ncienttf Modern Library of Theological Literature The Second Prayer Book of Edward. VI ORTHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, 45, GORDON SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.l. E N G LAND. THE SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OK KING EDWARD VI. The Ancient and Modern Library of Theological Literature. A THE SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF KING EDWARD VI 1552 REPRINTED FROM A COPY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM GRIFFITH, FARRAN, OKEDEN & WELSH (SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS) WEST CORNER ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON AND SYDNEY HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. THE Second Prayer-Book of King Edward VI., which is here before the reader, exhibited, throughout, a strong divergence from the principles which had marked the structure of the First Book. That Book had been drawn up with care from the ancient Liturgies of the Western Church, and aimed, as the Preface declared, at preserving "the godly and decent order of the ancient fathers," while it omitted accretions with which later times had injured it. The result was, as will be specially seen by an examination of the Communion Service, that the First Liturgy of King^ Edward followed closely the ancient Canon, only it was in English. In the Second Book aim was taken to weaken this identity, and Catholic antiquity was seriously departed from. The common opinion is, that this change was due to the influence of foreign Reformers, but Mr Procter, in his excellent History of the Book of Common Prayer, has shown us that this opinion must be largely qualified. Indirectly, indeed, the English Reformers were being affected by the progress of thought on the Continent; but so far as their action was concerned with respect to the Liturgy, the author we have just referred to shows that it was spontaneous, and that though Bucer, who was made Regius Professor of Divinity at Cam- bridge in 1549^ published a somewhat voluminous treatise on the subject, it was not in the hands of the revisers until they had finished their work. (Procter, pp. 38-43.) vi HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. The publication of the First Book was, on the whole, well received in England. It was seen that the Ceremonial to which men had been accustomed in years past, remained; and no violence was done to religious feeling. But the march of events was rapid and strong. The crimes of the Duke of Somerset represented the bad side of the movement against the old order ; the action of Ridley and Hooper was the con- scientious enforcement of views, which regarded the communion of the individual soul with God as of greater importance than the maintenance of Catholic unity. Ridley had been one of the most zealous destroyers of the ancient " Mass Books" and images in churches ; and one of his first acts on his appoint- ment to the see of London, was to remove the stone altar from St Paul's Cathedral, and to substitute a table. Hooper preached, somewhat violently, doctrine in unison with this action, and an Order in Council, promulgated Nov. 1550, directed that altars were to be everywhere removed, and state- ments were prepared to reconcile parishioners to the change. The question of ecclesiastical vestments had come to the forefront when Hooper, who was nominated to the see of Gloucester, refused to be consecrated in the legal Episcopal robes, and after a warm controversy with Ridley on the point, was sent to the Fleet for contumacy. Then he yielded, on the understanding that after his consecration he should not be compelled to wear the obnoxious vestments on all occasions in his diocese. It is no wonder therefore that the First Prayer-Book was no sooner published than fresh alterations were called for. At the simultaneous meeting of Convocation and Parliament in 1550 the question was opened, doubts were expressed about what holidays should be observed, what should be the dress of the minister, what the words of administration of Holy HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. vii Communion; and a committee of divines, under the presidency of Archbishop Cranmer, was appointed. This committee drew up the Second Book. They proceeded slowly with their work, for they began in the autumn of 1550. Next year there was a long private discussion concerning the manner of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. On the 23rd of January 1552 (the day after Somerset was beheaded) Parliament met, and next day Convocation. Then Cranmer produced the amended book. On the 6th of April following, the Act of Uniformity was passed, which was to bring it into use. It is to be noticed that this Act explained that the alterations had been made in order to " render the book fully perfect in all such places in which it was necessary to be made more earnest and fit for the stirring up of all Christian people to the true honouring of Almighty God, and with no intention of con- demning the doctrine of the former book." It also emphatic- ally declared that the First Book had contained nothing but what was agreeable to the Word of God and the Primitive Church. For some reason a long interval was fixed before the new book was to come into use, viz., the ensuing All Saints' Day. It may have been that there was, on the one hand, a fear that those who, like Bishop Gardiner, had accepted the First Book, \vould reject the Second, and, on the other, that the ardent Reform party wanted yet further altera- tions. In the interval the issue of the new book was sus- pended for the correction of certain faults, and it was not until October ayth that the " Black Rubric" was added at the end of the Communion Service, in explanation of the kneeling posture required of the Communicants. As a matter of fact, as Canon Daniel observes, the Second Book of King Edward does not seem to have ever come into general use. In many congregations it was felt viii HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. that " the old was better," and any attempt to enforce penally the new Liturgy was prevented by the illness of the king, and the political excitements which filled his last days. In the following July he died. The accession of Queen Mary was the signal for the restoration for the time being of the Roman Service. We have in our edition of the First Book referred the reader to the book itself to discover the differences between that and our present Liturgy, and so we now leave him to study out the differences between the two Liturgies of Edward. They are many and important, the principal being (i) the addition of the Sentences, Exhortation, Confession, and Ab- solution in the Daily Service, probably derived, though not verbally, from a service drawn up by the Calvinist Pullain for the French Refugees at Glastonbury (Procter, p. 45); (2) the addition of the Decalogue in the Communion Service ; (3) the great changes made in the order of that service, and in the words of administration ; (4) the omission of the Introits ; (5) and the prohibition of the Ancient Vestments. It may be well to point out, in conclusion, that the interest attaching to this book is purely historical. The second Liturgy of Edward VI. is not ours ; it was abolished in the first year of Queen Mary, and has never been restored. In the reign of Elizabeth a new Liturgy was adopted by the Church of England, which was afterwards modified and altered at the Hampton Court Conference. But the authorised Prayer-Book is that of 1662. The nature of the successive changes we hope to show in ensuing volumes. W. B. THE BOKE OF COMMON PRAYER AND AD- MINTSTRACION OF THE SACRAMENTES, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES IN THE CHURCHE OF ENGLAND. Londini, in Officina Edwardi Whytchurche. Cum privifegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno 15,52. THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK. i. A PREFACE. ii. Of ceremonies, why some be abolished and some retayned. iii. The ordre howe the Psalter is appointed to be read. iv. The Table for the order of the Psalmes to be sayd at Mornyng and Euening prayer. v. The order how the rest of holy Scripture is appointed to be read. vi. Propre Psalmes and Lessons at Morning and Euening Praier, for certayne feastes and dayes. vii. An Almanack, viii. The Table and Kaledar for Psalmes and Lessons, with necessarie Rules apperteynyng to the same, ix. The order for Mornyng Prayer and Eueninge Praier through- out the yere. x. The Letanie. xi. The Collectes, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used at the ministracion of the holy Communion, throughout the yere. xii. The order of the ministracion of the holy Communion, xiii. Baptisme both publique and priuate. xiv. Confirmacion, where also is a Catechisme for children, xv. Matrimonie. xvi. Visitation of the sicke. xvii. The Communion of the sicke. xviii. Burial. xix. The thanksgiuing of women after childe-birth. xx. A Comminacio against sinners, with certain praiers to be used diuers tymes in the yere. xxi. The fourme and maner of makyng and consecrating of Bischoppes, Priestes, and Deacons. A 2 THE PREFACE. [In several copies the Act of Uniformity is printed before this Preface]. THERE was -neuer anye thynge by the wytte of man so wel deuised, or so sure established, whiche (in continuance of tyme) hath not been corrupted: as(emong other thynges) it mayplaynlye appeare by the common prayers in the Churche commonlye called diuine seruyce : the firste originall and grounde whereof yf a manne woulde searche out by auncient fathers, he shall fynde that the same was not ordayned but of a good purpose, and for a great aduancemente of godlynesse. For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) shoulde be readde ouer once in the yeare entendynge thereby, that the clergie and speciallye sucheas were ministers of the congregacion, should (by often readynge and meditacion of Godde's woorde) be stirred up to godlynesse themselues, and be more able also to exhorte other by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were aduer- saries to the trueth. And further, that the people (by dayly hear- ynge of holye scripture read in the Churche) should continuallye profyte more and more in the knowledge of God, and be the more inflamed with the loue of hys true religion. But these manye yeres passed, this godly and decent order of the auncient fathers hath been so altered, broken, and neglected, by plantinge in un- certayn Stories, Legendes, Respondes, Verses, vayne repeticions, Commemoracions, and Sinodalles, that commonlye when anye boke of the Bible was begonne, before three or foure Chapters were read out, al the rest were unread. And in thys sorte the boke of Esay was begonne in Aduent, and the boke of Genesis in Septua- gesima : but they were onely begonne, and never read through. After a lyke sorte were other bokes of holy scripture used. And moreouer, whereas Sainct Paule woulde haue such language spoken to the people in the Churche, as thei might understande, and haue profite by hearing the same ; the seruice in this Churche of Englande (these manye yeres) hath been read in Latyn to the people, whiche they understode not : so that they haue heard with their eares onely ; and their heartes, spirite, and mynde, haue not been edified thereby. And furthermore, notwithstandynge that the auncient fathers haue diuided the Psalmes into seuen porcions, whereof euerye one was called a Nocturne ; nowe of late tyme, a fewe of them haue been dayly sayd (and ofte repeated) and the THE PREFACE. rest utterlye omitted. Moreover, the numbre and hardnesse of the rules, called the Pie, and the manyfolde chaungynges of the seruyce, was the cause, that to tourne the boke onely was so harde and intricate a matter, that manye tymes there was more busynesse to fynde out what shoulde be read, then to reade it when it was founde out. These inconueniences therefore consydered, here is set furthe suche an order, whereby the same shalbe redressed. And for a redynesse in thys matter, here is drawen out a kalendar for that purpose, whiche is playne and easye to be understanden : wherin (so muche as may be) the readynge of holye scriptures is so set furthe, that all thynges shalbe doen in order, without breakynge one pyece thereof from another. For thys cause be cut of Anthemes, Respondes, Inuitatories, and suche lyke thynges, as dyd breake the continuall course of the readynge of the scripture. Yet because there is no remedye, but that of necessitie there must be some rules, therefore certayn rules are here sette furth, whiche as they be fewe in numbre, so they be playn and easie to be understanden. So that here you haue an order for prayer (as touchynge the readynge of holye scripture) muche agreable to the mynde and purpose of thold fathers, and a great deale more profitable and commodious, then that which of late was used. It is more pro- fitable, because here are lefte out manye thynges, where of some be untrue, some uncertayn, some vayne and supersticious, and is ordeined nothynge to be read, but the very pure worde of God, the holye scriptures, or that which is euidentlye grounded upon the same, and that in such a language and order, as is most easy and playne for the understandynge bothe of the readers and hearers. It is also more commodious, bothe for the shortness thereof, and for the playnnesse of the order, and for that the rules be fewe and easye. Furthermore, by thys order, the curates shall nede none other bokes for their publyke seruice, but thys boke, and the Bible: By the meanse whereof, the people shall not be at so greate charge for bokes, as in tyme paste they haue been. And where heretofore there hath been greate diuersitie in sayeng and syngyng in Churches within this realme, some folowynge Salisbury use, some of Herford use, some the use of Bangor, some of Yorke, and some of Lincolne. No we from hence furthe, all the whole realme shall haue but one use. And yf any woulde judge thys way more painfull, because that all thynges muste be read upon the booke where as before by the reason of so often repeti- cion, they could saye many thynges by heart; yf those men wyl weygh their laboure, with the profyte and knowledge, which dayly they shal obtayne by readyng upon the boke, they wyl not refuse the payne, in cosideracion of the great profile that shal ensue therof. And for asmuche as nothynge can almoste be so playnly set furthe. but doubles may ryse in the use and practisynge of the THE PREFACE. same : To appease all suche diuersitie (yf any aryse), and for the resolucion of all doubles concernynge the maner howe to under- stande doe and execute the thynges conteyned in this boke : the partes that so doubt, or diuersly take any thyng, shall alway resorte to the Byshoppe of the Diocesse, who by hys discrecion shall take order for the quietynge and appeasyng of the same : so that the same order be not contrarye to anye thynge conteyned in thys boke. And yf the Byshoppe of the Diocesse be in anye double, then maye he sende for the resolution thereof unto the Archebyshoppe. Though it be appoynted in the afore wrytten Preface, that all thynges shalbe read and songe in the Churche in the Englyshe tongue, to the encle that the congregacion mayc be thereby edified : yet it is not ment, but when menne say Mornyng and Euenynge prayer priuatly, they may saie the same in anye language that they themselues do understande. And all Priestes and Deacons shalbe bounde to say dayly the Mornynge and Euenyng prayer, either priuatly or openly, ex- cepte they be letted by preaching, studeing of diuinityie, or by some other urgent cause. And the Curate that ministreth in every Parish Churche or Chapell, beyng at home, and not beyng otherwise reasonably letted, shall say the same in the Parishe Churche or Chapell where he ministreth, and shall tolle a belle thereto, a conven- ient tyme before he begyn, that suche as be disposed maye come to heare Goddes worde, and to praie with hym. OF CEREMONIES, WHY SOME BE ABOLISHED, AND SOME RETEINED. OF suche ceremonies as be used in the church, and haue had their beginning by y e instituti5 of man : some at the first were of Godly entent and purpose deuised, and yet at length turned to vanitie and superstitio : some entred into the church by un- discrete deuotio, and such a zeale as was without knowledge: and for because thei were winked at in the beginning, thei grewe daily to more and more abuses : whiche not onely for their unprofitable- nesse, but also because thei haue much blinded the people, and obscured the glory of God, are worthy to be cut awaie, and clene reiected. Other there be, which although thei haue been deuised by man, yet it is thought good to reserue them still, aswel for a decent order in the churche (for the whiche thei were first deuised) as because thei pertein to edification : whereunto all thynges doen in the churche (as the Apostle teacheth) ought to be referred. And although the kepyng or omittyng of a ceremonie (in it self con- sidered) is but a small thynge : yet the wilful and contempteous transgression, and breakynge of a common order and discipline, is no small offence before God. Let al thynges be doen emonge you (saith S. Paule) in a semely and due order. The appointmct of the which order, perteineth not to priuate men : therefore no man ought to take in hand, nor pre- sume to appoynt or alter any publique or common order in Christes church, except he be lawfully called and authorized thereunto. And whereas as in this our tyme, the mindes of menne are so diuerse, that some thynke it a greate matter of conscience to departe from a pece of the least of their Ceremonies (thei be so ad- dicted to their old customs :) and again on the other side, some be so new fagled, that thei would innouate all thyng, and so do despise the old, thai nothyng can like them, but that is new : it was thought expediet, not so much to haue respect how to please and satisfie either of these parties, as how to please God, and profyte them both. And yet lest any man should be offeded (whom good reasone might satisfie) here be certain causes redred why some of the accustomed Ceremonies be put away, and some retayned and kept styll. Some are put away, because the great excess and multitude of 8 OF CEREMONIES. the hath so encreased in these latter dales, that the burthen of them was intolerable : whereof S. Augustine in his tyme com- playned, that they were grovven to such a numbre, that the state of Christian people was in worse case (concernyng that matter) then were the Jewes. And he counsayled y' such yoke and burthe should be taken away, as tyme woulde serue quietly to doe it. But what would S. Augustine haue sayed, if he had seen the ceremonies of late daies used among us ? whereunto the multitude used in his time was not to be compared. This oure excessiue multitude of Ceremonies was so great, and many of them so darke : that they did more confounde and darken, then declare and set furth Christes benefites unto us. And besides thys, Christes Gospell is not a Ceremonial lawe (as much of Moses lawe was) but it is a religion to serue God, not in bondage of the figure or shadowe but in the fredome of spirite beynge content only with those Ceremonies, which do serue to a decent ordre and godly discipline, and such as be apte to stirre up the dull mynde of man, to the remembraunce of his duety to God, by some notable and speciall significacion, whereby he myght be edified. Furthermore, the most weightie cause of thabolishemet of certayn Ceremonies was, that thei were so farre abused, partly by the supersticious blyndnes of the rude and unlearned, and partly by the unsaciable auarice of suche as sought more their owne lucre, then the glory of God ; that the abuses could not well be taken away, the thing remayning stil. But now as cocerning those persones, vvhicn peraduenture wylbe offended, for that some of thold ceremonies are reteyned styl : if they cosider, that without some Ceremonies it is not possible to kepe any ordre or quiete discipline in the churche, they shal easely perceyue iust cause to reforme their judgemetes. And yf thei thinke much that any of thold do remain, and would rather have all deuised anewe. Then suche men graunting some ceremonies cpnueniet to be had, surely where the old may be well used, there thei cannot reasonably re- proue the old only for their age without bewraying of their owne foly. For in suche a case, they ought rather to have reuerece unto them for their antiquitie, if they wyl declare themselves to be more studious of unitie and concord, then of innouacions and newe fanglenes, which (asmuche as may be with the true setting furth of Christes Religion) is alwayes to be eschewed. Furthermore, such shall haue no just cause with the ceremonies reserued to be offended : For as those be taken away, which were moste abused, and dyd burthen men's consciences without any cause : so the other that remain are retayned for a Discipline and order, whiche (upon just causes) may be altered and chaunged, and therefore are not to be estemed equal with god's law. And moreouer they be neither darke nor dombe ceremonies : but are so sette forth, that euery man may understand what they doe mean, and OF CEREMONIES. to what use thei do serve. So that it is not like that thei in time to come, should be abused as the other haue been. And in these our doinges, we condemne no other nacions, nor pre- scribe any thing, but to our owne people only. For we think it couenient that every country should use such ceremonies, as they shal think best to the settyng furth of Goddes honour or glory, and to the reducyng of the people to a most perfecte and godly lyuyng, without errour or Supersticion. And that they shoulde put awaye other thynges, whiche from tyme to tyine they perceyue to be moste abused, as in mennes ordinances it often chaunceth diuersely in diuerse countreyes. THE TABLE AND KALENDAR EXPRESSYNGE THE ORDRE OF THE PSALMES AND LESSONS, TO BE SAVED AT THE MORNYNG AND EUENING PRATER THROUGHOUT THE YERE, EXCEPTE CERTAYN PROPER FEASTES, AS THE RULES FOLLOWYNGE MORE PLAINLYE DECLARE. THE ORDER HOWE THE PSALTER IS APPOYNTED TO BE READDE. THE Psalter shalbe readde through once euery Moneth. And because that some Monethes be longer than some other be, it is thought good to make them euen by thys meanes. To everye Moneth shalbe appoynted (as concern ynge thys pur- pose) just xxx dayes. And because January and Marche hath one daie aboue the sayed numbre, and February whiche is placed betwene them bothe hath onely xxviii days : February shal borowe of either of the Monethes (of January and Marche) one daye. And so the Psalter which shalbe readde in February, muste begyn the last daye of January, and ende the first daye of Marche. And where as May, July, August, October and December, have xxxi days a piece, it is ordered that the same Psalms shalbe read the laste daye of the sayed Monethes, whiche were reade the daye before. So that the Psalter may begyn agayn the fyrst day of the nexte Monethes ensuynge. Nowe to know whate Psalms shalbe read euerye daye, loke in the Kalendar, the numbre that is appointed for the Psalmes, and then finde the same numbre in thys table, and upon that numbre shal you see, what Psalmes shalbe sayed at Mornyng and Euenyng prayer. And where the cxix Psalme is diuided into xxii porcions, and is ouerlonge to be read at one tyme : it is so ordered, that at one tyme shall not be read aboue foure or fyve of the sayed porcions, as you shall perceyue to be noted in thys Table folowyng. And here is also to be noted, that in thys table, and in all other partes of the Seruyce, where anye Psalmes are appoynted, the numbre is expressed after the greate Englyshe Bible, which from the ix Psalme unto the cxlviiithe Psalm (folowyng the division of the Hebrues) doth varie in numbres from the common Latyn trnnslacion. THE TABLE FOR THE ORDER OF THE PSALMS, TO BE SAVED AT MORNYNG AND EVENING PRAIER. IT Morning Praier. IT Evening Praier. i. 1, 11, 111, IV, V. vi, vii, viii. ii. ix ; x, xi. xii, xiii, xiv. iii. xv, xvi, xvii. xviii. iv. xix, xx, xxi. xxii, xxiii. V. xxiv, xxv, xxvi. xxvii, xxviii, xxix. vi. xxx, xxxi. xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv. vii. xxxv, xxxvi. xxxvii. viii. xxxviii, xxxix, xl. xii, xiii, xliii. ix. xliv, xlv, xlvi. xlvii, xlviii, xlix. X. 1, li, Hi. liii, liv, Iv. xi. Ivi, Ivii, Iviii. lix, Ix, Ixi. xii. Ixii, Ixiii, Ixiv. Ixv, Ixvi, Ixvii. xiii. Ixviii. Ixix, Ixx. xiv. Ixxi, Ixxii. Ixxiii, Ixxiv. XV. Ixxv, Ixxvi, Ixxvii. Ixxviii. xvi. Ixxix, Ixxx, Ixxxi. Ixxxii, Ixxxiii, Ixxxiv, Ixxxv. xvii. Ixxxvi, Ixxxvii, Ixxxviii. Ixxxix. xviii. xc, xci, xcii. xciii, xciv. xix. xcvi, xcvii. xcviii, xcix, c, ci. XX. cii, ciii. civ. xxi. cv. cvi. xxii. cvii. cviii, cix. xxiii. ex, cxi, cxii, cxiii. cxiv, cxv. xxiv. cxvi, cxvii, cxviii. cxix. Inde. iv. XXV. Inde. v. Inde. iv. xxvi. Inde. v. Inde. iv. xxvii. cxx, cxxi, cxxii, cxxiii, cxxvi, cxxvii, cxxviii, cxxiv, cxxv. cxxix, cxxx, cxxxi. xxviii. cxxxii, cxxxiii, cxxxiv, cxxxvi, cxxxvii, cxxxviii. cxxxv. xxix. cxxxix, cxl, cxli. clxii, cxliii. XXX. cxliv, cxlv, cxlvi. clxvii, clxviii, cxlix, cL THE ORDER HOW THE REST OF HOLY SCRIPTURE (BESIDE THE PSALTER) IS APPOYNTED TO BE READ. THOLD Testament is appointed for the firste lessons, at Morning and Evening praier, and shalbe read throughe every yere once, except certain bokes and chapiters, whiche be least edifyeng, and might best be spared, and therefore be lefte unread. The Newe Testament is appoynted for the seconde Lessons, at Mornyng and Evenyng praier, and shalbe read over orderlye everye yere thrise, beside the Epistles and Gospelles : excepte the Apocalips, out of the whiche there be onelye certain Lessons appoynted, upon diuers proper feastes. And to knowe what Lessons shalbe read everye daie : finde the dale of the Monethe in the Kalendar folowyng : and there ye shall perceiue the bokes and Chapiters, that shalbe read for the Lessons, both at Morning and Evening praier. And here is to be noted, that whensoeuer there be any proper Psalmes or Lessons appoynted for anye feaste moveable or un- moveable : then the Psalms and Lessons appointed in the Kalendar, shall be omitted for that tyme. Ye muste note also, that the Collect, Epistle, and Gospell, ap- poynted for the Sundai, shall serve all the wiek after, excepte there fall some feast that hath hys proper. This is also to be noted, concernyng the Leape yeres, that the xxv daie of February, whiche in Leap year is compted for two daies, shall in those two daies alter neither Psalme nor Lesson : but the same Psalmes and Lessons, whiche be sayed the firste daye shall also serve for the seconde daie. Also, wheresoever the begynnynge of any Lesson, Epistle, or Gospell is not expressed : there ye must begyn at the begynnyng of the Chapiter. And wheresoever is not expressed howe farre shalbe read, there shall you reade to the ende of the Chapiter. PROPER PSALMES AND LESSONS FOR DIVERSE FEASTES, AND DAYES, AT MORNYNG AND EVENYNG PRAIER. On Christemas dai at Morn- yng praier. At Evenyn<; praier. On Sainct Ste- phenes day, at Mornyng praier. At Evening prayer. On Sainct John theEvagelistes day, at Morn- yng praier. At Evening prayer. On the Innocets' day, at morn- . ing prayer. On the Circum- cision day, at morning prayer. At Evening prayer. On the phanie, ( Psalm < Psalm ( Psalm f Psalm Psalm i Psalm xix. ) The first Lesson. Esay. ix. xlv. > The ii. Lesson. Luke ii. unto Ixxxv. ) And unto me a good wyl. ") The first Lesson. Esa. vii. God Ixxxix 1 spake once again to Achas. ex. cxxxn. Epi- at Morning Prayer. I &c., unto the end. f The second Lesson. Tit. iii. I The kindness and love. &c. I J unto foolyshe questions. \ The seconde Lesson. Actes vi. and vii. Stephen s ful of fayth and power, unto And when fourtie / yeres were. &c. (The second Lesson. Acts vii. And when J fourtie yeres were expired, there appeared J unto Moses, &c. unto Stephen full of the holy ( ghost. J The secod Lesson. Apocalips. i. The whole J Chapter. JThe seconde Lesson. Apocalips. xxii. \The firste Lesson. Jeremie. xxxi. nnto Moreover 1 I heard Ephraim. 1 The first Lesson. Genesis, xvii. \ The seconde Lesson. Roma. ii. ( The i. Lesson. Deut. x. And now Israel. &c ) The second Lesson. Collos. ii. The firste Lesson. Esay. Ix. The seconde Lesson. Luke iii. And it for tuned, &c. PROPER PSALMS AND LESSONS, &c. At Evening Prayer. On Wednesdaie before Easter, at Evening prayer. On Thursdaye before Easter, at Morning prayer. At Evening prayer. On Good Fri- day, at Morn- ing prayer. At Evening prayer. On Easter Even, at Morning prayer. On Easter day, at Morning prayer. At Evening prayer. On Monday in Easter wiek, at Morning prayer. At Evening prayer. On Tuesday in Easter wieke, at Morning prayer. At Evening prayer. On the Ascen- cion day, at Morning prayer. (The first lesson. Esay. xlix. -JThe seconde lesson. John ii. After thys he ( went doune to Capernaum. The first lesson. Ozee. xiii. xiiii. KThe first Lesson. Daniel, ix. -] The first Lesson. Jeremie. xxxi. The first lesson. Genesis, xxii. The first lesson. Esay. liii. The first lesson. Zachary. ix. ( Psalm ii. ) The first lesson. j sa m lvi . u I The seconde lesson. Ro. vi. (Psalm cxi. ) {Psalm cxiii. Psalm cxiiii. ^> The second lesson. Act. ii. Psalm cxviii. < The seconde lesson. Math, xx /Hi. j The seconde lesson. Actes. iii. 1 The seconde lesson. Luke xxiiii. unto And \ beholde two of them. The ii. J Psalm xxi. V Lesson. John, xiiii. PROPER PSALMS AND LESSONS, &c. A . -p. (Psalm xxiiii. ) in& } Psalm Ixviii. }- The ii. Lesson. Ephe. iiii. (Psalm cviii. i "a, Wh Mo^ 2* "FT "-V*"* prayer. < (V.) > Then Peter opened bis. & At Evening prayer. \ The second Lesson. Act. xix. Psalm ciiii. (_ It fortuned when Apollo went Psalm cxlv. ( to Corinthu, &c. unto After these thyngs. IT On Trinitie f Sonday, at ^ The first lesson. Gene, xviii. Morning J The seconde lesson. Math. iii. prayer. (^ Conversion of ( Saynct Paule, ) The second lesson. Actes. xxii. unto They at Morning \ heard hym. prayer. ' At Evening ( ~, praver ) second lesson. Acts. xxvi. Sainct Barna- ( bie's day, at ) Mornin"- j * ne seconde lesson. Acts. xim. prayer. ' At Evening ( The second Lesson. Acts. xv. unto After cer- prayer. ( tayne dayes. St. Johnbaptistes j The first lesson Malachi . Hi . CIH.V 3.t iVTorri- \ 11 * i_ ing prayer. (. . v . ( The first lesson. Malachi. iiii. At Evening ) The seconde i ess on. Math. xiv. unto When prayer. ^ Jesus heard. Saincte Peter's ( day, at Morn- -|The seconde Lesson. Acts. iii. ing prayer. ( At Evening 5 T he seconde Lesson. Acts. iiii. prayer. I ., . . , , ( The first Lesson. Sapien. iii. unto Blessed is Al samcts' day ^ rather the barrayne S ^ T\,~ second Lesso. Hebr. xi. xii. Sainctes by prayer. ^ faith subdued, unto If you endure chastisyng. (Thefyrst Lesson. Sapience, v.unto Hysjealosie At Evening ) a ^ so - prayer. jThe second Lesson. Apocalips xix. unto An ( I sawe an Angeli stande. AN ALMANACK FOR NINETEEN YEARS. The year of our Lord. The Golden Number. The epact. The Cycle of the sun. Dominical letter. Easter day. '55 2 xiv iv xxi C. B. xvii April. 1553 XV XV xxii A. ii April. 1554 xvi xxvi xxiii G. xxv March. 1555 xvii vii xxiv F, xiv April. i55 6 xviii xviii XXV E. D. v April. 1557 xix xxix xxvi C. xviii April. 1558 i xi xxvii B. x April. 1559 ii xxii xxviii A, \.xvi March. 1560 iii iii i G. F. xiv April. 1561 iv , xiv ii E. vi April. 1562 V XXV iii D. 22 Mar. i5 6 3 vi xxvi iv C. 1 1 April. i5 6 4 vii xvii V B. A. 3 April. 1565 viii xxviii vi G. 22 April. 1566 ix ix vii F. 7 April. i5 6 7 X XX viii E. 30 Mar. 1568 xi i ix D. C. 8 Mar. i5 6 9 xii xii X B. 10 April 1570 xiii xxiii xi A. 26 Mar. SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI 1552. JANUARY HATH XXXI. DAYS. Psalms. \ MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. } Lesson. 2 Lesson. i Lesson. 2 Lesson 3 A Kalend. Gin u incision 1 Gen. 17 Roma. 2 Deut. 10 Collos. 2 b 4 No. 2 Gen. i Math, i Gene. 2 Roman r 1 1 c 3 No. 3 3 2 4 2 d Prid. No. 4 5 3 6 3 19 e Nonas. 5 7 4 8 4 f 8 Id. Epiphanie. 6 Esai. 60 Luke 3 Esai. 49 Jhon 2 g 7 Id. 7 Genesi 9 Math. 5 Gene. 1 1 Roma. 5 16 A 6 Id. 8 12 6 T 3 6 5 b S Id. 9 14 7 '5 7 c 4 Id. 10 16 8 i? 8 10 d 3 Id. 1 1 18 9 *9 9 2 e Prid. Id. Solinaqiia. 12 20 10 21 10 f Idus. 13 22 ii 2 3 1 1 10 g 19 kl. Februarii. '4 24 12 25 1 2 A 18 kl. '5 26 *3 27 '3 18 b 17 kl. Term begin. 16 28 14 2 9 14 7 c 1 6 kl. T7 30 15 3 1 i5 d 15 kl. 18 32 16 33 16 '5 e 14 kl. !9 34 '7 35 i Corin. i 4 f 13 Id. 20 36 18 37 2 g 12 kl. 2T 39 : 9 39 3 12 A ii kl. 22 40 20 4i 4 I b 10 kl. 2 3 42 21 43 5 c 9 kl. 24 44 22 45 6 9 d 8 kl. Con. Panic. 2 5 46 Act. 22 47 Acte. 26 e 7 kl. 26 48 Mat. 23 , 49 i Cor. 7 i7 f 6kl. 27 5 24 Exod. i 8 6 g 5 kl. 28 Exodi 2 25 3 9 A 4 kl. 29 4 26 5 10 U b 3 kl. 3 6 27 7 XI 3 c Prid. kl. I 8 28 9 12 i8 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. FEBRUARY HATH XXVIII. DAYS. Psalms. MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. d Kalend. Pur. Mary. 2 i Lesson. Sxod. 10 2 Lesson. Vlarke i i Lesson. Exod. 1 1 2 Lesson. i Cor. 13 II C 4 No. 3 12 2 13 M 19 f 3 No. 4 14 3 15 i5 3 g Prid. No. 5 16 4 '7 16 \ Nonas. 6 18 5 19 2 Cor. i 16 b 8 Id. 7 20 6 21 2 5 c 7 Id. 8 22 7 23 3 a 6 Id. 9 24 8 3 2 4 3 e 5 Id. 10 33 9 34 5 2 f 4 Id. Sol in pise. ii 35 10 40 6 g 3 Id- 12 Lev. 1 8 ii Lev. 19 7 10 A Prid. Id. 13 20 12 Numeio 8 b Idns. H Numen X 3 12 9 1 8 c i6kl. March. '5 i3 14 U 10 7 d 15 M. 16 i5 15 16 ii e 14 kl. i7 i? 16 18 12 15 f 13 kl. 18 i9 Luk.di.i 20 !3 t g 12 kl. 19 21 di. i 22 Galath. i A n kl. 20 23 2 24 2 12 b 10 kl. 2 1 25 3 26 3 I c 9 kl. 22 27 4 28 4 d 8kl. 2 3 2 9 5 3 5 C c 7 kl. 2_ 3 1 6 3 2 6 f 6kl. S. Mathias 25 33 7 34 Ephesi. i 17 g 5 kl. 26 35 8 36 2 ( A 4 kl. 27 Deut. i 9 Deut. 2 3 b 3 kl. 28 3 10 4 4 I- c Prid. kl 29 5 ii 6 5 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. MARCH HATH XXXI. DAYS. Psalms _ MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. 3 1 Kalend. 3 Deut. 7. Luke 12 Deut. 8 Ephe. 6 ^ 6 No. i 9 '3 IO Philip, i ii f 5 N O- 2 ii 14 12 2 or o 4 No. 3 J 3 15 14 3 J 9 A 3 No. 4 i5 16 16 4 8 b Prid. No. 5 i? i7 18 Collo. i c Nonas. 6 !9 18 20 2 16 d 8 Id. 7 21 !9 22 3 5 e 7 Id. S 23 20 24 4 f 6 Id. 9 25 21 26 i Thes. i '3 g 5 Id. Equinoctiu 10 27 22 28 2 2 V 4 Id. Sol in ariete r i 2 9 2 3 3 3 b 3 Id. 12 3 1 24 3 2 4 10 c Prid. Id. '3 33 Jhon. i. 34 5 d IdltS. M Josue. i. 2 Josue. 2. 2 Thes. i 18 e 17 kl. April is. '5 3 3 3 2 7 f i6kl. 16 4 4 4 .3 g 15 kl. i? 5 5 5 i Timo. i 15 A 14 kl. 1 8 6 6 6 2-3 4 b 13 kl. J 9 7 7 7 4 c 12 kl. 20 8 8 8 5 12 d ii kl. 21 9 9 9 6 I e 10 kl. 22 to 10 ii 2 Tim. i f 9 kl. 23 12 ii 20 2 9 g 8kl. Annundacio 24 21 12 22 3 A 7/WL 25 23 J 3 24 4 17 b 6kl. 26 Judic. T 14 Judic. 2. Titus i 6 c 5 kl. 27 3 15 4 2-3 d 4 kl. 2.S 5 16 6 Phile. i 14 e 3 kl. 29 7 i7 8 Hebreo. i j f Prid. kl. 3 9 18 IO 2 20 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. APRIL HATH XXX. DAYS. \Psamh- MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. g Kalend. I Judic.n Jhon 19 Judi. 12 Hebre. 3 II A 4 No. 2 13 20 14 4 b 3 No - 3 15 21 16 5 '9 c Prid. No. 4 17 Acts i 18 6 8 d Nonas. 