rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise
profiteth little : but godliness is profitable unto
all things, having promise of the life that now is,
and of that which is to come. This is a faithful
saying and worthy of all acceptation. For there-
Oct. 28, Morn. I. TIMOTHY, V. May 16, Even.
fore we both labour and suffer reproach, because
we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour
of all men, specially of those that believe. These
things command and teach. Let no man despise
thy youth ; but be thou an example of the be-
lievers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in
spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give
attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was
given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of
the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon
these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that
thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto
thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them :
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself
and them that hear thee.
CHAPTER V.
Oct. 28, Morning : 3fay 16, Evening.
REBUKE not an elder, but intreat him as a
father ; and the younger men as brethren ;
the elder women as mothers ; the younger as
sisters, with all purity. Honour widows that
are widows indeed. But if any widow have
children or nephews, let them learn first to shew
piety at home, and to requite their parents : for
that is good and acceptable before God. Now
she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth
in God, and continueth in supplications and
prayers night and day. But she that liveth in
pleasure is dead whUe she liveth. And these
things give in charge, that they may be blame-
less. But if any provide not for his own, and
specially for those of his own house, he hath
denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel
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Oct. 2 8, Morn. I. TIMOTHY, V. May 1 6, Even.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore years old, having been the wife of one
man, well reported of for good works ; if she
have brought up children, if she have lodged
strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if
she have relieved the afflicted, if she have dili-
gently followed every good work. But the
younger widows refuse : for when they have
begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will
marry ; having damnation, because they have
cast otf their first faith. And withal they learn
to he idle, wandering about from house to house ;
and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-
bodies, speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore that the younger women marry,
bear children, guide the house, give none occa-
sion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
For some are already tm-ned aside after Satiin.
If any man or woman that believeth have
widows, let them relieve them, and let not the
church be charged ; that it may relieve them
that are widows indeed. Let the elders that
rule well be counted worthy of double honour,
especially they who labour in the word and doc-
trine. For the scripture saith. Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the com. And,
The labourer is worthy of his reward. Against
an elder receive not an accusation, but before two
or three witnesses. Them that sin rebuke iDefore
all, that others also may fear. I charge thee
before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
elect angels, that thou observe these things
without preferring one before another, doing
nothing by partiality. Lay hands suddenly on
no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins :
Oct. 29, Mom. I. TIMOTHY, VL Mmj 17, Even.
keep thyself pure. Drink no longer water, but
use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine
often infirmities. Some men's sins are open
beforehand, going before to judgment ; and some
inen they follow after. Likewise also the good
works of some are manifest beforehand ; and
they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
CHAPTER VI.
Oct. 29, Morning ; May 17, Evening.
LET as many servants as are under the yoke
count their own masters worthy of all
honour, that the name of God and his doctrine
be not blasphemed. And they that have believing
masters, let them not despise them, because they
are brethren ; but rather do them service, because
they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the
benefit. These things teach and exhort. If any
man teach otherwise, and consent not to whole-
some words, even the words of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to
godliness ; he is proud, knowing nothing, but
doting about questions and strifes of words,
whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil sur-
misings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt
minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that
gain is godliness : from such withdraw thyself.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing out. And having
food and raiment let us be therewith content.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful
lasts, which drown men in destruction and per-
dition. For the love of money is the root of all
Oct. 29, Mom. I. TIMOTHY, VI. May 17, Even.
evil : which while some coveted after, they have
erred from the faith, and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows. But thou, man
of God, flee these things ; and foUow after righ-
teousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meek-
ness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and
hast professed a good profession before many
witnesses. I give thee charge in the sight of
God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ
Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a
good confession ; that thou keep this command-
ment without spot, unrebukeable, imtil the ap-
pearing of our Lord Jesus Christ : which in his
times he shall shew, ivho is the blessed and only
Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords ;
who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light
which no man can approach unto ; whom no man
hath seen, nor can see : to whom he honour and
power everlasting. Amen. Charge them that
are rich in this world, that they be not high-
minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the
living God, who giveth us richly all things to
enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in
good works, ready to distribute, willing to com-
municate ; laying up in store for themselves a
good foundation against the time to come, that
they may lay hold on eternal life. Timothy,
keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoid-
ing profane and vain babblings, and oppositions
of science falsely so called : which some professing
have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with
thee. Amen.
The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the
chiefest city of Plirygia Pacatiana.
SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO
TIMOTHY.
CHAPTER I.
Oct. 30, Morning ; May 18, Evening,
PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will
of God, according to the promise of life
which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly
beloved son : Grace, mercy, and peace, from God
the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord, I thank
God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure
conscience, that without ceasing I have remem-
brance of thee in my prayers night and day ;
greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy
tears, that I may be filled with joy ; when I call
to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in
thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois,
and thy mother Eunice ; and I am persuaded
that in thee also. Wherefore I put thee in
remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,
which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear ;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony
of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner : but be thou
partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according
to the power of God ; who hath saved us, and
called us with an holy calling, not according to
our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before
the world began, but is now made manifest by
the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who
hath abolished death, and hath brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel : where-
Oct. 31, Morn. II. TIMOTHY, 11. May 19, Even.
unto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle,
and a teiicher of the Gentiles. For the which
cause I also suffer these things : nevertheless I
am not ashamed : for I know whom I have
believed, and am persuaded that he is able to
keep that which I have committed unto him
against that da.y. Hold fast the form of sound
words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and
love which is m Christ Jesus. That good thing
which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy
Ghost which dwelleth in us. This thou knowest,
that all they which are in Asia be turned away
from me ; of whom are Phygellus and Hermo-
genes. The Lord give mercy unto the house of
Onesiphorus ; for he oft refreshed me, and was
not ashamed of my chain : but, when he was in
Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and
found me. The Lord grant unto him that he
may find mercy of the Lord in that day : and in
how many things he ministered unto me at
Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
CHAPTER 11.
Oct. 31, Morning ; May 19, Evening.
THOU therefore, my son, be strong in the
grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the
things that thou hast heard of me among many
witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men,
who shall be able to teach others also. Thou
therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of
Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth
himself with the afitiirs of this life ; that he may
please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he
not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The
Oct. 31 , Mom. II. TIMOTHY, II. Maij 1 9, Even.
husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker
of the fruits. Consider what I say ; and the
Lord give thee understanding in all things.
Eemember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David
was raised from the dead according to my gospel :
wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even
unto bonds ; but the word of God is not bound.
Therefore I endure all things for the elect^s sakes,
that they may also obtain the salvation which is
in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. It is a faith-
ful saying : For if we be dead with him, we shall
also live with him : if we suffer, we shall also
reign with him : if we deny him, he also will
deny us : if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful:
he cannot deny himself. Of these things put
them in remembrance, charging them before the
Lord that they strive not about words to no profit,
but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth. But shun profane and vain
babblings : for they will increase unto more
ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a
canker : of whom is Hymenseus and Philetus ;
who concerning the truth have erred, saying that
the resurrection is past already ; and overthrow
the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation
of God standeth sure, having this seal. The Lord
knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one
that nameth the name of Christ depart from
iniquity. But in a great house there are not only
vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood
and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to
dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself
from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour,
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liov. 2, Mom. II. TIMOTHY, III. May 20, Even.
sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and
prepared unto every good work. Flee also youth-
ful lusts : but follow righteousness, faith, charity,
peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a
pure heart. But foolish and unlearned questions
avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive ;
but be gentle unto all meyi, apt to teach, patient,
in meekness instructing those that oppose them-
selves ; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth ;
and that they may recover themselves out of
the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by
him at his will.
CHAPTER III.
JTov. 2, Morniug ; May 20, Evening.
THIS know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come. For men shall be lovers
of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ;
having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away. For of
this sort are they which creep into houses, and
lead captive silly women laden with sins, led
away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
so do these also resist the truth : men of corrupt
minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they j
shall proceed no further : for their folly shall be '
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manifest unto all men, as their's also was. But
thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of
life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at
Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra ; what persecu-
tions I endured : but out of them all the Lord
delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil
men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, de-
ceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in
the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned
them ; and that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee
wise unto salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus. All scripture ^s given by inspira-
tion of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righte-
ousness : that the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works.
CHAPTER IV.
^"017. 3, Morning; May 21, Evening.
I CHARGE thee therefore before God, and the
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick
and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom ;
preach the word ; be instant in season, out of
season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-
suffering and doctrine. For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but
after their own lusts shall they heap to them-
selves teachers, having itching ears ; and they
shall turn away their ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in
all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
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evangelist, make full proof of thy mmistry. For
I am now ready to be offered, and the time of
ray departure is at hand. I have fought a good
fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, wliich the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give me at that day : and not to me
only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me : for
Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this pre-
sent world, and is departed unto Thessalonica ;
Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only
Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him
with thee : for he is profitable to me for the
ministry. And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when
thou comest, bring tvith thee, and the books, but
especially the ptirchments. Alexander the cop-
persmith did me much evil : the Lord reward
him according to his works : of whom be thou
ware also ; for he hath greatly withstood our
words. At my fii^st answer no man stood with
me, but all men forsook me : I pray God that it
may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstand-
ing the Lord stood with me, and strengthened
me ; that by me the preaching might be fully
known, and that all the Gentiles might hear :
and I was delivered out of the mouth of the
lion. And the Lord shall deliver me from every
evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly
kingdom : to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen. Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the
household of Onesiphorus. Erastus abode at
Corinth : but Tropliimus have I left at Miletum
sick. Do thy diligence to come before winter.
Nov. i, Mor7i.' TITUS, I. May 22, Even.
Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus,
and Claudia, and all the brethren. The Lord
Jesus Christ he with thy spirit. Grace he with
you. Amen.
The second epUtle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bisliop
of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome,
when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.
THE EPISTLE OP PAUL TO
TITUS.
CHAPTER I.
Nov. 4, Morning; 3Iay 22, Evening.
PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which
is after godhness ; in hope of eternal life, which
God, that cannot lie, promised before the world
began ; but hath in due times manifested his
word through preaching, which is committed
unto me according to the commandment of God
our Saviour ; to Titus, mine own son after the
common faith : Grace, mercy, and peace, from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our
Saviour. For this cause left I thee in Crete,
that thou shouldest set in order the things that
are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as
I had appointed thee : if any be blameless, the
husband of one wife, having faithful children not
accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must
be blameless, as the steward of God ; not self-
willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no
striker, not given to ftlthy lucre ; but a lover of
hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy,
Nov. 5, Mom. TITUS, II. May 23, Even.
temperate ; holding fast the faithful word as he
hath been taught, that he may be able by sound
doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers. For there are many unruly and
vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the
circumcision : whose mouths must be stopped,
who subvert whole houses, teaching things which
they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of
themselves, even a prophet of their own, said,
The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow
bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke
them sharply, that they may be sound in the
faith ; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and
commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Unto the pure all things are pure : but unto
them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing
pure ; but even their mind and conscience is
defiled. They profess that they know God ; but
in works they deny him, being abominable, and
disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
CHAPTEK II.
Nov. 5, Morning ; May 23, Evening.
BUT speiik thou the things which become
sound doctrine : that the aged men be
sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity,
in patience. The aged women likewise, that
they he in behaviour as becometh holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers
of good things ; that they may teach the young
women to be sober, to love their husbands, to
love their children, to he discreet, chaste, keepers
at home, good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed. Young
men likewise exhort to be sober minded. In all
Nov. 6, Mom. TITUS, III. May 24, Even.
things shewing thyself a pattern of good -works :
in doctrine shelving imcorruptness, gravity, sin-
cerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ;
that he that is of the contrary part may be
ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own
masters, and to please them well in all things;
not answering again ; not purloining, but shew-
ing all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the
doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. For
the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath
appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us,
that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of
good works. These things speak, and exhort,
and rebuke with all authority. Let no man
despise thee.
CHAPTER III.
Nov. 6, Morning ; May 24, Evening.
PUT them in mind to be subject to principa-
lities and powers, to obey magistrates, to
be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no
man, to be no brawlers, hut gentle, shewing all
meekness unto all men. For we ourselves also
were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving divers lusts and plettsures, living in
malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
But after that the kindness and love of God our
Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according
JVov. 7, 3Iom. PHILEMOX. 3Iay 25, Even.
to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and ^ene^ving of the Holy Ghost ;
which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus
Christ our Saviour ; that being justified by his
grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying,
and these things I will that thou affinn con-
stantly, that they which have believed in God
might be careful to maintain good works. These
things are good and profitable unto men. But
avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and
contentions, and strivings about the law ; for
they are improfitable and vain. A man that is
an heretick after the fii^t and second admonition
reject ; knowing that he that is such is subverted,
and sinneth, being condemned of himself. When
I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be
diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis : for I
have determined there to winter. Bring Zenas
the lawyer and Apollos on their journey dili-
gently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
And let our's also learn to maintain good works
for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
All that are with me salute thee. Greet them
that love us in the faith. Grace he with you alL
Amen.
It was wTitten to Titus, ordained the first bisliop of the
church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.
