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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
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 swered them, saying. Bredit Box ifthon Huodt
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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