more offering for sin. Having, | Pilate therefore heard that saytherefore, brethren, boldness to ing, he was the more afraid;

enter into the holiest by the and went again into the judgblood of Jesus, by a new and ment-hall, and saith unto Jesus, living way, which he hath con- Whence art thou? But Jesus secrated for us through the vail, gave him no answer. Then saith that is to say, his flesh; and Pilate unto him, Speakest thon having an high priest over the not unto me? Knowest thou house of God; let us draw not that I have power to crucify near with a true heart, in full thee, and have power to release assurance of faith, having our thee? Jesus answered, Thou hearts sprinkled from an evil couldest have no power at all conscience, and our bodies against me, except it were given washed with pure water. Let thee from above; therefore he us hold fast the profession of that delivered me unto thee our faith without wavering; hath the greater sin. And from (for he is faithful that promis- thenceforth Pilate sought to reed;) and let us consider one lease him; but the Jews cried another to provoke unto love, out, saying, If thou let this man and to good works; not forsa-go, thou art not Cæsar's friend: king the assembling of our-Whosoever maketh himself a selves together, as the manner of king, speaketh against Cæsar. some is; but exhorting one an- When Pilate therefore heard other: and so much the more, that saying, he brought Jesus as ye see the day approaching. forth, and sat down in the judgThe Gospel. St. John xix. 1. called the Pavement, but in the ment-seat, in a place that is PILATE therefore took Je- Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was sus, and scourged him. And the preparation of the Passover, the soldiers platted a crown of and about the sixth hour: and thorns, and put it on his head, he saith unto the Jews, Behold and they put on him a purple your King. But they cried out, robe, and said, Hail, King of the Away with him, away with Jews! and they smote him with him, crucify him. Pilate saith their hands. Pilate therefore unto them, Shall I crucify your went forth again, and saith un-King? The chief priests anto them, Behold, I bring him swered, We have no king but forth to you, that ye may know Cæsar. Then delivered he him that I find no fault in him. therefore unto them to be cruThen came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man. When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify bim; for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When

cified: and they took Jesus, and led him away. And he, bearing his cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha; where they crucified 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 main upon the cross on the sabJesus was crucified was nigh to bath-day, (for that sabbath-day the city; and it was written in was an high day,) besought PiHebrew, and Greek, and La-late that their legs might be

tin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, (and made four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Ma

broken, 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 forthwith
came thereout blood and water.
And he that saw it bare record,
and his record is true: and he
knoweth that he saith true, that
ye might believe. For these
things were done, that the
Scripture should be fulfilled, A
bone of him shall not be broken.
And again another scripture
saith, They shall look on him
whom they pierced.

EASTER-EVEN.
The Collect.

ry Magdalene. When Jesus, GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death therefore, saw his mother, and of thy blessed Son our Saviour the disciple standing by whom Jesus Christ, so by continual he loved, he saith unto his mortifying our corrupt affecmother, Woman, behold thy tions, we may be buried with gon. Then saith he to the dis-him; and that through the ciple, Behold thy mother. And grave and gate of death we from that hour that disciple may pass to our joyful resurrectook her unto his own home. tion, for his merits, who died, After this, Jesus knowing that and was buried, and rose again all things were now accom- for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our plished, that the Scripture Lord. Amen. might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. of vinegar and they filled a T is better, if the will of God sponge with vinegar, and put it be so, that ye suffer for wellupon hyssop, and put it to his doing, than for evil-doing. For mouth. When Jesus, therefore, Christ also hath once suffered had received the vinegar, he for sins, the just for the unjust, said, It is finished: and he (that he might bring us to God,) bowed his head, and gave up being put to death in the flesh, the ghost. The Jews, therefore, but quickened by the spirit: by because it was the preparation, which also he went and preachthat the bodies should not re-led unto the spirits in prison

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EASTER-DAY.

which sometime were disobe-[ your way,make it as sure as you dient, when once the long-suf- can. So they went and made fering of God waited in the the sepulchre sure, sealing the days of Noah, while the ark stone, and setting a watch. 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 con

science towards God) by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Who is gone into heaven, and
is on the right hand of God;
angels, and authorities, and
powers, being made subject un-
to him.

The Gospel. St.Matt. xxvii. 57.
W
THEN the even was come,
there came a rich man of
Arimathea,named Joseph,who
also himself was Jesus' disci-
ple: He went to Pilate, and beg-
ged the body of Jesus. Then
Pilate comnianded 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
rock; and he rolled a great

stone to the door of the sepul-
chre, and departed. 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 re-
member that that deceiver said,
while he was yet alive, After

three days I will rise again.

At Morning Prayer,instead of the Psalm, (O come let us sing, &c.)these anthems shall be 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.

the dead, dieth no more; HRIST being raised from death hath no more dominion over him.

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

CHRIST is risen from the

dead, and become the firstfruits 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. 1 Cor. xv. 20.

The Collect.

A through thine only begot

LMIGHTY God, who

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until ten Son Jesus Christ hast overthe third day, lest his disciples come death, and opened unto come by night, and steal him us the gate of everlasting life; away, and say unto the people, we humbly beseech thee, that He is risen from the dead; soas, by thy special grace prethe last error shall be worse venting us, thou dost put into than the first. Pilate said unto our minds good desires; so by them, Ye have a watch; golthy continual help we may

bring the same to good effect, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

following him, and went into
the sepulchre, and seeth the
linen clothes lie; and the nap-
kin that was about his head not
lying with the linen clothes, but
wrapped together in a place by
itself. Then went in also that

knew not the Scripture, that he
must rise again from the dead.
Then the disciples went away
again unto their own home.

MONDAY IN EASTER-
WEEK.

The Epistle. Col. iii. 1. IF ye then be risen with other disciple which came first Christ, seek those things and believed. For as yet they to the sepulchre, and he saw, which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify, therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience, In the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.

The Gospel. St. John xx. 1.
THE first day y Magdalene

cometh Mary
early, when it was yet dark, un-
to the sepulchre, and seeth the
stone taken away from the se-

pulchre. Then she runneth and

cometh to Simon Peter, and the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre; and he,stooping down and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying, yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter

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The Collect.
who
LMIGHTY God,
through thine only begot-
ten Son Jesus Christ hast over-
come death, and opened unto
us the gate of everlasting life;
we humbly beseech thee, that
as, by thy special grace pre-
venting us, thou dost put into
our minds good desires; so by
thy continual help we may
bring the same to good effect,
who liveth and reigneth with
through Jesus Christ our Lord;
thee and the Holy Ghost; ever.

one God, world without end.
Amen.

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 be that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) that word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached: How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with

ncerning