5 19 2 20 7 i6 e 8 Id. 6 21 3 Ruth i 8 5 f 7 Id. 7 Ruth 2 4 3 9 g 6 Id. 8 4 5 i Reg. i 10 *3 A 5 Id. 9 iRegu.2 6 3 ii 2 b 4 Id. 10 4 7 5 12 c O * 1 1 6 8 7 13 10 d Prid. Id. Sol in tau. T2 8 9 9 Jacob, i e Idus. I -i 10 10 ii 2 .8 f i8kl. Maii. M 12 ii 13 3 7 g 17 kl. '5 14 12 15 4 A i6kl. 16 16 13 17 5 '5 b 15 kl. 17 18 14 19 i Petr. i 4 c 14 kl. 1 8 20 IS 21 2 d 13 kl. 19 22 16 23 3 12 c 12 kl. 20 24 17 25 4 I f ii kl. 21 26 18 27 5 g 10 kl. 22 28 19 2 9 2 Petr. i 9 A 9 kl. S. George. 2 3 3 20 31 2 b 8 kl. 2 4 2Regu. i 21 2 Re. 2 3 '7 c 7 kl. Mark Eva. 2 5 3 22 4 i Jhon. i 6 d 6kl. 26 5 23 6 2 e Ski. 27 7 24 8 3 M f 4 kl. 28 9 25 10 4 3 g 3 kl. 29 ii 26 12 5 A Prid. kl. 3 13 27 M 2. 3. Jho. SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. 21 MAY HATH XXXI. DAYS. Psalms. MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. 1 i Lesson. 2 Lesson. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. 1 1 b Kalend. Philip&fac. I 2 Re. 15 Acte 8 2 re. 1 6 Judas, i c 6 No. 2 17 28 18 Roma, i 1 9 d 5 No. 3 19 Matth. i 20 2 8 e 4 No. 4 21 2 22 3 f 3 No. 5 23 3 24 4 16 g Prid. No. 6 3Regu.i 4 3 Re. 2 5 5 A Nonas. 7 3 5 4 6 b 8 Id. 8 5 6 6 7 13 c 7 Id. 9 7 7 8 8 2 d 6 Id. 10 9 8 10 9 e 5 Id- Sol in gem. 1 1 ii 9 12 10 10 f 4 Id. 12 13 10 14 ii g 3 Id. T 3 i5 ii 16 12 18 A Prid. Id. 14 i7 12 18 *3 7 b Idus. 15 *9 13 20 14 c 17 kl. Junii. 16 21 14 22 15 i5 d i6kl. 17 4 Reg. i IS 4 re. 2 16 4 e 15 kl. 18 3 16 4 i Cor. i f 14 kl. '9 5 i7 6 2 12 g 13 kl. 20 7 18 8 3 I A 12 kl. 21 9 19 10 4 b ii kl. 22 ii 20 12 5 9 c 10 kl. 23 13 21 14 6 d 9kl. 2 4 i5 22 16 7 i7 e 8kl. 25 i7 23 18 8 6 f 7 kl. 26 !9 24 20 9 g 6kl. 27 21 25 22 10 14 A Ski. 28 23 26 24 ii 3 b 4 kl. 29 25 27 25 12 c 3kl 3 i Esdra i 28 i Esd. 2 !3 1 1 d Prid. kl. 3 3 Marke ij 4 14 22 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. JUNE HATH XXX. DAYS. Psalms. MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. e Kalend. I i Esd. 4 Maik 2 i Esd. 5 i Cor. 15 !9 f 4 No. 2 6 3 6 16 8 g 3 No. 3 ?' 4 7 2 Corin. i '5 A Prid. No. 4 8 5 8 2 5 b Nonas. 5 9 6 IO 3 c 8 Id. 6 2 Esd. i 7 3 4 4 d 7 Id. 7 4 8 5 5 2 e 6 Id. 8 6 9 8 6 f 5 Id- 9 9 10 13 7 10 g 4 Id. 10 Hester i ii Hest. 2 8 A 3 Id. ii 3 Acte 14 4 Actes 15 18 b Prid. Id. 12 5 Mark 12 6 2 Cor. 9 7 c Idus. Sol. in Can. *3 7 J 3 8 10 d i8kl. Julii. M 9 i4 Job. i ii 15 e 17 kl. !5 Job. 2 i5 3 12 4 f i6kl. 16 4 16 5 13 g 15 kl. Term begin. 17 6 Luke i 7 Galath. i 12 A 14 kl. 1 8 8 2 9 2 I b 13 kl, '9 10 3 ii 3 c 12 kl. 20 12 4 J 3 4 9 d ii kl. 21 14 5 i5 5 e 10 kl. 22 16 6 17. 18 6 *7 f 9 kl. 23 19 7 20 Ephesi. i 6 g 8kl. Than baptist. 24 Mala. 3 Matth. 3 Mai. 3 Mat. 14 A 7 kl. 2q Job 21 Luke 8 Job 22 Ephe. 2 14 b 6kl. 26 2 3 9 24. 25 3 3 c Ski. 27 26. 27 10 28 4 d 4kl. 28 29 ii 3 5 ii e 3kl. S.Peter a p. 29 3 1 Actes 3 32 Actes 4 f Prid. kl. 3 33 Luke 12 34 Ephes. 6 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. JULY HATH XXXI. DAYS. Psalms. MORNING PRAYER. EVENING PRAYER. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. i Lesson. 2 Lesson. '9 rr t> Kalend. I Job 35 Luk. 13 Job 36 Philip, i 8 \ 6 No. 2 37 i4 38 2 b 5 No. 3 39 15 40 3 16 C 4 No. 4 4i 16 42 4 5 d 3 N O. 5 Prover. i i7 Prov. 2 Collos. i e Prid. No. Termeende. 6 3 18 4 2 13 f Nonas. Dog dales. 7 5 19 6 3 2 I wyl goe to my father and saye to hym : father, I have synned agaynst heaven, and against thee, I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Lukexv - 30 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Enter not into judgemente with thy servaunts, O Lord, for no sa cxlii. fleshe is righteous in thy syght. Yf we saye that we have no synne, we deceyve ourselves, and i John i. there is no trueth in us. DEARELY beloved brethren, the scripture moveth us in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold synnes and wickedness, and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of almighty God our heavenly father, but confess them with an humble, lowely, penitent and obedient heart : to thende that we may obtayn forgeueness of the same by hys infinite goodness and mercie. And although we ought at al times humbly to knowledge our synnes before God : yet ought we most chiefly so to doe, when we assemble and mete together, to rendre thanks for the great benefytes that we have receyved at his hands, to set foorth hys moste worthy prayse, to hear his most holy word, and to aske those things which ing t aswell at Euening prayer as at Morning prayer : all devoutly kneling. 7/u Minister first pronouncinge with a lotide voyce. The Lorde be wyth you. Answer. And wyth thy spyryte. B 2 36 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. The Minister. Let us praye. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Christ, haue mercy upon us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Then the Minister, Clerkes, and people, shall say e the Lordes prayei In Englishe, with a loud voyce. Oure Father which art, &c. Then the Minister standing up shall siye. O Lord, shewe thy mercy upon us. Aunswere. And graunt us thy saluacion. Priest. O Lorde, saue the kynge. Aunswere. And mercyfully hear us, when we call upon thee. Priest. Indue thy ministers with righteousnes. Aunswere. And make thy chosen people joyeful. Priest. O Lorde, saue thy people. Aunswere. And blesse thine enheritaunce. Priest. Geue peace in oure time, O Lorde. Aunswere. Because there is none other that fyghteth for us, but onely thou, O God. Priest. O God, make clean our heartes within us. Answer. And take not thyne holy spyryte from us. Then shal folow three Collectes. Thefyrst of the day e, whyche shalbe the same that is appoynted at the Communion. The second for peace. The thyrdfor Grace to lyue well. And the two last Collects shal neuer alter, but dayly be sayd at Morning prayer, throughout al the yere as foloiveth. T The seconde Collectefor Peace. O GOD, whiche art aucthor of peace, and loner of concorde, in knowledge of whome standeth our eternal lyfe, whose seruice is perfecte freedome ; defend us, thy humble seruants, in al assaults of our enemies, that we surely trusting in thy defence, may not feare the power of any aduersaries : through the might of Jesu Christ our Lord. Amen. The thyrde Collectefor Grace. O LORD, our heauenly father, almighty and euerlasting God, which hast safely broughte us to the beginninge of this daye : defend us in the same wyth thy mightie power, and graunt that this day we fall into no synne, nether runne into any kind of daunger : but that al our doynges may be ordred by thy gouern- aunce, to doe alwayes that is righteous in thy syght : through Jesus Christe our Lorde. Amen. EVENING PRAYER. 37 AN ORDRE FOR EUENING PRAYER THROUGHOUT THE YERE. The Priest shall saye. OUR Father which, &c. Then lykewyse he shal saye. O Lord, open thou our lippes. Aunswere. And our mouth shal shewe furth thy prayse. Priest. O God, make spede to saue us. Aunswere. Lord, make haste to helpe us. Priest. Glory be to the father, and to the sonne : and to the holy gost ; As it was in the beginning, is now, and euer shall be : world without ende. Amen. Prayse ye the Lorde. Then Psalmes in ordre as they be appointed in ye Table for Psalmes, except there be proper Psalmes appointed for that day. Then a Lesson of the Old Testament, as it is appointed likewise in tlie Kalendar, except there be propre lessons appointed for that day. After that. Magnificat in Eng- lishe, as foloweth. My soule doth magnifie the Lord : Magnificat. And my spirite hath rejoyced in god my Sauiour. For he hath regarded the lowelyness of hys handmayden. For beholde from henceforth all generacions shall call me blessed. For he that is mightie, hath magnified me : and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that feare him : throughout all generacions. He hath shewed strength with hys arm : he hath scatered the proud, in the imaginacion of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seate : and hath exalted the humble and meke. He hath filled the hungrye with good thyngs : and the riche he hath sent emptie away. He rememberynge hys mercye, hath holpen hys servaunt Israel : as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his sede, for euer. Glory be to the father, ccc. As it was in the, &c. 38 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Or els thys Psalme. O SING unto the Lorde a newe song : for he hath done mar- uaylous thynges. With his own right hande, and with hys holy arme : hath he gotten himselfe the victorye. The lord declared his saluacion : his righteousnes hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembred his mercy and trueth toward the house of Israel : and all the endes of the world haue seen the saluation of our God. Shewe your selfes ioiful unto the lord al ye lands : syng, rejoyce and geue thankes. Prayse the Lord upon the harpe : sing to the harpe with a Psalme of thankesgeuing. With trompettes also and shawmes : O shewe your selfes joyful before the Lord the king. Let the sea make a noise, and all that therin is : the rounde world, and they that dwel therin. Let the flouds clappe their hands, and let the hilles be ioiful together before the Lorde : for he is come to judge the yearth. With righteousnes shal he iudge the world : and the people with equitie. Glory be to the father, &c. As it was in the, &c. Then a Lesson of the newe Testament. And after that (Nunc dimittis) in Englishe, as foloweth. LORD, now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace : accordyng to thy worde. For mine iyes haue seen : thy saluacion. Whiche thou hast prepared : before the face of al people ; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles : and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the father, &c. As it was in the, &c. Or els thys Psalme. Then shal foloive the Crede,with other prayers as is before appointed at Morning prayer after Benedictus. And with three Collects: First of the day : the second of peace : Third for aide against al perilles, as here- after foloiueth : whiche two lasts Collectes shalbe daiely said at Euening praier without alteradon. The second Collecte at Etiening Prayer, O GOD, from whom all holy desyres, all good counsayls, and all just woorks doe precede. Geue unto thy servaunts that peace, which the worlde cannot geue ; that both our heartes maie be set EVENING PRAYER. 39 to obeye thy commaundments, and also that by thee we beeing defended from the feare of our enemies, may passe our tyme in reste and quietnes through the merites of Jesus Chryste our Sauioure. Amen. The third Collects for ayde agaynst al perilles. LIGHTEN our darkenes, we beseche thee, O Lorde, and by thy greate mercye, defend us from al perilles and daungers of thys nyghte, for the loue of thy onely Sonne, our Sauyoure Jesus Christe. Amen. In the feastes of Christmas, the Epiplianie, Saincte Mathie, Easter, Thasscncion, Pentecost, Sainct John Baptist, Sainct James, Sainct BartJiolomew, Sainct Matthew, Sainct Sy man andjude, Sainct Andrewe, and Trinitie Sunday ; shalbe song or sayd immediately after Benedictus, this confession of our Christen fay th. WHOSOEUER will be saued : before al thinges it is necessarye that he holde the Catholyke fayth. Which faith except euery one doe kepe holy and undented : without double he shall perishe euerlastyngly. And the Catholyke fayth is thys : that we worshyp one God in Trinitie, and Trinitie in unity ; Neither confounding the persons : nor .uuiding the substance. For there is one person of the father, another of the sonne : and an other of the holy gost. But the Godhed of the father, of the sonne. and of the holy goste, is all one : the glory equall, the maiestye coeternall. Such as the father is, suche is the sonne : and such is the holy gost. The father uncreate, the sonne uncreate : and the holy gost un create. The father incomprehensible, the sonne incomprehensible : and the holy gost incomprehensible. The father eternall, the sonne eternall : and the holy gost eternall. And yet they are not three eternalls : but one eternall. As also there be not three incomprehensibles, nor three un- created, but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. So likewyse the father is almightie, the sonne almighty : and the holy gost almightie. And yet they are not three almighties : but one almighty. So the father is God, the sonne is God : and the holy gost is God. And yet are they not three Goddes : but one God. So likewise the father is lorde, the sonne lorde : and the holy gost lord. And yet not three lordes : but one Lord. For like as we be compelled by the Christian verytie : to acknowledge every person by himself, to be God and lorde. 40 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. So are we forbidden by the Catholyke religion : to saye there be three Goddes, or three Lordes. The father is made of none : neyther created nor begotten. The son is of the father alone : not made nor created, but begotten. The holy gost is of the father and of the sonne neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but procedyng. So there is one father, not three fathers, one sonne not three sonnes : one holy gost, not three holy gostes. And in this Trinitie none is afore nor after other : none is greater nor lesse then an other. But the whole three persons : be coeternal together and coequal. So that in all thyngs, as is aforesaid : the unitie in Trinitie, and the Trinitie in unitie, is to be worshypped. He therefore that wilbe saued : muste thus thynk of the Trinitie. Furthurmore, it is necessary to euerlasting saluacion : that he also beleue rightely in the incarnacion of our Lord Jesu Christ. For the ryght fayth is, that we beleue and confesse : that our lorde Jesus Christe, the sonne of God, is God and man ; God of the Substaunce of the father, begotten before the worldes : and man of the substaunce of his mother, borne in the worlde. Perfecte god, and perfect man : of a reasonable soule, and humaine flesh subsistyng. Equall to the father, as touchyng hys Godhead : and inferiour to the father, touchyng hys manhode. Who although he be god and man : yet he is not two, but one Christ. One, not by conuersion of the Godhead into fleshe : but by takyng of the manhode into God ; One altogether, not by confusion of substaunce : but by unitie of person. For as the reasonable soule and fleshe is one man : so God and man is one Christ. Who suffred for our saluacion : descended into hell, rose agayn the thirde daye from the dead. He ascended into heauen, he sytteth on the ryghte hand of the father, god almighty : from whence he shal come to iudge the quicke and the dead. At whose coming all men shall ryse agayn with their bodyes : and shall geue accoumpte for their own woorks. And they that have done good, shall goe into lyfe euerlasting : and they that have done euill, into euerlastyng fyre. This is the Catholike fayth : whiche except a man beleue fayth- fully, he cannot be saued. Glory be to the father, and to the sonne : and to the holy goste. As it was in the beginning, is now, and euer shall bee : worlde without ende. Amen. Thus endeth the ordre of Morning and Euening Prayer through the whole Yere. HERE FOLOWETH THE LETAN Y TO BE USED UPON SUNDAYES, WEDNESDAYES, AND FRIDAYES, AND AT OTHER TIMES, WHEN IT SHALBE COMMANDED BY THE ORDENARY. O GOD the father of heauen : haue mercye upon us miserable synners. O God the father of heauen : haue merrie upon us miserable synners. O God the sonne, redemer of the world : haue mercye upon us miserable synners. O Cod the sonne, redemer of the world : haue mercy upon us miserable synners. O God the holy Ghost, preceding from the father and the sonne : haue mercye upon us miserable synners. O Cod the holy ghost, proceding from the fatJier and the sonne : haue mercye upon us miserable synners. O holy, blessed and glorious Trinitie, three persones and one God : haue mercy upon us miserable synners. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinitie, three persons and one God : have mercie upon us miserable synners. Remember not, Lorde, our offences, nor the offences of cure forefathers, neyther take thou vengeaunce of our sinnes : spare us, good lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us, good Lorde. From all euill and myschiefe, from synne, from the craftes and assaultes of the deuil, from thy wrath, and from euerlasting dam- nacion. Good Lorde, deliuer us. From all blyndnes of heart, from pryde, vaynglorye, and hipo- cricie, from enuy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness. Good lord, deliuer us. 42 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. From fornicacion, and al other deadly synne, and from all the disceites of the world, the fleshe, and the deuill. Good lord, deliuer us. From lightninges and tempestes, from plage, pestilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from sodayne death. Good lord, deliuer us. From all sedicion and prieuie conspiracie, from the tyranny of the Bysshop of Rome and al hys detestable enormities, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardnesse of hearte, and contempte of thy woorde and commaundemente. Good lord, deliuer us. By the mistery of thy holy incarnacion, by thy holy Nativitie and Circumcision, by thy baptisme, fastyng, and temptacion. Good lord, deliuer us. By thyne agonye and bloudy sweate, by thy crosse and passion, by thy precious death and buriall, by thy gloryous resurrecyon and ascensyon, and by the cumming of the holy gost. Good lord, deliuer us. In all tyme of our tribulacion, in all time of our wealth, in the houre of death, and in the daye of judgemente. Good Lorde, delyuer us. We sinners doe beseche thee to heare us (O lord god) and that it maye please thee to rule and gouerne thy holy churche univer- sally in the ryght way. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it maye please thee to kepe Edward the sixth, thy servaunt, our King and gouernour. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to rule his hearte in thy faith, feare, and loue, that he maye alwayes haue affiaunce in thee, and euer seke thy honour and glory. We beseche thee to heare us good Lorde. That it may please thee to bee his defendoure and keper, geuing him the victory ouer all hys enemies. We beseche thee to heare its good Lorde. That it may please thee to illuminate al Bisshops, Pastours, and ministers of the Churche with true knowledge and understanding of thy worde, and that both by theyr preaching and liuing they maye sette it furth, and shewe it accordyngly. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lord. That it maye please thee to endue the Lordes of the counsayle,, and all the nobilitie, with grace, wysedome, and understanding. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to blesse and kepe the Magistrates, geuing them grace to execute justice, and to mainteine truth. We beseche thee to heare its, good Lorde. THE LITANY. 43 That it may please thee to bless and kepe all thy people. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to geue to al nacions unitie, peace, and concorde. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to geue us an hearte to loue and dreade thee, and diligently to lyue after thy commaundementes. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to geue all thy people encrease of grace, to here mekely thy worde, and to receiue it with pure affeccion, and to bryng furth the fruites of the Spirite. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to bryng into the way of trueth all suche as have erred and are deceiued. We beseche tliee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to strengthen suche as doe stand, and to comfort and helpe the weake harted, and to raise them up that fall, and finally to beate down Satan under our fete. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to succoure, helpe, and comforte al that be in daunger, necessitie, and tribulacion. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to preserue all that trauaile by lande or by water, al women labouringe of chyld, al sycke persons, and yong chyldren, and to shewe thy pietie upon al prysoners and captiues. We beseche thee to heare us, good lorde. That it may please thee to defende and prouide for the fatherles chyldren and wyddowes, and all that be desolate and oppressed. We beseche thee to heare us, good lorde. That it may please thee to have mercie upon al men. We beseche thee to heare us, good lorde. That it may please thee to forgeue our enemyes, persecutours, and slaunderers, and to turne their heartes. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to geue and preserue to our use the kyndly fruites of the yearth, so as in due tyme we may enjoie them. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. That it may please thee to geue us true repentaunce, to forgeue us all our synnes, neglygences, and ignoraunces, and to endue us with the grace of thy holy spirite to amende cure lyues accordynge to thy holy worde. We beseche thee to fieare us, good Lorde. 44 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Sonne of God : we beseche thee to heare us. Sonne of God; we beseche thee to heare us. O lambe of god, that takest away the synnes of the worlde. Graunt us thy peace. O Lambe of god, that takest away the synnes of the worlde. Haue mercie upon us. O Christe heare us. O Christe heare us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Christ, haue mercy upon us. Christ, haue mercy tipon us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Our Father, which art in heauen, &c. And lead us not into tempt acion. But deliuer us from euill. The versicle. O lord, deale not with us after our sinnes. The ansivere. Neither reward us after our iniquities. Let us pray. O GOD merciful father, that despisest not the sighing of a con- trite hearte, nor the desyre of such as be sorowful, mercifully assist our prayers, that we make before thee in al our troubles and aduersities, whensoeuer they oppresse us : And graciouslye heare us, that those euils, whiche the craft and subtiltie of the deuil or man worketh againste us, be brought to naught, and by the pro- uidence of thy goodnes they may be dispersed, that we thy ser- uaunts, beeing hurte by no persecucions, maye euermore geue thankes unto thee, in thy holy Churche : through Jesu Chryste our Lorde. O Lord, aryse, help us, and deliuer us for thy names sake. O god, we have heard with our eares, and our fathers haue declared unto us, the noble woorks that thou didst in theyr dayes, and in the olde tyme before them. O Lord, aryse, helpe us, and deliuer us for thyne honor. Glory be to the father, and to the sonne, and to the holy gost : as it was in the beginning, is nowe, and euer shalbe : worlde wythout ende. Amen. From our enemyes defende us, O Christe. Graciously lake iipon our affliccions. Pitifully beholde the sorowes of our heart. Mercifully for geue the synnes of thy people. Favourably with mercy heare our prayers. O sonne of Dauid haue mercy upon us. THE LITANY. 45 Both novve and euer vouchesafe to heare us, O Christ. Graciousely heare us, O Christe, graciously hear us, O Lorde Christe. The Versicle. O Lorde, let thy mercy be shewed upon us, The Aunswere. As we do put our trust in thee. Let us praye. We humbly beseche thee, O father, mercifully to loke upon our infirmities, and for the glory of thy names sake turne from us all those euills that we most righteously haue deserued ; and graunte that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercye and euermore serue thee in holynesse and purenesse of lyuinge, to thy honour and glory : through our only mediatour and aduocate Jesus Christ our lord. Amen. For rayne yf the tyme require. O GOD, heauenly Father, which by thy sonne Jesu Christ haste promised to all them that seke thy kingdom and the righteousnes therof, all thyngs necessarie to their bodily sustenance : sende us, we beseche thee, in this our necessitie, suche moderate raine and showers, that we may receiue the fruites of the yearth to oure comforte and to thy honoure : throughe Jesus Christ our Lorde. Amen. IT Forfaire weather. O LORD god, which for the sinne of man didst once drown al the world, excepte eighte persons, and afterward of thye greate mercy didst promise neuer to destroie it so again : we humbly beseche thee, that although we for our iniquities haue worthely deserued this plague of rayne and waters, yet upon our true re- pentaunce thou wilt send us such weather whereby we may receiue the fruites of the earth in due season, and learne bothe by thy punishment to amende our Hues, and for thy clemency to geue thee prayse and glory : through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. IT In the tyme of dearth and famine. O GOD heauenly father, whose gift it is that the raine doeth fall, the yearth is fruitfull, beastes increase, and fishes doe multiplye : beholde, we beseche thee, the affliccions of thy people, and graunte that the scarcitie and dearth (which we doe now most justly suffer for our iniquitie) may throughe thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapnes and plentie, for the loue df Jesu Christ our lorde, to whom wyth thee and the holy gost, &c. IT Orthi4s. O GOD merciful father, which, in the tyme of Heliseus the Prophete, didst suddynly turne in Samaria great scarcitie and dearth into plentie and cheapnes, and extreme famine into 46 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. abundance of vyctuall : Haue pietie upon us, that nowe bee punished for cure sinnes with like adversitie, encrease the fruites of the yearth by thy heauenly benediccion : And grant, that we receuyng thy bountyful lyberalytye, maye use the same to thy glorye, cure comforte, and reliefe of our nedy neyghbours : through Jesu Christ our lord. Amen. In the tyme of Warre. O ALMIGHTIE God, kyng of al kinges, and governour of all thyngs, whose power no creature is able to resiste, to whom it belongeth justly to punishe sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent : saue and deliuer us (we humbly beseche thee) from the handes of our enemies abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their deuises, that we beeing armed with thy defence, may be preserued euermore from al periles to glorifie thee, whiche art the onely geuer of all victory, through the merites of thy only sonne Jesu Christ our Lord. IT In the tyme of any common plague or sickness. O ALMIGHTY god, which in thy wrath, in the time of king David, did slea with the plague of pestilence Ix and ten thousande, and yet remembryng thy mercye dyddest saue the rest : have pietie upon us miserable synners, that nowe are visited with great sicke- nes and mortalitie, that like as thou diddest then command thy angel to ceasse from punishing : So it maye now please thee to withdrawe from us thys plague and greuous sickenesse, throughe Jesu Chryste oure Lorde. IT And the Letany shall euer ende with thys Collecte folowyng: ALMIGHTIE god, which hast geuen us grace at this time with one accorde to make oure common supplicacions unto thee, and doest promyse that when two or three be gathered in thy name, thou wilt graunte their requestes : fulfil now, O Lorde, the desires and peticions of thy seruaunts, as may be most expediente for them, grauntynge us in thys worlde knowledge of thy trueth, and in the worlde to come life euerlastyng. Amen. THE COLLECTES, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELLES, TO BE USED AT THE CELEBRACION OF THE LORDES SUPPER, AND HOLY COMMUNION, THROUGH THE YEARE. T Thefyrst Sunday e of Aduent. The Collects. ALMIGHTY God, geue us grace that we may cast away the workes of darkenes, and putte upon us the armour of lighte, novve in the tyme of this mortal lyfe, (in the whyche thy sonne Jesus Christe came to vysyt us in great humilitie) that in the last day, when he shall come agayne in hys gloryous maiestie, to iudge bothe the quicke and the dead, we may ryse to the lyfe immortall, through him, who lyueth and reygneth wyth thee and the holy gost, nowe and euer. Amen. The Epistle. Rom. xiii. OWE nothing to any man but this, that ye loue one another. For he that loueth another fulfilleth the law. For these commaunde- mentes ; Thou shalte not kyll ; Thou shalte not steale ; Thou shake beare no false witnes ; Thou shalte not lust, and so forth, (yf there be any other commaundement), it is all comprehended in this saying ; namely : Loue thy neyghboure as thy selfe. Loue hurteth not his neyghboure, therfore is loue the fulfyllinge of the lawe. This also we knowe, how that it is the season that we should now awake out of slepe, for now is oure saluacion nerer than when we beleued. The nighte is past, the daye is come nye, let us ther- fore cast away the dedes of darkenes, and lette us put on the armoure of lighte. Let us walke honestli, as it were in the daye light, not in eatinge and in drinkinge, not in chamburying and wan- tonnes, not in stryfe and enuyinge ; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christe, and make not prouysion for the fleshe, to fulfyl the lustes of it. The Gospett. Matt. xxi. AND when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage unto Mount Oliuete, then sent Jesus two of his disci- ples saying unto them ; Go into the towne that lyeth ouer against you, and anon you shal finde an Asse bounde, and her colte with her ; louce them and bringe them unto me. And yf any man saye oughte unto you, saye ye : The Lorde hath nede of thee, and 48 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. strayghtwaye he wil let them go. All this was done, that the thinge mighte be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophete, say- ing ; Tell ye the daughter of Sion ; beholde, thy King cometh unto thee, meke, sytting upon an Asse, and a colte, the foal of the Asse, used to the yoke. The disciples went, and did as Jesus com- maunded them and brought the Asse and colte, and put on them their clothes and set hym thereon. But many of the people spred their garmentes in the waye : other cut downe braunches from the trees, and strawed them in the waye. Moreouer the people that wente before and they that came after, cryed sayinge : Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lorde, Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come to Jeru- salem, all the citie was moued saying : Who is this ? And the people sayde : This is Jesus the Prophete of Nazareth of Galile. And Jesus wente in to the temple of God and cast out al them that solde and boughte in the temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seates of them that solde doues, and sayde unto them : It is wrytten : My house shalbe called the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a denne of theues. The Second Sunday e. The Collecte. BLESSED Lorde, which haste caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning ; graunte us that we maye in suche wyse heare them, reade, marke, learne and inwardly digest them, that by pacience and comforte of thy holy woorde, we maye embrace and euer holde fast the blessed hope of euerlastinge lyfe, which '.hou haste giuea us in oure savioure Jesus Christ. The Epistle. Roma. xv. WHATSOEUER thinges are writte afore time, they are written for our learning, that we through pacience and comforte of the Scrip- tures, might haue hope. The God of pacience and consolacion, graunt you to be like minded one toward another, after the ensaumple of Christ Jesu : that ye all agreeyng together, may with one mouth prayse God the father of our lorde Jesus Christ : wherfore receiue ye one an other as Christ receiued us, to the prayse of God. And thys I say, that Jesus Christe is a minister of the circumcision for the trueth of god, to confirme the promises made unto the fathers, and that the Gentiles might prayse god for his mercie, as it is written. For this cause I wil praise thee among the Gentyles, and sing unto thy name. And agayne he sayeth : reioyce ye Gentiles with hys people. And againe : praise the Lorde all ye Gentyles, and laude hym all ye nacions together. And againe Esai sayeth : there shall be the rote of Jesse, and he that shal ryse to reigne ouer the Gentiles : in hirn THE THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT. 49 shal the Gentiles trust. The God of hope fyll you with all ioy, and peace in beleuyng, that ye may be riche in hope, through the power of the holy gost. The Gospell. Luc. xxi. THERE shalbe signes in the Sunne and in the Moone, and in the starres : and in the earth the people shalbe at their wittes ende, through despayre. The sea and the water shall roare, and mens heartes shal fayle them for feare, and for loking after those thinges which shall come on the earth. For the powers of heauen shall moue. And then shall they see the sonne of man come in a cloude, with power and greate glorye. When these thynges begynne to come to passe, then loke up, and lyft up your heades, for your redempcion draweth nye. And he shewed them a simily- tude : beholde the fygge tree, and all other trees, when they shote furth their buddes, ye see and knowe of your owne selues that sommer is then nye at hade. So lykewyse ye also (whe ye see these thinges come to passe) be sure, that the kyngdome of God is nye. Verely I saye unto you : this generacion shall not passe, tyll all be fulfylled. Heauen and earth shall passe : but my worde shall not passe. The Thirde Sundaye, The Collect. LORD, we beseche thee, geue eare to cure prayers, and by thy gracious visitacion lighten the darknes of our hearte, by our Lord Jesus Christ. The Epistle. I Cor. iv. LET a man this wise esteme us, euen as the ministers of Christ, and stewardes of the secretes of God. Furthermore, it is requyred of the stewardes, that a man be founde faythfull : with me it is but a small thing that 1 shulde be iudged of you, eyther of mans iudge- ment : no I judge not mine awne selfe. For I knowe noughte by myselfe, yet am I not therby iustified. It is the lorde that iudgeth me. Therfore iudge nothing before the tyme, untyll the LORDE come, whiche wylle lighten thynges that are hyd in darknesse, and open the counsayles of the heartes, and the shal euery man haue prayse of God. The Gospel. Matt. xi. WHEN John beyng in prison hearde of the workes of Christe, he sent two of hys disciples, and sayde unto hym ; Art thou he that shall come ? or doe we loke for another ? Jesus answered and sayde unto the : Goe and shewe John agayne what ye haue hearde and seen : The blynde receyue their syght, the lame walke, the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised up, and 50 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. the poore receyue the glad tidinges of the gospel, and happy is he that is not offended at me. And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the people cocernyng John; What went ye out into the wildernes to se? A rede that is shaken with the wind? Or what wet ye out for to se ? A man clothed in softe rayment ? Beholde they that weare soft clothinge, are in Kinges houses. But what went ye out for to se ? A prophet ? Verely I saye unto you, and more the a prophete. For this is he of who it is wrytten, Behold, I sende my messenger before thy face, whiche shall prepare thy waye before thee. IT The Fourth Sundaye. The Collect. LORD