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THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO
PHILEMOX.
Kov. 7, Morning ; 3fay 25, Evening.
AUL, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy
our brother, unto Philemon our dearly be-
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Nov. 7, Morn. PHILEMON. May 25, Even.
loved, and fellowlabourer, and to our beloved
Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to
the church in thy house : Grace to you, and
peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. I thank my God, making mention of
thee always in my prayers, hearing of thy love
and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord
Jesus, and toward all saints ; that the commu-
nication of thy faith may become effectual by
the acknowledging of every good thing which is
in you in Christ Jesus. For we have great joy
and consolation in thy love, because the bowels
of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Wherefore, though I might be much bold in
Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being
such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a
prisoner of Jesus Christ. I beseech thee for my
son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my
bonds : which in time past was to thee unpro-
fitable, but now profitable to thee and to me :
whom I have sent again : thou therefore receive
him, that is, mine own bowels : whom I would
have retained with me, that in thy stead he
might have ministered unto me in the bonds of
the gospel : but without thy mind would I do
nothing ; that thy benefit should not be as it
were of necessity, but willingly. For perhaps he
therefore departed for a season, that thou should-
est receive him for ever ; not now as a servant,
but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially
to me, but how much more unto thee, both in
the flesh, and in the Lord ? If thou count me
therefore a partner, receive him as myself If
he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put
^'ov. 8, Morru HEBREWS, I. 3Iay 26, Even.
that on mine account ; I Paul have written it
with mine own hand, I will repay it : albeit I
do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even
thine own self besides. Yea. brother, let me
have joy of thee in the Lord : refresh my bowels
in the Lord. Having confidence in thy obedi-
ence I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt
also do more than I say. But withal prepare
me also a lodging : for I trust that through your
prayers I shall be given unto you. There salute
thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ
Jesus ; Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my
fellowlabourers. The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
Written firom Rome to Philemon, bv Onesimus a sen-anL
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
HEBEEWS.
CHAPTER I. '
Ifov. 8, Morning ; May 26, Evening.
/^ OD, who at sundry times and in divers
V3r manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days
spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath ap-
pointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds ; who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat
do^vn on the right hand of the Majesty on high ;
being made so much better than the angels, as
he hath by inheritance obtained a more excel-
lent name than thev. For unto which of the
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Nm. 9, M(yrn. HEBEEWS, II. May 27, Even.
angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this
day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be
to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten
into the world, he saith, And let all the angels
of God worship him. And of the angels he
saith, Who niaketh his angels spirits, and his
ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son he
saith, Thy throne, God, is for ever and ever :
a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy
kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and
hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning
hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the
heavens are the works of thine hands : they shall
perish ; but thou remainest ; and they all shall
wax old as doth a garment ; and as a vesture
shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be
changed : but thou art the same, and thy years
shall not fail. But to which of the angels said
he at any time. Sit on my right hand, until I
make thine enemies thy footstool ? Are they
not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister
for them who shatl be heirs of salvation ?
CHAPTER 11.
N'oi\ 9, Morning ; May 27, Evening.
THEREFORE we ought to give the more
earnest heed to the things which we have
heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast,
and every transgression and disobedience re-
ceived a just recompence of reward ; how shall
we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ;
which at the first began to be spoken by the
A'ov. 9, 3Iom. HEBEEWS, IL , May 27, Even.
Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that
heard hint; God also bearing them witness, both
with signs and wonders, and with divers mi-
racles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to
his own will ? For unto the angels hath he not
put in subjection the world to come, whereof we
speiik. But one in a certain place testified, say-
ing, Whsit is man, that thou art mindful of him ?
or the son of man, that thou visitest him ? Thou
madest him a little lower than the angels ; thou
crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst
set him over the works of thy hands : thou hast
put all things in subjection under his feet. For
in that he put all in subjection under him, he
left nothing that is not put under him. But
now we see not yet all things })ut under him.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honour ; that he by the
grace of God should taste death for every man.
For it bcG^me him, for whom are all things, and
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons
unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation
perfect through sufferings. For both he that
sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all
of one : for which cause he is not ashamed to call
them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name
unto my brethren, in the midst of the church
will I sing praise unto thee. And again, I
will put my trust in him. And again. Behold
I and the children which God hath given me.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same ; that through death he might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is,
3
Nov. 10, M(mi. HEBREWS, III. May 28, Even.
the devil ; and deliver them who through fear of
death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
For verily he took not on him the nature of
angels ; but he took on him the seed of Abra-
ham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him
to be made like unto his brethren, that he might
be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the
sins of the people. For in that he himself hath
suffered being tempted, he is able to succour
them that are tempted.
CHAPTER III.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the
heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High
Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus ; who was
faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses
loas faithful in all his house. For this man was
counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inas-
much as he who hath builded the house hath
more honour than the house. For every house is
builded by some man ; but he that built all
things is God. And Moses verily was faithful
in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of
those things which were to be spoken after ; but
Christ as a son over his own house ; whose house
are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the
rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Nov. 10, Morning ; May 28, Evening.
WHEEEFORE (as the Holy Ghost saith,
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day
of temptation in the wilderness : when your
fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved
with that generation, and said, They do alway
Xov. 10, Mom. HEBREWS, IV. 3Iay 28, Even.
err in their heart ; and they have not known my
ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not
enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest
there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,
in departing from the li^dng God. But exliort
one another daily, while it is called To day ; lest
any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness
of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if
we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast
unto the end ; while it is said. To day if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the
provocation. For some, when they had heard,
did provoke : howbeit not all that came out of
Egypt by ]Moses. But with whom was he
grieved forty years ? v:as it not with them that
had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness ?
And to whom sware he that they should not
enter into his rest, but to them that believed not ?
So we see that they could not enter in because
of unbehef
CHAPTER lY.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left
v.s of entering into his rest, any of you should
seem to come short of it. For unto us was the
gospel preached, iis well as unto them : but the
word preached did not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we
which have believed do enter into rest, as he
said. As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall
enter into my rest : although the works were
finished from the foundation of the world. For
he spake in a certain pkce of the seventh day on
this wise. And God did rest the seventh day
from all his works. And in this place again, If
they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore |
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'•I Kov. 11, Morn. HEBREWS, V. May 29, Even.
' it remaineth that some must enter therein, and
they to whom it was first preached entered not
in beciiuse of unbeUef : again, he limiteth a cer-
tain day, saying in David, To day, after so long
a time ; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had
given them rest, then would he not afterward
have spoken of another day. There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God. For he
that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased
from his own works, as God did from his. Let
us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
I For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart, ISTeither
is there any creature that is not manifest in his
sight : but all things are naked and opened unto
the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Nov. 11, Morning; May 29, Evening.
SEEING then that we have a great high
priest, that is passed into the heavens. Jesus
the Son of God, let us hold fast oiir profession.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; bat
was in all points tempted like as loe are, yet
without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto
the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.
CHAPTER V.
For every high priest taken from among men
is ordained for men in things pertaining to God,
Kov. 11, Morn. HEBREWS, V. May 29, Even.
that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sins : who can have compassion on the ignorant,
and on them that are out of the way ; for that
he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people,
so also for himself, to oft'er for sins. And no man
taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is
called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ
glorified not himself to be made an high priest ;
but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to
day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in
another jplace. Thou art a priest for ever after the
order of ]VIelchisedec. Who in the days of his
flesh, when he had offered up prayers and suppli-
cations with strong crying and t^ars unto him
that was able to save him from death, and was
heard in that he feared ; though he were a Son,
yet learned he obedience by the things which he
suffered ; and being made perfect, he became the
author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him ; called of God an high priest after the
order of Melchisedec. Of whom we have many
things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye
are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye
ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach
you again which hi the first principles of the
oracles of God ; and are become such as have
need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every
one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
righteousness : for he is a babe. But strong
meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even
those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil
Nov, 12, Moiti. HEBREWS, VI. May 30, Even.
CHAPTER VL
Nov. 12, Morning ; May 30, Evening.
THEREFORE leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto per-
fection ; not laying again the foundation of re-
pentance from dead works, and of faith toward
God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying
on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and
of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if
God permit. For it is impossible for those who
were once enlightened, and have tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the
Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of
God, and the powers of the world to come, if
they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves
the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame. For the earth which drinketh in the
rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth
herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed,
receiveth blessing from God : but that which
beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh
unto cursing ; whose end is to be burned. But,
beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,
and things that accompany salvation, though we
thus speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget
your work and labour of love, which ye have
shewed toward his name, in that ye have minis-
tered to the saints, and do minister. And we
desire that every one of you do shew the same
diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the
end : that ye be not slothful, but followers of
them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises. For when God made promise to
Abraham, because he could swear by no greater,
Xov. 13, Mom. HEBREWS, YII. May 31, Even.
he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I
will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply
thee. And so, after he had patiently endured,
he obtained the promise. For men verily swear
by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is
to them an end of all strife. "Wherein God,
willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs
of promise the immutabiUty of his counsel, con-
firmed it by an oath : that by two immutable
things, in which it vjas impossible for God to lie,
we might have a strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set
before us : which hope we have as an anchor of
the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which ent€r-
eth into that within the veil ; whither the fore-
runner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high
priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
CHAPTER VIL
Xov. 13, Morning; May 31, Evening.
FOR this !Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest
of the most high God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings, and
blessed liim ; to whom also Abraham gave a
tenth part of all ; first being by interpretation
King of righteousness, and after that also King
of Salem, which is, King of peace ; without
father, without mother, without descent having
neither beginning of days, nor end of life ; but
made like unto the Son of God ; abideth a priest
continually. Now consider how great this man
teas, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham
gave the tenth of the spoils. And verily they
that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the
office of the priesthood, have a commandment to
Nov. 13, Morn. HEBREWS, VII. May 31, Even.
take tithes of the people according to the law,
that is, of their brethren, though they come out
c»f the loins of Abraham : but he whose descent
is not counted from them received tithes of
Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed
of the better. And here men that die receive
tithes ; but there he receiveth them, of whom it
is witnessed that he liveth. And as I may so
say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes
in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of liis
father, when Melchisedec met him. If therefore
perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for
under it the people received the law,) what further
need was there that another priest should rise
after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called
after the order of Aaron ? For the priesthood
being changed, there is made of necessity a change
also of the law. For he of whom these things
are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which
no man gave attendance at the altar. For it is
evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda ; of
which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning
priesthood. And it is yet far more evident : for
that after the similitude of Melchisedec there
ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the
law of a carnal commandment, but after the
power of an endless life. For he testifieth, Thou
art a priest for ever after the order of Melchise-
dec. For there is verily a disannulling of the
commandment going before for the weakness and
unprofitiibleuess thereof. For the law made
nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was
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Kov. 14, Mom. HEBREWS, YIII. June 1, Eveti.
made priest : (for those priests were made with-
out an oath ; but this with an oath by him that
said unto him, The Lord sware and will not
repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order
of Melchisedec :) by so much was Jesus made a
surety of a better testament And they truly
were many priests, because they were not suffered
to continue by reason of death : but this man,
because he continueth ever, hath an unchange-
able priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God by
him. seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them. For such an high priest became us,
icho is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who
needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer
up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for
the people's : for this he did once, when he offer-
ed up himself. For the law maketh men liigh
priests which have infirmity ; but the word of
the oath, which wjis since the law, maketh the
Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
CHAPTER VIII.
Xov. 14, Morning; June 1, Evening.
l^rOW of the things which we have spoken
jAI this is the sum : We have such an high
priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne
of the Majesty in the heavens ; a minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the
Lord pitched, and not man. For every high
priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices :
wherefore it is of necessity that this man have
somewhat also to ofi'er. For if he were on earth,
lie should not be a priest, seeing that there are
Kov. 14, M<yrn. HEBREWS. VIII. June 1. Even.
priests that offer gifts according to the law : who
serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly-
things, as ]\Ioses was admonished of God when
he was about to make the tabernacle : for, See,
saith he, that thou make all things according to
the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. But
now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry,
by how much also he is the mediator of a better
covenant, which was established upon better
promises. For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then should no place have been sought
for the second. For finding fault with them, he
saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and "with the house of Judah : not
according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt ; because
they continued not in my covenant, and I re-
garded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the
covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put
my laws into their mind, and write them in their
hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they
shall be to me a people : and they shall not teach,
every man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying. Know the Lord : for all shall
know me, from the least to the greatest. For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember
no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he
hath made the first old. Now that which decay-
eth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Nov. 15, Morn. HEBREWS, IX. June 2, Even.
CHAPTER IX.
Kov. 15, Morning ; June 2, Evening.
