cause he made himself the SON OF Then the soldiers, when they had GOD. When Pilate therefore heard crucified JESUS, took his garments, that saying, he was the more afraid; (and made four parts, to every soldier and went again into the judgment- a part) and also his coat: now the hall, and saith unto JESUS, Whence coat was without seam, woven from art thou? But JESUS gave him no the top throughout. They said thereanswer. Then saith Pilate unto him, fore among themselves, Let us not Speakest thou not unto me? Know-rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it est thou not that I have power to cru- shall be that the Scripture might be cify thee, and have power to release fulfilled, which saith, They parted thee? JESUS answered, Thou could- my raiment among them, and for my est have no power at all against me, vesture they did cast lots. These except it were given thee frem above; things therefore the soldiers did. Now therefore he that delivered me unto there stood by the cross of JESUS, his thee hath the greater sin. And from mother, and his mother's sister, Mary thenceforth Pilate sought to release the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Maghim; but the Jews cried out, saying, dalene. When JESUS, therefore, saw If thou let this man go, thou art not his mother, and the disciple standing Cæsar's friend: whosoever maketh by whom he loved, he saith unto his himself a king, speaketh against mother, Woman, behold thy son. Cæsar. When Pilate therefore heard Then saith he to the disciple, Behold that saying, he brought JESUS forth, thy mother. And from that hour that and sat down in the judgment-seat, disciple took her unto his own home. In a place that is called the Pave- After this, JESUS knowing that all ment, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. things were now accomplished, that And it was the preparation of the the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, passover, and about the sixth hour: I thirst. Now there was set a vesand he saith unto the Jews, Behold sel full of vinegar: and they filled your King. But they cried out, Away a sponge with vinegar, and put it with him, away with him, crucify him. upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify When JESUS, therefore, had received your King? The chief priests answer the vinegar, he said, It is finished: ed, We have no king but Cæsar. Then and he bowed his head, and gave up delivered he him therefore unto them the ghost. The Jews, therefore, beto be crucified: and they took JESUS, cause it was the preparation, that the and led him away. And he, bearing his bodies should not remain upon the cross, went forth into a place called the cross on the sabbath-day, (for that sabplace of a skull, which is called in the bath-day was a high day) besought Hebrew Golgotha; where they cru- Pilate that their legs might be brok

en, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to JESUS, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forth with came thereout blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he know. eth that he saith true, that ye might

cified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and JESUS in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross; and the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews; for the place where JESUS was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Theu said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews: but that he said, I am believe. For these things were done, King of the Jews. Pilate answered, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, What I have written, I have written. A bone of him shall not be broken.

And again another Scripture saith, rock; and he rolled a great stone to They shall look on him whom they the door of the sepulchre, and de

pierced.

EASTER-EVEN.

The Collect.

parted. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,

GRANT, O LORD, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour JESUS CHRIST, so by continual mortifying our corrupt After three days I will rise again. affections, we may be buried with Command therefore that the sepul him; and that through the grave and chre be made sure until the third gate of death we may pass to our day, lest his disciples come by night, joyful resurrection, for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. IT is better, if the will of GOD be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. For CHRIST also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, (that he might bring us to GOD) being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. The like figure whereunto, even Baptism, doth also now save us (not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward GOD) by the resurrection of

JESUS CHRIST: who is gene into heaven, and is on the right hand of GOD; angels, and authorities, and powers, being made subject unto him. The Gospel. St. Matt. xxvii. 57.

and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as you can. So they went and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

EASTER-DAY.

At Morning Prayer, instead of the

of the Psalm, (0 come let us sing, &c.) these anthems sung or said.

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

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

dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

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

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

WHEN the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was JESUS' disciple: he went to Pilate, and begged the body of JESUS. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the 1 Cor. xv. 20...

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

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

For as in Adam all die; even so in CHRIST shall all be made alive. The Collect.

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went into the sepulchre, and seeth ALMIGHTY GOD, who through the linen clothes lie; and the napkin thine only - begotten Son JESUS that was about his head not lying CHRIST hast overcome death, and with the linen clothes, but wrapped opened unto us the gate of everlast together in a place by itself. Then ing life; we humbly beseech thee, went in also that other disciple which that as, by thy special grace prevent came first to the sepulchre, and he ing us, thou dost put into our minds saw, and believed. For as yet they good desires; so by thy continual knew not the Scripture, that he must help we may bring the same to good rise again from the dead. Then the effect, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the HOLY GHOST, ever one GOD, world without end. Amen.

The Epistle. Col. iii. 1.

disciples went away again unto their own home.

MONDAY IN EASTER-WEEK.
The Collect.

IF ye then be risen with CHRIST, ALMIGHTY GOD, who through seek those things which are above, thine only begotten Son JESUS where CHRIST sitteth on the right CHRIST hast overcome death, and hand of GOD. Set your affection on opened unto us the gate of everlasting things above, not on things on the life; we humbly beseech thee, that earth: for ye are dead, and your life as, by thy special grace preventing is hid with CHRIST in GOD. When us, thou dost put into our minds good CHRIST, who is our life, shall ap- desires; so by thy continual help we pear, then shall ye also appear with may bring the same to good effect, him in glory. Mortify therefore your through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord; rmembers which are upon the earth; who liveth and reigneth with thee fornication, uncleanness, inordinate and the HOLY GHOST, ever one affection, evil concupiscence, and co- Gon, world without end. Amen. vetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of GOD cometh on the children of disobe

dience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.