raise up (we pray thee) thy power, and come among us, and with great might succor us ; that where as (through our sinnes and wickednes,,) we be sore lette and hindred, thy bounty full grace and mercy, through the satisfaccion of thy sonne our Lord may spedely delyuer us ; to whom with thee and the holye Ghost be honour and glory, world without ende. The Epistle. Philipp. iv. REIOYCE in the LORD alway, and agayne I saye, Reioyce. Let your softnes be known to al men : the LORD is euen at hond. Be careful for nothing : but in all prayer and supplicacion, let your peticions be manifest unto God, with geuyng of thankes. And the peace of God which passeth all understandyng kepe your heartes and myndes through Christ Jesu. The Gospell. John i. THIS is recorde of John, whe the Jewes sent priestes and Leuites fro Jerusalem to aske him ; What art thou ? and he con- fessed, and denied not, and sayd playnly : I am not Christ. And they asked him, What then ? Art thou Elias ? He sayth : I am not. Art thou the Prophet ? And he answered, No. Then sayed they unto him ; What art thou ? that we may geue an auswer unto the that sente us? What sayest thou of thy self? He sayde ; I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse, make strayght the way of the LORDE, as said the prophete Esay. And they which were sente were of the Phariseis. And they asked him, and sayde unto him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou be not Christe, nor Elias, neither that Prophete ? John answered them, saying : I baptise with water : but there standeth one among you, whom you knowe not : he it is which though he came after me, was before me, whose shoe-lachet, I am not worthye to unlowce. These thinges were doen at Bethabara beeyonde Jordan, where John dyd baptyse. CHRISTMAS DAY. 51 Christmas Day. The Collect. ALMYGHTY God, whiche hast geuen us thy onely begotten sonne to take our nature upon him, and this daye to be borne of a pure virgin ; Graunt that we beyng regenerate, and made thy chyldren by adoption and grace, may daylye be renewed by thy holy spirit, through the same our lorde Jesus Christ who lyueth and reygneth &c. Amen. The Epistle. Heb. 1. GOD in tymes past dyuerslye and many waies spake unto the fathers by prophetes : but in these last dayes, he hath spoken to us by hys owne sonne, whom he hath made heyre of all thinges, by whom also he made the world. Whych (sonne) beinge the brightnes of his glorie, and the very image of his substaunce, ruling all thinges with the worde of his power, hath by his owne person purged oure sinnes, and sitteth on the ryghte hande of the maiestie on high : beynge so moch more excellet the the angels, as he hath by inheritaunce obteyned a more excellet name then they. For unto which of the Angels said he at eny tyme? Thou art my sonne, this daye haue I begotten the ? And agayn, I will be his father, and he shalbe my sonne. And agayne, when he bringeth in the fyrst-begotte sonne into the worlde, he sayth : and let all the angels of God worshippe him. And unto the angels he sayth, He maketh his angels spirites, and his mynisters a flame of fyre. But unto the sonne he sayth, Thy seate (O God) endureth for euer and euer. The scepter of thy kyngdome is a right scepter. Thou hast loued righteousnes and hated iniquitie ; wherfore God, euen thy God, hath annoynted thee with oyle ot gladnes aboue thy felowes. And thou LORDE in the begynnynge hast layed the foundacion of the earth ; and the heaues are the workes of thy handes. They shall perishe, but thou endurest. But they all shal waxe olde as doeth a garmet, and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged. But thou art euen the same, and thy yeares shal not fayle. The Gospel. John i. IN the beginnynge was the word, and the worde was with God : and God was y e worde. The same was in the beginnynge with God. Al thinges were made by it, and without it, was made nothing that was made. In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the light of men, and the light shineth in darkenes, and the darkenes com- prehended it not. There was sent from God a man, whose name was John. The same came as a witnesse to beare witnes of the light, that all men thorow him might beleue. He was not that light, but was sent to beare witnesse of the light. That light was the true light, which lighteth euery man that cometh into the 52 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. worlde. He was in the world, and the worlde was made by him ; and the world knewe him not. He came among his owne, and his owne receyued him not : But as many as receyued him, to them gaue he power to be made the sons of God ; euen them that beleued in his name. Which were borne, not of bloude, nor of the wyl of the flesh, nor yet of the wil of man ; but of God. And the same worde became fleshe, and dwelt among us ; and we sawe the glory of it, a glory of the onely-begotte sonne of the father, ful of grace and trueth. IT Sainct Stephiris Day. The Collects. GRAUNT us, O Lord, to learne to loue our enemies, by the example of thy martyr Saint Stephin, who prayed for his per- secutours to thee ; which liuest, &c. IT Then shal folow a Collect of the Natiuitie, which shalbe sayd continually unto newe yeares daye. The Epistle. Acts vii. AND Stephin, beyng ful of the holy ghost, loked up stedfastly with his eyes into heauen, and sawe the glorye of God, and Jesus stadinge on the right hand of God, and sayde : Beholde, I see the heauens open, and the sonne of ma stondinge on the right hand of God. But they gaue a shout with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ran upon him al at once, and cast him out of the citie, and stoned him. And the witnesses layed downe their clothes at a yonge mans fete, whose name was Saule. And they stoned Stephin, calling on and saying; Lorde Jesu, receyue my spirite. And he kneled downe, and cryed with a loud voice, Lorde, laye not this sinne to theyr charge. And when he had thus spoken, he fell aslepe. The Gospell. Matt, xxiii. BEHOLD, I send unto you prophetes, and wise men, and Scribes, and some of them ye shal kyll and crucifye ; and some of them shall ye scourge in youre Sinagoges, and persecute them from citye to citye : that upon you maye come all the righteous bloude which hath been shed upon the earth, from the bloud of ryghteous Abel unto the bloude of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whom ye slew betwene the temple and the altare. Verely I saye unto you, All these thinges shall come upo this generacion. O Jeru- salem, Jerusalem, thou that kyllest the Prophetes and stonest them whiche are sent unto thee ; how often would I haue gathered thi children together, euen as the henne gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye woulde not ? Beholde, youre habitacion SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY. 53 shalbe left unto you desolate. For I saye unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, tyll that ye saye : Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lorde. IT Sainct John Euangelistes Daye. The Collecte. MERCYFUL lord, we beseche thee to cast thy bright beames of light upon thy Churche : that it beyng lightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Euangelist John may attayn to thy euerlasting giftes ; through Jesus Christ our lord The Epistle. I John i. THAT which was from the beginnyng, which we haue hearde, whyche we haue sene with our eyes, whych we haue loked upon, and oure handes haue handled of the worde of lyfe : and the life appeared, and we haue sene and beare witnes, and shewe unto you, that eternal life, whych was with the father, and appeared unto us. That which we haue sene and herde, declare we unto you, that ye also maye haue fellowship with us, and that oure fellowship may be with the father and his sonne Jesus Christ. And this we write unto you, that youre ioye may be ful. And this is the tidinges which we haue hearde of hym, and declare unto you, that God is lighte, and in him is no darknes at all. Yf we saye, we haue felowship with him, and walke in darknes, we lye, and do not the trueth. But and yf we walke in lighte, euen as he is in lighte, then haue we felowshippe with him, and the bloud of Jesus Christ his sonne clenseth us from al synne. Yf we saye that we haue no synne, we diceyue oureselues, and the trueth is not in us. But yf we knowlege our sinnes, he is faithful and iust to forgeue us oure sinnes, and to dense us from all unrighteousnes. Yf we saye, we haue not synned, we make him a lyar, and his worde is not in us, The Gospell. John xxi. JESUS sayde unto Peter, Folow thou me. Peter turned aboute, and sawe the disciple whom Jesus loued folowinge (which also leaned 6 his breast at Supper, and said : Lorde, which is he that betrayeth the ?) Whe Peter sawe him, he sayde to Jesus : Lorde what shal he here do ? Jesus sayde unto him ; Yf I wil haue him to tarye tyll I come, what is that to thee ? Folow thou me. Then wente this sayenge abroad amonge the brethren, that that disciple should not dye. And Jesus sayde not to hym, he shall not dye, but : Yf I wil that he tarye tyll I come, what is that to thee. The same disciple is he which testifieth of these thinges, and wrote these thinges, and we knowe that his testimonie is true. There are also many other thinges that Jesus did, the 54 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. which, yf they shoulde be wrytte euery one, I suppose the worlde coulde not conteyne the bookes that should be wrytten. IT Thinnocentes Daye. The Collecte. ALMIGHTY god, whose praise this day the yong Innocents thy witnesses hath confessed, and shewed foorth, not in speaking but in dying ; mortify and kyll all vices in us, that in our conuersacion, our lyfe may expresse thy fayth, which wyth oure tongues we do confesse ; through Jesus Christ oure Lord. The Epistle. Apoc. xiv. I LOKED, and lo, a lambe stode on the mout Sion, and with him an hundred and xliiii thousande, hauynge hys name and hys fathers name written in their forheades. And I herde a voyce from heauen, as the sounde of many waters, and as the voyce of a great thundre. And I herde the voyce of harpers harping on their harps. And they song as it were a new song before the seate, and before the foure beastes, and the elders, and no man coulde learne the song, but the hundred and fourtie and four thousand, which were redemed from the earth. These are they which were not defyled with women, for they are virgins. These folowe the lambe where- soeuer he goeth. These were redemed from men, beinge the firste fruytes unto God, and to the lambe, and in their mouthes was founde no guyle ; for they are without spot before the throne of God. The Gospel. Matt. ii. THE Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a slepe, sayinge : aryse, and take the chylde, and his mother, and flee into Egipt ; and be thou there tyll I brynge thee worde. For it wyll come to pass, that Herod shal seke the chylde to destroye him. So when he awoke, he toke the chylde and his mother by night and de- parted into Egipt, and was there unto the death of Herode, that it myght be fulfylled which was spoke of the lorde by the Prophet, saying : out of Egipt haue I called my sonne. Then Herod when he saw that he was mocked of the wyse men, was exceadynge wroth, and sent foorth men of warre, and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem, and in all the coastes, (as many as were two yere olde or under,) accordinge to the tyme which he had diligently knowen out of the wyse men. Then was fulfylled that which was spoken by the Prophet Jeremy, whereas he sayd : In Rama was there a voyce herde, lamentacion, wepynge, and greate mournynge, Rachel wepinge for her chyldren, and woulde not be conforted, because they were not. THE SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS DAY. 55 IT The Sundaye after Christmas Daye. The Collect. ALMIGHTY God, which hast geuen us, &c. As upon Christmas- daye. The Epistle. Gal. iv. AND I saye, that the heyre as longe as he is a childe differeth not from a seruaunt, though he be lorde of all, but is under tutours and gouerners, untyll the tyme the father hath appoynted. Euen so we also, whe we were chyldren, were in bondage under the ordeinaunces of the world. But when the tyme was ful come, God sente hys sonne, made of a woma, and made bond unto the lawe, to redeme them which were unto the lawe : that we through eleccion mighte receyue the inheritaunce that belongeth unto the naturall sons. Because ye are sons, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into oure hertes, which cryeth Abba father. Where- fore now, thou art not a seruaunt, but a sonne. Yf thou be a sonne, thou art also the heyre of God through Christ. The Gospel. Matt. i. THYS is the booke of the generacion of Jesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham : Abraha begat Isaac ; Isaac begat Jacob ; Jacob begat Judas and his brethre ; Judas begat Phares and Zaram of Thamar ; Phares begat Hesrom ; Hesrom begat Aram ; Aram begat Aminadab ; Aminadab begat Naasson ; Naasson begat Salmon ; Salmon begat Boos of Rahab ; Boos begat Obed of Ruth ; Obed begat Jesse ; Jesse begat Dauid the kynge ; Dauid the kynge begat Salomon of her that was the wife of Urye ; Salomon begat Roboam ; Roboam begat Abia ; Abia begat Asa ; Asa begat Josaphat ; Josaphat begat Joram ; Joram begat Osias ; Osias begat Joatham ; Joatham begat Achas ; Achas begat Ezechais ; Ezechais begat Manasses ; Manasses begat Amon ; Amon begat Josias ; Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, aboute the tyme that they were carried awaye to Babilon. And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel ; Salathiel begat Zorobabel ; Zorobabel begat Abuid ; Abuid begat Eliachim ; Eliachim begat Azor ; Azor begat Sadoc ; Sadoc begat Achin ; Achin begat Eluid ; Eluid begat Eleasar ; Eleasar begat Matthan ; Matthan begat Jacob ; Jacob begat Joseph the husbande of Mary, of whom was borne Jesus, euen he that is called Christ. And so all the generacions from Abraham to Dauid are fourtene generacions : From Dauid unto the captiuitie of Babylon are fourtene generacions. From the captiuitie of Babylon unto Christ, are also fourtene generacions. The byrth of Christ was on thys wyse : When his mother Mary was maryed to Joseph, (before they came to dwell together) she was founde with chylde by the holy ghoste. But Joseph her 56 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. husbande (because he was a righteous man, and wolde not put her to shame) was mynded priuely to departe from her. But whyle he thus thought, beholde, the aungell of the Lorde appeared unto him in a slepe, sayinge : Joseph, thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take unto the Marye thy wyfe : for that which is coceyued in her, is of the holy ghoste. She shall brynge forth a sonne, and thou shalte call hys name JESUS : for he shall saue his people from their synnes. All thys was done, that it mighte be fulfylled which was spoken of the Lorde by the Prophete, sayinge : Beholde a mayde shall bee with chylde, and shall brynge forth a sonne, and they shall call hys name Emanuel, whych, if a man interpret, is as much as to say, God with us. Now Joseph, as soon as he awoke out of slepe, did as the angell of the lorde had bidden hym : and toke his wyfe unto hym, and knewe her not, tyll she had brought forth the fyrst begotten sonne, and called his name JESUS. IT The Circumcision of Christ. The Colkcte. ALMIGHTIE God, which madeste thy blessed sonne to be cir- cumcised, and obedient to the law for man ; grant us the true circumcision of the spirit, that our hearts, and all our membres, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lustes, may in all thinges obey thy blessed wyl ; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle. Rom. iv. BLESSED is that man to whom the Lorde will not impute synne. Came this blessednes then upon the uncircucision, or upon the circumcision also ? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousnes. How was it the rekened ? when he was in the circucision, or whe he was in the uncircumcisio ? not in tyme of circucision ; but when he was yet uncircumcised. And he receaued the sign of circucision, as a seale of the righteousnes of faith, which he had yet being uncircucised ; that he shulde be the father of all the that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that righteousnes might be imputed to them also : and that he might be the father of circumcision, not unto the only that came of the circumcision, but unto them also that walke in the steppes of the faith which was in oure father Abraham, before the tyme of cir- cumcision. For the promyse (that he shulde be the heyre of the worlde) happened not to Abraham, or to hys seede, thorow the lawe, but through the righteousnes of fayth. For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres, then is fayth but vayne, and the promyse of none effect. THE EPIPHANY. 57 The Gospel. Luc. ii. AND it fortuned, as soon as the angels were gone away from the shephardes into heaue, they sayde one to another ; let us goe now euen unto Bethleem, and se this thinge that we heare say is happened, whiche the lorde hath shewed unto us. And thei came with hast and founde Mary and Joseph, and the babe layed in a maunger. And when they had scene it, they published abrode the sayenge which was tolde the of that chyld. And all they that heard it wondred at those things, that were tolde them of the shepeheardes. But Mary kepte all those sayinges, and pondred them in her hert. And the shepherdes returned praysinge and laudinge God, for all the thinges they had herde and sene, euen as it was tolde unto them. And when the eyght daye was come that the chylde should be circumcised, his name was called JESUS, which was named of the angel before he was conceyued in the wombe. IT The Epiphany. The Collect. O GOD, whych by the leadinge of a starre diddest manifest thy onely begotten sonne to the Gentyles ; Mercifully graunt, that we, which know thee now by faith, may after this lyfe haue the fruicion of thy glorious Godhead ; through Christ our Lord. The Epistle. Ephes. iii. FOR this cause I Paul am a priesoner of Jesus Christ for you heythen ; yf ye haue herde of the ministracion of the grace of God, which is geuen me to you-warde. For by reuelacion shewed he the mystery unto me, as I wrote aboue in fewe wordes, wherby whan ye rede it, ye maye understande my knowledge in the mistery of Christ ; which mistery in times past was not opened unto the sonnes of men, as it is now declared to his holy Apostles and pro- phetes by the spirite : that the Gentiles shulde be inheritours also, and of the same bodye, and partakers of his promise in Christ, by means of the Gospel, wherof I am made a minister, acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God which is geue unto me after the workynge of his power. Unto me the least of all sayntes is this grace geuen, that I shoulde preach amonge the Gentiles the unsearcheable ryches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the felowshippe of the inisterie, which fro the beginnyng of the worlde, hath bene hydde in God which made all thynges through Jesus Christ : to thentente, that now unto the rulers and powers in heauenly things, mighte be knowen by the congregacion the manifolde wisedome of God accordinge to the eternal purpose which he wrought in Christ Jesu oure lorde : by whom we haue boldnesse and entraunce with the confidece which is by faith of hym. 58 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. The Gospel. Matt. ii. WHEN Jesus was borne in Bethlee a city of Jurye, in the tyme of H erode the kynge : Behold there came wise men from the East to Jerusale, saying : Where is he that is borne king of the Jewes ? For we haue seen his starre in the Easte, and are come to wurship him. When Herode the kynge had herde these thinges, he was troubled, and all the citie of Jerusale with him. And when he had gathered al the chief priestes and scribes of the people, he de- maunded of them, where Christ shulcle be borne. And they sayde unto hym, At Bethleem in Jury. For thus it is written by the Pro- phet ; And thou, Bethleem, in the land of Jurye, arte not the least amonge the princes of Juda : for out of thee there shall come unto me the capitaine that shal gouerne my people Israel. Then Herode (when he had preuely called the wise men) he inquired of them diligentlye what tyme the starre appeared, and he bad them go to Bethleem, and said ; Goe your waie thither, and searche dili- gently for the chylde. And when ye haue founde him, bringe me worde agayne, that I maye come and wurship him also. When thei had heard the king, they departed ; and loe, the starre whiche they sawe in the East, wente before them, till it came and stode ouer the place wherin the chylde was. When they sawe the starre they were exceading glad, and went into the house, and found the chyld with Mary his mother, and fel down flat and wurshipped hym, and opened ther treasures and offred unto hym gyftes : Gold, Frankynsence, and Mirre. And after they wer warned of God in slepe, (that they shoulde not goe againe to Herode,) they returned into their own countrey another waye. The first Sunday after the Epiphanie. The Collect. LORD we beseche thee mercifully to receyue the prayers of thy people whiche call upon thee ; and graunt that they maye both perceiue and know what thyngs they oughte to do, and also haue grace and power faithfully to fulfyll the same, through Jesus Chryst our lord. The Epistle. Rom. xii. I BESECHE you therfore brethre, by the mercyfulnesse of God, that ye make youre bodies a quicke sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God, which is youre reasonable seruinge of god. And fashion not youreselfes like unto thys worlde ; but be chaunged in your shape by the renuynge of youre mynde, that ye maye proue, what thinge that good, and acceptable, and perfecte wil of God is. For I saye (through the grace that unto me geuen is) to euery man amonge you, that no man stande high in his owne conceite, more then it becommeth him to esteme of hymselfe ; but to iudge of THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY. 59 himselfe, that he be gentle and sobre, accordynge as god hath dealte to euery man the measure of faith. For as we haue many membres in one body, and all the membres haue not one office ; so we beynge many, are one body in Christ, and euery man amonge oureselfes, one anothers membres. The Gospel. Luke ii. THE father and mother of Jesus wente to Jerusalem after the custome of the feast daye. And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the child Jesus abode stil in Jerusalem. And his father and mother knewe not of it : but supposing him to haue been in the cumpany, came a dayes iourneye, and sought hym amogst their kinsfolke and acquataunce. And whe they founde hym not, they wente backe agayne to Jerusalem, and sought him. And it fortuned that after thre dayes, they founde him in the temple sittinge in the midst of the doctors, hearynge them, and posing them. And al they that hearde hym were astonied at his understandynge and answeres. And when they sawe him, they meruailed. And his mother said unto him; Sonne, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Be- holde, thy father and I haue sought the sorowynge. And he sayde unto them, howe happened it that ye sought me ? Wyst ye not that I must goe aboute my fathers btisines? And theyunderstode not that sayinge, which he spake unto them. And he wente dovvne with them, and came to Nazareth, and was obediete unto them. And his mother kept all these sayings together in her heart. And Jesus prospered in wisedome and age and in fauoure with God and men. II The second Sunday after the Epiphanie. The Collecte. ALMIGHTIE and euerlasting god, which doest gouerne all thynges in heauen and earth : mercyfully heare the supplicacions of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our lyfe. The Epistle. Rom. xii. SEING that we haue dyuers gyftes, according to the grace that is geuen unto us ; yf a man haue y e gifte of prophecy, let it be agreing to the faith. Let him that hath an office wayte on his office : let hym that teacheth, take hede to hys doctryne : Let him that exhorteth, geue attcdaunce to his exhortacion. Yf eny man geue, let him doe it with synglenesse. Let hym that ruleth, doe it with diligence. Yf any man shewe mercy, let hym doe it with cherefulnesse. Let loue be without dissimulacio. Hate that which is euell and cleaue unto y l which is good. Be kynde one to another with brotherly loue. In geuynge honoure go one before another. Be not slothefull in the busynes which ye haue in hande. 60 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Be feruent in the spyryte. Applye youreselues to the tyme. Reioyce in hope ; be pacyent in tribulation. Continue in prayer. Distribute unto the necessitie of the sainctes. Be glad to harboure. Blesse them which persecute you. Blesse, I saye, and curse not. Be mery with them that are mery. Wepe with them that wepe. Be of like affection one towardes another. Be not hye mynded, but make youreselues equall to them of the lower sorte. The Gospel, John ii. AND the third daye was there a mariage in Cana, a citie of Galyle, and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus was called (and hys disciples) unto the mariage. And when the wine fayled, the mother of Jesus sayde unto hym : they haue no wine. Jesus said unto her, woma, what haue I to do with the ? mine houre is not yet come. His mother said unto the ministers ; whatsoeuer he saieth unto you, do it. And there were standing there vi water- pottes of stone, after the maner of the purifiyng of the Jewes, con- teining ii or iii fyrkyns apeece. Jesus saide unto them : fil the waterpottes with water. And thei filled them up to the brimme. And he saide unto them : draw out now, and beare unto the Gouernour of the feast. And they bare it. Whe the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was turned into wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the ministers, which drewe the water, knewe) he called the bridegrome, and said unto him ; Euerie man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men be dronke, then that whiche is woorse, but thou hast kepte the gocJ wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana oi Galile, and shewed hys glorye, and his dysciples beleued on him. H The third Sundave. The Collecte. ALMYGHTIE and euerlastyng god, mercyfully loke upon our infirmities, and in all our daungers and necessities, stretche furth thy right hand to helpe and defende us ; through Christ our Lorde. The Epistle. Roma. xii. BE not wyse in youre own opinions. Recompese unto no man euill for euill. Prouyde aforehand thinges honest, not only before God, but also in the syghte of al me. If it be possible, (as much as is in you) liue peaceablye with al men. Dearly beloued, auenge not youreselfes, but rather geue place unto wrathe. For it is wrytten : Vengeaunce is mine ; I wil rewarde sayth the LORDE. Therfore, yf thine enemy hunger, feede him, yf he thyrst, geue him drynke. For in so doinge thou shalt heape coles of fyre on his heade. Be not ouercome of euill, but ouercome thou euill with goodnes. THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY. 61 The Gospdl. Matt. viii. WHEN he was come downe from the mountaine, much people folowed him. And behold, there came a leper and worshipped hym, sayinge, Maister, yf thou wylte thou canst make me clene. And Jesus put furth his hande, and touched him, sayinge, I wil, be thou cleane ; and immediately hys leprosy was clensed. And Jesus sayde unto hym, Tell no ma, but goe and shew thyselfe to the prieste, and offer the gifte (that Moses comaunded to be offered) for witnes to them. And when Jesus was entred into Capernaum, there came unto him a Centurion, and besought hym, sayinge : Maister, my ser- uaunte lyeth at home sicke of the paulsye, and is greuously pained. And Jesus sayd, whe I come unto hym, I will heale him. The Centurion answered, and sayde : Sir I am not woorthy that thou shouldest come under my roofe ; but speake the worde only, and my seruaunt shalbe healed. For I also am a ma subiect to the auctoritie of another, and haue sowdiers under me. And I saye to this man, go, and he goeth ; and to another man, come, and he commeth ; and to my seruaunt, do this and he doeth it. When Jesus hearde those words, he merueled, and sayde to them that folowed hym : verely I say unto you, I haue not founde so greate fayth in Israel. I say unto you, that many shall come from the East, and West, and shal reste with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kyngdome of heauen, and the chyldren of the kyngdome shalbe cast out into utter darkenes, there shalbe wepinge and gnash- yng of teeth. And Jesus sayd unto the Centurion : go thy waye, and as thou beleuest so be it unto the. And his seruaunt was healed in the selfesame houre. IT The fourth Sonday. The Collect. GOD, which knowest us to be set in the middeste of so many and great daungers, that for mans frailnesse we cannot alwaies stande uprightly ; Graunt to us the health of body and soule that al those things which we suffer for sinne, by thy helpe we may wel passe and ouercome ; through Chryste our lorde. The Epistle. Rom. xiii. LET euery soule submytte hymselfe unto the auctoritie of the higher powers ; for there is no power but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God, whosoeuer therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinaunce of God. And they that resist, shal receyue to themselues damnacion. For rulers are not fearfull to them that doe good, but to them that do euill. Wilt thou be without feare of the power ? doe well then, and so shalt thou be pra> sed of the same : for he is the mini- 62 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. ster off God for thy wealth. But and yf thou do that which is cuell, then feare, for he beareth not the sweorde for noughte : for he is the mynister of god to take vengeaunce on them that do euell. Wherfore, ye must nedes obeye not onely for feare of ven- geaunce, but also because of conscyence. And euen for this cause paye ye tribute; for they are Gods ministers seruying for that pur- pose. Geue to euery man therfore his duetye ; tribute, to whom tribute belongeth : custome, to whom custome is due : feare, to whom feare belongeth : honoure, to whom honoure pertayneth. The Gospel.. Matt. viii. AND when he entred into a ship, his disciples folowed him. And beholde there arose a greate tempest in the sea, insomuche that the shyp was couered with waues, but he was aslepe. And his disciples came unto him, and awoke hym, sayinge, Maister, saue us, we peryshe. And he sayde unto them : Why are ye fearfull, O ye of littell faithe ? Then he arose, and rebuked the windes and the sea, and there folowed a great calme. But the men merueyled, saying, What maner of man is this, that both wyndes and see obey hym ? And when he was come to the other syde, into the countre of the Gergesites, there met him ii possessed of deuils, which came out of the graues, and wer out of measure fierce, so that no man myght goe by that waye. And beholde, they cryed out, sayinge, O Jesu, thou sonne of god, what haue we to doe with the ? Art thou come hither to torment us beefore the tyme ? And there was a good way of from them a heerd of Swyne, feeding. So the deuyls besought him, sayinge, If thou cast us out, suffre us to goe oure waye into the heerd of Swyne. And he sayde unto the, Go youre wayes. Then went they out and departed into the heerde of Swyne. And behold, the whole heerd of Swyne was caryed hedlonge into the sea, and perished in the waters. Then they that kept them, fled, and wente their ways into the citie, and tolcle euery thinge, and what had happened unto the possessed of the deuyls. And behold, the whole citie came out to mete Jesus : and when they sawe hym, they besought hym that he would de- parte out of their coastes. IT The fifth Sundaye. The Collecte* LORDE, we beseche thee to kepe thy Church and houshold con- tinually in thy true religion ; that they which doe leane only upon hope of thy heauenly grace may euermore be defended by thy mighty power ; Through Christe our Lorde. The Epistle. Coloss. iii. PUT on as the electe of God, tender mercye, kindness, hum- blenes of mynde, mekenesse, long-sufferynge, forbearinge one SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY. 63 another, and forgeuynge one another, yf eny man haue a quarell agaynst another ; as Christ forgaue you, euen so do ye. Aboue all these thinges put on loue, which is the bonde of perfectnes. And the peace of god rule youre hertes, to the which peace ye are called in one bodye ; and se that ye be thankefull. Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously with all wisedome. Teache and exhorte youre owne selfes in Psalmes, and Himnes, and spiritual songes, syngynge with grace in youre hertes to the lorde. And whatsoeuer ye doe, in worde or clede, do all in the name of the lorde Jesu, geuing thankes unto God the father by hym. The Gospel. Matt. xiii. THE kyngdome of heauen is lyke unto a man that sowed good seede in hys fielde. But whyle me slepte, his enemye came, and sowed tares amonge the wheat e, and wente his waye. Now whe the blade was spronge up, and had brought forth fruite, the appeared the tares also. So the seruauntes of the housholder came, and sayde unto him : Sir, didste thou not sowe good sede in thy felde ? Fro whence then hath it tares ? He sayde unto the, the enuious man hath done this. The seruauntes sayde unto hym, wilt thou then that we go and wede them up ? He sayde, naye ; lest whyle ye gather up the tares, ye plucke up also the wheate with the. Let both growe together tyll the haruest ; and in the tyme of haruest I wil saye unto the reapers : gather ye the tares first, and binde them together in sheeues to be brente : but gather the wheate into my barne. The vi Sunday (if there be so many) shal haue the same Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, that was upon the fifth Sundaye. IT The Sundaye called Septuagesima. The Collects . O LORDE, we beseche thee fauourably to heare the prayers of thy people ; that we which are iustlye punished for our offences, may be mercyfully deliuered by thy goodnes, for the glorye of thy name, through Jesu Christe our sauiour, who lyueth and reigneth, world without ende. The Epistle. I Cor. ix. PERCEIUE ye not, how that they which runne in a course runne al, but one receiueth the reward ? So runne that ye may obtaine. Euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth from all thinges. And they doe it to obtaine a crowne that shall perish, but we to obtayne an euerlasting crowne. I therfore so runne, not as at an uncertayne thinge. So fyghte I, not as one that beateth the ayre : but I tame my body, and brynge it into subieccion, lest by any meanes it come to pass, that when I haue preached to other, I mvselfe shoulde be a cast-awaye. 