THEN verily the first covenant had also
ordinances of divine service, and a worldly
sanctuarv". For there was a tabernacle made ;
the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the
table, and the shewbread ; which is called the
sanctuary. And after the second veil, the taber-
nacle which is called the Holiest of all ; which
had the golden censer, and the ark of the cove-
nant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's
rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant ;
and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing
the mercyseat ; of which we cannot now speak
particularly. Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
But into the second ivent the high priest alone
once every year, not without blood, which he
oflered for himself, and for the errors of the
people : the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the
way into the holiest of all was not yet made
manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet
standing : which ivas a figure for the tune then
present, in which were ofiered both gifts and
sacrifices, that could not make him that did the
service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience ;
which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers
washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on
them until the time of reformation. But Christ
being come an high priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this
Xov.l5,Mom. HEBREWS, IX. June 2, Even.
building ; neither by the blood of goats and
j calves, but by his own blood he entered in once
into the holy place, having obtained eternal re-
demption for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh :
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself with-
out spot to God, purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God ? And for this
cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first tes-
tament, they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance. For where a
testament is, there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator. For a testament is of
force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no
strength at all while the testator liveth. Where-
upon neither the first testament was dedicated
without blood. For when Moses had spoken
every precept to all the people according to the
law, he took the blood of calves and of goats,
with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and
sprinkled both the book, and all the people, say-
ing, This is the blood of the testament which God
hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled
with blood both the tabernacle, and all the
vessels of the ministry. And almost all things
are by the law purged with blood ; and without
shedding of blood is no remission. It was there-
fore necessary that the patterns of things in the
heavens should be purified with these ; but the
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices
than these. For Christ is not entered into the
Nov. 16, Morn. HEBREWS, X. . June 3, Even.
holy places made with hands, which are the
figures of the true ; but into heaven itself, now
to appear in the presence of God for us : nor yet
that he should offer himself often, as the high
priest entereth into the holy place every year
with blood of others ; for then must he often
have suffered since the foundation of the world :
but now once in the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of him-
self. And as it is appointed unto men once to
die, but after this the judgment : so Christ was
once offered to bear the sins of many ; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
CHAPTEE X.
Xov. 16, Morning ; June 3, Evening.
FOR the law having a shadow of good things
to come, and not the very image of the
things, can never with those sacrifices which they
oftered year by year continually make the comers
thereunto perfect. For then would they not
have ceiised to be offered ? because that the
worshippers once purged should have had no
more conscience 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. Where-
fore 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.) to do thy will, God.
Above w^hen he said. Sacrifice and offering and
Xov.n,Morn. HEBREWS, X. June 4, Even.
burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest
not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are
offered by the law ; then said he, Lo, I come to
do thy will, God. He taketh away the first,
that he may establish the second. By the which
will we are sanctified through the ofieriug of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every
priest standeth daily ministering and offering
ofcentimes the same sacrifices, which can never
take 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 expect-
ing 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 laws into their hearts, and in 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.
Xov. 17, Morning; June 4, Evening.
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 the veil, that is to
say, his flesh ; and having an high priest over
the house of God ; let us draw near with a true
heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the
profession of our faith without wavering ; (for
he is faithful that promised ;) and let us consider
one another to provoke unto love and to good
Kov.\l,Mom, HEBREWS, X. Juried, Even.
works : not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is ; but exhort-
ing one, another : and so much the more, as ye
see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully
after that we have received the knowledge of the
tnith, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and
fiery indignation, which shall devour the adver-
saries. He that despised Moses' law died with-
out mercy under two or three witnesses : of how
much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be
thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an
unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace ? For we know him that hath
said, Vengeance helongeth imto me, I will recom-
pense, saith the Lord. And again. The Lord
shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God. But call
to remembrance the former days, in which, after
ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of
afflictions ; partly, whilst ye were made a gazing-
Btock both by reproaches and afflictions ; and
partly, whilst ye became companions of them
that were so used. For ye had compassion of
me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling
of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye
have in heaven a better and an enduring sub-
stance. Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompence of reward. For ye
have need of patience, that, after ye have done
the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will
come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall
Nov. 18, Morn. HEBREWS, XL June 5, Even.
live by faith : but if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are
not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but
of them that believe to the saving of the souL
CHAPTER XI.
Nov. 18, Morning; June 5, Evening.
"VJ"OW faith is the substance of things hoped
Xl for, the evidence of things not seen. For
by it the elders obtained a good report. Through
faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the word of God, so that things which are
seen were not made of things which do- appear.
By fiiith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness
that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts :
ajdd by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith
Enoch was translated that he should not see
death ; and was not found, because God had
translated him : for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God. But with-
out faith it is impossible to please him : for he
that Cometh to God must believe that he is, and
that he is a re warder of them that diligently seek
him. By faith Noah, being warned of God of
things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared
an ark to the saving of his house ; by the which
he condemned the world, and became heir of the
righteousness which is by faith. By faith Abra-
ham, when he was called to go out into a place
which he should after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither
he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of
promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
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him of the same promise : for he looked for a
city Avhich hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God. Through faith also Sara herself
received strength to conceive seed, and was de-
livered of a child when she was past age, because
she judged him faithful who had promised.
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as
good as dead, -so many as the stars of the sky in
multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea
shore innumerable. These all died in faith, not
having received the promises, but having seen
them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and
embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they
that say such things declare plainly that they
seek a country. And truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from whence they came
out, they might have had opportunity to have
returned. But now they desire a better country,
that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God : for he hath
prepared for them a city.
Nov. 19, Morning; June 6, Evening.
BY faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered
up Isaac : and he that had received the
promises offered up his only begotten son, of
whom it was said. That in Isaac shall thy seed
be CiiUed : accounting that God ivas able to raise
him up, even from the dead ; from whence also
he received him in a figure. By faith Isaac
blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to
come. By faith Jacob, when he was a dying,
blessed both the sons of Joseph ; and worshipped,
leaning upon the top of his stiiff. By faith
Joseph, when he died, made mention of the de-
Nov. 19, Mom. HEBREWS, XL June 6, Even.
parting of the children of Israel ,• and gave com-
mandment concerning his bones. By faith
Moses, when he was born, was hid three months
of his parents, because they saw he was a proper
child ; and they were not afraid of the king's
commandment. By faith Moses, when he was
come to years, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming the
reproach of Christ greater riches than the trea-
sures in Egypt : for he had respect unto the
recompence of the reward. By faith he forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king : for he
endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Through
faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of
blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should
touch them. By faith they passed through the
Eed sea as by dry land : which the Egyptians
assaying to do were drowned. By faith the walls
of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed
about seven days. By faith the harlot Eahab
perished not with them that beUeved not, when
she had received the spies with peace. And
what shall I more say ? for the time would fail
me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of
Samson, and of Jephthae ; of David also, and
Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith
subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, ob-
tained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge
of the sword, out of weakness were made strong,
waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies
of the aliens. Women received their dead raised
to life again : and others were tortured, not ac-
iVcw. 20, Moi-n. HEBREWS, XII. June 7, Even.
cepting deliverance ; that they might obtain a
better resurrection : and others had trial of cruel
mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds
and imprisonment : they were stoned, they were
sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ;
(of whom the world was not worthy :) they wan-
dered in deserts, and in mountains, and in
dens and caves of the earth. And these all,
having obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise : God having provided
some ; better thing for us, that they without us
should not be made perfect.
CHAPTEE XII.
Kov. 20, Morning ; June 7, Evening.
WHEREFORE seeing we also are com-
passed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the
sin which doth so easily beset its, and let us run
with patience the nice that is set before us, look-
ing imto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith ; who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider him that endured such contradic-
tion of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied
and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet re-
sisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye
have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh
unto you as unto children, ^ly son, despise not
thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him : for whom the Lord
loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
JV^w. 20, Morn. HEBREWS, XII. June 7, Even.
whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what
son is he whom the father chasteneth not 1 But
if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh
which corrected ifs, and we gave them reverence :
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto
the Father of spirits, and live 1 For they verily
for a few days chastened us after their own plea-
sure ; but he for our profit, that loe might be
partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for
the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous :
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
fruit of righteousness unto them which are exer-
cised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands
which hang down, and the feeble knees ; and
make straight paths for your feet, lest that which
is lame be turned out of the way ; but let it
rather be healed. Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without wliich no man shall see the
Lord : looking diligently lest any man fail of the
grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness spring-
ing up trouble ijou, and thereby many be defiled ;
lest there h^ any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birth-
right. For ye know how that afterward, when
he would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected : for he found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears. For ye
are not come unto the mount that might be touch-
ed, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness,
and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of
a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice
they that heaxd intreated that the word should
+
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Nov. 21, Morru HEBREWS, XIII. June 8, Even.
not be spoken to them any more : (for they could
not endure that which was commanded. And if
so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall
be stoned, or thrust through with a dart : and
so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I ex-
ceedingly fear and quake :) but ye are come unto
mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of angels, to the general assembly and
church of the firstborn, which are written in
heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus
the mediator of the new covenant, and to the
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things
than that 0/ Abel. See that ye refuse not him
that speaketh. For if they escaped not who re-
fused him that spake on earth, much more shall
not we escape, if we turn away from him that
speaketh from heaven : whose voice then shook
the earth : but now he hath promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven. And this word, Yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those
things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot
be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear : for our God is a consuming fire.
CHAPTER XIII.
Nov. 21, Morning ; June S, Evening.
LET brotherly love continue. Be not forget-
ful to entertain strangers : for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares. Eemember
Nov. 21, Morn. HEBREWS, XIII. June 8, Even.
them that are in bonds, as bound with them ;
and them which suffer adversity, as being your-
selves also in the body. IMarriage is honourable
in all, and the bed undefiled : but whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge. Lei your con-
versation he without covetousness ; and he con-
tent with such things as ye have : for he hath
said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my
helper, and I will not fear what man shall do
unto me. Remember them which have the rule
over you, who have spoken unto you the word of
God : whose faith follow, considering the end of
their conversation : Jesus Christ the same yes-
terday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried
about with divers and strange doctrines. For it
is a good thing that the heart be established with
grace ; not with meats, which have not profited
them that have been occupied therein. We have
an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which
serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those
beasts,, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary
by the high priest for sin, are burned without
the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might
sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto
him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
For here have we no continuing city, but we
seek one to come. By him therefore let us offer
the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is,
the fruit of our hps giving thanks to his name.
But to do good and to communicate forget not :
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and
submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls,
^^ov. 22, Morn. JAMES, I. June 9, Even. I
as they that must give account, that they may {
do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is j
unprofitable for you. Pray for us : for we trust
we have a good conscience, in all things willing j
to live honestly. But I beseech 7jou the rather
to do this, that I may be restored to you the
sooner. Now the God of peivce, that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every
good work to do his will, working in you that
which is well pleasing in liis sight, through Jesus
Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen. And I beseech you. brethren, sufier the
word of exhortation : for I have written a letter
unto you in few words. Know ye that our
brother Timothy is set at liberty ; with whom, if
he come shortly, I will see you. Salute all them
that have the rule over you, and all the saints.
They of Italy salute you. Grace be with you all.
Amen.
■\Vritten to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy.
THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF
JAMES.
CHAPTEE I.
Xov. 22, Morning ; June 9, Evening.
JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord
Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are
scattered abroad, greeting. INfy brethren, count
it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ;
knowing this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience. But let patience have her
Nov. 22, Mom. JAMES, I. June 9, Even.
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing-. If any of you lack wisdom,
let him ask of God, that giveth to all men
liberally, and upbraideth not ; and it shall be
given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing
wayering. For he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For
let not that man think that he shall receive any
thing of the Lord. A double minded man is
unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low
degree rejoice in that he is exalted : but the
rich, in that he is made low : because as the
flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the
sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but
it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof
falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth :
so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation :
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him. Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot
be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any
man : but every man is tempted, when he is
drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then
when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin :
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Do not err, by beloved brethren. Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turn-
ing. Of his own will begat he us with the word
of truth, that we should be a kind of first-
fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved
brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to
Nov. 23, Morn. JAMES, II. June 10, Even. \
speak, slow to wrath : for the wrath of man
worketh not the righteousness of God. Where-
fore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, aud receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers
only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be
a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass :
for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he
was. But w^hoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty, and continue th therein, he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man
among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, tliis
man's religion is vain. Pure religion and unde-
filed before God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and
to keep himself unspotted from the world.
CHAPTER II.
Kov. 23, Morning; June 10, Evening.
MY brethren, have not the faith of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with
respect of persons. For if there come unto your
assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly
apparel, and there come in also a poor man in
vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that
weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit
thou here in a good place ; and say to the poor,
Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool :
are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are
become judges of evil thoughts ? Hearken, my
Nov. 23, Mom. JAMES, 11. June 10, Even.
beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor
of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king-
dom which he hath promised to them that love
him ? Bat ye have despised the poor. Do not
rich men oppress you, and draw you before the
judgment seats ? Do not they blaspheme that
worthy name by the which ye are called ? If ye
fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do
well : but if ye have respect to persons, ye com-
mit sin, and are convinced of the law as trans-
gressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole
law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of
all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery,
said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no
adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a trans-
gressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they
that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he
shall have judgment without mercy, that hath
shewed no mercy ; and mercy rejoice th against
judgment. What doth it profit, my brethren,
though a man say he hath faith, and have not
works ? can faith save him 1 If a brother or
sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and
one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ^«
warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give
them not those things which are needful to the
body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it
hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a
man may say. Thou hast faith, and I have works :
shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will
shew thee my faith by my works. Thou
believest that there is one God ; thou doest well :
the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt
thou know, vain man, that faith without works
2Cov. 24, Morn. JAMES, III. June 12, Even.
is dead ? Was not Abraham our father justified
by works, when he had ofiered Isaac his son
upon the altar ? Seest thou how faith wrought
with his works, and by works was faith made
perfect ? And the scripture was fulfilled which
saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed
unto him for righteousness : and he was called
the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by
works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Likewise also was not Eahab the harlot justified
by works, when she had received the messengers,
and had sent them out another way 1 For as the
body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.
