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we gave you by the Lord Jelus. For this is the will of God, even your fanctification, that ye fhould abstain from fornication; that every one of you should know how to poffefs his veffel in fanctification and honour,not in the luft of concupifcence, even as the Gentiles which know not God;that no man go beyond,and defraud his brother in any matter,becaufe that the Lord is the avenger of all fuch, as we also have forewarned you,and teftihed.For God hath not called us unto uncleannefs, but untoholinefs. He therefore that defpifeth, defpifeth not man, but God who hath alfo given unto us his holy Spirit. The Gospel. S, Matth. 15, 21,

fis went thence, and departed into the coafts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold,a woman of Canaan came out of the fame coafts,and cried unto him,faying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou fon of David, my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.But he anfwered her not a word. And his difciples came and befought him,faying,Send her away,for fhe crieth after us. But he anfwered and faid,I am not fent, but unto the loft sheep of the houfe of Ifrael. Then came fhe and worshipped him, faying, Lord,help me.But he anfwered and faid, It is not meet to take the childrens bread, and to caft it to dogs. And fhe faid, Truth, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table. Then Jefus infwered, and faid unto her, O woman, great is thy Faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

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V VE E befeech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty defires of thy humble fervants, and tretch forth the right hand of thy Majefty to be our deence against all qurenemies, through Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen.

two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendreth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agaris mount Sinai in Arabia, and anfwereth to Jerufalem which now is,and is in bondage with her children. Bu Jerufalem which is above is free; which is the mother of us all. For it is written,Rejoyce thou barren that bearef not; break forth and cry, thou that travaileft not: for the defolate hath many more children then the which hath an husband.Now we brethren,as Ifaac was,are the children of promife. But as then, he that was born after the flesh,perfecuted him that was born after the fpirit even fo it is now. Nevertheless, what faith the fcripture Caft out the bond-woman, and her fon; for the fon of the bond-woman fhall not be heir with the fon of the free-woman. So then brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

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The Gospel. S. John 6. 1.

Efus went over the fea of Galilee, which is the fea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, be caufe they faw his miracles which he did on them that were difeafed. And Jefus went up into a mountain, and there he fat with his difciples. And the paflover, a feaft of the Jews, was nigh. When Jefus then lift up his eyes, and faw a great company come unto him, he faith unto Philip, Whence fhall we buy bread, that these may eat? (And this he faid to prove him; for he himself knew what he would do.) Philip anfwer ed him, Two hundred peny-worth of bread is not fufficient for them,that every one of them may take a little. One of his difciples, Andrew,Simon Peters brother, faith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five bar ley-loaves, and two fmall fishes: but what are they a mong fo many? And Jefus faid,Make the men fit down. Now there was much grafs in the place. So the men fat down, in number about five thoufand. And Jefus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he diftributed the difciples, and the difciples to them that were fet

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And he commanded the multitude to fit downe on the grafse and tooke the fiue Loues and y, two fishes and looked to heauen and blessed and brake and the lomles to his difciples and the difciples to the multitude And they did all eate, and were sufficed and ther toke up of the fragments that remávned tvelue baskets Full And they that had eaten were about five thousand men

down, and likewife of the fishes as much as they would. When they were filled, he said unto his difciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them together,and filledtwelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jefus did, faid, This is of a truth that prophet that fhould come into the world.

The fifth Sunday in Lent.

The Collect.

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nefs they may be governed and preferved evermore both in body and foul, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen

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The Epiftle. Heb. 9.11.

Hrift being come an high priest of good things to come,by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands; that is fay, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves; but by his own blood he entred in once into the holy place,having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls,and of goats, and the afhes of an heifer fprinkling the unclean, fanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more fhall the blood of Chrift, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your confcience from dead works,to ferve the living God? And for this caufe he is the Mediatour of the new Teftament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the firft Teftament, they which are called might receive the promife of eternal inheritance.

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The Gofpel. S.John 8.46,

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