the wholesome medicines of the doctrine delivered by him, all the diseases of our fouls may be healed, through the merits of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

WA

The Epiftle. 2 Tim. iv. 5.

ATCH thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an Evangelift, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my courfe, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge fhall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto them alfo that love his appearing. Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: for Demas hath forfaken me, having loved this prefent world, and is departed unto Theffalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the miniftry. And Tychicus have I fent to Ephefus. The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comeft, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him ac cording to his works: of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

The Gospel. St. Luke x. 1.

HE Lord appointed other feventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore faid he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harveft that he would fend forth labourers into his harvest. your ways, behold, I fend you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purfe, nor fcrip, nor fhoes: and falute no man by the way. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first fay, Peace be to this houfe. And if the

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Reward Spoken either prophetically, viz. will reward; or authoritatively as an apoftle, denouncing on Alexander bodily difeafes, for juft reafons, and to reclaim him from his fin: a denunciation fuggefted by the impulfe of the fpirit.

fon of peace be there, your peace fhall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the fame house remain, eating and drinking fuch things as they give: for the labourer is worthy his hire.

St. Simon and St. Jude Apostles.
The Collett.

Almighty God, who haft built thy Church upon the foundation of thy Apoftles and Prophets, Jefus Christ himself being the head corner-ftone; Grant us fo to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine,

St. Simon and St. Jude] There are two faints commemorated by the church this day. The first is Simon, furnamed “The Canaanite," Mat. X.4; and Zelotes, Luke vi. 15; Acts i. 13; which two names are the fame, for the Hebrew word canaan fignifies a zelot. There was a fect of men called zelots, about the time of Chrift, in Judea, who, out of pretended zeal for God's honour, would commit the moft grievous outrages; they would choose and ordain high-priefts out of the bafeft of the people, and murder men of the principal dignity.-Jofeph. Bell. Jud. lib. iv. cap. II, 12. It is probable that Simon, before his converfion and call, might be one of this fect; or, however, fome fire and fiercenefs in his temper gave occafion for his being called the Zelot. He was one of the twelve Apoftles, and kin to our bleffed Lord; either his half-brother, being one of Jofeph's fons by another wife, as all the Greek fathers contend, or coufin by his mother's fide. Moft certain this is that Simon which is meant, Matt. xiii. 55, "Are not his brethren, James, and Jofes, and Simon, and Judas?" There is a tradition, that it was at his marriage in Cana of Galilee that our Saviour was prefent.-Niceph. lib. viii. cap. 3c. After our Saviour's afcenfion, he is recorded to have preached the gofpel in Mefopotamia, (Hier. in Ep. ad Gal. cap. iv. and cont. Helo.) that he preached likewife in Egypt and Africa is related by others, Ifid. de vit. and obit. Sanct. And (if we may credit Nicephorus, a later writer) that he extended his miffion as far as Britain.-Niceph. lib. ii. 40. He fuffered martyrdom in Perfia.

Jude the other apoftle, whofe memory is this day obferved, was one of the twelve apoftles, brother to James, (Jude i.) and therefore bore the fame relation with him to our Saviour. He was the fame Judas mentioned in the verse before cited, "Are not his brethren, James, and Jofes, and Simon, and Judas?" He had two furnames, one was Thaddeus, which which does not seem to be more than a diminutive or fmall alteration of Judas, and is derived from the fame root in Hebrew as Judas is. Labbæus is derived from a word in the Hebrew which fignifies heart, and is as much as corculum, or little heart. He preached the gofpel with his brother in Mefopotamia, Arabia, and Idumea, &c.-Niceph. Hift. lib. ii. cap. 4. He fuffered martyrdom at Berytus.

The Collect This prayer for unity of fpirit was composed in 1549The introitus was pfalm cl.

that we may be made an holy temple, acceptable unto Thee, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

JUD

The Epiftle. St. Jude i.

UDE the fervant of Jefus Chrift, and brother of James, to them that are fanctified by God the Father, and preferved in Jefus Chrift, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common falvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the faints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lafcivioufnefs, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jefus Chrift. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having faved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath referved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themfelves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, fuffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewife alfo these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and fpeak evil of dignities.

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The Gofpel. St. John xv. 17.

THESE things world
HESE things I command you, that ye love one ano-

ther. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chofen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I faid unto you, The fervant is not greater than the lord: if they have perfecuted me, they will also perfecute you. If they have kept my faying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my Name's

fake, because they know not him that fent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had fin: but now they have no cloak for their fin. He that hateth me, hateth my Father alfo. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had fin: but now have they both feen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a caufe. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will fend unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he hall testify of me: and ye alfo fhall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

All Saints Day.

The Collect.

Almighty God, who haft knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord; Grant us grace fo to follow thy bleffed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys, which thou haft prepared for them that unfeignedly love thee, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. Rev. vii. 2.

ANDI faw another angel afcending from the east, having the feal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was

All Saints] This feaft is not of very great antiquity in the church. About the year of our Lord 610, the heathen pantheon, or temple dedicated to all the gods, at the defire of Boniface IV. bishop of Rome, was taken from the heathens by Phocas the emperor, and dedicated to the honour of all martyrs: hence came the original of all Saints, which was then celebrated upon the firft of May. Afterwards, by an order of Gregory IV. it was removed to the firft of November, A. D. 834, as it has flood ever fince. Our reformers having laid afide the celebration of a great many martyrs' days, which had grown too numerous and cumberfome to the church, thought fit to retain this day, wherein, by a general commemoration, our church gives God thanks for them all.

The Collect This prayer for grace to cultivate the holiness of the faints was compofed 1549. The introitus was pfalm cxlix.

given to hurt the earth and the fea, faying, Hurt not the earth, neither the fea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the fervants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were fealed; and there were fealed an hundred and forty and four thoufand, of all the tribes of the children of Ifrael.

Of the tribe of Juda were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Afer were fealed twelve thoufand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manaffes were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Ifachar were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Jofeph were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were fealed twelve thousand. After this I beheld, and, lo, a great number which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, ftood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, faying, Salvation to our God, which fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders, and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, faying, Amen: Bleffing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 1.

ESUS feeing the multitudes, went up into a mountain; and when he was fet, his difciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth, and taught them, faying, Bleffed are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Bleffed are they that mourn: for they fhall be comforted. Bleffed are the meek: for they fhall inherit the earth. Bleffed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteoufnefs: for they fhall be filled.