CHAPTER III.
Xov. 24, Morning; Jime 12, Evening.
MY brethren, be not many masters, knowing
that we shall receive the greater con-
demnation. For in many things we offend aU.
If any man off"end not in word, the same is a
perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole
body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths,
that they may obey us ; and we turn about their
whole body. Behold also the ships, which though
they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds,
yet are they turned about with a very small
helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even
so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great tilings. Behold, how great a matter a little
fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world
of iniquity : so is the tongue among our mem-
bers, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of natiu^ ; and it is set on fire
of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds,
J^^ov. 25, Morn. JAMES, IV. June 13, Even.
and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed,
and hath been tamed of mankind : but the
tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God,
even the Father ; and therewith curse we men,
which are made after the similitude of God. Out
of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these thmgs ought not
so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the
same place sweet water and bitter ? Can the fig
tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ? either a
vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt
water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued
with knowledge among you ? let him shew out
of a good conversation his works with meekness
of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and
strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not
against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not
from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is con-
fusion and every evil work. But the wisdom
that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,
gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is
sown in peace of them that make peace.
CHAPTER IV.
Kov. 25, Morning ; June 13, Evening.
FEOM whence come wars and fightings among
you ? come they not hence, even of your
lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and
have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and can-
not obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not,
because ve ask not. Ye ask, and receive not,
Nov. 25, Morn. JAMES, IV. June 13, Even.
beciiuse ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye
think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit
that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy ? But he
giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God
resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
hmuble. Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse ^our hands, ye sinners ; and purify your
hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and
mourn, and weep : let your laughter be turned
to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Hum-
ble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he
shall lift you up. Speak not evil one of another,
brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother,
and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law,
and judgeth the law : but if thou judge the law,
thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There
is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy : who art thou that judgest another ? Go
to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will
go into such a city, and continue there a year,
and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know
not what shall he on the morrow. For what is
your life ? It is even a vapour, that appearetli
for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For
that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall
live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in
your boastings : all such rejoicing is evil There-
fore to him tliat knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.
Nov. 26, Morn. JAMES, V. June 14, Even.
CHAPTER V.
Nov. 26, Morning ; June 14, Evening,
GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for
your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments
are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ;
and the rust of them shall be a witness against
you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye
have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of you kept
back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them
which have reaped are entered into the ears of
the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in plea-
sure on the earth, and been wanton ; ye have
nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have condemned and killed the just ; and
he doth not resist you. Be patient therefore,
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold,
the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit
of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until
he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also
patient ; stablish your hearts : for the coming
of the Lord draweth nigh. Grudge not one
against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned :
behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have
spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example
of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold,
we count them happy which endure. Ye have
heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the
end of the Lord ; that the Lord is very pitiful,
and of tender mercy. But above all things, my
brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither
by the earth, neither by any other oath : but let
A'ov. 27, Morn. I. PETER, I. June 15, Even.
your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall
into condemnation. Is any among you afflicted ?
let him pray. Is any meiTy ] let him sing
psalms. Is any sick among you ? let him call
for the elders of the church ; and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of
the Lord : and the prayer of feith shall save the
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one
for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we
are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not
rain : and it rained not on the earth by the
space of three years and six months. And he
prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the
earth brought forth her fruit. Brethren, if any
of you do err from the truth, and one convert
him ; let him know, that he which converteth
the sinner from the error of his way shall save a
soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of
sins.
THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF
PETER.
CHAPTER L
Kov. 27, Morning ; June 15, Evening.
PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontus,
Galatia, Cappadocia. Asia,'and Bithynia, elect ac-
cording to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedi-
ence and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:
Nov. 27, Mom. I. PETER, I. June 15, Even.
j Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Blessed he the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy-
hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last
time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now
for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations : that the trial of
your faith, being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honour and
glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ : whom
having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now
ye see hiifn not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory : receiving the end
of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired
and searched diligently, who prophesied of the
grace thai should come unto you : searching
what, or what manner of time the Spirit of
Christ which was in them did signify, when it
testified beforehand the suj0ferings of Christ, and
the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was
revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us
they did minister the things, which are now
reported unto you by them that have preached
the gospel imto you with the Holy Ghost sent
down from heaven ; which things the angels
desire to look into. Wherefore gird up the loins
of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for
tiie grace that is to be brought unto you at the
Nov. 28, 3fom. I. PETER, 11. June 16, Even.
revelation of Jesus Christ ; as obedient children,
not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lusts in your ignorance : but as he which hath
called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation ; because it is written, Be ye holy ;
for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father,
who without respect of persons judge th according
to every man's work, pass the time of your
sojourning here in fear : forasmuch as ye kiiow
that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain con-
versation received by tradition from your fathers ;
but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish and without spot : who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of
the world, but was manifest in these last times
for you, who by him do believe in God, that
raised him up from the dead, and gave him
glory ; that vour faith and hope might be in
God.
Xov. 28, Morning; June 16, Evening. '
SEEING ye have purified your souls in obey-
ing the truth through the Spirit unto un-
feigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one
another with a pure heart fervently : being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorrupti-
ble, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and
all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The
grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth
away : but the word of the Lord endureth for
ever. And this is the word which by the gospel
is preached unto you.
CHAPTER II.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all
Nov. 29, Morn. I. PETER, II. June 17, Even.
guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil
speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere
milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby : if
so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, dis-
allowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and
precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a
spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the
scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner
stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth on
him shall not be confounded. Unto you there-
fore which believe he is precious : but unto them
which be disobedient, the stone which the build-
ers disallowed, the same is made the head of the
corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of
offence, even to them which stumble at the word,
being disobedient : whereunto also they were
appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people ; that ye should shew forth the praises of
him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light : which in time past tvere not a
people, but are now the people of God : which
had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
mercy.
Nov. 29, Morning ; June 17, Evening.
DEARLY beloved, I beseech you as strangers
and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts,
which war against the soul ; having your con-
versation honest among the Gentiles : that,
whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they
may by your good works, which they shall
behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Nov. 29, Mom. 1. PETER, III. June 17, Even.
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for
the Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as
supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that
are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers,
and for the praise of them that do well. For so
is the will of God, that with well doing ye may
put to silence the ignorance of foolish men : as
free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of
maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear
God. Honour the king. Servants, be subject
to your masters with all fear ; not only to the
good and gentle, but also to the froward. For
this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience
toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for
your faults, ye shall take it patiently] but if,
when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it
patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even
hereunto were ye called : beaiuse Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye
should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither
was guile found in his mouth : who, when he
was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered,
he threatened not ; but committed himself to
him that judgeth righteously : who his own self
bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that
we, being dead to sins, should live unto righte-
ousness : by whose stripes ye were healed. For
ye were as sheep going astray ; but are now
returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your
souls.
CHAPTER HI.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your
own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word,
Dec. \, Morn. I. PETER, III. June 18, Even.
they also may without the word be won by the
conversation of the wives ; while they behold
your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward
adorning of j)laiting the hair, and of wearing of
gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be
the. hidden man of the heart, in that which is
not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek
and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of
great price. For after this manner in the old
time the holy women also, who trusted in God,
adorned themselves, being in subjection unto
their own husbands : even as Sara obeyed Abra-
ham, calling him lord ; whose daughters ye are,
as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any
amazement. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with
them according to knowledge, giving honour unto
the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being
heirs together of the grace of life ; that your
prayers be not hindered.
Dec. 1, Morning; June 18, Evening,
FINALLY, be ye all of one mind, having com-
passion one of another, love as brethren, be
pitiful, be courteous : not rendering evil for evil,
or railing for railing : but contrariwise blessing ;
knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye
should inherit a blessing. For he that will love
life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue
from evil, and his lips that they speak no guUe :
let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek
peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord
are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto
their prayers : but the face of the Lord is against
them that do evil. And who is he that will
harm you, if ye be followers of that which is
Dec. 1, Mom. I. PETER, IV. June IS, Even.
good ? But and if ye suffer for righteousness'
sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their
terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the
Lord God in your hearts : and he ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you
a reason of the hope that is in you with meek-
ness and fear : having a good conscience ; that,
whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they
may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good
conversation in Christ. For 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 longsuffering of God waited in the days
of Noah, while the ark was a preimring, wherein
few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth
also now save us (not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good con-
science toward God.) by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ : who is gone into heaven, and is on the
right hand of God ; angels and authorities and
powers being made subject unto him.
CHAPTER IV.
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us
in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the
same mind : for he that hath suffered in the flesh
hath ceased from sin ; that he no longer should
live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts
of men, but to the wOl of God. For the time
past of our life may suffice us to have wrought
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Dec. 2, Mom. I. PETER, IV. . Juve 10, Even.
the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in
lascivionsness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings,
banqiietings, and abominable idolatries : wherein,
they think it strange that ye run not with them
to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead. For for this
cause was the gospel preached also to them that
are dead, that they might be judged according to
men in the flesh, but live according to God in
the spirit.
Dec. 2, Morning; JunelS), Evening.
BUT the end of all things is at hand : be ye
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
And above all things have fervent charity among
yourselves : for charity shall cover the multitude
of sins. Use hospitality one to another without
grudging. As every man hath received the gift,
even so minister the same one to another, as good
stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any
man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God ;
if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability
which God giveth : that God in all things may
be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be
praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though some
strange thing happened unto you : but rejoice,
inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's suffer-
ings ; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye
may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be
reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye ;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon
you : on their part he is evil spoken of, but on
your part he is glorified. But let none of you
Dec. 3, Morn. I. PETEK, V. June 20, Even.
suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-
doer, or as a busybody iu other men's matters.
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not
be ashamed ; but let him glorify God on this
behalf. For the time is come that judgment
must begin at the house of God : and if it first
begin at us, what shall the end he of them that
obey not the gospel of God ? And if the righteous
scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and
the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that
suffer according to the will of God commit the
keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as
unto a faithful Creator.
CHAPTER V.
Dec. 3, Morning ; June 20, Evening.
THE elders which are among you I exhort,
who am also an elder, and a witness of the
sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the
glory that shall be revealed : feed the flock of
God which is among you, taking the oversight
thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for
filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as
being lords over God^s heritage, but being en-
samples to the flock. And when the chief Shep-
herd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not away. Likewise, ye
younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea,
all of you be subject one to another, and be
clothed with humility : for God resisteth the
proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble
yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you in due time ; cast-
ing all your care upon him ; for he careth
for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your
Dec. 4, Mom. II. PETER, I. June 21 , Even.
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
about, seeking whom he may devour : whom
resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the
same afflictions are accomplished in your breth-
ren that are in the world. But the God of all
grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory
by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a
while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen,
settle you. To him he glory and dominion for
ever and ever. Amen. By Silvanus, a faithful
brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written
briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the
true grace of God wherein ye stand. The church
that is at Babylon, elected together with you,
saluteth you ; and so dothMsn'cus my son. Greet
ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be
with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OP
PETEE.
CHAPTER I.
Dec. 4, Morning ; Ju7ie 21, Evening,
IMON Peter, a servant and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained
like precious faith with us through the righteous-
ness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ : Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, accord-
ing as his divine power hath given unto us all
things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called
us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto
us exceeding great and precious promises : that
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Dec. 4, Mom. II. PETER, I. June 21, Even.
by these ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world through lust. And beside this, giving
all diligence, add to your faith virtue ; and to
virtue knowledge ; and to knowledge temper-
ance ; and to temperance patience ; and to pa-
tience godliness ; and to godliness brotherly
kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they
make you that ye shall neither be barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ. But he that lacketh these things is
blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins. Where-
fore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make
your calling and election sure : for if ye do
these things, ye shall never fall : for so an en-
trance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be
negligent to put you always in remembrance of
these things, though ye know them, and be
established in the present truth. Yea, I think
it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to
stir you up by putting you in remembrance ;
knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath
shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye
may be able after my decease to have these
things always in remembrance. For we have
not followed cunningly devised fables, when we
made known unto you the power and coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of
his majesty. For he received from God the
Father honour and glory, when there came such
Bee. 5, Morn. " II. PETEK, II. June 22, Even,
a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is
my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount. We
have also a more sure word of prophecy ; where-
unto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a
light that shineth in a dark place, until the day
dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts :
knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scrip-
ture is of any private interpretation. For the
prophecy came not in old time by the will of
man : but holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.