64 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. The Gospel. Matt. xx. THE kyngdome of heauen is like unto a man that is an hous- holder, which wente out early in the mornynge to hyre labourers into his vineyarde. And when the agrement was made with the labourers for a peny a daye, he sent the into his vineyarde. And he wente oute about the thirde houre and sawe other stondinge idle in the marketplace, and sayde unto them : Go ye also into my vynyarde, and whatsoeuer is right I wil geue you. And they went theyr waye. Agayne he wente out aboute the vi and ix houre, and dyd likewysc. And aboute the xi houre he wente out, and founde other staclynge ydle, and saide unto them ; Why stande ye here all the daye idle ? They sayd unto him ; because no man hath hyred us. He sayeth unto the, Go ye also into my vinyarde, and whatsoeuer is right, that shall ye receiue. So, when euen was come, the lorde of the vynyarde sayde unto his stewarde : Cal the labourers and geue them theyr hyre, begyn- nynge from the last untill the first. And when they did come that came aboute the eleuenth houre, they receiued euery man a peny. But when the first came also, they supposed that they shoulde haue receiued more, and they likewise receaued euery man a peny. And when they had receaued it, they murmured agaynst the good- man of the house, saying : These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made the equall with us, which haue borne the burthen and heate of the daye. But he answered unto one of them, and sayde : Frende, I do thee no wronge, diddest not thou agree with me for a peny ? Take that thine is, and goe thy waye ; I wyl geue unto this last, euen as unto the. Is it not lawful for me to do as me lusteth with myne owne goodes? Is thine eye euell because I am good? So the last shalbe the first, and the first shalbe last. For many be called, but few be chosen. IF The Sunday called Sexagesima. The Colkcte. LORD GOD, which seest that we put not our truste in any thyng thai we doe, mercifullye graunt that by thy power we may be defended against al aduersitie ; through Jesus Chryst our Lord. The Epistle. 2 Cor. xi. YE suffre fooles gladly, seing ye youreselues are wyse. For ye suffre yf a man brynge you into bondage, yf a man deuoure, yf a man take, yf a man exalte hymselfe, yf a man smite you on the face. I speake as concernynge rebuke, as though we had been weake in this behalfe. Howeuer, wherinsoeuer any man dare be bolde (I speake folishly) I dare be bolde also. They are Hebrues, euen so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY. 65 sede of Abraham, euen so am I. They are the ministers of Christ, (I speake like a fole) I am more : in laboures more abundaunt, in stripes aboue measure, in prieson more plenteously, in death oft : Of the Jewes fyue tymes receaued I xl strypes saue one : Thrise was I beaten with roddes : I was once stoned, I suffred thrise shypwrake ; nyghte and daye haue I bene in the deepe see : In iourneying oft ; in parels of waters, in parels of robbers ; in Jeopardies of mine own nacion ; in ieopardies among the Heythen, in parels in the citie, in parels in wilderness, in parels in the sea, in parels amonge false brethre, in laboure and trauayle, in watch- inges often, in hunger and thyrst, in fastinges often, in cold and nakednes ; besyde the thynges whiche outwardly happen unto me I am combred daylie, and do care for all cogregacions. Who is weake, and I am not weake ? Who is offended, and I burne not ? Yf I must nedes boast, I wil boast of the thinges that concerne myne infirmyties. The God and father of cure lorde, Jesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth that I lie not. The Gospel. Luke viii. WHEN much people w.ere gathered together, and were come to him out of al the cities, He spake by a symilitude : The sower wente out to sovve his sede : and as he sowed, some fell by the waye side, and it was trodde down, and the foules of the ayre deuoured it. And some fell on stones, and assoon as it was spronge up, it withred awaye, because it lacked moistnesse. And some fel amonge thornes, and the thornes sprange up with it and choked it. And some fell on good grounde, and sprange up, and bare frute an hundreth-folde. And as he sayde these thinges, he cryed ; He that hath eares to heare, let him heare. And his disciples asked him, saying, What maner of symilitude is this ? And he sayde : Unto you it is geue to knowe the secretes of the kyngdome of God, but to the other by parables ; that when they se, they shulde not se, and when they heare they shoulde not understande. The parable is this : The sede is the worde of God : those that are beside the waye, are they that heare : then commeth the deuell and taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes, lest they shoulde beleue, and be saued. They on the stones, are they which when they heare it, receyue the worde with ioye ; and these haue no rotes, which for a whyle beleue, and in the tyme of temptacion goe awaye. And that which fel amonge thornes, are they which when they haue heard, go furth, and are choked with cares, and riches, and volupteous liuing, and brynge forth no frute. That which fell in the good grounde, are they which with a pure good hert, heare the worde and kepe it, and brynge forth fruite through pacience. 66 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. IT The Sunday called Quinquagesima. 7^he Collecte. O LORD which doest teache us that al our doinges without charitie are nothyng worth ; send thy holy gost, and powre in our heartes that most excellent gift of charitie, the very bonde of peace and all vertues, without the which whosoeuer lyueth is counted dead before thee : Graunt this for thy only sonne Jesus Christes sake. The Epistle. I Cor. xiii. THOUGHE I speake with the tongues of men and of aungels, and haue no loue, I am euen as sowndinge brasse, or as a tynklinge Cimball. And though I coulde prophecie, and understand al secretes, and al knowlege ; yea, if I haue al faith, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and yet haue no loue, I am nothinge. And though I bestowe al my goodes to fede the poore, and though I gaue my body euen that I burned, and yet haue no loue, it profiteth me nothinge. Loue suffereth long, and is curte- ous, loue enuyeth not, loue doth not frowardly, swelleth not, dealeth not dishonestly, seeketh not her owne, is not prouoked to anger, thinketh no euill, reioyceth not in iniquyte, but reioyceth in the trueth, suffreth all thinges, beleueth all thinges, hopeth all thinges, endureth all thinges. Though that prophecienge fayle, eyther tongues'ceasse, or know- lege vanisheth away, yet loue falleth neuer awaye. For our know- lege is unparfecte, and oure prophecienge is unparfecte. But whan that, which is perfecte, is come, then that which is unparfecte shalbe done awaye. When I was a childe I spake as a childe ; I understode as a childe, I imagined as a childe. But assone as I was a man, I put awaye childishnes. Now we se in a glasse, euen in a darke speakynge ; but the shal we se face to face. Now I knowe unperfectly, but then shal I knowe cue as I am knowen. Now abydeth faith, hope, loue, euen these three, but the chiefe of these is loue. The Gospell, Luke xviii. JESUS toke unto him the xii, and sayde unto them : Beholde, we go up to Jerusale, and all shalbe fulfilled that are wrytten by the prophetes, of the sonne of man. For he shalbe delyuered unto the gentyles, and shalbe mocked and despytefully intreated and spitted upon ; and whan they haue scourged him, they wyl put him to death, and the thirde daye he shal rise agayne. And they under- stode nothinge of these thynges. And this sayinge was hid from them, and they perceiued not the thynges whiche were spoken. And it came to passe, that as he was come nye unto lericho, a certain blynd man sate by the way-syde begging. And when he herde the people passe by, he asked what it ment. And they THE FIRST DAY OF LENT. 67 sayde unto him, that Jesus of Nazareth passed by. And he cryed, saying : Jesu thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy on me. But they which wente before rebuked him, that he shulde holde his peace. But he cried so moch the move ; Thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy upo me. And Jesus stode styl, and commaunded him to be brought unto him. And whan he was come nere, he asked him, saying, What wylt thou that I doe unto the ? And he sayde, Lorde, that I might receaue my sight. And Jesus sayde unto him, Receaue thy sight, thy fayth hath saued the. And immediately, he receiued his sight, and folowed him, praising God. And all the people, when they sawe it, gaue prayse unto God. IT The first day of Lent. The Collect. ALMIGHTIE and euerlastyng god, which hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgeue the sinnes of al them that be penitent ; Create and made in us newe and contrite heartes, that we worthely lamentyng our synnes, and knowledginge our wretchednes, may obtaine of thee, the god of al mercy, perfect remission and forgeue- nes ; throughe Jesus Christe. The Epistle. Joel ii. TURNE you unto me with all youre hertes, with fastynge, wep- ynge, and mournynge : rente your hertes, and not youre clothes. Turne you unto the LORD your God : for he is gracious and mercyfull, longe sufferynge and of greate compassyon, and ready to pardo wickednes. Then (no doute) he also shal turne and for- geue : and after his chastenynge, he shal let youre encrease remayne for meat and drynck offerynges unto the Lorde youre God. Blowe out with the trompet in Syon, proclayme a fastynge, call the congregacion, and gather the people together ; warne the congregacion, gather the elders, bringe the children and sucklynges together. Lette the brydegrome go forth of his chambre, and the bryde out of her closet. Let the prestes seme the Lorde betwene the porche and the alter, wepinge and sayenge : be fauour- able, O Lorde, be fauourable unto thy people. Let not thyne heretage be brought to suche confusion, lest the Heathen be lordes thereof : Wherfore shoulde they saye amonge the Heithen, Where is now their God ? The Gospell. Matt. vi. WHEN ye fast, be not sad as the Hipocrytes are, for they dis- figure their faces, that they maye appeare unto men to fast. Verely I saye unto you, they haue their rewarde. But thou, when thou fastest, annoynte thyne head, and wash thy face, that it appeare not unto men how thou fastest, but unto thy father which is in secrete : and thy father, which seeth in secrete, shal rewarde 68 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. thee openly. Lay not up for yourselues treasure upon earth, where the rust and moth doth corrupt, and where theues breake through and steale. But laye up for you treasures in heauen, where nether ruste nor moth doeth corrupte, and where theues nether breake through nor steale. For where youre treasure is, there wyl youre hertes be also. The first Sunday in Lent. The Collect. O LORD, which for our sake diddeste fast fortie days and fortie nyghtes ; Geue us grace to use such abstinence, that, our fleshe beyng subdued to the Spyryte, we may euer obey thy godly moni- cions in righteousnes, and true holynesse, to thy honour and glory, whych lyuest and reygneste, &c. The Epistle. 2 Cor. vi. WE, as helpers exhorte you, that ye receaue not the grace of God in vayne. For he sayeth, I haue hearde thee in a tyme accepted : and in the daye of saluacion haue I succoured thee. Beholde now is that accepted tyme ; behold now is that daye of saluacion. Let us geue none occasion of euell, that in our office be foud no faute ; but in all thinges lette us behaue ourselues as the ministers of God ; In much pacience, in affliccions, in necessities, in anguishes, in strypes, in prisonmentes, in stryfes : in laboures, in watchinges, in fastinges, in purenes, in knowlege, in longe suffer- ynge, in kyndnes, in the holy ghoste, in loue unfayned, in the worde of the trueth, in the power of God : by the armoure of righteousnes of the righte hand and of the left ; by honoure and dis- honoure ; by euell reporte and good reporte ; as deceyuers and yet true ; as unknowen and yet knowen ; as dyinge and beholde we lyue ; as chastened and not kylled ; as sorowynge and yet allway mery ; as poore and yet make many riche : as hauynge nothinge and yet possessinge all thinges. The Gospell. Matt. iv. THEN was Jesus ledd awaye of the spyrite into wildernes, to be tempted of the deuyll. And when he had fasted fortie dayes and fortie nightes he was at the last an hungred. And when the tempter came to hym, he sayde : Yf thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. He aunswered and sayde : it is wrytten, Man shal not lyue by bread onlye, but by euery worde that proceadeth out of the mouth of God. Then the deuyll toke hym up into the holy citie and setteth hym on a pynacle of the temple, and sayeth unto hym, if thou be the sone of God, cast thyself downe headlong. For it is wrytten, he shall geue his aungels charge ouer thee, and with theyr hades they shal holde the up, lest at any time thou dashe thy fote agaynst THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT. 69 a stone. And Jesus sayde unto hym, It is wrytten again : Thou shalt not tempt thy Lorde God. Agayne the deuyll taketh hym up to an excedynge high moun- tayne, and shewed hym al the kingdomes of the worlde, and the glorie of them ; and sayth unto hym : al these wyl I geu thee, if thou wylt fall downe and worship me. Then sayth Jesus unto hym, Auoyde Sata. For it is wrytten, Thou shalt worshyp the Lorde thy God, and hym onely shalt thou serue. Then the deuell leaueth hym, and beholde, the aungels came and ministred unto hym. T The second Sunday. The Collect. ALMIGHTYE God, whiche doest see that we haue no power of ourselues to help ourselues ; kepe thou us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our soules ; that we may be defended from al aduersities which may happen to the body, and from all euyll thoughts which may assaulte and hurte the soule ; through Jesus Christe, &c. The Epistle. I Thess. iv. WE beseche you brethren, and exhorte you by the Lorde Jesus, that ye encrease more and more, euen as ye haue receaued of us, how ye oughte to walke and to please God. For ye knowe what commaundmetes we gaue you by cure lorde Jesu Christ. For thys is the will of God, euen youre holynes, that ye shoulde absteyne from fornicacion, that euery one of you shoulde knowe how to kepe his vessel in holynes and honoure, and not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen, which knowe not God ; that no man oppresse and defraude hys brother in bargayninge ; be- cause that the lorde is the auenger of all soch thinges, as we told you before and testified. For God hath not called us to unclennes, but unto holynes. He therfore that despyseth, despyseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spyrite amonge you. The Gospell. Matt. xv. JESUS wente thence, and departed into the coastes of Tyre and Sidon : And beholde a womanne of Canaan (which came out of the same coastes) cried unto him, sayenge : Haue mercy upon me, O Lorde, thou sonne of Dauid : My doughter is pieteouslye vexed with a deuell. And he answered her nothing at al. And his disciples came and besought him, sayinge ; sende her awaye, for she crieth after us. But he answered and saide ; I am not sent, but unto the lost shepe of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying ; Lorde, helpe me. He answered and sayde : it is not mete to take the childrens bred, and to cast it unto dogges. She aunswered and said : Trueth Lorde, for the dogges eate of the crommes which fall from their masters table. 70 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Then Jesus answered and sayde unto her : O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto the, euen as thou wylt. And her daughter was made whole euen the same time. f The third Sunday. The Collect. WE beseche thee, almightye God, looke upon the heartie desyres of thy humble seruauntes, and stretche forth the right hande of thy maiestie, to be oure defence agaynst all oure enemies ; thrcnghe Jesus Christ our Lorde. The Epistle. Ephes. v. BE you the folowers of God as dere children, and walke in loue, euen as Christ loued us, and gaue himselfe for us an offerynge and a sacrifice of a swete sauoure to God. As for fornicacion, and all unclennes or couetousnes, lette it not be once named amonge you, as it becommeth sayntes ; nether fylthines, nor folish talkynge, nor ieastynge, which are not comly, but rather geuynge of thankes. For this ye knowe, that no whoremoger, eyther uncleane person, or couetous perso, (which is a worshipper of ymages,) hathe anye inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christ and of God. (Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes.) For because of such thinges, cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therfore companions of them. Ye were sometyme dark- nesse, but now are ye lighte in the lorde. Walke as children of lighte, (for the fruyte of the spirite consisteth in all goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth). Accept that which is pleasinge unto the Lorde, and haue no fellowship with the unfruytfull workes of darknes, but rather rebuke them. For it is a shame euen to name those thinges, which are done of them in secrete. But all thinges when they are brought forth by the lighte are manifest. For whatsoeuer is manifest, the same is lighte. Therfore he sayeth, awake, thou that slepest, and stande up fro the deed ; and Christe shal geue thee lyghte. The Gospell. Luke xi. JKSUS was casting out a deuell that was dumme. And when he hadde cast out the deuyll, the domme spake, and the people wondred. But some of them sayde, He casteth out the deuels through Beelzebub, the chief of the deuels. The other tempted him, and requyred of him a token from heauen. But he knowing their thoughtes, sayde unto them ; Euery kyngdome deuyded against itself is desolate ; and one house doeth fall upon another. Yf Sathan also be deuided against hymself, how shal his kyng- dome endure ? Because ye saye, I cast out deuels throughe Beelzebub : Yf I by the helpe of Beelzebub caste oute deuills, by whose helpe do youre children caste them out ? Therfore shall THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT. 7 1 they be youre iudges. But yf I by the fynger of God cast out the deuels, no doubt the kyngdome of God is come upon you. Whan a stronge man armed watcheth his house ; the thinges that he possesseth are in peace ; but when a stronger than he commeth upon him, and ouercommeth him, he taketh from him all his harnes (wherein he trusted) and deuydeth his goodes. He that is not with me, is agaynst me ; and he that gathereth not with me scatereth abroade. When the uncleane spyrite is gone out of a man, he walketh thorow drie places, sekynge rest. And when he fyndeth none, he sayeth : I wil returne agayne into my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he fyndeth it swepte and garnished. Then goeth he and taketh to him seuen other spirites worse then himself; and they entre in and dwell there. And the ende of that man is worse than the begynnynge. And it fortuned that as he spake these thinges, a certayne woman of the companye lyft up her voyce, and sayde unto him. Blessed is the wombe that bare thee, and the pappes which gaue thee sucke. But he sayde : yea, happy are they that here the worde of God and kepe it. IT The fourth Sunday. The Collect. GRAUNT, we beseche thee, almightye God, that we, whiche for our euyll dedes are worthely punished, by the comforte of thy grace may mercyfully be relieued ; through our Lord Jesus Christe. The Epistle. Gal. iv. TELL me, ye that desire to be under the lawe, doe ye not heare the lawe ? For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes, the one by a bondemayde, the other by a fre-woman. Yea, and he that was borne of the bondmayde, was borne after the flesh ; but he which was borne of the fre-woman, was borne by promes : Which thinges are spoken by an allegory. For these wemen are two Testametes, the one from the mount Sina, that gendreth unto bondage, which is Agar : For the mount Sina is Agar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the citie, which is now called Jerusalem, and is in bondage with hir children. But Jerusalem, whyche is aboue, is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is wrytten, reioyce thou baren, that bearest no children ; breake forth and crye, thou that trauaylest not, for the desolate hath many moe children then she which hath an husbande. Brethren, we are after Isaac the children of promes. But as then, he that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the spirite ; euen so is it nowe. Neuertheless, what sayth the scripture ? Put awaye the bonde-woman and her sonne ; for the sonne of the bondemayde shal not be heyre with the sonne of the fre-woman. So then 72 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. brethren, we are not children of the bonde-woman, but of the free-woman. The GospelL John vi. JESUS departed ouer the see of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias, and a greate multitude folowed him, because they sawe the miracles whiche he dyd upon them which were diseased. But Jesus wente up into a mountayne, and there he sate with his disciples. And Easter, a feaste of the Jewes, was nye. Whe Jesus then lift up his eyes, and sawe a great company come unto him, he saide unto Philippe : whence shal we bye bred that these maye eate ? But this he sayde to proue him ; for he himself knewe what he wolde do. Philippe answered him; Two hundreth penyworthe of bred are not sufficient for them, that euery man maye take a litle. One of his disciples (Andrew, the brother of Symo Peter) sayth unto hym ; There is a lad that hath fyue barlye loaues, and two fishes : but what are they amonge so many ? Jesus sayde : make the people syt downe. There was much grasse in the place : so the men sat downe, in number aboute fyue thousande. And Jesus toke the bread, and when he had geuen thanks, he gaue to the Disciples, and the Disciples to them that were set downe : and likewyse of the fishes asmuch as they woulde. When they had eaten enough, he sayde unto his disciples ; Gather up the broken meate that remayneth, that nothinge be lost. And they gathered it together and fylled twelue baskettes with the broken meate of the fyue barlye loaues ; which broken meate remayned unto them that had eaten. Then those men (when they had seen the miracle that Jesus dyd) saide : This is of a trueth the same Prophet that shulde come into the worlde. IT The fifth Sunday. The Collect. WE beseche thee, almighty God, mercifully to loke upon thy people ; that by thy greate goodnesse they may be gouerned and preserued euermore, both in bodye and soule ; through Jesus Christe oure Lorde. The Epistle. Heb. ix. CHRIST beynge an hie Priest of good thinges to come, came by a greater and a more perfecte Tabernacle, not made with handes, that is to saye, not of this buyldynge ; nether by the bloud of Goates and Calues ; but by his owne bloude he entred once into the holy place, and hath founde eternall redempcion. For yf the bloude of oxen and of Goates, and the ashes of a yong kowe, whan it was sprinkled, purifieth the uncleane as touchynge the purifying THE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE EASTER. 73 of the flesh : How much more shal the bloude of Christ (which through the eternall spirite offred himselfe without spotte to God) purge youre conscience from dead workes for to serue the lyuynge God ? And for this cause is he the mediatour of the new Testa- ment ; that through death which chaunsed for the redempcion of those transgressions that were under the firste Testament, they which are called, mighte receaue the promes of eternall inherit- aunce. The Gospell. John viii. WHICH of you can rebuke me of synne? Yf I saye the trueth, why do ye not beleue me? He that is of God, heareth Gods wordes ; ye therfore heare them not, because ye are not of God. Then answered the Jewes, and sayde unto him ; Saye we not right, that thou art a Samaritane, and haste the deuell ? Jesus answered ; I haue not the deuell, but I honoure my father, and ye haue dis- honoured me. I seke not myne owne prayse ; there is one that seketh and iudgeth. Verely, verely, I saye unto you ; Yf a man kepe my saying, he shall neuer tast of death. Then sayde the Jewes unto hym, Now knowe we that thou hast the deuell. Abra- ham is dead, and the Prophetes, and thou sayest : Yf a man kepe my worde, he shall neuer tast of death. Arte thou greater then oure father Abraha, which is dead ? and the Prophetes are dead ? Who makest thou thyself? Jesus aunswered : Yf I honour myself, myne honour is nothinge. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye saye is youre God, and ye knowe hym not ; but I knowe him. And yf I saye I knowe him not, I shalbe a lyar like unto you. But I knowe him, and kepe his sayinge. Youre father Abra- ham was glad to see my daye : and he sawe it, and reioyced. Then sayde the Jewes unto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yere olde, and hast thou sene Abraham ? Jesus sayde unto them : Verely, verely, I saye unto you ; ere Abraham was, I am. Then toke they up stones to cast at him : but Jesus hyd himself, and wente out of the temple. IT The Sundaye nexte before Easier. The Collects. ALMIGHTY and euerlasting God, which of thy tender loue towardes man, hast sent our sauiour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffre death upon the crosse, that al man- kind should folow the example of his great humilitie ; mercifully graunt, that we both folow the example of his pacience, and be made partakers of hys resurreccion ; through the same Jesus Christ our Lorde. The Epistle. Philipp. ii. LET the same mynd be in you, that was in Christe Jesu : whiche, when he was in the shape of God, thought it no robbery to be 74 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. equal with God ; neuer less he made himselfe of no reputacion, taking on him the shape of a seruaunt, and became like unto man, and was founde in his apparell as a man. He humbled himselfe and became obedient to the death, euen the death of the crosse. Therfore, God hath also exalted him on high, and geuen him a name which is aboue al names ; that in the name of Jesus euery knee shoulde bowe, both of thinges in heauen, of thinges in earth, and thinges under the earth ; and that all tongues shoulde con- fesse that Jesus Christ is the Lorde, unto the prayse of God the father. The Gospell. Matt. xxvi. xxvii. AND it came to passe, whe Jesus had fynished all these sayings, he sayde unto his Disciples : Ye knowe that after two dayes shalbe Easter, and the sonne of man shalbe delyuered ouer to be cruci- fied. Then assembled together the chiefe priestes, and the Scribes, and the Elders of the people unto the palace of the hygh priest, (whiche was called Cayphas,) and helde a counsel that they might take Jesus by subteltie, and kyll him. But they sayde : Not on the holy daye, lest there be an uproure amonge the people. When Jesus was in Bethanye, in the house of Symon the Leper, there came unto hym a woman hauing an Alabaster boxe of pre- cious oyntment, and poured it upon his heade, as he sat at the boarde. But when his disciples sawe it, they hadde indignacion, saying, Whereto serueth this wast? This oyntment might haue been well solde and geuen to the poore. When Jesus understood that, he sayde unto them : Why trouble ye the womanne ? for she hath wrought a good worke upon me. For ye haue the poore allwaye with you ; but me shal ye not haue allwayes. And in that she hath cast this oyntment upon my body, she dyd it to bury me. Verely I saye unto you : wheresoeuer thys gospell shalbe preached in all the worlde, there shal also be tolde this that she hath done, for a memoriall of her. Then one of the twelue (which was called Judas Iscarioth) wente unto the chiefe priestes, and sayde unto them ; What wil ye geue me, and I wyl delyuer him unto you ? And they appointed unto him thirtie pieces of syluer. And from that tyme forth he sought oportunyte to betraye him. The first daye of swete bred, the Disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him ; where wilt thou that we prepare for the, to eate the Passeouer ? And he sayde ; Go into the citie, to such a man, and saye unto hym ; The Maister sayth ; my tyme is at hande, I will kepe my Easter by thee with my dis- ciples. And the disciples dyd as Jesus had appointed them ; and they made ready the Passeouer. When euen was come, he sat downe with the twelue. And as they did eat, he sayde : Verely I saye unto you ; One of you shal betraye me. And they were excedynge sorowfull, and beganne euery one of them to saye unto hym ; Lorde, is it I ? he answered and sayde : He that dippeth THE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE EASTER. 75 his hade with me in the dishe, the same shal betraye me. The sonne of man truely goeth as it is wrytten of him : but wo unto that man, by who the sonne of man is betrayed : It had benegood for that man, yf he had not bene borne. The Judas, whiche be- trayed him, answered and sayde : Master, is it I ? He sayde unto him, thou hast sayde. And when they were eating, Jesus toke bred, and when he had geuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to the disciples, and sayde : Take, eate, this is my bodye. And he toke the cuppe, and thanked, and gaue it the, and sayde ; Drynke ye all of thys ; for this is my bloude (which is of the new testament) that is shed for many, for the remission of synnes. But I saye unto you : I wil not drynke henceforth of thys fruyte of the vyne tre, untill the daye when I shal drynke it new with you, in my fathers kyngdome. And whan they had sayde grace, they wente out unto mount Oliuete. Then sayde Jesus unto them ; All ye shalbe offended because of me this night. For it is wrytten ; I wil smyte the shepherde, and the shepe of the flocke shalbe scatered abroade. But after I am rysen agayne, I wil go before you into Galile. Peter answered and sayde unto him : Though all men shoulde be offended because of thee, yet wyl not I bee offeded. Jesus sayde unto hym ; Verely I saye unto thee, This same night before the cock krowe, thou shall denie me thryse. Peter saide unto him : yea, though I shulde dye with the, yet wil I not denye thee : Likewyse also sayde all the disciples. Then came Jesus with them into a farme place, (whiche is called Gethsemane,) and sayde unto the disciples ; Sytte ye here, whyle I go and praye yonder. And he toke with him Peter and the two sonnes of Zebede, and beganne to waxe sorowfull and heauye. Then sayde Jesus unto them : My soule is heuy euen unto the death : Tarye ye here and watch with me. And he wente a litle further, and fell flat upon hys face, and prayed, sayinge ; O my father, yf it be possible, let this cuppe passe fro me : neuertheles not as I wyl, but as thou wylt. And he came unto his disciples, and founde them aslepe, and sayde unto Peter ; What, could ye not watche with me one houre ? watch and praye, that ye entre not into temptacion : the spyrite is wyllinge, but the flesh is weake. He went away once againe and prayed, sayeng ; O my father, yf this cuppe can not passe away fro me, (except I drinke of it,) thy will be fulfylled : and he came and found them aslepe agayne, for their eyes were heuy. And he left them, and went agayne and prayed the thyrd tyme, sayenge the same wordes. Then cometh he to his disciples, and sayde unto them, Slepe on now, and take youre rest. Beholde, the houre is come, and the sonne of man is betraied into the handes of synners. Ryse, let us be goynge, beholde, he is at hande that doeth betray me. Whyle he yet spake; loe Judas one of the twelue came, and with him a greate multitude with swordes and staues sent from 76 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. the chiefe Priestes and Elders of the people. But he that betrayed him, gaue them a token, sayenge, whom so euer I kysse, that same is he, hold him fast. And forthwith he came to Jesus, and sayde, Hayle Master, and kissed him. And Jesus sayde unto hym, Frend, wherfore art thou come? Then came they, and layde handes on Jesus, and tooke hym. And beholde, one of them which were with Jesus, stretched out his hande and drue his sworde, and stroke a seruaunt of the hye Priest, and smote of his eare. Then sayde Jesus unto him ; Put up thy sworde into the sheath : for all they that take the sworde, shal perish with the sworde. Thynkest thou that I cannot nowe pray to my father, and he shall geue me euen nowe more than twolue legions of angels ? But how then shal the scriptures be fulfylled ? For thus must it bee. In that same houre sayde Jesus to the multitude : Ye are come out as it were to a thefe with swordes and staues, for to take me. I sat daylie with you teachinge in the temple, and ye toke me not. But all this is done, that the scriptures of the Prophetes might be fulfylled. Then all the disciples forsoke him, and fled. And they toke Jesus and led him to Caiphas the hye prest, where the Scrybes and the Elders were assembled. But Peter followed hym afarre of unto the hye priestes palace ; and wente in and sat with the seruauntes, to se the ende. The chiefe prestes and the elders and al the counsel sought false wytnes ageynst Jesus, (for to put hym to death,) yet found they none : yea, when many false wytnesses came, yet founde they none. At the last came two false wytnesses, and spake : This felowe sayde : I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to buylde it agayne in thre dayes. And the chiefe prest arose, and sayde unto hym ; Answerest thou nothinge ? Why doe these bear witnesse agaynst thee ? But Jesus helde his peace. And the chiefe prest answered and sayde unto him ; I charge the by the lyuynge God, that thou tell us, whether thou be Christ the sonne of God. Jesus spake : Thou hast sayde. Neuerthelesse I saye unto you : Hereafter shal ye se the sonne of man syttinge upon the ryght hande of power, and commynge in the cloudes of the skye. Then the hie priest rente his clothes, saying : He hath spoken blasphemie ; what nede we of any moe wytnesses ? Be- holde, now ye haue herde his blasphemy ; What thinke ye ? They answered and sayde; He is worthy to dye. Then did they spyt in his face, and buffeted him with fistes. And other smote him on the face with the palme of theyr handes, and sayde : Tell us thou Christ, who is it that smote the ? As for Peter he sat without in the courte, and a damsel came to him, saying : Thou also wast with Jesus of Galile : But he denied before the all, saying ; I wote not what thou sayest. When he was gone out into the porche, another wenche sawe him, and sayde unto them that were there ; This felow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. And agayne he denyed with an othe, saying : I knowe not the man. After a THE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE EASTER. 