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made unto the fathers: And THE THIRD SUNDAY IN
that the Gentiles might glorify
God for his mercy; as it is
written, For this cause I will
confess to thee among the Gen-
tiles, and sing unto thy name:
And again he saith, Rejoice ye
Gentiles, with his people: And
again, Praise the Lord, all ye
Gentiles; and laud him, all ye
people. And again Esaias saith,
There shall be a root of Jesse,
and he that shall rise to reign
over the Gentiles, in him shall
the Gentiles trust. Now the
God of hope fill you with all
joy and peace in believing, that
ye may abound inhope, through
the power of the Holy Ghost.
The Gospel. St. Luke xxi. 25.

AND there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the Cearth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring: men's hearts failing them for fear, and se thingor looking after those things he earth thich are coming on the earth; perplexelque

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swered, No. Then said they
unto him, Who art thou? that
we may give an answer to them
that sent us: What sayest thou
of thyself? He said, I am the
voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Make straight the
way of the Lord, as said the
prophet Esaias. And they
which were sent were of the
Pharisees. And they asked
him, and said unto him, Why
baptizest thou then, if thou be
not that Christ, nor Elias, neid b
ther that Prophet? Jobago
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tion of sons. And, because yo are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God, through Christ.

The Gospel. St. Matt. i. 18. THE birth of Jesus Christ

was on this wise: When

as his motherMary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with Joseph her husband, being a child of the Holy Ghost. Then just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him

NOW I say, that the heir, as name Emmanuel, which being
long as he is a child, dif-interpreted, is, God with us.
fereth nothing from a servant, Then Joseph, being raised from
though he be lord of all; but is sleep, did as the angel of the
under tutors and governors, un-
Lord had bidden him, and took
til the time appointed of the fa- unto him his wife; and knew
ther. Even so we, when we forth her first-born Son; and he
her not till she had brought
were children, were in bondage called his name Jesus.
under the elements of the
world; but when the fulness of
the time was come, God sent
forth hisSon,made of a woman,
made under the law, to redeem

that what were univer the law: Aldest thy blessed on to that we might receive the adop

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