CHAPTER II.
Dec. 5, Morning ; June 22, Evening.
BUT there were false prophets also among the
jpeople, even as there shall be false teachers
among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
them, and bring upon themselves swift destruc-
tion. And many shall follow their pernicious
ways ; by reason of whom the way of truth shall
be evil spoken of. And through covetousness
shall they with feigned words make merchandise
of you : whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth
not. For if God spared not the angels that
sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
judgment ; and spared not the old world, but
saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of
righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the
world of the ungodly ; and turning the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned
Dec. 5, Mom. II. PETER, II. June 22, Even.
them -Nvith an overthrow, making ihem an en-
sample imto those that after should live ungodly ;
and delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy-
conversation of the wicked : (for that righteous
man dwelling among them, in seeing and hear-
ing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day
with their unlawful deeds ;) the Lord knoweth
how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and
to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment
to be punished : but chiefly them that walk after
the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise
government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and
might, bring not railing accusation against them
before the Lord. But these, as natural brut^
beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak
€vil of the things that they understand not ; and
shall utterly perish in their own corruption ; and
shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as
they that count it pleasure to riot in the day
time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting
■themselves with their own deceivings whUe they
feast with you ; having eyes full of adultery, and
that cannot cease from sin ; beguiling unstable
souls : an heart they have exercised with covet-
ous practices ; cursed children : which have for-
saken the right way. and are gone astray, follow-
ing the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who
loved the wages of unrighteousness ; but was re-
buked for his iniquity : the dumb ass speaking
with man's voice forbad the madness of the
prophet. These are wells without water, clouds
that are carried with a tempest ; to whom the
mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when
Dec. 6, Mom. II. PETER, III. June 23, Even.
they speak great swelling words of vanity, they
allure through the lusts of the flesh, through
much wantonness, those that were clean escaped
from them who live in error. While they pro-
mise them liberty, they themselves are the
servants of corruption : for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bondaga
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again en-
tangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is
worse with them than the beginning. For it
had been better for them not to have known the
way of righteousness, than, after they have known
it, to turn from the holy commandment deKvercd
unto them. But it is happened unto them
according to the true proverb, The dog is turned
to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was
washed to her wallowing in the mire.
CHAPTER III.
Dec. 6, Morning ; June 23, Evening."^
THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write
unto you ; in both which I stir up your
pure minds by way of remembrance : that ye
may be mindful of the words which were spoken
before by the holy prophets, and of the com-
mandment of us the apostles of the Lord and
Saviour : knowing this first, that there shall
come in the last days scoffers, walking after their
own lusts, and saying. Where is the promise of
his coming 1 for since the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as they were from the beginning
of the creation. For this they willingly are igno-
rant of, that by the word of God the heavens were
Dec. 6, Mom. II. PETER, III. June 23, Even.
of old, and the earth standing out of the -water
and in the water : whereby the world that then
was. being overflowed with water, perished : but
the heavens and the earth, which are now, by
the same word are kept in store, reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of
this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as
a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day. The Lord is not slack concerning his pro-
mise, as some men count slaclaiess ; but is long-
sufi'ering to us-Avard, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night :*in the which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burned up. See-
ing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of 'persons ought ye to be in all
holy conversation and godliness, looking for and
hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dis-
solved, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his pro-
mise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherem dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore,
beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace,
without spot, and blameless. And account that
the longsufiering of our Lord is salvation ; even
as our beloved brother Paul also according to the
wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ;
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
these thin 23 : in which are some things hard to
( Dec. 7, Mom. I. JOHN, I. June 25, Even.
be understood, which they that are unlearned
and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye
therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things
before, beware lest ye also, being led away with
the error of the wicked, fall from your own sted-
fastness. But grow in grace, and in the know-
ledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
To him he glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF
JOHN.
CHAPTER I.
Dec. 7, Morning ; June 25, Evening.
HAT which was from the beginning, which
we have heard, which we have seen with
our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled, of the Word of life ; (for
the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and
bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal
life, which was with the Father, and was mani-
fested unto us ;) that which we have seen and
heard declare we unto you, that ye also may
have fellowship with us : and truly our fellow-
ship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus
Christ. And these things write we unto you,
that your joy may be full. This then is the
message which we have heard of him, and de-
clare unto you, that God is light, and in him is
no darkness at all. If we say that we have
fellowship with him, and wallc in darkness, we
lie, and do not the truth : but if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship
Dec 8, Mom. I. JOBTN', II. June 26, Even.
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us o^lt sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say
that we have not sinned, we make him a liar,
and his word is not in us.
CHAPTER II.
Dec. 8, Morning; June 26, Evening.
MY little children, these things write I unto
you, that ye sin not. And if any man
sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous : and he is the propitiation
for our sins : and not for our's only, but also for
the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do
know that we know him, if we keep his com-
mandments. He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and
the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his
word, m him verily is the love of God perfected :
hereby know we that we are in him. He that
saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to
walk, even as he walked. Brethren, I write no
new commandment unto you, but an old com-
mandment which ye had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word which ye
have heard from the beginning. Again, a new
commandment I write unto you, which thing is
true in him and in you : because the darkness is
past, and the true light now shineth. He that
saith he is in the light, and hateth liis brother, is
in darkness even imtil now. He that loveth his
brother abideth in the light, and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth
Dec. 9, Mom. I. JOHN, II. June 27, Even.
his brother is in darkness, and -walketh in dark-
ness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, be-
cause that darkness hath blinded his eyes. I
write unto you, little children, because your sins
are forgiven you for his name's sake. I write
unto you, fathers, because ye have known him
that is from the beginning. I write unto you,
young men, because ye have overcome the wicked
one. I write unto you, little children, because
ye have known the Father. I have ^vritten
unto you, fathers, because ye have known him
that is from the beginning. I have written unto
you, young men, because ye are strong, and the
word of God abideth in you, and ye have over-
come the wicked one.
Dec. 9, Morning ; June 27, Evening.
LOVE not the world, neither the things that
are in the world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not in him. For
all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world. Arid the
world pjisseth away, and the lust thereof : but he
that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Little children, it is the last time : and as ye have
heard that antichrist shall come, even now are
there many antichrists ; whereby we know that
it is the last time. They went out from us, but
they were not of us ; for if they had been of us,
they would no doubt have continued with us :
but they went out, that they might be made
manifest that they were not all of us. But ye
have an unction from the Holy One, and ye
know all things. I have not written unto you
because ye know not the truth, but because ye
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Dec. 10, Mom. I. JOHN, III. June 28, Even.
know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is
a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ ? He is antichrist, that denieth the
Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the
Son, the same hath not the Father : [but] he that
acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let
that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard
from the beginning. If that which ye have
heard from the beginning shall remain in you,
ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the
Father. And this is the promise that he hath
promised us, even eternal life. These things
have I written unto you concerning them that
seduce you. But the anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you, and ye need not
that any man teach you : but as the same
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth,
and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in him. And now, little chil-
dren, abide in him ; that, when he shall appear,
we may have confidence, and not be ashamed be-
fore him at his coming. If ye know that he is
righteous, ye know that every one that doeth
righteousness is born of him.
CHAPTEE in.
Dec. 10, Morning ; June 28, Evening.
BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the sons of God : therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Be-
loved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth
not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him ;
for we shall see him as he is. And every man
j\ Dec. U,Mom. I. JOHN, III. June 30, Even.
that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure. Whosoever committeth sin
transgresseth also the law : for sin is the trans-
gression of the law. And ye know that he was
manifested to take away our sins ; and in him is
no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not :
whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither
known him. Little children, let no man deceive
you : he that doeth righteousness is righteous,
even as he is righteous. He that committeth
sin is of the devil ; for the devil sinneth from
the beginning. For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God
doth not commit sin ; for his seed reraaineth in
him : and he cannot sin, because he is bom of
God. In this the children of God are manifest,
and the children of the devil : whosoever doeth
not righteousness is not of God, neither he that
loveth not his brother. For this is the message
that ye heard from the beginning, that we should
love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that
wicked one, and slew his brother. And where-
fore slew he him ? Because his own works were
evil, and his brother's righteous. Marvel not,
my brethren, if the world hate you. We know
that we have passed from death unto life, because
we love the brethren. He that loveth not hia
brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his
brother is a murderer : and ye know that no
murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Dec. 11, Morning ; June 30, Evening.
HEREBY perceive we the love of God,
because he laid down his life for us : and
we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Dec. 11, Mom. I. JOHX, IV. June 30, Even.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels
of compassion from him, how dweUeth the love
of God in him ? My little children, let us not
love in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed and
in truth. And hereby we know that we are of
the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than
our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if
our heart condemn us not, then have we confi-
dence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we
receive of him, because we keep his command-
ments, and do those things that are pleasing in
his sight. And this is his commandment, That
we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus
Christ, and love one another, as he gave us com-
mandment. And he that keepeth his command-
ments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And
hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the
Spirit which he hath given us.
CHAPTER IV.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God : because many
false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit
that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not
of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and
even now already is it in the world. Ye are of
God, little children, and have overcome them :
because greater is he that is in you, than he that
is in the world. They are of the world : there-
fore speak they of the world, and the world
Dec. 12, M<yrn. 1. JOHN, IV. July 1, Even.
heareth them. We are of God : he that knoweth
God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth
not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and the spirit of error.
Dec. 12, Morning; July 1, Evening.
BELOVED, let us love one another : for loye
is of God ; and every one that loveth is bom
of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not
knoweth not God ; for God is love. In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through him. Herein
is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved
us, and sent his Son to he the propitiation for
our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought
also to love one another. No man hath seen God
at any time. If we love one another, God dwell-
eth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby
know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we
have seen and do testify that the Father sent the
Son to he the Saviour of the world. Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dweUeth in him, and he in God. And we have
known and believed the love that God hath to
us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our
love made perfect, that we may have boldness in
the day of judgment : because as he is, so are we
in this world. There is no fear in love ; but
perfect love casteth out fear : because fear hath
torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in
love. We love him, because he first loved us.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother,
he is a liar : for he that loveth not his brother
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whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom
he hath not seen 1 And this commandment have
we from him, That he who loveth God love his
brother also.
CHAPTER V.
Dec. 13, Morning; July 2, Evening.
WHOSOEVER believeth that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God : and every one
that loveth him that begat loveth him also that
is begotten of him. By this we know that we
love the children of God, when we love God, and
keep his commandments. For this is the love of
God, that we keep his commandments : and his
commandments are not grievous. For whatso-
ever is born of God overcometh the world : and
this is the victory that overcometh the world,
even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the
world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the
Son of God ? This is he that came by water and
blood, even Jesus Christ ; not by water only, but
by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that
beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For
there are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost : and these
three are one. And there are three that bear wit-
ness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the
blood : and these three agree in one. If we receive
the witness of men, the witness of God is greater :
for this is the witness of God which he hath testi-
fied of his Son. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath the witness in himself : he that
believeth not God hath made him a liar ; because
he believeth not the record that God gave of his
Son. And this is the record, that God hath
given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son«
Dec. 14, Morn. II. JOHN. July 3, Even.
He that hath the Son hath life ; and he that hath
not the Son of God hath not life. These things
have I written unto you that believe on the
name of the Son of God ; that ye may know
that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe
on the name of the Son of God. And this is
the confidence that we have in him, that, if we
ask any thing according to his will, he heareth
us : and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever
we ask, we know that we have the petitions that
we desired of him. If any man see his brother
sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask,
and he shall give him life for them that sin not
unto death. There is a sin unto death : I do not
say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteous-
ness is sin : and there is a sin not unto death.
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth
not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
And we know that we are of God, and the whole
world lieth in wickedness. And we know that
the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
understanding, that we may know him that is
true, and we are in him that is true, even in his
Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves
from idols. Amen.
THE SECOND EPISTLE OP
JOHN.
Dec. 14, Morning ; July 3, Evening.
THE elder unto the elect lady and her chil-
dren, whom I love in the truth ; and not I
Dec. 14, Mom. II. JOHX. Jviy 3, Even.
only, but also all they that liave known the truth;
for the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and
shall be with us for ever. Grace be with you,
mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in
truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found
of thy children walking in truth, as we have
received a commandment from the Father. And
now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote
a new commandment unto thee, but that which
we had from the beginniug, that we love one
another. And this is love, that we walk after
his commandments. This is the commandment,
That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye
should walk in it. For many deceivers are
entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver
and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we
lose not those things which we have wrought, but
that we receive a full reward. Whosoever trans-
S-esseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
hrist, hath not Gk>d. He that abideth in the
doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and
the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring
not this doctrine, receive him not into ijour house,
neither bid him God speed : for he that biddeth
him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Having many things to write unto you, I would
not write with paper and ink : but I trust to
come unto you, and speak face to face, that our
J07 may be full. The children of thy elect sister
greet thee. Amen.