77 whyle came unto him they that stode by, and sayde unto Peter : Surely thou art cue one of the ; for thy speach bewrayeth the. Then beganne he to curse and to sweare, that he knewe not the man. And immediately the Cock krewe. And Peter remembred the word of Jesus, which sayde unto him ; before the Cock krowe thou shalt denye me thryse : and he wente out and wepte bytterly. When the mornyng was come, all the chiefe priestes and Elders of the people helde a cousell agaynst Jesus, to put hym to death, and brought him bound, and delyuered him unto Poncius Pilate the deputie. Then Judas whiche had betrayed him, seyng that he was codemned, repeted himselfe, and brought agayne the thirtie plates of syluer to the chiefe priestes and the Elders, saying ; I haue synned, betraying the innocent bloude. And they sayde ; What is that to us ? Se thou to that. And he cast down the syluer plates in the temple, and departed, and wente and haged himselfe. And the chiefe priestes toke the syluer plates, and sayde : It is not lawefull for to put them into the treasure, because it is the pryce of bloude. And they tooke counsell, and bought with them a potters fielde, to burie straungers in. Wherefore the field is called the fielde of bloude untill this daye. Then was fulfylled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, sayenge : And they toke thirtie syluer plates, the pryce of him that was valued, whom they bought of the children of Israeli, and gaue them for a potters felde, as the Lorde appoynted me. Jesus stode before the deputie, and the deputie asked him, saying, Arte thou the kynge of the Jewes ? And Jesus sayde unto him : Thou sayest. And when he was accused of the chief prestes and elders, he answered nothinge. Then sayde Pylate unto him : Hearest thou not how manye witnesses they laye agaynste thee ? And he answered him to neuer a worde, insomuche that the deputie marueled greatly. At that feaste, the deputie was wonte to delyuer unto the people a presoner, whom they would desyre. He had then a notable presoner, called Barrabas. Therfore, when they were gathered together, Pylate sayde ; Whether wil ye that I geue lowce unto you? Barrabas, or Jesus whych is called Christ ? For he knewe well that for enuye they had delyuered him. When he was sat down to geue Judgement, his wife sent unto him, sayeinge, Haue thou nothinge to do with that iuste man, for I haue suffred this day many thynges in my slepe because of hym. But the chiefe priestes and Elders persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barrabas, and destroye Jesus. The deputie an- swered, and sayde unto them : Whether of the twayne wyl ye that I let lowse unto you ? They sayde, Barrabas. Pylate sayde unto them, What shal I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ? They all sayde, Let hym be crucified. The deputie sayde : What euell hath he done ? But they cried more, saying ; let hym be crucified. When Pylate sawe that he could preuayle nothyng, but that more busyness was made, he toke water and washed his 78 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. handes before the people, saying ; I am innocent of the bloude of this iuste person, Se ye. Then answered all the people and sayde ; His bloude be on us, and on oure children. Then let he Barrabas lowse unto them, and scourged Jesus, and delyuered him to be crucified. Then the soudyers of the deputie toke Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto hym all the company : and thy strypped hym, and put on hym a purple robe, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it upon his head, and a reede in his hade, and bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, sayinge : hayle, kyng of the Jewes : And when they had spytte upo him, they toke the rede, and smote him on the heade. And after that they had mocked him, they toke the robe of him ageyne, and put his owne rayment upon him, and led him away to crucifie him. And as they came out, they found a ma of Cyren named Symon ; him they compelled to beare his crosse. And they came unto the place called Golgatha, (that is to say a place of dead men sculles) and gaue hym vyneger myngled with gall to drynke. And when he had tasted therof, he would not drynke. When they had crucified hym, they parted his garmentes, and did cast lottes : that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet ; They parted my garmentes among them, and upon my vesture did they caste lottes. And they sate, and watched hym there, and set up ouer hys heade the cause of his death, written ; This is Jesus the kyng of the Jewes. Then were there two theues crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. They that passed by reuyled him, waggyng their heades, and say- inge : thou that destroiedste the temple of God, and didst buylde it in thre dayes, saue thyselfe. Yf thou be the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse. Likewise also the hye priestes, mocking him, with the scribes and elders, sayde'; he saued other, hymselfe he cannot saue. If he be the kynge of Israel, let him nowe come downe from the crosse, and we wil beleue hym. He trusted in God, let him delyuer him now, yf he wyl haue him, for he sayed ; I am the sonne of God. The theues also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teethe. From the sixte houre was there darcknes ouer all the lande, untill the ninth houre. And aboute the nyenth houre, Jesus cried with a loucle voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, LamasabatJiani? that is to saye, My God, my God, why haste thou forsaken me ? Some of them that stode there, when they herde that, sayde : This man calleth for Elias. And streight- way one of them ranne and toke a sponge, and when he had fylled it full of veneger, he put it on a rede, and gaue hym to dryncke. Other sayde : Let be, let us se whether Elias wyl come and delyuer hym. Jesus, when he had cried agayne with a loude voyce, yelded up the goost. And beholde, the vale of the temple did rente into two parts, from the top to the botome, and the yearth did quake, and the stones rent, and graues did open, and many bodies of saintes, whiche slepte, ajrose and went out of the graues MONDAY BEFORE EASTER. 79 after his resurreccion, and came into the holy citie, and appeared unto many. When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, sawe the yerthquake and those thynges whiche happened, they feared greatly, saying ; Truely, this was the sone of God. And many women were there, (beholdyng him afarre of,) whiche folowed Jesus from Galile, ministring unto him : amonge whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedes children. IT Monday before Easter. The Epistle. Isaiah Ixiii. WHAT is he this, that cometh from Edom, with stayned reade kolored clothes of Bosra ? (which is so costly cloth) and cometh in so mightely with all his strength ? I am he that teacheth rightuousnes and am of power to helpe. Wherfore then is thy clothyng read, and thy rayment like his that treadeth in the wyne presse ? I haue troden the presse myself alone, and of all people there is not one with me. Thus wyl I tread downe myne enemies in my wrath, and set my fete upon them in mine indignacion. And their bloud shal bespryng my cloothes, and so wil I stayne all my rayment. For the day of vengeaunce is assigned in my heart, and the yeare when my people shalbe deliuered is come. I loked aboute me, and there was no man to shewe me eny helpe. I merueiled that no man helde me up. Then I helde me by myne owne arme, and my feruentnesse susteyned me. And thus wyl I tread downe the people in my wrath, and bathe them in my displeasure, and upon the earth will I laye theyr strength. I will declare the goodnesse of the Lorde, yea and the prayse of the Lorde for all that he hath gyuen us, for the greate good that he hath done for Israel ; whiche he hath gyuen them of his owne fauoure, and accordinge to the multitude of his louynge-kyndnesse. For he sayde : These no doute are my people and no shrenkyng children ; and so he was their Sauioure. In their troubles, he was also troubled with them : and the angel that went forth from his presence, delyuered them. Of very loue and kindnesse that he had unto them, he redemed them. He hath borne them and caried them up, euer sence the worlde began : But after they prouoked him to wrath and vexed his holy minde, he was their enemie, and fought agaynst them himself. Yet remembred Israeli the olde tyme of Moses and hys people, saiyng ; Where is he that broughte them from the water of the sea, with them that feed his shepe ? where is he that hath geuen his holy spirite among them ? He led the by the right honde of Moses, with his glorious arme : deuyding the water before them, (wherby he gat himselfe an euer- lastinge name) he led them in the depe, as an horse is led in the 8o SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. playne, that they shoulde not stumble, as a tame beast goeth in the felde : and the breath geuen of God, geueth him rest. Thus (O God) hast thou led thy people, to make thyself a glorious name withall. Loke downe then from heauen, and beholde the dwelling place of thy sanctuary and thy glory. How is it that thy gelousy, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and thy louynge kyndnesse, wyl not be entreated of us ? yet art thou oure father. For Abraham knoweth us not, nether is Israel acquanted with us : But thou Lorde, art our father and redemer, and thy name is euerlastynge. O Lorde, wherfore haste thou led us out of thy way ? wherfore hast thou hardened our hertes, that we feare thee not ? Be at one with us agayne, for thy seruauntes sake, and for the generacion of thyne heretage. Thy people haue had but litle of thy Sanctuary in possession, for oure enemies haue trodden downe the holy place. And we were thyne from the beginnynge ; when thou wast not their Lorde, for they haue not called upon thy name. The Gospel. Mark xiv. AFTER two dayes was Easter, and the dayes of swete bred. And the hye prestes and scrybes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they sayde ; Not in the feast daye, lest any business arise among the people. And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Symon the leper, euen as he sat at meate, there came a woma hauyng an Alabaster boxe of oynt- ment called Narde, that was pure and costly ; and she brake the boxe, and poured it upon his heade. And there were some that were not contente within themselues, and sayde : What neded this waist? for it mighte haue been solde for more then thre hundreth pence, and haue been geuen unto the pore. And they grudged agaynste her. And Jesus sayde : Let her alone, Why trouble ye her ? She hath done a good worke upon me : Ye haue poore with you alwaye, and whensoeuer ye wyl ye may doe them good ; but me haue ye not alwayes. She hath done that she coulde, she came afore had to anoynte my body to the burying. Verely I saye unto you ; Whersoeuer this Gospel shalbe preached throughout the worlde, this also that she hath done, shalbe rehearsed for a remembraunce of her. And Judas Iscarioth, one of the twolue, went awaye unto the hye prestes to betraye him unto them. When they herde that, they were glad, and promysed that they woulde geue him money. And he soughte, howe he mighte conueniently betraye him. And upon the first daye of swete bred, when they offered the Passeouer, his disciples sayde unto him : Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the Passeouer ? And he set furth two of his disciples, and sayde unto them ; Go youre waye into the citie, and there shall mete you a man bearinge a pitcher of water, folowe him. And wheresoeuer he goeth in, saye ye to the goodman THE MONDAY BEFORE EASTER. 81 of the house, The Master sayeth ; Where is the geast-chaber, where I shall eate Passeouer with my disciples ? And he wil shew you a greate parlour paued and prepared : there make readye for us. And the disciples wente forth, and came into the citie, and founde it as he had sayde unto them : and they made ready the passeouer. And whe it was now euentide he came with the twolue. And as they sate at horde, and did eate, Jesus sayde, Verely I say unto you, one of you (that eateth with me) shal betraye me. And they began to be sory, and to say to him one by one ; Is it I ? and another sayde, is it I ? He aunswered and sayde unto them ; It is one of the twolue, euen he that dyppeth with me in the platter. The sonne of man truly goeth, as it is written of him, but woe to that map by whome the sonne of man is betrayed. Good were it for that man if he had neuer bene borne. And as they did eat, Jesus toke bred, and when he had geuen thankes, he brake it, and gaue to them, and sayde : Take, eate, this is my body. And he toke the cuppe and when he had geuen thankes he took it to them, and they all dranke thereof. And he sayde unto them, This is my bloude of the new Testament, which is shed for many. Verely I saye unto you, I will drynke no more of the fruite of the vyne, tyll the day that I drinke it newe in the kyngdome of God. And when they had sayde grace, they wente furth unto the mount Oliuete. And Jesus sayeth unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me, this night. For it is wrytten ; I wil smyte the shepeherd and the shepe shalbe scatred : But after that I am rysen agayne I will goe into Galile before you. Peter sayde unto him ; And though all men shulde be offended, yet wil not I. And Jesus say- eth unto him ; Verely I say unto the, that this day, euen in this night before the cocke krowe twice, thou shalt denye me three tymes. But he spake more vehemently : No, if I shoulde dye with thee, I wil not denie the. Likewise also saide they all. And they came into a place which was named Gethsemany : and he saide to hys disciples ; Sitte ye here, tyll I goe aside and praye. And he taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and began to waxe abashed and to be in an agonye, and sayde unto them ; My soule is heuy, cue unto the death ; tary ye here, and watche. And he wente furth a litle, and fell downe flat on the grounde, and prayed : that (yf it were possible,) the houre might passe from hym. And he sayde ; Abba father, al thinges are possyble unto thee, take away this cuppe from me ; neuerthelesse, not as I will, but as thou wilt be done. And he came and founde them slepynge, and sayth to Peter : Symon, slepest thou ? Couldest thou not watch one houre ? Watch ye and praye, leste ye enter into temptacion. The sperete truely is wyllinge, but the flesh is weake. And again he went forth and prayde, and spake the same wordes, and returned and found them aslepe agayne, for their eyes were heuy, neyther wiste they what to aunswere him. And he came the thirde tyme and sayde unto them : Slepe hencefurthe, 82 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. and take your ease, it is ynough. The houre is come, beholde, the sonne of man is betrayed into the handes of synners : Aryse up, let us go ; Beholde, he that betrayeth me is at hande. And immediately whyle he yet spake, cometh Judas, (which was one of the twolue,) and with him a great number of people with swerdes and staues, frome the hie priestes, and Scribes, and Elders. And he that betraied hym, had geuen them a general token, and sayde ; Whosoeuer I doe kysse, the same is he ; take hym and lede him awaye warely. And as sone as he was come, he goeth straight- way unto him, and sayeth unto him, Maister, Maister ; and kyssed him: and they laid their handes upon him, and toke him. And one of them that stode by, drewe out a swerde and smote the seruaunte of the hye prieste, and cutte of his eare. And Jesus answered, and sayde unto them ; Ye be come out as unto a thefe with swerdes and staues for to take me : I was daylie with you in the temple teachyng, and ye toke me not : but these thynges come to pass that the Scripture should be fulfilled. And they al forsoke hym, and ran away. And there folowed him a certayne yonge man clothed in lynnen upon the bare, and the yonge men caught hym, and he left his lynnen garmente and fled from them naked. And they led Jesus awaye to the hye preste of all, and with hym came all the hye prestes and Elders and Scribes. And Peter folowed hym a great waye of, (euen till he was come into the palace of the hye preste,) and he sat with the seruauntes, and warmed himselfe at the fyer. And the hygh priestes and all the counsell sought for wytnesse agaynst Jesus to put hym to death e, and founde none : for manye bare false wytnes againste hym, but theyr witnesses agreed not together. And there arose certayn, and brought false witnes against hym, saying ; We herde him saye ; I wil destroy this temple that is made with handes, and in thre daies, I will buylde another made withoute handes. But yet their wytnesses agreed not together. And the hye prieste stoode up amonge them, and asked Jesus, saying ; Answerest thou no- thynge ? How is it that these beare witnesse agaynst the ? But he helde his peace, and answered nothinge. Agayne the hye prieste asked him, and sayde unto him ; Art thou Christ the sonne of the blessed ? And Jesus sayde ; I am. And ye shal see the sonne of man sytting on the right hande of power, and coming in the cloudes of heauen. Then the hye prest rent his clothes, and sayde, What nede we any further of wytnesses ? Ye haue heard blasphemy, What thynke ye ? And they all codemned him to be worthy of death. And some beganne to spyt at hym, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fistes, and to saye unto hym : Areade, and the seruauntes buffeted hym on the face. And as Peter was beneth in the palace, there came one of the wenches of the hye preste, and when she sawe Peter warmyng him, she loked on hym, and said ; Wast not thou also with Jesus of Nazareth ? But he denyed, and sayde, I knowe hym not, neyther wote I what TUESDAY BEFORE EASTER. 83 thou sayest. And he wet out into the porche, and the cocke krewe. And a damosel (when she sawe him) beganne agayne to saye to them that stode by : Thys is one of them. And he denyed it agayne. And anon after they that stode by, said againe unto Peter : Surely thou art one of them, for thou art of Galile, and thy speche agreeth thereto. But he beganne to curse and to sweare, saying, I knowe not this man of whome ye speake. And agayne the cocke krewe, and Peter remembred the worde that Jesus had sayed unto him ; Before the cocke crow twyce, thou shall deny me thre tymes. And he began to wepe. H Tuesdaye before Easter. The Epistle. Esai. I. THE Lorde God hath opened myne eare, therfore can I not saye naye, neyther with drawe myself : but I offre my backe unto the smyters, and my chekes to the nyppers. I turne not my face from shame and spittyng, and the Lorde God shall helpe me, Therfore shall I not be confounded. I haue hardened my face like a flynte stone, for I am sure that I shall not come to confucion. He is at hande that iustifyeth me, who will then go to lawe with me ? Let us stande one against another ; yf there be eny that wil reason with me, let him come here forth to me. Beholde the Lorde God stondeth by me, what is he then that can condemne me ? loe, they shalbe lyke as an olde cloth, the mothes shal eate them up. Therfore, whoso feareth the Lorde among you, let hym heare the voyce of his seruaunte. Whoso walketh in darcknesse, and no light shyneth upon him, let him put his trust in the name of the Lorde, and holde hym by his God : but take hede, ye all kyndle a fyre of the wrathe of God, and stire up the coales : walke on in the glisteryng of youre owne fyre, and in the flame that ye haue kyndled. This commeth unto you from my hande, namely that ye shall slepe in sorowe. The Gospell. Mark xv. AND anone in the dawning, the hye prestes helde a counsell with the Elders and Scrybes, and the whole congregacion, and bounde Jesus, and led hym awaye, and delyuered hym to Pylate. And Pylate asked hym : Art thou the kyng of the Jewes ? He answered and sayde to hym ; Thou sayest it. And the hie prestes accused him of many thynges. So Pylate asked him agayne, and sayde : Answerest thou nothinge ? Beholde how many thinges they lay to thy charge. Jesus answered yet nothing, so that Pylate merueyled. At that feast Pilate dyd deliuer unto them a presoner, whomesoeuer they wolde desyre. And there was one that was named Barrabas, vvhiche laye bounde wyth them that made insur- reccion : he had committed murthur. And the people called unto him, and began to desyre him, that he woulde doe according as he 84 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. had euer done. Pylate answered them, and sayde : Wyl ye that I let lowce unto you the Kynge of the Jewes ? For he knewe that the hye prestes had delyuered him of enuye. But the hye prestes moued the people, that he shoulde rather deliuer Barrabas unto them. Pylate answered agayne, and saide unto them ; What wil ye that I then do unto hym, whom ye cal the kynge of the Jewes ? They cried agayne, Crucifie hym. Pylate sayde unto them : What euell hath he done ? But they cryed the more feruently, Crucifie hym. So Pylate willyng to contente the people, let lowce Barrabas unto them, and deliuered up Jesus (when he had scourged him) to be crucified. And the soudiours led him awaye into the common hall, and called together the whole multitude, and they clothed hym wyth purple, and plated a crowne of thornes and crowned him withall, and beganne to salute him ; Hayle kynge of the Jewes. And they smote hym on the heade with a rede, and spyt upon hym, and bowed theyr knees and worshypped him. And when they had mocked him, they toke the purple of him, and put hys owne clothes on him, and led him out to crucifye him. And they compelled one that passed by, called Symon of Cyrene, (the father of Alexander and Rufus,) whyche came out of the feld, to beare his crosse. And they brought hym to a place called Gol- gotha (whiche if a man interprete, is the place of dead mens skulles). And they gaue him to drynke wyne mingled with myrre, but he receiued it not. And when they had crucifyed hym, they parted hys garmentes, castyng lottes upon them what euery man shulde take. And it was about the thirde houre, and they crucified him. And the tytle of his cause was wrytten, The kyng of the Jewes. And they crucified with hym two theues ; the one on his right hand, and the other on hys left. And the scripture was fulfylled, which sayeth ; He was couted amonge the wycked. And they that went by, ray led on him ; wagging their heades and saying ; A wretche, thou that destroyest the temple and buyldest it agayne in thre dayes ; Saue thyself and come downe from the crosse. Lykewyse also the hye priestes mocked him among themselues, with the scribes, and sayde; He saued other men, himselfe he cannot saue. Let Christ the kynge of Israel descende nowe from the crosse, that we maye see and beleue. And they that were crucyfied with hym, checked hym also. And when the sixth houre was come, darcknes arose ouer the whole yearth until the ninth houre. And at the nynth houre Jesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying ; Eli, Eli, lamasabathani f whyche is, (if one interprete,) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? And some that stode by, when they heard that, sayd ; Behold, he calleth Elias. Then one ranne and fylled a sponge full of vyneger, and put it on a reede, and gaue hym to dryncke, saying ; Lette him alone, let us se whether Elias will come and take hym downe. But Jesus cryed with a loude voyce, and gaue up the goste. And the vale of the temple rente in two WEDNESDAY BEFORE EASTER. 85 peces, from the top to the bottom. And when the Centurion (which stoode before him) sawe that he so cryed, and gaue up the goost, he sayde : truely this man was the sonne of god. There were also wemen a good way of, beholding him : among whom was Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the litle, and of Joses, and Mary Salome (which also whe he was in Galile had folowed him, and ministred unto him ;) and many other weome, which came up with him to Jerusalem. And nowe when euen was come, (because it was the day of preparinge that goeth before the Sabbath,) Joseph of the citie of Arimathia, a noble cousailor, (whiche also loked for the kingdome of God,) came and went in boldely unto Pilate, and begged of hym the body of Jesus. And Pilate marueyled that he was already deed, and called the Cen- turion, and asked of him, whether he had bene any whyle deed. And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion, he gaue the bodye to Joseph. And he bought a lynnen cloth, and toke him downe, and wrapped him in the lynnen cloth, and layed him in a sepulcre that was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone before the dore of the sepulcre. And Mary Magdalene, and Mary Joses behelde, where he was layed. T Wednesday before Easter. The Epistle. Heb. ix. WHEREAS is a Testament, there must also (of necessitie) be the death of hym that maketh the testament. For a testament taketh aucthoritie whe men are dead ; for it is yet of no value, as long as he that maketh the Testament is alyue, for whiche cause also, neither the first Testament was ordayned without bloude. For when Moses had declared all the commaundementes to all the people, according to the lawe, he tooke the bloude of calues and of goates, with water, and purple wolle, and ysope, and sprenkled both the boke, and all the people, saying : This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted unto you. Moreouer, he sprinkled the Tabernakle with bloude also, and all the ministring vessels. And almost all thinges are by the lawe pourged with bloude, and without sheddynge of bloude is no remyssion. It is nede then, that the symilitude of heauenly thynges be purifyed with suche thinges ; but that heauenly thynges themselues, be purifyed with better sacrifices the are those. For Christ is not entred into the holye places that are made with handes, (whiche are similitudes of true thynges,) but is entred into very heauen, for to appeare now in the sight of God for us ; not to offer himselfe often, as the hye prest entreth into the holye place euerye yeare with straunge bloud : for then must he haue ofte suffred sence the worlde beganne. But now in the end of the world hath he appeared once, to put synne to flight by the offeryng up of hymselfe. And as it is appoynted unto al men that they shal once dye, and then cometh the iudge- 86 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. ment : euen so Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many, and unto them that loke for hym shall he appeare agayne without synne unto saluacion. The Gospell. Luke xxii. THE feast of swete bread drew nye, which is called Easter, and the hye priestes and Scrybes sought howe they myght kill him ; for they feared the people. Then entred Satan into Judas, whose sirname was Iscarioth (whiche was of the numbre of the twolue) and he went his waye and commoned with the hye priestes and officers, how be might betraye him unto them. And they were glad, and promysed to geue him money. And he consented, and sought opportunite to betraye him unto them when the people were away. Then came the daye of swete breade, when of necessitie passeouer must be offred. And he sent Peter and John, saying ; Go and prepare us the passeouer, that we maye eate. They sayed unto him ; Where wilt thou that we prepare it ? And he saied unto them ; Behold, when ye entre into the citie, there shall a man mete you bearing a pitcher of water, him folowe into the same house that he entreth in, and ye shall saye unto the good man of the house ; The master saieth unto the ; Where is the geast- chambre, where I shall eate the passeouer with my disciples ? And he shall shewe you a greate parlour paued ; there make ready. And they went, and found as he had sayed unto them, and they made ready the passeouer. And when the houre was come, he sat downe, and the twolue Apostles with him. And he sayed unto them ; I haue inwardly desired to eate this Passeouer with you before I suffre. For I saye unto you ; henceforth I wyll not eate of it any more, tyll it be fulfilled in the kyngdome of God. And he toke the cuppe, and gaue thankes, and sayed ; Take this and deuyde it amog you. For I saye unto you ; I wyll not drinke of thys fruite of the vine untyll the kyngdome of God come. And he toke bread, and when he had geuen thankes, he brake it, and gaue it unto them, saying; This is my body, whiche is geuen for you : This do in remembraunce of me. Likewyse also when he had supped, he tooke the cup, saying ; This cuppe is the new Testamente in my bloude, whiche is shed for you. Yet beholde, the hande of him that betraieth me is with me on the table. And trulye the sonne of man goeth as it is ap- poynted ; But woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed. And they began to enquyre among themselues which of them it was that should do it. And there was a strife among them, which of them shoulde seeme to be greatest. And he sayed unto them ; The kynges of nacyons reigne ouer them, and they that haue authoritie upon them, are called gracious : but ye shall not so bee. But he that is greatest amonge you, shalbee as the yonger, and he that is chiefe shalbe as he that doeth minister. For whether is greater, he that WEDNESDAY BEFORE EASTER. 87 sitteth at meate, or he that serueth ? Is it not he that sitteth at meate ? But I am among you, as he that ministreth. Ye are they which haue bydden with me in my temptacions. And I appoynte unto you a kyngdome, euen as my father hath apointed to me, that ye may eate and drynke at my table in my kyngdome, and syt on seates, iudgyng the twolue tribes of Israel. And the lorde said ; Simon, Simon beholde, Satan hath desyred to siffte you, as it were wheat : But I haue prayed for thee, that thy faith fayle not : And when thou arte conuerted, strength thy brethren. And he sayde unto hym ; Lorde, I am readye to go with thee into preson, and to death. And he said ; I tell the Peter, the cock shall not crowe this daye, tyll thou haue denyed me thryse that thou knoweste me. And he sayde unto them ; When I sent you with- out wallet, and scrip, and shues, lacked ye any thyng ? And they said, No. Then sayde he unto them ; But nowe he that hath a wallet, let him take it up, and likewyse his scrip. And he that hath no sword, let him sell his coate, and bye one. For I saye unto you, that yet the same vvhiche is written must be fulfilled in me ; Euen among the euell doers was he reputed : For those thinges that are wrytten of me haue an ende. And they sayde : Lorde, Behold, here are two swordes, He sayde unto them ; It is ynough. And he came oute, and wente (as he was wonte) to Mounte Oliuete. And the disciples folowed hym. And when he came to the place, he saide unto them ; Praye, leste ye fal into temptacion. And he gate himselfe from them aboute a stones caste, and kneled downe prayed, saying ; Father, yf thou wilte, remoue this cuppe from me : Neuerthelesse, not my wyll, but thyne be fulfilled. And there appeared an angel unto hym from heauen comfortyng hym. And he was in an agony and prayed the longer ; And his sweate was like droppes of bloud, tricklynge down to the groud. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to hys disciples, he founde them slepyng for heuynesse, and he sayde unto them ; Why slepe ye ? Ryse and praye, leste ye fall into temptacion. Whyle he yet spake, beholde, there came a com- pany, and he that was called Judas, one of the twolue, went before them, and pressed nye unto Jesus, to kysse him. But Jesus sayde unto him ; Judas, betrayeste thou the sonne of man with a kysse? When they that were about hym sawe what woulde folowe, they sayde unto him ; Lorde, shall we smyte with the swerde ? And one of them smote a seruaunte of the hye prestes, and stroke of his right eare. Jesus answered and sayde : Suffre ye thus farre foorth. And when he touched hys eare, he healed hym. Then Jesus sayde unto the highe prestes, and rulers of the temple, and the Elders, which were come to him. Ye be come out as unto a thefe, with swerdes and staues. When I was daylie with you in the Temple, ye stretched forth no handes agaynste me : but thys is euen your very houre, and the power of darkenesse. Then toke they him and led hym, and brought him to the hye priestes house. But Peter 88 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. folowed afarre of. And when they had kindled a fyre in the middes of the palace, and were sat downe together ; Peter also sat downe among them. But when one of the wenches behelde him, as he sate by the fire, (and loked upon him,) she sayd ; This same felowe was also with him. And he denyed him, saying : Woman, I knowe him not. And after a litle whyle, another sawe him, and sayde : Thou art also of them. And Peter sayd ; Man, I am not. And about the space of an houre after, another affirmed, saying ; Verely, thys felowe was with him also, for he is of Galile. And Peter said, Man, I wote not what thou sayeste. And im- mediately whyle he yet spake, the cocke crew. And the Lorde turned backe and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembred the wordes of the Lorde, how he had sayde unto him ; Before the cocke crowe thou shalt denye me thryse : and Peter wente out and wepte bytterly. And the men that toke Jesus mocked him, and smote him : and whe they had blindfolded him, they stroke him on the face, and asked hym, saying ; Arcade, who is he that smote the? And many other thynges despitefully sayde they agaynst him. And as sone as it was daye, the Elders of the people, and the hye priestes and Scrybes, carne together, and led hym into theyr counsell, saying ; Art thou very Chryst ? Tell us. And he sayd unto them, yf I tell you ye will not beleue me ; and yf I aske you, you will not answer, nor let me go : Henceforth shal the sonne of ma sytte on the right hande of the power of God. Then sayd they all; Art thou then the sonne of god ? He sayde ; Ye saye that I am. Then sayd they al : What nede we of any farther wytnes ? For we ourselues have heard of his owne mouth. IT At Euensong. The First Lesson, Lamenta. i. unto the ende. IF Thursday before Eastet The Epistle, i Cor. xi. THIS I warne you of, and commende not, that ye come not together after a better maner, but after a worse. For firste of all, when ye come together in the congregacion ; I heare that there is discension among you, and I partly beleue it. For there must be sects amonge you, that they whiche are perfecte among you maye be knowne. When ye come together therefore in one place, the Lordes supper canot be eaten, for euery man beginneth afore to eate his owne supper. And one is hungry, and another is dronken. Haue ye not houses to eate and drynke in ? Despyse ye the congregacion of God, and shame them that haue not? What shall I say unto you ? Shall I prayse you ? In this I prayse you not. That whiche I deliuered unto you, I receaued of the THURSDAY BEFORE EASTER. 