For the Epistle. Acts x. 34. PETER opened his mouth, and

said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. The word which Gon sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by JESUS CHRIST; (he is LORD of all:) that word, say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judea, and began from. Galilee, after the baptism which John

The Gospel. St. John xx. 1. THE first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom JESUS loved, and saith unto them, They have taken preached: how GOD anointed JESUS away the Lord out of the sepulchre, of Nazareth with the HOLY GHOST,

and we know not where they have and with power; who went about laid him. Peter therefore went forth, doing good, and healing all that were and that other disciple, and came to oppressed of the devil: for God was the sepulchre. So they ran both to with him. And we are witnesses of gether; and the other disciple did all things which he did, both in the outrun Peter, and came first to the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, sepulchre; and he, stooping down whom they slew, and hanged on a and looking in, saw the linen clothes tree. Him God raised up the third lying, yet went he not in. Then com- day, and showed him openly; not to eth Simon Peter following him, and all the people, but unto witnesses

chosen before of God, even to us, slow of heart to believe all that the who did eat and drink with him after prophets have spoken! ought not he rose from the dead. And he com- CHRIST to have suffered these things, manded us to preach unto the people, and to enter into his glory? And be and to testify that it is he who was ginning at Moses and all the prophets, ordained of God to be the judge of he expounded unto them in all the quick and dead. To him give all the Scriptures, the things concerning prophets witness, that through his himself. And they drew nigh unto name, whosoever believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins.

the village whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further: but they constrained The Gospel. St. Luke xxiv. 13. him, saying, Abide with us; for it is BEHOLD, two of his disciples toward evening, and the day is far went that same day to a village called spent. And he went in to tarry with Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem them. And it came to pacs, as he about threescore furlongs. And they sat at meat with them, he took bread, talked together of all these things and blessed it, and brake, and gave to which had happened. And it came them. And their eyes were opened, to pass, that while they communed and they knew him, and he vanished together, and reasoned, JESUS hin- out of their sight. And they said one self drew near, and went with them. to another, Did not our heart burn But their eyes were holden that they within us, when he talked with us by should not know him. And be said the way, and while he opened to us unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him,

the Scriptures? And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen

Art thou only a stranger in Jerusa indeed, and hath appeared unto Silem, and hast not known the things mon. And they told what things which are come to pass there in these were done in the way, and how he days? And he said unto them, What was known of them in breaking of

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things? And they said unto him, bread.

TUESDAY IN EASTER-WEEK.

Concerning JESUS of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word, before GOD and all the people: and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he who

The Collect.

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

should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done. Yea, as, by thy special grace preventing and certain women also of our com- us, thou dost put into our minds good pany made us astonished, who were desires; so by thy continual help we early at the sepulchre; and when may bring the same to good effect, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord;

who liveth and reigneth with thes

they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had seen a vision of angels, which said that he and the HOLY GHOST, ever one was alive. And certain of them who GOD, world without end. Amen. were with us went to the sepulchre, For the Epistle. Acts xiii. 26. and found it even so as the women MEN and brethren, children of had said; but him they saw not. the stock of Abraham, and whosoever Then he said unto them, O fools, and among you feareth GoD, to you is the

word of this salvation sent. For they be unto you. But they were terrified that dwell at Jerusalem, and their and affrighted, and supposed that they rulers, because they knew him not, had seen a spirit. And he said unto nor yet the voices of the prophets them, Why are ye troubled, and why which are read every sabbath-day, do thoughts arise in your hearts? they have fulfilled them in condemn- Behold my hands and my feet, that it ing him. And though they found no is I myself: handle me, and see; for cause of death in him, yet desired a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as they Pilate that he should be slain. ye sec me have. And when he had And when they had fulfilled all that thus spoken, he showed them his was written of him, they took him hands and his feet. And while they down from the tree, and laid him in yet believed not for joy, and wonthe sepulchre. But God raised him dered, he said unto them, Have ye from the dead: And he was seen here any meat? And they gave him many days of them which came up a piece of a broiled fish, and of an with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, honey-comb. And he took it, and who are his witnesses unto the peo- did eat before them. And he said ple. And we declare unto you glad unto them, These are the words tidings, how that the promise which which I spake unto you, while I was was made unto the fathers, GOD hath yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled the same unto us their child- fulfilled which were written in the ren, in that he hath raised up JESUS law of Moses, and in the Prophets, again; as it is also written in the and in the Psalms, concerning me. second Psalm, Thou art my Son, Then opened he their understanding, this day have I begotten thee. And that they might understand the Scripas concerning that he raised him up tures; and said unto them, Thus it from the dead, now no more to return is written, and thus it behoved to corruption, he said on this wise, I CHRIST to suffer, and to rise from will give you the sure mercies of the dead the third day; and that reDavid. Wherefore he saith also in pentance and remission of sins should another Psalm, Thou shalt not suffer be preached in his name among all thine Holy One to see corruption. nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And For David, after he had served his ye are witnesses of these things.

own generation, by the will of GOD, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prorhets, Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

The Gospel. St. Luke xxiv. 36. JESUS himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace

THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER
EASTER.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth, through the merits of the same thy Son JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. 1 John v. 4.

WHATSOEVER is born of GOB, overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that be lieveth that Jesus is the SON OF