THE THIRD EPISTLE OF
JOHN.
Dec. 15, Morning ; July 4, Evening.
THE elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom
I love in the truth. Beloved, I wish above
all things that thou mayest prosper and be in
health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I re-
joiced greatly, when the brethren came and
testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou
walk est in the truth. I have no greater joy than
to hear that my children walk in truth. Beloved,
thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to
the brethren, and to strangers ; which have borne
witness of thy charity before the church : whom
if thou brmg forward on their journey after a
godly sort, thou shalt do well : because that for
his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing
of the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive
such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
I wrote unto the church : but Diotrephes, who
loveth to have the preeminence among them,
receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will
remember his deeds which he doeth, prating
against us with malicious words : and not content
therewith, neither doth he hunself receive the
brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and
casteth them out of the church. Beloved, follow
not that which is evil, but that which is good.
He that doeth good is of God : but he that doeth
evil hath not seen God. Demetrius hath good
report of all mew, and of the truth itself : yea,
and we also bear record ; and ye know that our
record is true. I had many things to write, but
Dec. 16, Morn. JUDE. Judy 5, Even.
I will not with ink and pen write unto thee :
but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall
speak face to face. Peace he to thee. Our friends
salute thee. Greet the friends bv name.
THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF
JUDE.
Dec. 16, Morning ; July 5, Evening.
JUDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother
of James, to them that are sanctified by God
the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and
called : Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence
to write unto you of the common salvation, it
was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort
yoxL that ye should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain men crept in unawares,
who were before of old ordained to this con-
demnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of
our God into lasciviousness, and denying the
only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I
will therefore put you in remembrance, though
ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having
saved the people out of the land of Egypt, after-
ward destroyed them that believed not. And
the angels which kept not their first estate, but
left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judg-
ment of the great day. Even as Sodom and
Gomorrha. and the cities about them in like
manner, giving themselves over to fornication,
and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an
Dec. 16, Morn. JUDE. July 5, Even.
example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the
ilesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of digni-
ties. Yet Michael the archangel, when contend-
ing with the devil he disputed about the body
of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing
accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But
these speak evil of those things which they know
not : but what they know naturally, as brute
beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Woe unto them ! for they have gone in the way
of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of
Balaam for reward, and perished in the gain-
saying of Core. These are spots in your feasts
of charity, when they feast with you, feeding
themselves without fear : clouds they are without
water, carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit
withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up
by the roots ; raging waves of the sea, foaming
out their own shame ; wandering stars, to whom
is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, pro-
phesied of these, saying. Behold, the Lord cometh
with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judg-
ment upon all, and to convince all that are un-
godly among them of all their ungodly deeds
which they have imgodly committed, and of all
their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have
spoken against him. These are murmurers,
complainers, walking after their own lusts ; and
their mouth speaketh great swelling words,
having men's persons in admiration because of
advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words
which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ ; how that they told you
Dec. 17, REVELATION, I. Mom.
there should be mockers in the last time, who
should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These
be they who separate themselves, sensual, having
not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, bmlding up
yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ unto eternal life. And of some have
compassion, making a difference : and others
save with fear, pulling them out of the lire ;
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the
only wise G<»d our Savioiu-, he glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen,
THE EEVELATIOX
OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE.
CHAPTER I.
Dec. 17, 3Iorning.
THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants
things which must shortly come to pass ; and he
sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant
John : who bare record of the word of God, and
of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things
that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and
keep those things which are written therein : for
the time is at hand.
JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia ;
Grace he unto you, and peace, from him
Dec. 17, REVELATION, I. Mom.
which is, and which was, and which is to come ;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his
throne ; and from Jesus Christ, ivho is the faith-
ful witness, and the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, and hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father ; to him he
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Behold, he cometh with clouds ; and every eye
shall see him, and they also which pierced him :
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because
of him. Even so, Amen. I am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty. I John, who also am your
brother, and companion in tribulation, and in
the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was
in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of
God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I
was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last :
and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send
it unto the seven churches which are in Asia ;
unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Per-
gamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and
unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I
turned to see the voice that spake with me.
And being turned, I saw seven golden can-
dlesticks ; and in the midst of tlie seven candle-
sticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with
a garment down to the foot, and girt about the
paps with a golden girdle. His head and his
hairs were white like wool, as white as snow ;
Dec. 17, REVELATION, n. Even.
and his eyes were as a flame of fire ; and his feet
like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a fur-
nace ; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars : and
out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword :
and his countenance wo,s as the sun shineth in
his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at
his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand
upon me, saying unto me, Fear not ; I am the
first and the last : I am he that Uveth, and was
dead ; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,
Amen ; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Write the things which thou bast seen, and the
things which are, and the things which shall be
hereafter ; the mystery of the seven stars which
thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven
golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the
angels of the seven churches : and the seven
candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven
churches.
CHAPTER 11.:.
Dec. 17, Evening.
UNTO the angel of the church of Ephesus
write ; These things saith he that holdeth
the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh
in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks ; I
know thy works, and thy labour, and thy pati-
ence, and how thou canst not bear them which
are evil : and thou hast tried them which say
they are apostles, and are not, and hast found
them Uars : and hast borne, and hast patience,
and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast
not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat
against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,
Dec. 17, REVELATION, II. Even.
and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will
come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy
candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of
the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saitli
unto the churches ; To him that overcometh will
I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the
midst of the paradise of God. And unto the
angel of the church in Smyrna write ; These
things saith the first and the last, which was
dead, and is alive ; I know thy works, and tri-
bulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I
know the blasphemy of them which say they are
Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of
Satan. Fear none of those things which thou
shalt suffer : behold, the devil shall cast some of
you into prison, that ye may be tried ; and ye
shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faith-
ful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of
life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches ; He that over-
cometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos
write ; These things saith he which hath the
sharp sword with two edges ; I know thy works,
and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat
is: and thou boldest fast my name, and hast
not denied my faith, even in those days wherein
Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain
among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have
a few things against thee, because thou hast
there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who
taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the
children of Israel, to eat thincrs sacrificed unto
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idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou
also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolai-
tanes, which thing I hate. Eepent ; or else I
will come unto thee quickly, and will fight
against them with the sword of my mouth. He
that hath an ear. let him hear what the Spirit
saith unto the churches ; To him that over-
cometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,
and will give him a white stone, and in the stone
a new name written, which no man knoweth
saving he that receiveth it.
Dec. 18, Morning.
A ND unto the angel of the church in Thyatira
J\. ^vrite ; These things saith the Son of God,
who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and
his feet are like fine brass ; I know thy works,
and charity, and service, and faith, and thy
patience, and thy works ; and the last to he more
than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few
things against thee, because thou sufferest that
woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophet-
ess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit
fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto
idols. And I gave her space to repent of her
fornication ; and she repented not. Behold, I
will Ciist her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except
they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her
children with death ; and all the churches shall
know that I am he which searcheth the reins and
hearts : and I will give unto every one of you
according to your works. But unto you I say,
and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have
not this doctrine, and which have not known the
depths of Satan, as they speak ; I will put upon
Dec. 18, REVELATION, III. Even.
you none other burden. But that which ye have
already hold fast till I come. And he that over-
conieth, and keepeth my works unto the end, to
him will I give power over the nations : and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron ; as the vessels
of a potter shall they be broken to shivers : even
as I received of my Father. And I will give
him the morning star. He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
CHAPTER III.
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis
write ; These things saith he that hath the seven
Spirits of God, and the seven stars ; I know thy
works, that thou hast a name that thou livest,
and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the
things which remain, tliat are ready to die : for
I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and
heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore
thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a
thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will
come upon thee. Thou hast a few names even
in Sardis which have not defiled their garments ;
and they shall walk with me in white : for they
are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall
be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot
out his name out of the book of life, but I will
confess his name before my Father, and before
his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Dec. 18, Evening.
A ND to the angel of the church in Philadel-
Jl\^ phia write ; These things saith he that is
holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of
Dec. IS, EEVELATIOX, HI. Even.
David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth ;
and shutteth. and no man openeth ; I know thy
works : behold, I have set before thee an open
door, and no man can shut it : for thou hast a
little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast
not denied my name. Behold, I will make them
of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are
Jews, and are not, but do lie ; behold, I will
make them to come and worship before thy feet,
and to know that I have loved thee. Because
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also
will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which
shall come upon all the world, to try them that
dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly :
hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take
thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a
pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go
no more out : and I will write upon him the
name of my God, and the name of the city of
my God, ivhich is new Jerusalem, which cometh
down out of heaven from my God : and I vyill
write upon him my new name. He that hath
an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith imto
the churches. And unto the angel of the church
of the Lkiodiceaus write ; These things saith the
Amen, the faithful and tiTie witness, the begin-
ning of the creation of God ; I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou
wert cold or hot. So then because thou art luke-
warm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee
out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am
rich, and increased with goods, and have need of
nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked :
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
I
Dec. 19, REVELATION, IV. Mom.
that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment,
that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame
of thy nakedness do not appear ; and anoint
thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten : be
zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand
at the door, and knock : if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him,
and will sup with him, and he with me. To him
that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set
down with my Father in his throne. He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
unto the churches.
CHAPTER IV.
Dec. 19, Morning.
A FTER this I looked, and, behold, a door was
J\. opened in heaven : and the first voice which
I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me ; which said. Come up hither, and I will
shew thee things which must be hereafter. And
immediately I was in the spirit : and, behold, a
throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the
throne. And he that sat was to look upon like
a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a
rainbow round about the throne, in sight like
unto an emerald. And round about the throne
were four and twenty seats : and upon the seats
I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in
white raiment ; and they had on their heads
crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded
lightnings and thunderings and voices: and
there were seven lamps of fire burning before the
throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. And
Dec. 19, EEVELATIOX, V. Even.
before the throne there was a sea of glass like
unto crystal : and in the midst of the throne,
and round about the throne, icere four beasts full
of eyes before and behind. And the first beast
was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf,
and the third beast had a face as a man, and the
fourth beast v:as like a flying eagle. And the
four beasts had each of them six wings about
him ; and they ivere full of eyes within : and
they rest not day and night, saying. Holy, holy,
holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is,
and is to come. And when those beasts give
glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on
the throne, who Uveth for ever and ever, the four
and twenty elders fall down before him that sat
on the throne, and worship him that Hveth for
ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the
throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honour and power : for thou
hast created all things, and for tiiy pleasure they
are and were created.
CHAPTER Y.
Dec. 19, Evening.
A ND I saw in the right hand of him that sat
jLX. on the throne a book wTitten within and
on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I
saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice,
Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose
the seals thereof ? And no man in heaven, nor
in earth, neither under the earth, was able to
open the book, neither to look thereon. And I
wept much, because no man was found worthy
to open and to read the book, neither to look
thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me.
Dec. 19, REVELATION, V. Even.
Weep not : behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda,
the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And
I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and
of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven
horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spiiits
of God sent forth into all the earth. And he
came and took the book out of the right hand of
him that sat upon the throne. And when he
had taken the book, the four beasts and four and
twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps, and golden vials full of
odours, which are the prayers of saints. And
they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof :
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God
by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, and nation ; and hast made us unto
our God kings and priests : and we shall reign
on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the
voice of many angels round about the throne
and the beasts and the elders : and the number
of them was ten thousand times ten thousand,
and thousands of thousands ; saying with a loud
voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to
receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and
strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on
the earth, and under the earth, and such as are
in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I say-
ing. Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power,
he unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four
beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty
Dec. 20, REVELATION, YI. Mom.
elders fell down and worshipped Mm that liveth
for ever and ever.
CHAPTER VI.
Dec. 20, Morning.
A ND I saw when the Lamb opened one of the
J\. seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of
thunder, one of the four beasts saying. Come and
see. And I saw, and behold a white horse : and
he that sat on him had a bow ; and a crown was
given unto him : and he went forth conquering,
and to conquer. And when he had opened the
second seal, I heard the second beast say. Come
and see. And there went out another horse that
was red : and yoicer was given to him that sat
thereon to take peace from the earth, and that
they should kill one another : and there was
given unto him a great sword. And when he
had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a
black horse ; and he that sat on liim had a pair
of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in
the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of
wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley
for a penny ; and see thou hurt not the oil and
the wine. And when he had opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fouitlx beast say,
Come and see. And I looked, and behold a
pale horse : and his name that sat on him was
Death, and Hell followed -with him. And power
was given unto them over the fourth part of the
earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and
with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw
under the altar the souls of them that were slain
Dec. 20, REVELATION, VII. Even.
for the word of God, and for the testimony which
they held : and they cried with a loud voice, say-
ing. How long, Lord, holy and true, dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them that
dwell on the earth? And white robes were
given unto every one of them ; and it was said
unto them, that they should rest yet for a little
season, until their fellowservants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they loere,
should be fulfilled. And I beheld when he had
opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake ; and the sun became black as sack-
cloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ;
and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even
as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she
is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven
departed as a scroll when it is rolled together ;
and every mountain and island were moved out
of their places. And the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bond-
man, and every freeman, hid themselves in the
dens and in the rocks of the mountains ; and
said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and
hide us from the lace of him that sitteth on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb : for the
great day of his wrath is come ; and who shall
be able to stand ?