89 Lord. For the Lord Jesus, the same night in whiche he was betrayed, toke bred ; and when he had geuen thankes, he brake it, and sayde, Take ye and eate, this is my body, which is broken for you. This do ye in the remembraunce of me. After the same maner also he toke the cuppe whe supper was done, saying ; This cuppe is the new Testament in my bloude : This do, as oft as ye drynk it, in remembraunce of me. For as often as ye shal eate this bread, and drynke this cuppe, ye shal shewe the Lordes death tyll he come. Wherfore, whosoeuer shal eate of this bred, or drynke off this cuppe of the Lorde unworthely, shalbe giltye of the body and bloude of the Lorde. But let a man examen him- selfe, and so let him eate of the bred, and drynke of the cuppe. For he that eateth and drynketh unworthely, eateth and drynketh his own damnacion, because he maketh no differece of the Lordes body. For this cause many are weake and sicke among you, and many slepe. For if we had iudged ourselues, we should not haue been iudged. But when we are iudged of the Lord, we are chastened, that we should not be damned with the worlde. Wher- fore my brethren, when ye come together to eate, tary one for another. If any ma hunger, let him eate at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnacion. Other thynges will I set in order when I come. The Gospell. Luke xxiii. THE whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying ; We founde this felowe peruertinge the people, and forbyddinge to pay trybute to Cesar ; saying that he is Christe a kynge. And Pylate apposed hym, saying ; Art thou the kynge of the Jewes ? He answered him and sayde, Thou sayest it. Then sayd Pilate to the hye priestes and to the people ; I fynde no faulte in this man. And they were the more fierce, saying ; He moueth the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, and began at Galile, euen unto this place. When Pylate herde mencion of Galile, he asked whether the man were of Galile. And as sone as he knew that he belonged to Herodes iurisdiccion, he sent him to H erode, which was also at Jerusalem at that tyme. And when Herode sawe Jesus he was exceadynge glad ; for he was desyrous to se hym of a long season, because he had heard many thinges of hym, and he trusted to haue seen some miracle done by hym. Then he questioned hym with many wordes. But he answered hym nothyng. The hye prestes and scrybes stode forth and accused him straightlye. And Herode with his men of warre despysed hym. And when he had mocked hym, he arayed him in white clothing, and sente him agayne to Pilate. And the same daye Pilate and Herode were made frendes together, for before they had bene at variauce. And Pilate called together the highe prestes, and the rulers, and the people, and sayd unto them ; Ye haue brought this ma unto me, as one that peruerteth the people : QO SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. and, behold, I examyne hym before you, and finde no faute in thys ma of those thynges wherof ye accuse him, no nor yet Herode : For I sent you unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him : I will therfore chasten him and let hym lowce. For of necessitie he must haue let one lowce unto the at the feast. And all the people cried at once, saying ; Awaye with him, and delyuer unto us Barrabas : which for a certayne insurreccion made in the cite, and for a murther, was cast in preso. Pilate spake again unto the, willing to let Jesus lowce. But they cried, saying ; Crucifye hym, Crucifye hym. Yet he sayed unto them the thirde tyme, What euell then hath he done ? I fynde no cause of death in hym : I will therfore chasten hym, and let him go. And they cried with loude voyces ; requiring that he myght bee crucifyed. And the voices of them and of the hye priestes preuayled. And Pilate gaue sentence that it shoulde be as they requyred, and he let lowce unto them him that (for insurreccion and murther) was cast into preson, whom they had desired ; and he deliuered to them Jesus, to do with hym what they would. And as they led him away, they caught one Symon of Cyrene, commyng out of the fielde : and on him they laide the crosse, that he myght beare it after Jesus. And there folowed him a great copanye of people, and of wome, which bewayled and lamented him. But Jesus turned backe unto them, and sayd ; Ye daughters of Jerusalem, wepe not for me ; but wepe for yourselfes, and for your children. For be- holde, the dayes wyll come, in the which they shall say ; Happy are the baren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke. Then shall they begynne to saye to the mountaynes ; Fall on us, and to the hylles, Couer us. For if they doe this in a grene tre, what shalbe done in the drye ? And there were two euilldoers led with him to be slayne. And after that they were come to the place which is called Caluarie, there they crucyfied him, and the euilldoers with him, one on the ryght hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father forgeue them, for they wote not what they do. And they parted his garments, and cast lottes. And the people stode and behelde. And the rulers mocked hym with them, saying : He saued other menne, lette hym saue hymselfe yf he be very Christ the chosen of God. The souldiers also mocked him, and came and offred him vineger, and sayde ; If thou be the kyng of the Jewes, saue thy- selfe. And a superscripcio was writte ouer him with letters of Greke, and Latyn, and Hebrue ; This is the kyng of the Jewes. And one of the euildoers, which were hanged, rayled on him, saying : If thou be Christ, saue thyselfe and us. Then the other answered and rebuked hym, saying ; Fearest thou not God, seyng thou art in the same damnacion ? We are righteously punished, for we receaue according to our dedes : but this man hath done nothing amysse. And he sayd unto Jesus ; Lorde, remembre me when thou commest into thy kyngdome. And Jesus sayd unto ON GOOD FRIDAY. 91 hym, Verely I saye unto thee ; To-daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse. And it was about the sixth houre : and there was a darknesse ouer all the yearth untyll the nyenth houre, And the Sunne was darkened, and the vayle of the temple did rent, cue through the myddes. And when Jesus had cryed with a loude voyce, he sayd : Father, into thy handes I commende my spirite. And when he thus had said, he gaue up the ghost. When the Centurion saw what had happened, he gloryfied God, saying ; Verely this was a righteous man. And all the people that came together to that syght, and sawe the thynges which had happened, smote upon their brestes, and returned. And all his acquaint- aunce, and the women that folowed him from Galilee, stode afarre of and behelde these thynges. And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsaylor, and he was a good man, and a iust : the same had not consented to the councell and dede of them, which was of Arimathia, a citie of the Jewes, which same also wayted for the kyngdome of God : he went unto Pylate and begged the bodye of Jesus, and tooke it done, and wrapped it in a lynnen cloth, and layd it in a sepulcre that was hewen of stone, wherin neuer man before was layde. And that daye was the preparyng of the Sabbath, and the Sabbath drew on. The women that followed after, whyche were come with him from Galile, behelde the Sepulcre, and how hys body was layde. And they returned and prepared sweete odours and ointmentes ; But rested on the Sabboth daye, accordyng to the commaundement On good Fry day. The Collect. ALMIGHTIE god, we beseche thee graciously to behold this thy famely, for the which our lord Jesus Christ was contented to bee betrayed, and geuen up into the handes of wicked men, and to suffre death upon the crosse : who liueth and reigneth, &c. ALMYGHTYE and euerlastyng God, by whose spirite the whole body of the Churche is gouerned and sanctified ; receiue our supplicacions and prayers, whiche wee offre before thee for all estates of men in thy holye congregacion, that euerye membre of the same, in his vocacion and ministerye, maye truelye and godlye serue thee ; thoroughe our Lord Jesus Christe. MERCYFULL God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothyng that thou hast made, nor wouldest the deathe of a synner, but rather that he should be conuerted and Hue ; haue mercy upon all Jewes, Turkes, Infidels, and heretikes, and take from the all ignoraunce, hardnes of heart, and contempt of thy word : and so fetche them home, blessed Lorde, to thy flocke that they maye bee saued among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made 92 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. one folde under one shepeherde, Jesus Christ our Lord; who lyueth and reigneth, &c. The Epistle. Heb. x. THE lawe (whiche hathe but a shadowe of good thynges to come, and not the very fashion of thynges themselues) can neuer with those sacrifices, whiche they offre yere by yere continually, make the comers therunto perfycte. For woulde not then those sacrifices haue ceased to haue bene offred, because that the offerers once pourged should haue had no more consciece of synnes ? Neuertheles in those sacrifices is there mencion made of synnes euery yeare. For the bloud of oxen and of goates cannot take away synnes. Wherfore, when he commeth into the worlde, he sayeth, Sacrifice and offerynge thou wouldest not haue, but a body hast thou ordeyned me. Burnt-offerynges also for synne hast thou not alowed. Then sayde I ; Lo, I am here. In the begyn- nynge of the boke it is written of me, that I shulde do thy wyll, O God. Aboue, when he sayeth, Sacrifice and offerynge, and burnt- sacrifices, and syn-offerynges thou wouldest not haue, neither hast thou allowed them, (whiche are yet offered by the lawe,) then sayed he ; Lo, I am here to do thy wil, O God : he taketh awaye the first to establyshe the latter, by the which wyll, we are made holy, by the offerynge of the body of Jesu Christ once for all. And euery priest is ready daylie mynistringe and offering oft- tymes one maner of Oblacion, whiche can neuer take awaye sinnes. But this man, after he hath offered one sacrifice for synnes, is set downe for euer on the righte hande of God ; and from henceforth tarieth tyll his foes be made his footestoole. For with one offeryng hath he made perfect for euer, them that are sanctified. The holye ghost himselfe also beareth us recorde, euen when he told before ; This is the Testament that I wyl make unto the : After those dayes (sayth the Lord) I wil put my lawes in their hertes, and in their myndes wyl I wryte them, and their synnes and iniquities wil I remembre no more. And where remyssion of these thinges is, there is no more offerynge for synnes. Seyng therfore brethren that by means of the bloud of Jesu, we haue liberty to enter into the holy place by the newe and lyuynge waye, which he hath prepared for us, thorow the vayle (that is to saye, by his fleshe) : And seyng also that we haue an hye prest whiche is Ruler over the house of God, let us drawe nye with a true hert in a sure faith, sprenkled in oure hertes from an euel conscience, and washed in oure bodies with pure water : Let us kepe the pro- fession of oure hope, without wauerynge ; (for he is faythfull that promised) and let us considre one another, to the intent that we may prouoke unto loue, and to good workes, not forsakyng the fel- lowshippe that we haue among ourselues, as the maner of some is; but let us exhorte one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the daye draweth nye. ON GOOD FRIDAY. 93 The Gospel. John xviii. xix. WHEN Jesus had spoken these wordes, he went forth with his disciples ouer the broke Cedron where was a garden, into the which he then entred with his disciples. But Judas whiche also betrayed him, knewe the place : for Jesus ofttymes resorted thither with hys Disciples. Judas then, after he had receiued a band of men, (and ministers ot the hye prestes and Pharises,) came thither with lan- terns and fyrebrandes and weapens. And Jesus, knowing al that should come upon him, went forth, and sayde unto the, Whom seeke ye ? They answered him ; Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus sayde unto them ; I am he. Judas also whiche betrayed him, stode with them. Assone as he had sayde unto them ; I am he, they went backeward, and fell to the ground. Then asked he them agayne ; Whom seke ye ? They sayde : Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus aunswered ; I haue tolde you, that I am he. Yf ye seke me ther- fore, let these go their way : That the saying might be fulfilled, whiche he spake ; Of them whiche thou gauest me, haue I not lost one. Then Simon Peter hauing a swerd, drew it, and smote the hye prestes seruaunt, and cut of his right eare. And the seruauntes name was Malchus. Then sayth Jesus unto Peter ; Put up thy swoerde into the sheeth : Shal I not drynke of the cuppe whiche my father hath geuen me ? Then the company and the captayne, and the ministers of the Jewes, tooke Jesus, and bound him, and led him away to Annas, first ; for he was fatherlawe to Caiphas, whiche was hye preste that same yere. Caiphas was he that gaue cousel to the Jewes, that it was expedient that one man shulde dye for the people. And Simon Peter folowed Jesus, and so dyd another disciple : that disciple was knowne to the hye prest, and wet in with Jesus into the palace of the hye prest. But Peter stode at the dore without. Then wente out that other dis- ciple, (whiche was knowen to the hye priest,) and spake to the damosell that kepte the dore, and brought in Peter. Then said the damosel that kepte the dore unto Peter ; Art not thou also one of this mannes Disciples ? He sayd ; I am not. The seruauntes and ministers stode there, whiche had made a fyre of coles ; (for it was colde,) and they warmed themselues. Peter also stode among them, and warmed himselfe. The hye prest then asked Jesus of his Disciples, and of his doctryne. Jesus answered him ; I spake openly in the worlde, I euer taught in the Synagoge, and in the Teple, whither al the Jewes haue resorted, and in secrete haue I sayed nothinge. Why askest thou me ? Aske them whiche heard me, what I said unto them. Beholde they can tell what I sayde. When he hadde thus spoken, one of the ministers, that stode by, smote Jesus on the face, and sayde ; Aunswerest thou the hye prest so ? Jesus aunswered him ; Yf I haue euell spoken then beare witnesse of the euell : But if I haue well spoken, why smitest thou me ? And Annas sent him bounde unto Cayphas, the hye prest 94 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Symon Peter stode and warmed himselfe. Then sayde they unto him Art not thou also one of his disciples ? He denyed it, and sayde ; I am not. One of the seruantes of the hye priestes (hys cosen whose eare Peter smote of) sayde unto him ; Dyd not I see thee in the garden with him ? Peter therfore denyed agayne, and immediatly the cocke krew. Then ledde they Jesus from Caiphas into the hall of Judgment. It was in the morning ; and they them- selues wet not into the iudgment hall, lest they shoulde bee defyled, but that they might eate the Passeouer. Pylate then went out to them and sayde ; What accusacion bryng you against this ma ? They answered and sayde unto him ; Yf he were not an euyll doer, we would not have delyuered hym unto thee. Then sayde Pylate unto them; Take ye him, and iudge him after youre owne lawe. The Jewes therfore said unto him ; It is not lawefull for us to put any man to death : that the woordes of Jesus myght be fulfilled, whiche he spake, signifying what death he shoulde dye. Then Pilate entred into the iudgmet hall agayne, and called Jesus, and sayde unto him ; Arte thou the kynge of the Jewes ? Jesus answered ; Sayest thou that of thyself, or dyd other tell it the of me? Pilate answered ; Am I a Jewe ? Thyne owne nacion and the hye priestes haue deliuered thee unto me : What hast thou done ? Jesus aswered ; My kyngdome is not of this worlde : Yf my kingdome were of this worlde, then woulde my ministers surely fight, that I should not be delyuered to the Jewes : But now is my kyngdom not fro hence. Pilate therfore sayd unto hym ; Art thou a kyng then ? Jesus answered ; Thou sayest that I am a kyng. For this cause was I borne, and for this cause came I into the world, that I shoulde bear wytnesse unto the trueth. And all that are of the trueth, heare my voyce. Pylate sayd unto hym ; What thyng is trueth ? And whe he hadde sayd this, he wet out agayne unto the Jewes, and sayth unto the ; I finde in him no cause at al. Ye haue a custome, that I should deliuer you one looce at Easter : Wil ye that I looce unto you the kyng of the Jewes ? Then cryed they all again, saying: Not him but Barrabas : the same Barrabas was a murtherer. Then Pilate toke Jesus therfore and scourged hym. And the souldiers woud a crowne of thornes, and set it upon his head. And they did put on hym a purple garment, and came unto hym and sayed ; Hayle kyng of the Jewes : and they smote hym on the face. Pilate and Concorde : And graunt that all they that dooe confesse thy holye name, may agree in the trueth of thy holy woord, and liue in unitie and godlye loue. We beseche thee also to saue and defende all Christian Kynges, Princes, and Gouernoures, and speciallye thy seruaunt, Edward our Kyng, that under hym we maye bee godlye and quietly gouerned : and graunt unto hys whole counsayle, and to all that bee putte in aucthoritie under hym, that they may truely and indifferently minister justice, to the punishement of wickednes and vice, and to the maynten- aunce of God's true religion and vertue. Geue grace (O heauenly father) to all Bisshops, Pastours, and Curates, that they maye bothe by their lyfe and doctrine sette foorth thy true and lyuely woord, and rightly and duely administer thy holye Sacramentes : and to all thy people geue thy heauenly grace, and especiallye to thys congregacion here present, that with meke hearte and due reuerence they may heare and receiue thy holy woord, truely seruing thee in holynesse and ryghteousnesse all the dayes of theyr lyfe. And we most humbly beseche thee of thy goodnesse (O Lord) to coumfort and succour all them, whiche in this transitory lyfe bee in trouble, sorowe, nede, sickenes, or anye other aduersitie : Graunt this, O father, for Jesus Christes sake, oure onelymediatour and aduocate. Amen. THE COMMUNION. 163 IT Then shal folowe this exhortation at cerlaine tymes when the Curate shal see the people negligent to come to the holy Communion. WE be come together at this time, derely beloued brethren, to fede at the Lord's supper, unto the whiche in Goddes behalf I bydde you all that be here present, and beseche you for the Lord Jesus Christes sake, that ye will not refuse to come thereto, being so louingly called and bidden of god hymselfe. Ye knowe how greuouse and unkynde a thing it is, when a man hath prepared a riche feaste, decked his table with al kinde of prouision, so that there lacketh nothing but the geastes to sit down : and yet they which be called, without any cause most unthankefully refuse to come. Which of you, in such a case, would not be moued ? Who would not thynke a great injury and wrong done unto him? Wherfore, most derely beloued in Christ, take ye good hede, lest ye with drawyng yourselues from this holy supper, prouoke god's indignacion against you. It is an easy matter for a man to saye, I wyll not communicate, because I am othenvyse letted with worldly busines : but suche excuses be not so easily accepted and allowed beefore god. If any man saye, I am a greuous sinner, and therefore am afraied to come : wherefore then doe you not repent and amend? When god calleth you, be you not ashamed to saye you will not come ? When you shoulde returne to god, wyll you excuse your selfe, and saye that you be not ready? Consydre earnestly with youreselues howe lytle such feyned excuses shall auayl before God. They that refused the feaste in the gospell, because they had boughte a farme, or would trie theyr yokes of oxen, or because they were maried, were not so excused, but counted unworthy of the heauenly feast. I for my part am here present, and according to mine office, I bidde you in the name of God, I call you in Christ's behalf, I exhort you, as you loue your owne saluacion, that ye wilbe partakers of thys holy Communion. And as the sonne of God did vouchesafe to yelde up hys soule by death upon the Crosse for youre health : euen so it is youre duetie to receyue the Communion together in the re- membraunce of hys death, as he himself commaunded. Nowe if you wyll in nowyse thus doe, considre with youreselues howe greate injurye you do unto God, and howe sore punishemente hangeth ouer your heades for the same. And whereas ye offend god so sore in refusing this holy Banquet, I admonishe, exhort, and beseche you, that unto this unkindnes ye wyll not adde any more. Which thing ye shal doe, if ye stande by as gazers and lokers on them that doe communicate, and be no par- takers of the same yourselues. For what thing can this be accoumpted els, then a further contempt and unkindness unto god. Truely it is a great imthankfulnes to saye naye when ye be called : but the faulte is muche greater when men stand by, and yet wyll neither eate nor drynke this holy Com- F 2 1 64 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. munion with other. I pray you what can this be els, but euen to haue the mysteries of Christ in derision ? It is said unto all : Take ye and eate. Take and drinke ye all of thys : doe this in remembraunce of me. With what face then, or with what countenaunce shal ye hear these words ? What wil this be els but a neglecting, a despysing, and mocking of the Testament of Christ ? Wherefore, rather then you should so doe, depart you hence and geue place to them that be godly disposed. But when you depart, I beseche you, pondre with yourselues from whom you depart : ye depart from the lordes table, ye depart from your brethren, and from the banquete of moste heauenly fode. These thynges if ye earnestly considre, ye shal by gods grace returne to a better mynd, for the obteyning whereof, we shal make our humble peticions while we shall receiue the holy Communion. IT And some tyme shal be sayd this also, at the discretion of the Curate. DERELY beloued, forasmuche as our duetie is to rendre to Almightie god our heauenly father most harty thankes, for that he hath geuen his sonne our sauioure Jesus Christ, not only to die for us, but also to be our spiritual fode and sustenaunce, as it is declared unto us, as wel by goddes word as by the holy Sacramentes of his blessed body and bloud, the whiche being so comfortable a thyng to them whiche receiue it worthely, and so daungerous to them that wyl presume to receiue it unworthely : My duetie is to exhort you to consider the dignitie of the holy mistery, and the greate perel of the unworthy receiuing thereof, and so to searche and examine your own consciences, as you should come holy and cleane to a moste Godly and heauenly feaste : so that in no wise you come but in the mariage garment, required of god in holy scripture ; and so come and be receiued, as worthy partakers of suche a heauenly table. The way and meanes thereto is : First to examine your Hues and conuersacion by the rule of goddes com- maundements, and whereinsoeuer ye shall perceiue your selues to have offended, either by wil, word, or dede, there beewaile your owne sinful liues, confess your selfes to almightie god with ful pur- pose of amendment of life. And yf ye shal perceiue your offences to be such, as be not only against god, but also againste your neighbours : then ye shal reconcile your selues unto them, ready to make restitucion and satisfaccion, accordyng to the uttermost of your powers, for all injuries and wronges done by you to any other : and likewise beeyng ready to forgeue other that have offended you, as you would have forgeuenesse of your offences at gods hande : for otherwyse the receiuing of the holy Communion doth nothyng els, but encrease your damnacion. And because it is requisite that no man shoulde come to the holy Communion but with a full truste in God's mercy, and with a quiet conscience : therefore if there be any of you which by the meanes afore said cannot quiet his own conscience, but requireth further comfort or counsel ; then let him come to me, or some other discreet and THE COMMUNION. 165 learned minister of god's word, and open his griefe, that he may re- ceiue such gostlye counsail, aduise, aud coumfort, as his conscience maye be relieued ; and that by the ministery of god's word he may receiue coumfort and the benefite of absolucion, to the quietting of his conscience, and auoiding of al Scruple and doubtfulnes. IT Then shal the Priest say thys exhortation, DERELY beloued in the Lord : ye that mynde to come to the holy Communion of the body and bloud of our sauiour Christ, muste considre what St. Paul writeth to the Corinthians, how he exhorteth all persons diligently to trye and examine themselues, before they presume to eate of that bread, and drinke of that cup: for as the benefite is great, if with a truly penitent heart and liuely fayth, we receiue that holy Sacrament (for then we spirit- uallye eate the fleshe of Christ, and drynke hys bloud, then we dwel in Christ and Christ in us, we be one with Christ, and Christ with us ;) so is the daunger great, if we receiue the same un- worthely. For then we be giltie of the bodye and bloud of Christ our sauiour. We eate and drynke our own damnacion, not con- sideryng the Lordes body. We kindle Goddes wrath againste us, we prouoke hym to plague us with diuers diseases, and sundry kynds of death. Therfore, yf any of you be a blasphemer of God, an hynderer or slaunderer of his worde, an adulturer, or be in malice or enuie, or in any other greuous cryme, bewayle your sinnes, and come not to thys holy Table ; lest after the takyng of that holy Sacrament, the Deuill entre into you, as he entred into Judas, and fyll you ful of al iniquities, and bryng you to de- struccion, both of bodye and soule. Judge therefore your selues (brethren) that ye bee not judged of the Lorde. Repent you truely for your synnes paste haue a liuely and stedfaste fayth in Christe our sauioure. Amende youre lyues, and be in perfecte charitie with al men, so shall ye be meete partakers of those holy misteries. And aboue all thynges, ye muste geue most humble and hartie thankes to God the father, the sonne, and the holy ghost, for the redempcyon of the worlde by the death and passyon of our Sauiour Chryst, both God and man, who did humble hymself, euen to the death upon the Crosse for us miserable synners, which laye in darkenesse and shadowe of death, that he myght make us the chyldren of God, and exalte us to euerlastinge lyfe. And to thend that we shoulde alway remembre the exceding great loue of our Maister, and onely Sauioure Jesu Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefites, (whiche by his precyous bloudsheding) he hath obteined to us, he hath instituted and ordayned holy misteries, as pledges of his loue, and continual remembraunce of hys death, to our great and endles comforte. To hym therefore, with the father and the holy ghost, let us geue (as we are most bounden) continuall thankes : submitting ourselues wholy to hys holy wil and pleasure, and studying to serue him in true holyness and righteousnesse, all the dayes of oure lyfe. Amen. i66 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. IT Then shal the Priest saye to them that come to receiue the holy Communion. YOU that doe truly and earnestly repente you of youre synnes, and bee in loue and charitie with your neighbours, and entende to leade a newe lyfe, folowyng the commaundments of god, and walking from henceforth in his holy waies : Drawe nere and take this holy Sacramente to youre comfort : make your humble con- fession to almightie god, before this congregacion here gathered together in his holy name, mekely knelyng upon your knees. IT Then shal this general confession be made, in the name of al those that are mynded to receiue the holy Communion, eyther by one of them, or els by one of the ministers, or by the Priest himself, al kneling humbly upon theyr knees. ALMIGHTYE God, father of our Lorde Jesus Christe, maker of all thyngs, Judge of all men, we knowledge and bewayle oure manyfolde synnes and wyckednes, whiche we from tyme to tyme moste greuously have committed, by thoughte, woord and dede, agaynst thy deuine Majestie : prouokyng most justely thy wrath and indignacion agaynste us : we doe earnestlye repente, and be hartely sory for these our misdoynges : the remembraunce of them is grieuouse unto us, the burthen of them is intollerable : haue mercye upon us, haue mercye upon us, moste mercifull father, for thy sonne oure Lorde Jesus Chrystes sake : forgeue us all that is past, and graunt that we maye euer hereafter serue and please thee, in newnesse of lyfe, to the honoure and glory of thy name : Through Jesus Christ our Lord. IT Then shal the Priest or the Bis shop (being present] stand tip, and turning himself e to the people, say thtis, ALMIGHTIE god, our heauenly father, who of his great mercy, hath promised forgeueness of synnes to all them, whiche with hartie repentaunce and true fayth turne unto hym : haue mercye upon you, pardon and deliuer you from all your synnes, confirme and strength you in all goodnesse and bring you to euerlasting life : through Jesus Christe our Lorde. Amen. IT Then shal the Priest also saye, Heare what comfortable woords our sauioure Christe sayeth, to al that truly turne to hym. Come unto me all that trauaile, and be heauye laden, and I shal refreshe you. So god loued the world, that he gaue his onely begotten sonne to thend that al that beleue in him, should not perishe, but haue life euerlasting. Heare also what Sainct Paul sayeth. This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be receiued, that Jesus Christe came into the world to saue synners. THE COMMUNION. 167 Heare also what Sainct John sayeth. If any man sinne, we have an aduocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propiciacion for our synnes. IF After the -whiche the Priest shall precede, saying, Lyfte up your heartes. Answer. We lyfte them up unto the Lorde. Priest. Let us geue thankes unto our Lorde God. Answer. It is mete and right so to doe. Priest. It is very mete, ryght, and oure bounden duetie, that we should at al times, and in al places, geue thankes unto thee, O lord holy father, almightie euerlastyng God. IT Here shall folmue the proper Preface accordinge to the tyme (yf there be any specially appointed,} or els immediatly shalfolcnve. Therefore with Angelles, &c. PROPRE PREFACES. IT Upon Christmas daye, and seuen dayes after. BECAUSE thou diddest geue Jesus Christ, thine onely sonne, to be borne as this daye for us, who by the operacion of the holy goste, was made very man, of the substaunce of the Virgin Mary his mother, and that without spot of synne, to make us cleane from al synne. Therefore, &c. IT Upon Easter daye, and seuen dayes after. BUT chiefly are we bounde to prayse thee, for the glorious resurreccion of Thy sonne Jesus Christ our Lorde ; for he is the very Paschall lambe which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sinne of the worlde, who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rysing to lyfe agayne hath restored to us euer- lasting lyfe. Therefore, &c. IT Upon the Ascendon daye, and seuen dayes after. THROUGH E thy moste dere beloued sonne, Jesus Christ our lorde, who after his moste glorious resurreccion manifestlye appeared to all hys Apostles, and in their sighte ascended up into heauen, to prepare a place for us, that where he is, thether might we also ascend, and reigne with him in glorye. Therefore, &c. IT Upon Whitsondaye, and six dayvs after. THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lorde, accordyng to whose most true promise, the holye ghoste came downe thys daye from heauen, with a sodayne great sound, as it had been a myghty wynde, in 1 68 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. the lykenesse of fyery tongues, lyghting upon the Apostles, to teache them, and to leade them to all trueth, geuing them both the gyft of diuerse languages, and also boldnes with feruent zeale, constantly to preache the gospell unto all nacions, whereby we are brought out of darknesse and errour, into the cleare lyghte and true knowledge of thee, and of thy sonne Jesus Christ. Therefore with. &c. T Upon the feast of Trinitie onely, IT is very mete, ryght, and our bounden duetie, that we shoulde at all tymes, and in all places, geue thanks to thee, O Lord, almightie and euerlasting God, whiche art one God, one Lorde, not one onely person, but three persons in one substaunce : For that which we beleue of the glorye of the father, the same we beleue of the sonne, and of the holye ghoste without anye dyffer- ence, or inequalitie. Therefore with. &c. IT After whiche preface, shalfolowe immediatly, Therefore with Angelles and Archangelles, and with al the com- panye of heauen, we laude and magnifye thy glorious name, euer- more praysing thee, and saying : Holye, holye, holye, Lorde God of hostes : heauen and yearthe are full of thy glory : glory be to thee, O lord, most high. 11 Then shal the Priest, kneling down at Goddes horde, say in the name of all them that shal receiue the Communion, this praier folowyng. WE doe not presume to come to this thy table (O mercyfull Lorde) trustinge in our owne righteousnesse, but in thy manifolde and greate mercies : we bee not worthye, so much as to gather up the crommes under thy table : but thou art the same Lorde whose propertie is alwayes to haue mercye : graunt as therfore (gracious lord) so to eate the fleshe of thy dere sonne Jesus Christe, and to drinke his bloud, that our synfulle bodyes maye be made cleane by his body, and our soules wasched through his most precious bloud, and that we may euermore dwel in him, and he in us. Amen. IT Then the Priest standing up shal saye, as foloiveth. ALMIGHTY God oure heauenly father, whiche of thy tender mercye dyddest geue thine onely sonne Jesus Christ, to suffre death upon the crosse for our redempcion, who made there (by hys one oblacion of hymselfe once offered) a full, perfecte and sufficiente sacrifice, oblacion, and satisfaction, for the synnes of the whole worlde, and dyd institute, and in hys holye Gospell com- maund as to continue, a perpetuall memorye of that his precious death, untyll hys comynge agayne : Heare us O mercyefull father THE COMMUNION. 169 wee beeseche thee ; and graunt that wee, receyuing these thy creatures of bread and wyne, accordinge to thy sonne our Sauioure Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembraunce of his death and passion, maye be partakers of his most blessed body and bloud : who, in the same night that he was betrayed, tooke bread, and when he had geuen thanks, he brake it, and gaue it to his Disciples, sayinge : Take, eate, this is my bodye which is geuen for you. Doe this in remembraunce of me. Lykewyse after supper he tooke the cup, and when he had geuen thankes, he aue it to them, sayinge : Drink ye all of this, for this is my loud of the new ^Testament, whiche is shed for you and for many, for remission of synnes : do this as oft as ye shal drinke it in remembraunce of me. IT Then shal the minister first receyuethe Communion in both kyndes hym- selfe, and next deliuer it to other ministers, yf any be there present (that they may help the chief minister,} and after to the people in their handes kneling. IT And when he delyuereth the bread, he shall saye. Take and eate this, in remembraunce that Christ dyed for thee, and feede on him in thy hearte by faythe, with thankesgeuing. And the Minister that delyuereth the cup, shal saye, Drinke this in remembraunce that Christ's bloude was shed for thee, and be thankefull. IT Then shall the Priest saye the Lordes prayer, the people repeating after him euery pelicion. T After shalbe sayde as foloweth. O LORDE and heauenly father, we thy humble seruaunts entierly desire thy fatherly goodnes, mercifully to accept this our Sacrifice of prayse and thanks geuing : most humbly beseching thee to graunt, that by the merites and death of thy sonne Jesus Christe, and through fayth in his bloud, we and al thy whole church may obtayne remission of oure synnes, and all other benefytes of his Passion. And here we offre and presente unto thee, O lord, our selfes, our soules, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and liuely Sacrifice unto thee : humbly beseching thee, that al we which be partakers of this holy Communion, maye bee fulfylled with thy grace and heauenly benediccion. And although we bee unworthy throughe oure manifolde sinnes to offre unto thee any Sacrifice : yet we beseche thee to accept this our bounden duetie and seruice, not weighing our merites, but pardoning our offences, through Jesus Christ our Lord ; by whom and with whom, in the unitie of the holy ghost, all honour and glory bee unto thee, O father almightie, world without ende. Amen. 170 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. IT Or this. ALMIGHTIE and euerliuing God, we most hartely thank thee, for that thou dooest vouchsafe to fede us, whiche haue duely re'ceyued these holye misteries, with the spirituall foode of the most pre- cious body and bloud of thy sonne our sauiour Jesus Christ, and doest assure us thereby of thy fauoure and goodnes towarde us, and that we bee verye membres incorporate in thy mistical body, which is the blessed companie of all faythfull people, and be also heyrs, through hope, of thy euerlasting kingdom, by the merites of the most precious death and Passion of thy deare sonne. We now most humbly beseche thee, O heauenly father, so to assiste us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy felowship, and do al such good workes, as thou hast prepared for us to walk in : through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the holy ghost, be all honour and glorye, world without ende. Amen. IT Then shalbe sayd or song. GLORYE bee to God on hyghe. And in yearth peace, good wyll towardes men. We prayse thee, we blesse thee, we worshippe thee, we glorifye thee, we geue thanks to thee for thy greate glorye, O Lorde God heauenly kyng, God the father almightie. O lord the onely begotten sonne Jesu Christ : O lord God, Lambe of god, sonne of the father, that takest away the sinnes of the worlde, haue mercye upon us : Thou that takest away the sinnes of the world, haue mercye upon us. Thou that takest awaye the sinnes of the world, receyue oure prayer. Thou that syttest at the ryght hande of God the father, haue mercye upon us : For thou only art holy, Thou only arte the Lord. Thou only, (O Christ,) with the holy ghost, art most high in the glory of god the father. Amen. IT Then the Priest or the Bishop, if he be present, shal let them depart with thys blessyng : THE peace of GOD which passeth al understanding kepe youre heartes and mynds in the knowledge and loue of GOD, and of his sonne Jesus Christ our Lord : And the blessing of god almightye, the father, the sonne, and the holy ghost, be amongest you and remayne with you always. Amen. IT Collectes to be saide after the Offertorie, when there is no Communyon, euery suche daye one. And the same maye be sayd also as often as occasion shal serue, after the Collectes, eyther of Morning and Euening prayer, Communion or Letany, by the discrecion of the minister. ASSIST us mercyfully, O lord, in these our supplicacions and prayers, and dispose the waye of thy seruaunts toward the attayn- ment of euerlasting saluacion : that among al the chaunges and chaunces of this mortall lyfe, they may euer be defended by thy THE COMMUNION. 171 most gracious and ready helpe ; throughe Christ our Lorde. Amen. O ALMIGHTIE Lord and euerliuing god, vouchsafe, we beseche thee, to directe, sanctifye, and gouerne, both oure heartes and bodies, in the waves of thy lawes, and in the woorks of thy com- maundments : that through thy most mightie proteccion, both here and euer, we may be presented in body and soule : through our lorde and sauioure Jesus Christ. Amen. GRAUNT, we beseche thee, Almightie God, that the wordes which \ve haue heard this daye, with our outward eares, may through thy grace be so grafted inwardly in oure heartes, that they may bring forth in us the fruite of good liuing, to the honour and prayse of. thy name: through Jesus Christ our Lorde. Amen. PREUENT us, O Lord, in al our doinges, with thy most gracious fauoure, and further us with thy continual helpe, that in all our works begon, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorifye thy holy name, and finallye by thy mercie obtayne euerlasting lyfe : through Jesus Christ our Lorde. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, the fountayn of al wisdom, which knowest our necessities before we ask, and oure ignoraunce in asking : we beseche thee to haue compassion upon our infirmities, and those things, whiche for our unworthinesse we dare not, and for oure blindnesse we cannot aske, vouchsafe to geue us for the worthines of thy sonne Jesus Christe our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTYE God, whiche haste promysed to heare the peticions of them that aske in thy sonnes name : we beseche thee mercy- fully to enclyne thyne eares to us that haue made nowe oure prayers and supplicacions unto thee : and graunt that those things which we faythfully asked according to thy wyll, may effectually be obteyned to the reliefe of our necessitie, and to the setting foorth of thy glory : Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. IT Upon the holy dayes, yf there be no Communion, shalbe said al that is appoynted at the Communion, untyl theendeofthe Homelie, conchtding with the general prayer, ' for the whole state of Christ's churche mili- tante here in earth : ' and one or moe of these Collectes before rehearsed, as occasyon shal serue. IT And there shalbe no celebracion of the lordes Supper, except there be a good noumbre to communicate wyth the Priest, accordynge to hys dis- crecion. H And yf there be not aboue ttventie persons in the Parishe of discretion to receiue tht Communion : yet there shalbe no Communion, excepte foure, or three at the least communicate ivyth the Prieste. And in Cathedrall and Collegiate churches, where be many Priestes and Deacons, they shall 172 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. al reccyue the Communion wyth the minister euery Sonday at the least, excepte they haue a reasonable cause to the contrary, 1T And to take atuay the superstition, tohiche any person hathe, or myghte haue in the bread and wyne, it shall suffyse that the bread bee such, as is usuall to bee eaten at the Table wyth other meates, but the best and purest wheate bread, that conueniently maye be gotten. And yf any of the bread or wine remayne, the Curate shal haue it to hys owne use. IF The bread and wyne for the Communion shall be prouyded by the Curate, and the churchwardens, at the charges of the Parishe, and the Parishe shalbe discharged of such summes of money, or other dueties, which hetherto they haue payde for the same, by order of theyr houses euery Sondaye. IT And note, that euery Parishioner shall communicate, at the least thre tymes in the yere : of which, Easter to be one : and shal also receytie the Sacramentes, and other rytes, according to the order in this boke appointed. And yerely at Easter, euery Parishioner shal reken with his Person, Vicare, or Curate, or his, or their deputie or deputies, and paye to thei or hym all Ecclesiasticall dueties, accustomably due, then and at that tyme to be payde. Although no ordre can be so perfect i,ye aeuised, but it may be of some, eyther for theyr ignoraunce and infirmitie, or els of malice and obstinacie, mis- construed, depraued, and interpreted in a wrong part: And yet because brotherly charitie willeth, that so much as conueniently may be, offences shoulde be taken awaye : therefore we willing to doe the same. Whereas it is ordeyned in the booke of common prayer, in the administration of the Lord's Supper, that the Communicants knelyng shoulde receyue the holye Communion : whiche thyng beyng well mente, for a sygnijicacion of the humble and gratefull acknowledgyng of the benefites of Chryst, geuen unto the woorthye receyuer, and to auoyde the prophanacion and dysordre, which about the holy Communion myght els ensue : Leste yet the same kneelyng myght be thought or taken otherwyse, we dooe declare that it is not ment thereby, that any adoration is doone, or otighte to bee doone, eyther unto the Sacramentall bread or wyne there bodily receyued, or unto anye reall and essential presence there beeyng of Chrisfs nahirall fleshe and bloude. For as concernynge the Sacramentall bread and wyne, they remayne styll in theyr verye naturall substaunces, and therefore may not be adored, for that were Idolatry e to be abhorred of all faythfull Christians. And as concernynge the naturall body and blood of our sauiour Christ, they are in heauen and not here. For it is agaynst the trueth of Christes true natural bodye, to be in moe places then in one, at one tyme. THE MINISTRACION OF BAPTISME TO BE USED IN THE CHURCHE. It appeareth by auncient ivrylers, thai the Sacramente of Baptisme in the aide tytne was not commonlye ministred bill at two tymes in the yeare : at Easter and Whytsontyde. At which tymes it was openly ministred in the presence of all the congregation : whiche ctistome (nowe being growen out of use) althoughe it cannot for many considerations be well restored agayne, yet it is thoiighte good to folowe the same as nere as con- ueniently may be : wherefore the people are to be admonished, that it is most conueniente that Baptisme should not be ministred but upon Sun- day es, and other holy dayes, when the moste noumbre of people maye come together, as well for that the congregation there present may testifye the receyuing of them, that be newely Baptyzed, into the noumbre of Christes Churche, as also because in the Baptisme of infantes, euery man present may be put in remembratince of Ays owne profession made to God in hys Baptisme. For whyche cause also, it is expediente that Baptisme be ministred in the Englishe tongue. Neuerthelesse (yf necessitie so requyre) chyldren maye at all tymes be Baptized at home. PUBLIQUE BAPTISME. IT When then are chyldren to be Baptized upon the Sunday or holy day, the Parentes shall getie knowledge ouer nyght or in the morning, afore the beginning of Morning prayer, to the Curate. And then the Godfathers, Godmothers, and people, with the children, muste be ready at the Fonte, eyther immediatly after the laste Lesson at Morning prayer, or else im- mediately after the last Lesson at Euening prayer, as the Curate by his discretion shall appoynte. And then standing there, the Priest shall aske whether the chyldren be Baptyzed or no. If they answers, no : then shall the Prieste saye thus. D BARELY beloued, for asmuche as all men bee conceyued and borne in synne, and that oure Sauiour Christ saith, none can entre into the kingdom of God (except he be regenerate and borne a newe of water and the holy Ghost) ; I beseche you to call upon God the father through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous mercie, he will graunt to these children, that thing which by nature they cannot haue, that they may be Baptized with water and the holy ghoste, and receyued into Christes holy church, and be made lyuely membres of the same. 174 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Then the Priest shal saye. IT Let us praye. ALMIGHTY and euerlasting God, which of thy great merce diddest saue Noe and his familie in the Arke from perishing by water : and also dyddest safely leade the chyldren of Israel, thy people throughe the redde Sea : figuring thereby thy holy Baptisme ; and by the Baptisme of thy welbeloued sonne Jesus Christe, dyddest sanctifye the floud Jordane, and al other waters, to the mistical washing away of sinne : We beseche thee for thy infinite mercies, that thou wylt mercyfully loke upon these chyl- dren, sanctifie them and washe them with thy holy ghoste, that they, beyng deliuered from thy wrath, may be receyued into the Arke of Christes Church, and beyng stedfast in fayth, ioyeful through hope, and rooted in charitie, may so passe the waues of this troublesome world, that finally they maye come to the lande of euerlasting lyfe, there to reygne wyth thee, worlde without ende, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTIE and immortall God, the ayde of all that nede, the helper of all that flee to thee for succour, the lyfe of them that beleue, and the resurreccion of the dead : We call upon thee for these infantes, that they coming to thy holye Baptisme, may receyue remission of theyre sinnes by spirituall regeneracion. Receyue them (O Lord) as thou hast promysed by thy wel beloued sonne, sayinge : Aske, and you shal haue, seke, and you shal fynd, knocke, and it shal be opened unto you. So geue now unto us that aske. Let us that seke fynde. Open the gate unto us that knocke, that these infantes may enioye the euerlasting bene- diccion of thy heauenly washing, and may come to the eternall Kingdom, which thou haste promysed by Christe our Lorde. Amen. Then shal the Priest say : Heare the wordes of the Gospell, ivrytten by Sainct Marke in the tenth Chapter. AT a certayne tyme they broughte chyldren to Chryste that he shoulde louche them, and his Disciples rebuked those M , that broughte them. But when Jesus sawe it, he was displeased, and sayde unto them : Suffre lyttle children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for to suche belongeth the kingdom of God. Verely I saye unto you : whosoever doeth not receyue the kingdom of God, as a lyttle chyld, he shall not entre therein. And when he hadde taken them up in his armes, he put his handes upon them, and blessed them. After the Gospel is read, the Minister shal make this brief exhortation upon the woords of the Gospell. FRENDES, you heare in this Gospell the wordes of oure sauiour Christe, that he commaunded the children to be brought unto him : PUBLIC BAPTISM. 175 how he blamed those that would have kept them from him : how he exhorteth al men to follow their innocencie. You perceyue how by his outward gesture and dede he declared his good wyl toward them. For he embrased them in his arms, he laide his handes upon them, and blessed them. Doubt not ye therefore, but ear- nestly belieue, that he wyll lykewise fauourably receyue these presente infantes, that he wyl embrase them with the armes of his mercie, that he wyll geue unto them the blessinge of eternal life, and make them partakers of his euerlasting kingdome. Where- fore we beeing thus perswaded of the good will of our heauenly father towards these infantes, declared by his sonne Jesus Christ ; and nothinge doubtinge but that he fauourably alloweth this charitable worke of ours, in bringinge these children to his holy Baptisme : let us faythfullye and deuoutlye geue thankes unto hym, and saye. ALMIGHTIE and euerlasting God, heauenly father, we geue thee humble thankes, that thou haste vouchsafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace, and faith in thee : encrease this know- ledge, and confirme this fayth in us euermore : Geue thy holy Spirite to these infantes, that they maye bee borne agayne, and bee made heyres of euerlastinge saluacion, through our Lord Jesus Christ : who lyueth and reygneth with thee and the holy spirite, now and for euer. Amen. IT 77ien the priest shal speake unto the Godfathers and Godmothers, on this wyse. WELBELOUED frends, ye haue broughte these children here to bee Baptyzed ; ye haue prayed that cure Lorde Jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receiue them, to laye his hands upon them, to blesse them, to release them of theyre sinnes, to geue them the kingdome of heauen, and euerlasting lyfe. Ye haue heard also that our Lorde Jesus Christ hath promysed in his Gospell, to graunte all these thinges that ye haue prayed for : which promyse he for his part wyl most surely kepe and perfourme. Wherfore after this promise made by Christ, these infants must also faithfully for their part promise by you that be their suerties, that they wil forsake the deuil and al his workes, and constantly beleue gods holy worde, and obediently kepe his commaundmentes. IT Then shall the Priest demaunde of the Godfathers and Godmothers these questions folmvynge. DOEST thou forsake the deuyl and al his workes, the vayne pompe and glorye of the worlde, with al couetouse desyres of the same, the carnal! desyres of the flessh, so that thou wylt not folow, nor be led by them ? A tins were. I forsake them all. Minister. Doest thou beleue in God the father almighue, 176 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. maker of heauen and earth? and in Jesus Christ his onely begotten sonne our Lorde, and that he was conceyued by the holy ghoste, borne of the vyrgin Mary, that he suffred under Poncius Pylate, was crucified, dead, and buried, that he went downe into hell, and also dyd ryse again the thyrd daye ; that he ascended into heauen, and sytteth at the right hande of God the father almightie, and from thence shal come agayne at the end of the worlde, to iudge the quicke and the dead : And doest thou beleue in the holy ghost, the holye Catholique Churche, the Communion of Sainctes, the remission of sinnes, the resurreccion of the flesh, and euerlasting lyfe after death ? Atmswere. All this I stedfastly beleue. Ministre. Wylt thou be baptyzed in this fayth ? Aunswere. That is my desyre. Then shall the Priest saye. O MERCYFULL God, graunt that the olde Adam in these chyldren maye be so buried, that the newe man maye be raysed up in them. Amen. Graunt that al carnall affeccions maye dye in them, and that all things belonginge to the spirite may lyue and growe in them. Amen. Graunt that they maye haue power and strength to haue victorie and to triumphe agaynste the deuyll, the worlde, and the fleshe. Amen. Graunt that whosoeuer is here dedicated to thee by our office and ministerie, may also be endued with heauenly vertues, and euerlastingly rewarded throughe thy mercye, O blessed Lord God, who doest lyue and gouerne al thinges worlde without ende. Amen. ALMIGHTIE euerliuing God, whose most dearely beloued sonne Jesus Christ, for the forgeueness of our sinnes, did shead out of his most precious syde bothe water and bloud, and gaue com- maundement to his disciples that they shoulde goe teache all nacions, and baptize them in the name of the father, the sonne, and of the holy ghost : Regarde, we beseche thee, the supplicacions of thy congregacion, and graunte that al thy seruauntes which shalbe baptyzed in this water, may receyue the fulnesse of thy grace, and euer remayne in the noumbre of thy faythfull and electe chyldren, throughe Jesus Christ our Lorde. Amen. ^ Then the Priest shal take the childe in his handes, and aske the name : and naming the chyld, shal dippe it in the water, so it be discretely and warely done, sayinge. IT A 7 . I Baptyse thee in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost. Amen. PUBLIC BAPTISM. 177 IT And yf the child be weke, it shall suffyce to power water upon tt, sayinge the foresayde wordes. N. I Baptyse thee in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost. Amen. Then the Priest shall make a crosse upon the c hy Id's forehead, sayinge. WE receyue this child into the congregacion of Christes flocke, and doe signe him with the signe of the crosse, in token that here- after he shal not be ashamed to confesse the fayth of Christ cruci- fied, and manfully to fight under his banner agaynst synne, the world, and the deuyll, and to continue Christ's faythfull souldiour and seruaunt unto his lyues end. Amen. Then shall the Priest saye. SEEYNG nowe, derely beloued brethren, that these chyldren be regenerate and grafted into the bodye of Christes congregacion : lette us geue thankes unto God for these benefites, and with one accorde make our praiers unto almighty god, that they may leade the rest of theyr lyfe according to this beginninge. Then shall be sayde. IT OUR father which art in heauen, &c. Then shall the Priest saye. WE yelde thee heartie thankes, most merciful father, that it hathe pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy holy spirite, to receyue him for thy owne chylde by adopcion, and to incor- porate him into thy holy congregacion. And humbly we beseche thee to graunt that he, being dead unto sinne, and lyuing unto righteousnes, and beeinge buried with Christ in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolishe the whole body of sinne: that as he is made partaker of the death of thy sonne, so he may be partaker of his resurreccion : so that finalli, with the residue of thy holy congregacion, he may be enheritour of thine euerlasting kingdom : through Christ our lord. Amen. IT At the last ende, the Priest, calling the Godfathers and Godmothers together, shall saye this short exhortation folouiinge. FORASMUCHE as these chyldren haue promysed by you to for- sake the Deuyl and all hys workes, to beleue in God, and to serue him ; you must remembre that it is youre partes and dueties to see these infantes be taught, so sone as they shalbe hable to learne, what a solemne vowe, promise, and profession they haue made by you. And that they maye knowe these thinges the better, ye shal call upon them to heare sermons : And chiefly ye shal pro- 178 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. uyde that they may learne the Crede, the Lordes prayer, and the ten Commaundements, in the Englishe tongue, and all other thyngs whiche a Chrystian man ought to knowe and beleue, to his soules health : and that these children may be vertuously brought up to leade a godlye and Christen lyfe ; Remembryng alwaye that Baptism doeth represente unto us our profession, which is, to folowe the example of our sauiour Christe, and to be made lyke unto hym ; that as he dyed and rose agayne for us, so should we which are baptized die from sinne, and ryse agayne unto righteousnesse, continually mortyfying al our euill and cor- rupte affeccions, and dayly preceding in all vertue, and godlynes of lyuing. H The Minister shal commaunde that the chyldren be brought to the Bisshop to be confirmed of him, so sone as they can sale in theyr vulgare tongue the articles of the fayth, the lord's prayer, and the x comma imdements, and be further instructed in the Catechisme, set forth for that purpose, accordingly as it is there expressed. OF THEM THAT BE BAPTYSED IN PRIUATE HOUSES, IN TYME OF NECESSITIE. ^ The Pastours and Curates shall oft admonishe the people that they de- ferre not the Baptisine of Infantes anye longer than the Sondaye, or other holye daye nexte after the chyld bee borne, unlesse upon a great and reasonable cause declared to the Citrate and by him approued. And also they shal warne them, that without great cause and necessitie, they baptyse not chyldren at home in they re houses. And when great nedc shal compel them so to do, that then they minister it on this fashion. First let them that be present cal upon God for his grace, and saye the Lordes prayer, yf the tyme wyl suffre. And then one of them shall name the chyld, and dippe him in the water, or powre water upon him, saying these wordes. IT .W. I Baptyse thee in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost. Amen. And let them not doubt, but that the child so Baptised, is lawfully and suffi- ciently Baptised, and ought not to be Baptised agayne, in the Church. But yet neuerthelesse, yf the child which is after this sorte. Baptised, do afterward lytie, it is expedient that he be brought into the churche, to the entent the Priest may examine and trie, whether the child be lawfully Baptised or no. And yf those that bringe any child to the church do ansivere that he is already baptysed, then shall the Priest examine them further. ^f By whom the chyld was Baptysed ? Who was present when the chyld was Baptysed ? Whether they called upon God for grace and succour in that necessitie ? With what thing, or what matter, they dyd Baptyse the chylde. With what wordes the childe was Baptised ? Whether they thinke the childe to bee lawefully and perfectly Baptysed ? 180 SECOND PRAYER BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. And yf the ministers shall proue by the aunsweres of suche as brought the childe, that al thinges -were done as they ought to be : Then shall not he Christen the chylde agayne, but shal receyue him, as one of the flock of the trite Christian people, sayinge thus. I CERTIFIE you, that in this case ye haue done well, and accord- ing unto due order concerning the baptysing of this child, which beynge born in original synne and in the wrathe of God, is nowe by the lauer of regeneracion in Baptisme receyued into the noumbre of the children of God, and heyres of euerlasting lyfe : for our Lorde Jesus Christ doeth not denie his grace and mercie unto such infantes, but most lovingly doth cal them unto him, as the holy gospel doeth witnesse to our comfort, on this wyse. Ax a certayne tyme they brought chyldren unto Christ that he should touche them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was displeased, and sayde unto them : Suffre litle chyldren to come unto me, and forbid them not, for to such belongeth the kingdom of God. Verely I saye unto you, whosoeuer doeth not receyue the kyng- dome of God as a litle chyld, he shal not entre therein. And when he had taken them up in his arms, he put his handes upon them and blessed them. IT After the Gospett is read, the Minister shall make this exhortacion upon the words of the Gospel, FRENDES, youe heare in this Gospell the wordes of our Sauiour Christe, that he commaunded the chyldren to bee broughte unto him : howe he blamed those that woulde haue kepte them from him : howe he exhorted all men to folow their innocencie : ye per- ceyue howe by his outwarde gesture and dede he declared his good wyll toward them. For he embrased them in his arms, he layde his handes upon them, and blessed them. Doubt ye not therefore, but earnestly belieue, that he hath lykewise fauourably receyued thys present infante, that he hath embrased him with the armes of his mercie, that he hath geuen unto him the blessinge of eternall lyfe, and made him partaker of his euerlasting kyngdome. Wherfore we beeing thus perswaded of the good wyll of our heauenly father, declared by hys sonne Jesus Christ towardes this infant : Let us faythfully and deuoutly geue thankes unto hym, and saye the prayer which the Lorde himselfe taught ; and in de- claracion of our fayth, let us recyte the articles conteyned in our Crede. Here the Ministre with the Godfathers and Godmothers shall say. OUR father which art in heauen, &c. PRIVATE BAPTISM. 181 IT Then shal the Priest demaund the name of the chyld, which beyng by the Godfathers and Godmothers pronounced, the Ministre shall saye. N. Doest thou in the name of this childe forsake the Deuill and all hys woorks, the vayne pompe and glorye of the worlde, with all the couetous desyres of the same, the carnall desyres of the flesh, and not to folow, and be ledde by them ? Answere. I forsake them all. Minister. Doest thou in the name of this childe professe thys fayth, to beleue in God the father almightye, maker of heauen and earth. And in Jesus Christ his onely begotten sonne our Lorde : and that he was conceiued by the holy ghoste, borne of the vyrgin Marye, that he suffred under Poncius Pilate, was crucifyed, dead and buried, that he went downe into hell, and also dyd ryse agayne the thyrde day : that he ascended into heauen, and sytteth at the ryght hande of God the father almightie : and from thence he shall come agayne at the ende of the worlde to iudge the quicke and the dead ? And doe you in hys name beleue in the holy gost The holy catholique Churche. The Communion of saincts. The remission of synnes. Resurreccion, and euerlasting lyfe after death ? Aunsivere. All this I stedfastly beleue. IT Let us praye. ALMIGHTIE and euerlastyng God, heauenly father, we geue thee humble thankes, for that thou hast vouchsafed to cal us to the knowledge of thy grace, and fayth in thee : increase this know- ledge and confyrme this fayth in us euermore : Geue thy holy spirit to this infante, that he beyng borne agayne, and beeyng made heyre of euerlasting saluacion, through oure Lorde Jesus Christe, maye continue thy seruaunt, and attayne thy promyse, through the same oure Lord Jesus Christ thy sonne : who lyueth and reygneth with thee in unitie of the same holy spirite euer- lastingly. Amen. Then shal the minister make this exhortacion to the Godjathers, and Godmothers. FORASMUCHE as thys chylde hath promysed by you to forsake the deuill and all his works, to beleue in God, and to serue him : you must remembre that it is youre parte and duetie to see that this infante be taughte so soone as he shalbe able to learne, what a solemne vowe, promyse, and profession he hath made by you : and that he maye knowe these thyngs the better, ye shall call upon hym to heare sermons : And chieflye ye shall prouyde that he maye learne the Crede, the Lordes Prayer, and the ten Com- maundements in the Englishe tongue, and all other thyngs whiche a Chrystian man ought to knowe and beleue, to his soules health, and that thys childe maye be vertuously broughte up, to leade a 1 82 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. godly and a Christen lyfe : Remembryng alwaye that Baptisme doeth represente unto us our profession, which is to folowe the example of our sauiour Christe, and be made lyke unto hym : that as he dyed and rose agayne for us, so should we, which are bap- tized, die from synne, and ryse agayne unto righteousnesse, continually mortyfyyng al our euill and corrupte affeccions, and dayly preceding in all vertue, and godlynes of lyuing. IT And so forth, as in Publique Baptisme. IT But yf they which bring the infantes to the Churche, doe make an un- certayn aunswere to the Priestes questions, and saye that they cannot tel what they thoughts, dyd, or sayde, in that greate feare and trouble of mynd (as oftentymes it chaunceth) : then lette the Priest baptyse him in forme aboue wrytten concernynge Publique Baptysme, sauyng that at the dypping of the Chyld in the Fonte, he shal use this forme of-wordes. IF thou be not baptysed already, N. I baptise thee in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holy goste. Amen. CONFIRMACION WHEREIN IS CONTEYNED A CATECHISME FOR CHILDREN. To the ende that Confirmation maye be ministred to the more edifying of such as shal receyue it (according unto saincte Paules doctrine, who teaches that al thinges should be done in the Churche to the edification of the same} it is thought good that none hereafter shalbe confirmed, but such as can say in their mother tongue the articles cf the fayth, the Lord's prayer, and the x conunaundements ; And can also answere to suche questions of this short Catechism, as the Bisshop (or such as he shal appointe] shal by his discretion appose them in. And this ordre is most * conueniente to be observed for dyuers considerations. First, because that when children come to the yeres of discretion, and haue learned what their godfathers and godmothers promised for them in baptisme, they may then themselves -with their own mouth, and with their own consent, openly before the Churche, ratifie and confirme the same : and also promise that by the grace of god they wil eiiermore endeuoure themselfes faithfully to obserue and kepe suche thynges, as they by their cnvne mouth and confession haue assented unto. Secondly, forasmuche as Confirmation is ministred to them that be Baptized, that by imposition of handes and prayer they maye receyue strength and defence passe : blessed be the name of the Lorde. When they come at the graue, whiles the corps is made ready to be layde into the earth, the Priest shall saye, or the priest and clerkes shall singe. MAN that is borne of a womanne, hath but a shorte time to Job ix. lyue, and is full of misery : he cometh up and is cut downe lyke a floure ; he flieth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one staye. In the mideste of lyfe we bee in death : of whom may we seke for succour, but of thee, O Lord, which for our sinnes iustlye arte displeased? yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mightie, O holy and moste mercyfull sauioure, delyuer us not into the bitter paines of eternal death. Thou knowest, Lord, the secretes of oure heartes : shutte not up thy merciful eyes to oure prayers : But spare us, lord most holi, O god most mightie, O holy and mercifull sauiour, thou moste worthy iudge eternall, suffre us not at oure last houre for any paynes of death to fall from thee. Then whyle the earth shalbe cast upon the body, by some standing by, the priest shal say, FORASMUCHE as it halhe pleased almightie God of his great mercy to take unto himselfe the soule of our dere brother here 204 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. departed : we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, asshes to asshes, dust to dust, in sure and certayne hope of resurreccion to eternal lyfe, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who shal chaunge our vyle bodye, that it maye bee lyke to his glorious bodye, according to the mightie working wherby he is hable to subdue all thinges to himselfe. IT Then shalbe sayd or song, I HEARDE a voyce from heauen, sayinge unto me : Wryte from henceforth, blessed are the dead which dye in the Lorde. Euen so sayth the spyrite, that they rest from theyr laboures. Then shal folowe this lesson, taken out of the xv. Chapter to the Corinthians, thefyrst Epistle. CHRISTE is rysen from the dead, and become the fyrst fruites of them that slepte. For by a manne came death, and by a manne came the resurreccion of the dead. For as by Adam all dye, euen so by Christ shall all be made alyue, but euery man in hys owne ordre. The fyrst is Christ, then they that are Christes, at his comming. Then cometh the ende, when he hath delyuered up the kyngdome to God the father, when he hath put downe all rule and all aucthoritie and power. For he must reygne tyll he haue put all hys enemies under his feete. The laste enemie that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath putte all thinges under his feete. But when he sayth all thinges are put under him, it is manyfest that he is excepted, which dyd put all thinges under him. When all thinges are subdued unto him, then shal the sonne also himself be subiect unto him that put al thinges under him, that God may be al in al. Els what doe they which are Baptised ouer the dead, yf the dead ryse not at all ? Why are they then Baptysed ouer them ? yea and why stande we alwaye then in ieopardie ? By our reioysing, whiche I haue in Christ Jesu cure Lorde, I dye daylye. That I haue foughte with beastes at Ephesus after the maner of men, what auantageth it me, if the dead ryse notagayne? Lette us eate, and drinke, for to-morowe we shall dye. Be not ye deceyued : euil wordes corrupt good maners. Awake truely oute of slepe, and synne not. For some haue not the knowledge of God. I speake this to youre shame. But some man wyl saye : How aryse the dead ? with what body shal they come ? Thou foole, that whiche thou soweste is not quickened, excepte it dye. And what sowest thou ? Thou sowest not that body that shalbe ; but bare corne as of wheat, or of some other : but God geueth it a bodye at his pleasure, to euery sede his owne bodi. Al fleshe is not one maner of fleshe : but there is one maner of fleshe of men, and other maner of fleshe of beastes, and other of fisshes, another of birdes. There are also celestial bodies, and there are bodies terrestriall. But the glorye of the celestiall is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is AT THE BURIAL. 