CHAPTER Vn.
! Dec. 20, Eveuing.
AND after these things I saw four angels
- standing on the four corners of the earth,
holdmg the four- winds of the earth, that the
wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the
Lee. 20, EEVELATIOX, TIT. Even.
sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel
ascending from the east, having the seal of the
living God : and he cried with a loud voice to
the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt
the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth,
neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed
the servants of our God in their foreheads. And
I heard the number of them which were sealed :
and there were sealed an hundred and forty and
four thousand of all the tribes of the children of
Israel Of the tribe of Juda v:ere sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben icere sealed
twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were,
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Aser
trcre sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thou-
sand. Of the tribe of Levi ivere sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed
twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon v:ere
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph
were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
Benjamin icere sealed twelve thousand. After
this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which
no man could number, of aU nations, and kin-
dreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the
throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands ; and cried with
a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
And all the angels stood round about the throne,
and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell
before the throne on their faces, and worshipped
God, saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and
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wisdom, and tlmnksgiving, and honour, and
power, and might, he unto our God for ever and
ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed
in white robes % and whence came they ? And
I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he
said to me, These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and have washed their robes,
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and
serve him day and night in his temple : and he
that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among
them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more ; neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall
lead them unto living fountains of waters : and
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
CHAPTER VIII.
Dec. 22, Morning.
A ND when he had opened the seventh seal,
JTjL there was silence in heaven about the space
of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels
which stood before God ; and to them were given
seven trumpets. And another angel came and
stood at the altar, having a golden censer ; and
there was given unto him much incense, that he
should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon
the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with
the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God
out of the angel's hand. And the angel took
the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and
cast it into the earth : and there were voices,
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and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earth-
quake. And the seven angels which had the
seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail
and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast
upon the earth : and the third part of trees was
burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a
great mountain burning wdth fire was cast into
the sea : and the third part of the sea became
blood ; and the third part of the creatures which
were in the sea, and had life, died ; and the third
part of the ships were destroyed. And the third
angel sounded, and there fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell
upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the
fountains of waters ; and the name of the star
is called Wormwood : and the third part of the
waters became wormwood ; and many men died
of the waters, because they were made bitter.
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part
ctf the sun was smitten, and the third part of the
moon, and the third part of the stars ; so as the
third part of them was darkened, and the day
shone not for a third part of it, and the night
likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel
flying through the midst of heaven, saying with
a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of
the earth by reason of the other voices of the
trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to
sound !
CHAPTER IX.
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth : and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit. And he
EEVELATION.IX.
opened the bottomless pit ; and there arose a
smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great
furnace ; and the sun and the air were darkened
by reason of tho smoke of the pit. And there
came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth :
and unto them was given power, as the scorpions
of the earth have power. And it was com-
manded them that they should not hurt the grass
of the earth, neither any green thing, neither
any tree ; but only those men which have not
the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them
it was given that they should not kill them, but
that they should be tormented five months : and
their torment was as the torment of a scorpion,
when he striketh a man. And in those days
shall men seek death, and shall not find it ; and
shall desire to die, and death shall flee from
them. And the shapes of the locusts were like
unto horses prepared unto battle ; and on their
heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their
faces ivere as the faces of men. And they had
hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were
as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates,
as it were breastplates of iron ; and the sound of
their wings was as the sound of chariots of many-
horses running to battle. And they had tails
like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their
tails : and their power was to hurt men five
months. And they had a king over them, which
is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name
in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the
Greek tongue hath his name ApoUyon. One woe
is past ; and, behold, there come two woes more
hereafter. And the sixth angel sounded, and I
heard a voice from the four horns of the golden
Dec. 22, REVELATION, X. Even.
altar which is before God, saying to the sixth
angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four
angels which are bound in the great river
Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed,
which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and
a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of
men. And the number of the army of the horse-
men loere two hundred thousand thousand : and
I heard the number of them. And thus I saw
the horses in the vision, and them that sat on
them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth,
and brimstone : and the heads of the horses
were as the heads of lions ; and out of their
mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
By these three was the thii-d part of men killed,
by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brim-
stone, which issued out of their mouths. For
their power is in their mouth, and in their tails :
for their tails icere like unto serpents, and had
heads, and with them they do hurt. And the
rest of the men which were not killed by these
plagues yet repented not of the works of their
hands, that they should not worship devils, and
idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone,
and of wood : which neither can see, nor hear,
nor walk : neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts.
CHAPTER X.
Dec. 22, Evening.
4 ND I saw another mighty angel come down
jljL from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a
rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as
it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire :
I Dec. 22, REVELATION, X. Even,
and he had in his hand a little book open : and
lie set his right foot upon the sea, and his left
foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as
'rhen a lion roareth : and when he had cried,
.^even thunders uttered their voices. And when
the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I
was about to write : and I heard a voice from
heaven saying unto me. Seal up those things
which the seven thunders uttered, and write
them not. And the angel which I saw stand
upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his
hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth
for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the
things that therein are, and the earth, and the
things that therein are, and the sea, and the
things which are therein, that there should be
time no longer : but in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,
the mystery of God should be finished, as he
hath declared to his servants the prophets. And
the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto
me again, and said. Go and take the little book
which is open in the hand of the angel which
standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And
I went unto the angel, and said unto him. Give
me the little book. And he said unto me. Take
it, and eat it up ; and it shall make thy belly
bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel's
hand, and ate it up ; and it was in my mouth
sweet as honey : and as soon as I had eaten it,
my belly was bitter. And he said unto me,
Thou must prophesy again before many peoples,
and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Dec. 23, EEVELATION, XI. Mom.
CHAPTER XI.
Dec. 23, Morning.
A ND there was given me a reed like unto a
J\. rod : and the angel stood, saying, Eise, and
measure the temple of God, and the altar, and
them that worship therein. But the court which
is without the temple leave out, and measure it
not ; for it is given imto the Gentiles : and the
holy city shall they tread under foot forty and
two months. And I will give power unto my
two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thou-
sand two hundred and threescore days, clothed
in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and
the two candlesticks standing before the God of
the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire
proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth
their enemies : and if any man will hurt them,
he must in this manner be killed. These have
power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the
days of their prophecy : and have power over
waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the
earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
And when they shall have finished their testi-
mony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottom-
less pit shall make war against them, and shall
overcome them, and kill them. And their dead
bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified. And they of
the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half,
and sliall not suffer their dead bodies to be put
in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth
shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and
shall send gifts one to another ; because these
Dec. 23, KEVELATION, XI. Mom.
two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the
(?arth. And after three days and an half the
Spirit of life from God entered into them, and
they stood upon their feet ; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them. And they heard a
great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come
up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in
a cloud ; and their enemies beheld them. And
the same hour was there a great earthquake, and
the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earth-
quake were slain of men seven thousand : and
the remnant Avere affrighted, and gave glory to
the God of heaven. The second woe is past ;
and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. And
the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great
voices in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and
of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and
ever. And the four and twenty elders, which
sat before God on their seats, fell upon their
faces, and worshipped God, saying, We give thee
thanks, Lord God Almighty, which art, and
wast, and art to come ; because thou hast taken
to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And
the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come,
and the time of the dead, that they should be
judged, and that thou shouldest give reward mito
thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and
them that fear thy name, small and great ; and
shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven,
and there was seen in his temple the ark of his
testament : and there were lightnings, and voices,
and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great
hail.
Dec. 23, BEVEL ATION, XII. Even.
CHAPTER XIL
Dec. 23, Evening. ]
4 ND there appeared a crreat wonder in heaven ;
J\. a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown
of twelve stars : and she being with child cried,
travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven ;
and behold a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth :
and the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child
as soon as it was born. And she brought forth
a man child, who was to rule all nations with a
rod of iron : and her child was caught up unto
Grod, and to his throne. And the woman fled
into the wilderness, where she hath a place pre-
pared of God, that they should feed her there a
thousand two hundred and threescore days.
And there was war in heaven : Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon ; and the dra,-
gon fought and his angels, and prevailed not ;
neither was their place found any more in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out,
that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world : he was cast
out into the earth, and his angels were cast out
with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in
heaven. Now is come salvation, and strength,
and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
his Christ : for the accuser of our brethren is
cast down, which accused them before our God
REVELATION, XIII.
day and night. And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony ; and they loved not their lives unto
the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye
that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of
the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come
down unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time. And
when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the
earth, he persecuted the woman which brought
forth the man child. And to the woman were
given two wings of a great eagle, that she might
fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she
is nourished for a time, and times, and half a
time, from the face of the serpent. And the
serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood
after the woman, that he might cause her to be
carried away of the flood. And the earth helped
the woman, and the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed up the flood which the dragon
cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was
wroth with the woman, and went to make war
with the remnant of her seed, which keep the
commandments of God, and have the testimony
of Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER XIII.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw
a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads
and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a
leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion : and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority. And I saw one of his heads as
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BEVEL ATIOX, Xin.
it were wounded to death ; and his deadly wound
was healed : and all the world wondered after
the beast. And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast : and they
worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto
the beast ? who is able to make war with him ?
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking
great things and blasphemies ; and power was
given unto him to continue forty and two months.
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against
God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle,
and them that dwell in heaven. And it was
given unto him to make war with the saints, and
to overcome them : and power was given him
over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life
of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world. If any man have an ear, let him hear.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into cap-
tivity : he that killeth with the sword must be
killed with the sword. Here is the patience and
the faith of the saints. And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth ; and he had
two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast
before him, and causeth the earth and them
which dwell therein to worship the first beast,
whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth
great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
the means of those miracles which he had power
to do in the sight of the beast ; saying to them
that dwell on the earth, that they should make
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an image to the beast, which had the wound by
a sword, and did live. And he had power to
give life unto the image of the beast, that the
image of the beast should both speak, and cause
that as many as would not worship the image of
the beast should be killed. And he causeth all,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and
bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or
in their foreheads : and that no man might buy
or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name
of the beast, or the number of his name. Here
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast : for it is the
number of a man ; and his number is Six hun-
dred threescore and six.
CHAPTER XIV.
Dec. 24, Morning.
A ND I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the
J\. mount Sion, and with him an hundred
forty and four thousand, having his Father's
name written in their foreheads. And I heard
a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of a great thunder : and I heard
the voice of harpers harping with their harps :
and they sung as it were a new song before the
throne, and before the four beasts, and the
elders : and no man could learn that song but
the hundred and forty and four thousand, which
were redeemed from the earth. These are they
which were not defiled with women ; for they
are virgins. These are they which follow the
Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were re-
deemed from among men, being the firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth
Dec. 24, REYELATION, XIV. Mom.
was found no guile : for they are without fault
before the throne of God. And I saw another I
angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the !
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that i
dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a
loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for
the hour of his judgment is come : and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of waters. And there followed
another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
that great city, because she made all nations
drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying with
a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and
his image, and receive his mark in his forehead,
or in hi^ hand, the same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is poured out with-
out mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and
he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
ia the presence of the holy angels, and in the
presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for ever and ever : and
they have no rest day nor night, who worship
the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name. Here is the patience of
the saints : here are they that keep the com-
mandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And
I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that
they may rest from their labours ; and their
works do follow them. And I looked, and be-
hold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat
like unto the Son of man, having on his head a
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Z>ec. 24, KEVELATION, XV. Even.
golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, cry-
ing with a loud voice to him that sat on the
cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap : for the
time is come for thee to reap ; for the harvest of
the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud
thrust in his sickle on the earth ; and the earth
was reaped. And another angel came out of the
temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp
sickle. And another angel came out from the
altar, which had power over fire ; and cried with
a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, say-
ing. Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the
clusters of the vine of the earth ; for her grapes
are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his
sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of
the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of
the wrath of God. And the winepress was
trodden without the city, and blood came out
of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles,
by the space of a thousand and six hundred
furlongs.
CHAPTER XV.
Dec. 24, Evening.
A ND I saw another sign in heaven, great and
J\. marvellous, seven angels having the seven
last plagues ; for in them is filled up the wrath of
God, And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled
with fire : and them that had gotten the victory
over the beast, and over his image, and over his
mark, and over the number of his name, stand
on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of
God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great
Dec. 28, REVELATION, XTL 3Iom.
and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Al-
mighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King
of saints. Who shall not fear thee, Lord, and
glorify thy name ? for thou only art holy : for
all nations shall come and worship before thee ;
for thy judgments are made manifest. And after
that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was
opened : and the seven angels came out of the
temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure
and white linen, and having their breasts girded
with golden girdles. And one of the four beasts
gave unto the seven angels seven golden viids
full of the ^vTath of God, who liveth for ever and
ever. And the temple was filled with smoke
from the glory of God, and from his power ; and
no man was able to enter into the temple, till the
seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
CHAPTEE XVL
Dec. 28, Morning.