205 another. There is one maner glory of the sunne, and another glory of the mone, and another glory of the starres. For one starre differeth from another in glory. So is the resurreccion of the dead. It is sowen in corrupcion, it ryseth agayne in incorrupcion. It is sowen in dishonoure, it ryseth agayne in honour. It is sowen in weaknesse, ii ryseth agayne in power. It is sowen a naturall bodye, it ryseth agayne a spyrituall bodye. There is a naturall bodye, and there is a spirituall bodye : as it is also written : the fyrst man Adam was made a lyuing soule, and the laste Adam was made a quickening spyryte. Howbeit, that is not fyrst which is spyrytuall : but that whiche is naturall, and then that whiche is spyrytuall. The fyrst man is of the earth, earthy : the second man is the Lord from heauen, heauenly. As is the earthy, suche are they that are earthy. And as is the heauenly, such are they that are heauenly. And as we haue borne the Image of the earthy, so shall we beare the Image of the heauenly. Thys say I, brethren, that fleshe and bloud cannot inherite the kyngdome of God neyther doeth corrupcion inherite uncorrup- cion. Beholde, I shewe you a mistery. We shall not all slepe : but we shall all be chaunged and that in a momente, in the twinkeling of an eie by the last trumpe. For the trumpe shall blowe, and the dead shall ryse incorruptible, and we shall be chaunged. For thys corruptyble must put on incorrupcion : and this mortall must put on immortalitie. When this corruptible hath put on incorrupcion, and this mortal hath put on immortalitie : then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written : Death is swallowed up in victory : Death, where is thy styng ? Hell, where is thy victorye ? The styng of death is sinne : and the strength os sinne is the law. But thanks be unto God whiche hath geuen ue victory, through oure Lorde, Jesus Chryst. Therefore, my deare brethren, be ye stedfaste and unmouable, alwayes riche in ths worke of the Lorde, forasmuche as ye knowe that your labour if not in vayne in the Lorde. The lesson ended, the priest shall saye. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Christe, haue mercy upon us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Our father which art in heaven, &c. And leade us not into temptacion. Aunswere. But delyuer us from euill. Amen. The Priest. ALMIGHTIE God, with whom doe lyue the spirites of them that departe hence in the lord, and in whom the soules of them that be elected, after they be deliuered from the burden of the fleshe, be in ioye and felicitie : We geue thee hearty thankes, for that it hath pleased thee to deliuer thys N. our brother out of the myseryes 2o6 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. of this sinneful world : beseching thee, that it maye please thee of thy gracious goodnesse, shortely to accomplyssh the noumbre of thyne electe, and to haste thy kingdome, that we with this our brother, and al other departed in the true faith of thy holy name, maye haue our perfect consummacion and blisse, both in body and soule, in thy eternal and euerlastyng glory. Amen. The Collect. O MERCIFUL God, the father of our Lorde Jesus Christe, who is the resurreccion and the lyfe, in whom whosoeuer beleueth, shall lyue though he dye ; and whosoeuer liueth and beleueth in hym, shall not dye eternally : who also taught us (by his holy Apostle Paule) not to be sorye, as men without hope, for them that slepe in hym : We mekely beseche thee (O father) to raise us from the death of sinne unto the life of righteousnes, that when we shal depart thys lyfe, we may reste in him, as our hope is thys our brother doeth ; and that at the general resurreccion in the laste daye, we may be founde acceptable in thy syghte, and receiue that blessing which thy welbeloued sonne shall then pronounce to al that loue and feare thee, saying : Come, ye blessed children of my father, receiue the kyngdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Graunt this we beseche thee, O merciful father, through Jesus Christ our mediatour and redeyemer. Amen. THE THANKES GEUING OF WOMEN AFTER CHILDE BIRTH, COMMONLY CALLED THE CHURCHYNG OF WOMEN. The woman shall come into tJie churche, and there shall knele downe in some conueniente place, nigke unto the place where the table standeth : and the prieste standyng by her, shall say these wordes, or suche like, as the case shal require. FORASMUCH as it hath pleased almightie God of his goodnes to geue you safe deliueraunce, and hath preserued you in the great daunger of childe birth : ye shall therefore geue harty thankes unto god, and praye. Then shall the priest say thys Psalme. I HAUE lyfted up myne eyes unto the hilles : from whence cometh my helpe. My helpe cometh euen from the lord : which hath made heauen and earth. He wil not suffre thy fote to be moued : and he that kepeth thee wil not slepe. Beholde, he that kepeth Israel : shall neither slumber nor slepe. The lorde hymselfe is thy keper : the lorde is thy defence upon thy right hande. So that the Sunne shal not burne thee by daye : ne> ther the Moone by nyghte. The Lorde shall preserue thee from al euil : yea, it is euen he that shal kepe thy soule. The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy coming in : from this time furth for euermore. Glory be to the father, and to the sonne, and to, &c. As it was in the begynnyng, is nowe, and euer, &c. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Christe, haue mercy upon us. Lorde, haue mercy upon us. Our Father, which, &c. And leade us not into temptacion. Anns-were. But delyuer us from euyll. Amen. 208 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552, Priest. O Lorde, saue this woman thy seruaunt. Aunswere. Which putteth her trust in thee. Priest. Be thou to her a strong tower. Aunswere. From the face of her enemye Priest. Lorde, heare our prayer. Aunswere. And let our crie come unto thee. Priest. IT Let us praye. O ALMIGHTIE god, whiche hast delyuered this woman thy seruant from the great paine and peryl of childe birth : Graunte, we beseche thee, (most mercifull father,) that she through thy helpe, maye both faythfully lyue, and walke in her vocacion, accordyng to thy wyl in thys lyfe present ; and also maye bee partaker of euerlastinge glorye in the life to come : through Jesus Christe our Lorde. Amen. The woman that cometh to geue her thankes, muste offre accustomed offer- ynges : and if there be a Communion, it is cotiueniente that she receyue the holy Communyon. A COMMINACION AGAYNSTE SYNNERS, WITH CERTAYNE PRAYERS TO BE USED DYUERS TYMES IN THE YERE. IT After Mornyng praier, the people being called together by the ringing of a bell, and assembled in the Chtirche, the English Letany shalbe sayd after the accustomed maner: whiche ended, the Priest shall goe into the pnlpite and saye thus : BRETHREN, in the primatiue church there was a Godly dis- cyplyne, that at the begynnyng of Lent suche persons as were notorious synners, wer put to open penaunce and punished in thys world, that their soules might be saued in the day of the lorde, and that others admonished by theyr example, myght be more afrayed to offende. In the stede wherof, untyl the sayd discipline may be restored againe, (which thing is much to be wyshed,) it is thought good, that at thys tyme (in your presence) should be read the general sentences of God's curssyng against impenitent sinners, gathered out of the xxvii. Chapiter of Deuteronomye, and other places of scripture : and that ye shoulde aunswere to euery sentence, Amen. To thintent that you, beyng admonished of the great indignacion of God agaynst synners, may the rather be called to earneste and true repentaunce, and may walke more warely in these daungerous daies, fleeing from such vices, for the which ye affirme with your owne mouthes the curse of God to be due. CURSED is the man that maketh any carued or molten Image, an abhominacion to the Lorde, the worke of the handes of the craftes manne, and putteth it in a secrete place to worshyp it. And the people shall aunswere and saye, Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that curseth his father, and mother. Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that remoueth awaye the marke of hys neighbour's lande. Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that maketh the blynd to goe out of his waye. Aunswere. Amen. 210 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. Minister. Cursed is he that letteth in Judgemente the ryght of the straunger, of them that be fatherles, and of wydowes . Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that smiteth his neighboure secretly. Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Ciwsed is he that lyeth with his neighbour's wife. Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that taketh reward to slea the soule of innocent bloud. Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, and taketh man for hys defence, and in hys hearte goeth from the Lorde. Aunswere. Amen. Minister. Cursed are the unmercifull, the fornicatours and adulterers, & the couetous persons, the worshyppers of ymages, slaunderers, drunkards, and extorcioners. Atmswere. Amen. The Minister. Nowe seeing that all they be accursed (as the Prophet Dauid beareth witnes) which dooe erre and goe astraye from the commaundementes of God : lette us (remembryng the dreadfull judgement hangynge ouer our heades, and beeyng always at hande) returne unto our Lorde God, with all contricion and meke- nesse of hearte bewaylynge and lamentynge our synfule lyfe, know- ledgyng and confessyng our offences, and seekyng to bring furth worthy fruites of penaunce. For nowe is the Axe put unto the roote of the trees, so that euery tree whiche bringeth not furth good fruite is hewen downe, and caste into the fyre. It is a fearfull thyng to fall into the handes of the lyuing God : he shall poure down rain upon the synners, snares, fyre and brimstone, storme and tempest : this shalbe their porcion to drynke. For loe, the Lord is comen out of his place, to visite the wickednes of suche as dwell upon the earth. But who maye abide the daye of hys comyng? Who shalbe able to endure" when he appereth? His fanne is in his hand, and he wil pourge hys floore and gather hys wheate into the Barne : but he wylle burn the chaffe with unquencheable fyre. The daye of the Lord cometh as a thefe upon the night ; and when men shal say peace, and al thinges are safe, then shall sodenly destruccion come upon them, as sorowe cometh upon a woman trauailing with childe, and they shall not escape : then shall appeare the wrath of God in the daye of vengeance, which obstinate sinners, throughe the stubbernes of theyr hearte, haue heaped unto themselfe, whiche despysed the goodnes, pacience, and long-sufferaunce of God, when he called them continuallye to repentaunce. Then shal they cal upon me, sayeth the lord, but I wyll not heare : they shal seke me earlye, but they shall not fynd me, and that because they hated know- ledge, and receiued not the feare of the Lorde, but abhorred my counsayle, and despysed my correccion : then shall it be to late A COMMINATION. 211 to knock, when the dore shall be shutte, and to late to crye for mercy, when it is the time of Justice. O terrible voyce of moste iuste iudgemente, whiche shall be pronounced upon them, when it shalbe sayd unto them : Goe ye cursed into the fyre euerlasting, Matt. xxv. which is prepared for the deuill and hys Aungels. Therefore, brethren, take we hede betime, whyle the day of saluacion lasteth, 2 Cor. vi. for the nyght cometh when none can worke : but lette us, whyle we haue the lyght, beleue in the lyght, and walke as the children John ix. of the lyght, that we be not cast into the uttre darkenesse, where is wepyng and gnashyng of teeth. Let us not abuse the goodnes Matt. xxv. of God, which calleth us mercifully to amendement, and of hys endlesse pitie promyseth us forgeueness of that whiche is paste, if (with a whole mynd and true heart) we returne unto hym : for Esai. i. though our sins be red as scarlet, they shall be as white as Snowe ; Ezech.xxviii. and thoughe they bee lyke purple, yet shall they be as white as wolle. Turne you clene (sayth the Lord) from all youre wycked- nesse, and youre synne shall not be youre destruccion. Caste awaye from you all your ungodlynes that ye haue done, make you new heartes, and a newe spirite : wherfore wil ye die, O ye house of Israel? Seeyng that I haue no pleasure in the death of hym that dyeth ? (sayeth the Lorde God.) Turne you then, and you shall lyue. Althoughe we haue synned, yet haue we an aduocate i John ii. with the father, Jesus Chryste the ryghteous : and he it is that obteyneth grace for our sinnes ; for he was wounded for our Esai. Hii. offences, and smitten for our wickednes. Let us therefore returne unto hym, who is the merciful receyuer of all true penytent synners, assuring our self, that he is ready to receiue us, and most wyllyng to pardon us, if we come to hym with faythfull repentaunce : if we wil submit ourselues unto hym, and from hencefurth walke in hys wayes : if we wil take his easye yoke Mat xi. and light burden upon us, to folowe him in lowlinesse, pacience, and charitie, and be ordered by the gouernaunce of his holy spirite, seking alwayes his glory, and seruing him duely in our vocacion, with thankesgeuing. This if we doe, Christ wil deliuer us from the curse of the law, and from the extreme malediccion, whiche shal light upon them that shal bee set on the left hand : and he wil set us on his ryght hand, and geue us the blessed Matt. xxv. benediccion of his father, commaundyng us to take possession of his glorious kyngdome ; unto the which he vouchesafe to bryng us all, for hys infinite mercy. Amen. Then shall they all knele upon their knees : and the Priestes and Clerks kneling (where thei are accustomed to saye the Letany} shal saye this Psalme. HAUE mercy upon me, (O God,) after thy great goodness : Miserere accordyng to the multitude of thy mercies, do awaye myne w ~ ^**- offences. Wash me throughly from my wickednes, and dense me from my sinne. 212 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. For I knowledge my faultes, and my synne is euer before me. Againste thee onely have I synned, and done this euil in thy syght : that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and cleare when thou art iudged. Beholde I was shapen in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceiued me. But lo, thou requirest trueth in the inwarde parties, and shalt make me to understande wisdome secretly. Thou shalt purge me with Isope, and I shalbe cleane : thou shalt washe me, and I shalbe whiter then Snowe. Thou shalt make me heare of ioye and gladnesse, that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce. Turne thy face from my synnes, and put out all my misdedes. Make me a cleane heart, (O God) and renewe a right spirite within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirite from me. O geue me the comforte of thy helpe agayne, and stablishe me with thy free spirite. Then shal I teache thy wayes unto the wycked, and synners shalbe conuerted unto thee. Deliuer me from bloud-guyltinesse, (O god,) thou that art the god of my health : and my tongue shal sing of thy ryghteousne's. Thou shalt open my lippes, (O lord) and my mouth shall shewe thy prayse. For thou desyrest no sacrifice, els would I geue it thee : but thou delyghtest not in burnt-offeryng. The sacrifice of god is a troubled spirite, a broken and a con trite heart, (O god,) shalt thou not despyse. O be fauourable and gracious unto Syon, buyld thou the walles of H Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousnesse, with the burnte-offeryngs and oblacions : then shall they offer young bullockes upon thyne altare. Glory be to the father, and to the sonne, &c. As it was in the beginning, and is nowe, &c. Lord, haue mercy upon us. Chryst, haue mercy upon us. Lord, haue mercy upon us. IF Our father, which art in heauen> &c. And lead us not into temptacion. Aims-were. But deliuer us from euil. Amen, Minister. O Lorde, saue thy sertiaunts. Aunsivere. Which put their trust in thee. A COMMINATION. 213 Minister. Sende unto them helpe from aboue. Aunswere, And euermore mightely defende them. Minister. Helpe us, O god our sauioure. Aunswere. And for the glory of thy names sake deliuer us, bee mercifull unto us synners for thy names sake. Minister. O Lorde, heare our prayers. Aunsivere. And let our crye come to thee. Let us praye. O LORD, we beseche thee mercifully heare our prayers, and spare all those whiche confess their sinnes to thee, that they (whose conscyences by synne are accused,) by thy mercyfull pardon maye be absolued : Through Chryste our Lorde. Amen. O MOST mightie god and mercyfull father, which hast compas- sion of al men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made : which wouldest not the death of a synner, but that he shoulde rather turne from synne and be saued : mercifully forgeue us our tres- passes, receyue and comfort us, which be greued and weried with the burthen of our synnes. Thy property is to haue mercy ; to thee only it apperteineth to forgeue sinnes : spare us therfore, good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redemed. Entre not into Judgemente with thy seruaunts, which be vile yearth, and miser- able synners : but so turne thy yre from us, which mekely know- ledge our vilenesse, and truely repente us of our fatiltes : so make haste to helpe us in thys worlde, that we maye euer lyue with thee, in the worlde to come : through Jesus Christe our Lord. Amen. 1T Then shal the people say this that foloiveth, after the Minister. TURNE thou us, O good lorde, and so shall we bee turned : bee fauourable (O Lord) bee fauourable to thy people, whiche turne to thee in wepyng, fastyng and praying : for thou art a merciful god, ful of compassion, long suffering, and of a great pitie : Thou sparest when we deserue punishmente, and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy. Spare thy people, good Lorde, spare them, and lette not thy heritage be broughte to confusion : Hear us (O Lord) for thy mercy is great, and after the multytude of thy mercyes looke upon us. fmmne mmw of mafcjmfl* , an* Dracons, Domini, M.D.L.II. THE PREFACE. IT is euident unto all men, diligently readinge holye Scripture, and auncient aucthours, that from the Apostles tyme there hathe bene these ordres of Ministers in Christ's Church : Bishoppes, Priestes, and Deacons : which Offices were euermore had in suche reuerent estimacion, that no man by his own priuate aucthoritie might presume to execute any of them, except he were first called, tried, examined, and knowen to have such qualities as were requi- site for the same ; And also, by publique prayer, with imposi- cion of handes, approued, and admitted therunto. And therfore, to the entent these orders shoulde bee continued, and reuerentlye used, and estemed, in this Church of England ; it is requysite, that no man (not beyng at thys presente Bisshoppe, Priest, nor Deacon) shall execute anye of them, excepte he be called, tryed, examined, and admitted, accordynge to the forme hereafter folowinge. And none shalbe admitted a Deacon, except he be xxi yeres of age at the least. And euery man which is to be admitted a Priest, shalbe full xxiv yeres old. And euery man, which is to be consecrated a Bishop, shalbe fully thyrtie yeres of age. And the Bishop know- inge, eyther by himself, or by sufficient testimonye, any person to be a man of vertuous conuersacion, and wythoute cryme, and after examinacion and triale, fyndynge hym learned in the Latyne tongue, and sufficientlye instructed in holye Scripture, maye, upon a Sundaye or Holy daye, in the face of the church, admitte hym a Deacon, in suche maner and fourme as hereafter foloweth. THE FOURME AND MANER OF ORDERINGE OF DEACONS. Fyrst, when the daye appoynted by the Bishoppe is come, there shalbe an exhortation, declaring the duetie and office of suche as come to be admitted Ministers, howe necessarye such Orders are in the Churche of Christe, and also, howe the people oughte to esteme them in theyr vocation. IT After the exhortation ended, the Archedeacon, or his deputie, shal present such as come to the Bishop to be admitted, saying these ivordes. REVERENDE Father in GOD, I presente unto you these persones present, to bee admitted Deacons. IT The Bishoppe. Take heede that the persones whom ye present unto us, be apte and meete, for theyr learning, and godlye con- uersacion, to exercyse theyr ministrie duelye, to the honour of GOD, and edyfying of hys Churche. The Archedeacon shall aunswere. I haue enquyred of them, and also examined them, and thinke them so to bee. IT And then the Bishop shall saye unto the people, BRETHREN, yf there bee anye of you, who knoweth anye 5m- pedimente, or notable crime, in any of these persones presented to bee ordered Deacons, for the whiche he ought not to be admitted to the same, lette hym come foorthe, in the name of GOD, and shewe what the cryme, or impedimente is. II And yf any great cryme or impediment be obiected, the Bishoppe shall surcease from ordering that person, untyl suche tyme as the partie accused shal trye himself clere of that cryme. If 1 'hen the Bishop, commending suche as shalbe found mete to be ordered, to the prayers of the congregation, wyth the Clerkes, and people present, shall saye or synge the Letany as folith the Priestes present shal Jay theyr handes seuerally upon the head of euery one that receiueth orders : the receiuers humbly knelyng upon their knees, and the Bishop saying : RECEIUE the holy gost : whose sinnes thou doest forgeue, they are forgeuen : and whose synnes thou doest retayne, they are 234 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. retayned : and bee thou a faithful dispenser of the worde of god, and of his holy Sacramentes. In the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holy gost. Amen. IT The Bishop shal deliuer to euery one of them the Bible in his hande, saying. TAKE thou aucthoritie to preache the worde of God, and to minister the holy Sacramentes in this congregacion where thou shalte be so appointed. IT When thys is doen, the congregacion shall syng the Crede, and also thei shal goe to the Communion, which al they that receiue orders shal take together, and remainc in the same place where the handes were layd upon them, untyl suche time as thei haue receiued the Communion. IT The Communion beyng doen, after the last Collecte, and immediatly before the benedicdon, shall be sayd this Collecte. MOST merciful] father, we beseche thee, so to sende upon these thy seruaunts thy heauenly blessing, that they may be cladde about with all justice, and that thy worde spoken by their mouthes may haue such successe, that it may neuer be spoken in vayne. Graunt also that we maye haue grace to heare and receiue the same as thy moste holy worde, and the meane of our saluacion, that in al our wordes and dedes we may seke thy glory and the encrease of thy kingdom, thorow Jesus Christ our Lorde. Amen. IT And if the Orders of Deacon and Priest hod be geuen both upon one day, then shal al things at the holy Communion be used as they are appointed at the orderyng of Priests. Sailing that for the Epistle, the whole thirde chapter of the first to Timothe shal be read, as it is sette out before in the order of Priests. And immediatly after the Epistle, the Deacons shal be ordred. And it shall suffice the Let any to be sayed once. THE FOURME OF CONSECRATING OF AN ARCHEBISSHOPPE OR BYSSHOPPE. IT At the Communion. The Epistle. THIS is a true saying, If a manne desire the office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth an honeste woorke. A Bisshoppe therefore muste bee blamelesse, the husbande of one wife, dilygente, sobre, discrete, a keper of hospitalitie, apte to teache, not geuen to ouer- muche wyne, no fyghter, not greedy of filthie lucre, but gentle, abhorryng fightinge, abhorringe couetousnesse, one that ruleth wel his owne house ; one that hath children in subieccion with all reuerence. For if a man cannot rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God ? he maye not be a young scholer, lest he swel, and fal into the judgement of the euil speaker. He must also haue a good report of them which are without, lest he fal into rebuke and snare of the euil speaker. The Gospel. JESUS sayd to Symon Peter, Symon Johanna, loueste thou me John iiii more than these? He said unto him, Yea, lorde, thou knowest (sic -) that I loue thee. He said unto hym, Fede my lambes. He said to him again the second time : Simon Johanna, louest thou me? He sayd unto him, Yea, lorde, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said unto him, Feede my shepe. He sayed unto hym the thirde tyme, Simon Johanna, louest thou me? Peter was sory because he sayd unto hym the third time, louest thou me ? and he sayd unto him : lord, thou knowest al thynges, thou knowest that I loue thee. Jesus said unto him, fede my shepe. IT Or els out of the tenth Chapiter of John, as before in thorder of Pries tes. 1T After the gospel and Credo ended, firste the elected Bishoppe, shall bee presented by two Bishop pes tmto the Archebishoppe of that Prouince, or to some other Byshoppe appoynted by his commission : the Bishoppes thai present hym sayinge. MOST reuerend father in god, we present unto you this godly and wel learned man to be consecrated Bishoppe. 236 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI. 1552. II l^hen shal the Archebishoppe demaund the Kyng's mandate for the con- secration, and cause it to be read. And the othe touching the knowledge of the king's supremade shalbe ministred to the person elected, as it is set oute in the Order of Deacons. And then shalbe ministred also the othe of due obedience unto the Archebishoppe as foloweth. IF THE OTHE OF DUE OBEDIENCE to the Archebishoppe. IN the name of god, Amen. I, N. chosen Bishoppe of the Churche, and sie of N. doe professe and promesse all due reuerence and obedience to the Archebishoppe and to the Metropoliticall churche of A", and to their successours, so helpe me god throughe Jesus Chryste. IT This othe shal not be made at the consecration of an Archebishoppe. IT Then the Archebishoppe shal moue the congregation present to praye t saying thus to them. BRETHREN, it is written in the gospell of Saincte Luke, that cure sauiour Christe continued the whole nighte in prayer or euer that he did chose and sende furth his xii Apostles. It is written also in the Actes of the Apostles, that the disciples which were at Antioche did fast and pray or euer they layed handes upon or sent furth Paul and Barnabas. Let us therefore, folowing the example of our sauiour Chryste and hys Apostles, firste fall to prayer or that we admit and sende furth thys person presented unto us, to the worke whereunto we trust the holy gost hath called hym. IT And then shalbe said the Letany as afore in the order of Deacons. And after this place : That it maye please the to illuminate al Bishoppes &*c. he shal saye. THAT it maye please thee to blesse this oure brother elected, and to sende thy grace upon hym, that he may duly execute the office whereunto he is called, to the edifying of thy churche, and to the honoure, prayse and glorye of thy name. Aunswere. We beseche thee to heare us, good Lorde. IT Concludyng the Letany e in the ende with this prayer : ALMIGHTIE God, geuer of all good thinges, whiche by thy holy spirit hast appointed diuerse orders of ministers in thy Church : mercifully behold this thy seruaunt now called to the worke and ministery of a Bishoppe, and replenishe him so with the trueth of thy doctrine and innocencie of lyfe, that both by worde and dede he maye faithfully serue thee in this office, to the glorye of thy name, and profile of thy congregacyon : Throughe the merites of our sauioure Jesu Christ, who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy gost, worlde without ende. Amen. CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS. 237 IT Then the Archebishoppe sitting in a chaire, shal saye this to hym that is to be consecrated. BROTHER, forasmuch as holy Scripture and the olde Canons commaundeth, that we should not be hasty in laying on handes and admitting of any person to the gouernement of the congrega- cyon of Chryste, whiche he hath purchased with no lesse price then the effusion of his own bloud : afore that I admit you to this administracion whereunto ye are called, I wyll examine you in certayne articles, to thend the congregacion presente may haue a trial and beare witnes howe ye be mynded to behaue your self in the church of god. Are you perswaded that you bee truely called to this ministracion accordyng to the wyll of oure Lorde Jesus Chryste and the ordre of thys realme ? Aunswere. I am so perswaded. The Archebishoppe. Are you perswaded that the holy Scriptures conteine sufficiently all doctryne required of necessitie for eter- nall saluacion throughe the faith in Jesu Christ? And are you determined with the same holy scriptures to enstruct the people committed to your charge, and to teache or mainteine nothyng, as required of necessitie to eternall saluacyon, but that you shalbe perswaded may be concluded and proued by the same ? Aunswere. I am so perswaded and determined by god's grace. The Archbishoppe. Will you then faithfully exercise yourselfe in the sayed holy scriptures, and call upon god by prayer for the true understanding of the same, so as ye maye be able by them to teache and exhorte with wholesome doctryne, and to withstande and conuince the gainsaiers ? Aunswere. I wyl so doe, by the helpe of god. The Archebishoppe. Be you ready with all faithfull diligence to banishe and driue away all erronious and straunge doctrine con- trarye to God's word, and both priuately and openly to call upon, and encourage other to the same ? Aunswere. I am ready, the Lord beyng my helper. The Archebishoppe. Will you deny all ungodlynesse, and worldly lustes, and Hue soberly, ryghteously, and Godly in this worlde, that you maye shewe yourselfe in all thynges an example of good woorkes unto other, that the aduersary may be ashamed, hauing nothing to laye agaynste you ? Aunswere. I wyl so doe, the lorde beyng my helper. The Archebishoppe. Will you maintaine and set forwarde (as much as shal lie in you) quietnesse, peace, and loue, emonge al men? And such as be unquiete, disobedyent, and criminous within your Diocesse, correcte and punyshe, accordyng to suche aucthoritie, as ye haue by God's word, and as to you shall bee committed, by the ordinaunce of thys realme ? Aunswere. I wyl so doe, by the helpe of god. The Archebishoppe. Wil you shewe yourself gentle, and be 238 SECOND PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VL 1552. mercifull for Christ's sake, to poore and nedy people, and to al straungers destitute of helpe ? Armsivere. I wil so shewe myselfe, by god's helpe. The Archebishoppe. Almightie god our heauenly father, who hath geuen you a good wil to doe al these thynges : graunte also unto you strength and power, to performe the same, that he ac- complishing in you the good worke whiche he hath begon, ye maye be founde perfecte and irreprehensible at the latter daye : through Jesu Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shalbe song or sayd, Come holy gost, &"<:. as it is set out in the Order of Priests. That elided, the Archbishoppe shal say. Lorde, heare our prayer. Aunswere. And let our crie come unto thee. IT Let us praye. ALMIGHTIE God and moste mercyfull father, whiche of thy in- finite goodnesse, hast geuen to us thy onely and moste dere be- loued sonne Jesus Chryste, to bee oure redemer and aucthoure of euerlastyng lyfe, who after that he had made perfect our redemp- cion by hys death, and was ascended into heauen, powred down his giftes abundauntly upon men, makyng some Apostles, some Prophetes, some Euangelistes, some Pastours and Doctours, to the edifying and makyng perfecte of his congregacion : Graunte, we beseche thee, to thys thy seruaunt such grace, that he maye euer- more be ready to spreade abrode thy gospell, and glad tidings of reconcilement to god, and to use the authoritie geuen unto him, not to destroie, but to saue, not to hurt, but to helpe, so that he as a wise and a faithfull seruaunt, geuing to thy family meate in due season, may at the last daye be receiued into joye, throughe Jesu Christe our lorde, who with thee and the holy gost liueth and reigneth one God, worlde withoute ende. Amen. IT Then the Archebishoppe and Bishoppes present shal lay theyr handes upon the head of the elected Bishop, the Archebishoppe saying. TAKE the holy goste, and remember that thou stirre up the grace of God, which is in thee, by imposicion of handes : for god hath not geuen us the spirite of feare, but of powere, and loue, and of sobernesse. IT Then the Archebishoppe shall deliuer him the Bible, saying. GEUE hede unto readyng, exhortacyon and doctryne. Thinke upon these things conteyned in thys boke, be diligente in them, that the encrease comyng thereby maye be manifeste unto al men. Take hede unto thyselfe, and unto teachyng, and be diligente in doyng them : for by doing thys thou shalte saue CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS. 239 thyselfe and them that heare thee ; bee to the flocke of Christ a shepeherde, not a wolfe, fede them, deuoure them not, holde up the weake, heale the sycke, binde together the broken, brynge agayne the outcastes, seke the lost : Be so merciful, that you be not too remisse, so minister discipline, that you forgeat not mercye : that when the chief shepeheard shal come, ye may receiue the immar- cessible croune of glorye, through Jesus Christ oure Lorde. Amen. IT Then the Archbishoppe shal precede to the Communion, witk whom the newe consecrated Byshoppe with other shall also communicate. 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