A ND I heard a great voice out of the temple
jL\. saying to the seven angels, Go your ways,
and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon
the e^rth. And the first went, and poured out
his vial upon the earth ; and there fell a noisome
and grievous sore upon the men which had the
mark of the beast, and iqjon them which wor-
shipped his image. And the second angel poured
out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the
blood of a dead man : and every living soul died
in the sea. And the third angel poured out his
vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters ;
and they became blood. And I heard the angel
of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord,
Dec. 28, REVELATION, XVI. Mom.
which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou
hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood
of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them
blood to drink ; for they are worthy. And I
heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord
God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judg-
ments. And the fourth angel poured out his vial
upon the sun ; and power was given imto him
to scorch men with fu-e. And men were scorched
with great heat, and blasphemed the name of
God, wliich hath power over these plagues : and
they repented not to give him glory. And the
fifth angel poured out his vial . uiDon the seat of
the beast ; and his kingdom was full of dark-
ness ; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
and blasphemed the God of heaven because of
their pains and their sores, and repented not of
their deeds. And the sixth angel poured out his
vial upon the great river Euphrates ; and the
water thereof was dried up, that the way of the
kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the
mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of
the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
prophet. For they are the spirits of devils,
working miracles, which go forth unto the kings
of the earth and of the whole world, to gather
them to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed
is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments,
lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a plac€
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And
the seventh angel poured out his vial into the
air ; and there came a great voice out of the
REVELATION, XVII.
temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is
done. And there were voices, and thunders, and
lightnings ; and there was a great earthquake,
such as was not since men were upon the earth,
so mighty an earthquake, aiid so great. And
the great city was divided into three parts, and
the cities of the nations fell : and great Babylon
came in remembrance before God, to give unto
her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his
wrath. And every island fled away, and the
mountains were not found. And there fell upon
men a great hail out of heaven, every stogie about
the weight of a talent : and men blasphemed
God because of the plague of the haU ; for the
plague thereof was exceeding great.
CHAPTER XVII.
And there came one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying
unto me. Come hither ; I will shew unto thee
the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters : with whom the kings of the earth
have committed fornication, and the inhabitants
of the earth have been made drunk with the
wine of her fornication. So he carried me away
in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a
woman sit upon a scai'let coloured beast, fuU of
names of blasphemy, having seven heads and
t€n horns. And the woman was arrayed in
purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden
cup in her hand fuU of abominations and filthi-
ness of her fornication : and upon her forehead
was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HAR-
LOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
REVELATION, XVII.
EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with
the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus : and when I saw her, I won-
dered with great admiration. And the angel
-aid unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel ? I
ill tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of
le beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven
ueads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest
was, and is not ; and shall ascend out of the
bottomless pit, and go into perdition : and they
that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names
were not written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world, when they behold the
beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here
is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven
heads are seven mountains, on which the woman
sitteth. And there are seven kings : five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ;
and when he cometh, he must continue a short
space. And the beast that was, and is not, even
he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth
into perdition. And the ten horns which thou
sawest are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet ; but receive power as kings one
hour with the beast. These have one mind, and
shall give their power and strength unto the
beast. These shall make war with the Lamb,
and the Lamb shall overcome them : for he is
Lord of lords, and King of kings : and they that
are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou
sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and
multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the
ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,
these shall hate the whore, and shall make her
Dec. 28, EEYELATIOX, XYIII. Even.
desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and
biu-n her with fire. For God hath put in their
hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give
their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of
God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which
thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth
over the kings of the earth.
CHAPTER XYIII.
Bee. 28, Evening.
AND after these things I saw another angel
JTa. come down from heaven, having great
power ; and the earth was lightened with his
glory. And he cried mightily with a strong
voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is faUen,
and is become the habitation of devils, and the
hold of every foid spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have
drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornica-
tion, and the kings of the earth have committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the
earth are waxed rich through the abundance of
her delicacies. And I heard another voice from
heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues. For her sins have
reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered
her iniquities. Eeward her even as she rewarded
you, and double unto her double according to
her works : in the cup which she hath filled fill
to her double. How much she hath glorified
herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment
and sorrow give her : for she saith in her heart,
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see
no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in
Dec. 28, REVELATION, XVIII. Even.
one day, death, and mourning, and famine ; and
she shall be utterly burned with fire : for strong
is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the
kings of the earth, who have committed fornica-
tion and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail
her, and lament for her, when they shall see the
smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the
fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great
city Babylon, that mighty city ! for in one hour
is thy judgment come. And the merchants of
the earth shall weep and mourn over her ; for no
man buyeth their merchandise any more : the
merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious
stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple,
and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and
all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner ves-
sels of most precious wood, and of brass, and
iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odours, and
ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil,
and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep,
and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of
men. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after
are departed from thee, and all things which
were dainty and goodly are departed from thee,
and thou shalt find them no more at all. The
merchants of these things, which were made rich
by her, shall stand afar ofi" for the fear of her
torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas,
alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen,
and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold,
and precious stones, and pearls ! For in one
hour so great riches is come to nought. And
every shipmaster, and all the company in ships,
and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood
afar off, and cried when they saw the smoke of
Dec. 29, REVELATION, XIX. Morn.
her burning, saying, TVhat city is like unto this
great city ! And they cast dust on their heads,
and cried, weeping and waUing, saying, Alas,
alas that great city, wherein were made rich all
that had ships in the sea by reason of her costli-
ness ! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Eejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apos-
tles and prophets ; for God hath avenged you on
her. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a
great millstone, and c^t it into the sea, saying,
Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon
be thrown down, and shall be foimd no more at
all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians,
and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no
more at all in thee ; and no craftsman, of what-
soever craft he be, shaU be found any more in
thee ; and the sound of a millstone shall be
heard no more at all in thee ; and the light of a
candle shall shine no more at aU in thee ; and
the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride
shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy
merchants were the great men of the earth ; for
by thy sorceries were aU nations deceived. And
in her was foimd the blood of prophets, and of
saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
CHAPTER XIX.
Dec. 29, Morning.
A ND after these things I heard a great voice
^lIl of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia ;
Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power,
unto the Lord our God : for true and righteous
are his judgments : for he hath judged the great
whore, which did corrupt the earth with her
fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his
Dec. 29, REVELATION, XIX. Everu
servants at her hand. And again they said,
Vlleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and
\ er. And the four and twenty elders and the
tour beasts fell down and worshipped God that
sat on the throne, saying, Amen ; Alleluia.
And a voice came out of the throne, saying,
Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that
fear him, both small and great. And I heard as
it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the
voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty
tliunderings, saying. Alleluia : for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour to him : for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself
ready. And to her was granted that she should
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white : for the
fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And
he saith unto me. Write, Blessed are they which
are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he saith unto me. These are the true sayings
of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him.
And he said unto me. See thou do it not : I am
thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have
the testimony of Jesus : worship God : for the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Dec. 29, Evening.
yiND I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
j\. horse ; and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth
judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame
of fire, and on his head were many crowns ; and
he had a name written, that no man knew, but
he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood : and his name is called The
Word of God. And the armies which were in
Dec. 30, EEVELATION, XX. Mom.
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed
in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his
mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should smite the nations : and he shall rule them
with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the wine-
press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty-
God. And he hath on his vesture and on his
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND
LOED OF LORDS. And I saw an angel stand-
ing in the sun ; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of
heaven, Come and gather yourselves together
unto the supper of the great God ; that ye may
eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains,
and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of
horses, and of them that sit on them, and the
flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small
and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings
of the earth, and their armies, gathered together
to make war against him that sat on the horse,
and against his army. And the beast was taken,
and with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before him, with which he deceived
them that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image. These
both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning
with brimstone. And the remnant were slain
with the sword of him that sat upon the horse,
which sv:ord proceeded out of his mouth : and
all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
CHAPTER XX.
Dec. 30, Morning.
ND I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a
A^
Dec. 30, REVELATION, XX. Mom.
great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on
the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and
cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him
np, and set a seal upon him, that he should de-
ceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled : and after that he must be
loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and
they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them : and I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived
not again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy
is he that hath part in the first resurrection : on
such the second death hath no power, but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with him a thousand years. And when
the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to de-
ceive the nations which are in the four quarters
of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them
together to battle : the number of whom is as
the sand of the sea. And they went up on the
breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of
the saints about, and the beloved city ; and fire
came down from God out of heaven, and devoured
them. And the devil that deceived them was
cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where
the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be
tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Dec. 30, KEVELATION, XXI. Even,
And I saw a great white throne, and him that
sat on it, from whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away ; and there was fomid no place
for them. And I saw the dead, small and great,
stand before God ; and the books were opened :
and another book was opened, which is the hook
of life : and the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, accord-
ing to their works. And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it ; and death and heU de-
livered up the dead which were in them : and
they were judged every man according to their
works. And death and hell were ci^t into
the lake of fire. This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire.
CHAPTER XXI.
Dec. 30, Evening.
A ND I saw a new heaven and a new earth :
J\. for the first heaven and the first earth were
passed away ; and there was no more sea. And
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
doAvn from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband. And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God, And God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain :
for the former things are passed away. And he
that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
things new. And he said unto me, Write : for
Dec. 31, EEVELATIOX, XXL Mom.
these words are true and faithful. And he said
unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end. I will give unto
him that is athirst of the fountain of the water
of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit
all things ; and I will be his God, and he shall
be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whore-
mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all
liars, shall have their part in the lake which
burneth with fire and brimistone : which is the
second death. And there came unto me one of
the seven angels which had the seven vials full
of the seven last plagues, and talked with me,
saying. Come hither, I will shew thee the bride,
the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in
the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God, having the
glory of God : and her light was like unto a
stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear
as crystal ; and had a wall great and high, and
had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels,
and names written thereon, which are the names
of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel : on
the east three gates ; on the north three gates ;
on the south three gates ; and on the west three
grates. And the wall of the city had twelve founda-
tions, and in them the names of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb.
Bee. 31, Morning.
4 ND he that talked with me had a golden reed
J\. to measure the city, and the gates thereof,
and the wall thereof. And the city lieth four-
square, and the length is as large as the breadth :
Dec. 31, EEVELATIOX, XXL Mam.
and he measured the city with the reed, twelve
thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth
and the height of it are equal And he mea-
sured the wall thereof, an hundred aiid forty and
four cubits, according to the measure of a man,
that is, of the angel. And the building of the
waU of it was of jasper : and the city was pure
gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations
of the wall of the city were garnished with all
manner of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper ; the second, sapphire ; the third,
a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald ; the fifth,
sardonyx ; the sixth, sardius ; the seventh, chry-
solyte ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz ;
the tenth, a chrysoprasus ; the eleventh, a jacinth ;
the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates
icere twelve pearls ; every several gate was of
one pearl ; and the street of the city was pure
gold, as it were transparent glass. And I saw
no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the
city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon,
to shine in it : for the glory of God did lighten
it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the
nations of them which are saved shall walk in
the light of it : and the kings of the earth do
bring their glory and honour into it. And the
gates of it shall not be shut at all by day : for
there shall be no night there. And they shall
bring the glorj^ and honour of the nations into
it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any
thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maJceth a lie : but they which
are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Dec. 31, EEYELATION, XXII. Even.
CHAPTER XXII.
And he shewed me a pure river of water of
life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the
street of it, and on either side of the river, was
there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month :
and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of
the nations. And there shall be no more curse :
but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be
in it ; and his servants shall serve him : and
they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in
their foreheads. And there shaU be no night
there ; and they need no candle, neither light of
the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them hght :
and they shaU reign for ever and ever. "
Dec. 31, Evening.
' A ND he said unto me. These sayings are faith-
jl\. ful and true : and the Lord God of the
holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his
servants the things which must shortly be done.
Behold, I come quickly : blessed is he that
keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
And I John saw these things, and heard them.
And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to
worship before the feet of the angel which shewed
me these things. Then saith he unto me, See
thou do it not : for I am thy fellowservant, and of
thy brethren the prophets, and of them which
keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
And he saith unto me. Seal not the sayings of
the prophecy of this book : for the time is at
hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still :
and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still :
and he that is righteous, let him be righteous
Dec. 31, REVELATION, XXII. Evetu
still : and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
And, behold, I come quickly ; and my reward is
with me, to give every man according as his
vrork shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the be-
ginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city. For
without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore-
mongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and who-
soever loveth and maketh a lie. I Jesus have
sent mine angel to testify unto you these things
in the churches. I am the root and the oflfepring
of David, and the bright and morning star. And
the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let
him that heareth say, Come." And let him that
is athirst come. And whosoever wUl, let him
take the water of life freely. For I testify unto
every man that heareth the words of the pro-
phecy of this book, If any man shall add unto
these things, God shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book : and if any man
shaU take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out
of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and
from the things which are written in this book.
He which testifieth these things saith. Surely I
come quickly. Amen. Even so, come. Lord
Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ he
with you aih Amen.
THE END.