fault in him. The Jews anfwered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himfelf the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that faying, he was the more afraid; and went again into the judgement-hall, and faith unto jefu, Whence art thou? But Jefus gave him no answer. Then faith Pilate unto him, Speakeft thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to releafe thee? Jefus answered, Thou couldeft have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater in. And from thenceforth Pilate fought to releafe him: but the Jews cried out, faying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cefar's friend: whofoever maketh himself a king fpeaketh against Cefar. When Pilate therefore heard that faying, he brought Jefus forth, and fat down in the judgement-feat, in a place that is called The Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the paffover, and about the fixth hour: and he faith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him; crucify him! Pilate faith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests anfwered. We have no king but Cefar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jefus, and led him away. And he, bearing his crofs, went forth into a place, called The place of a fcull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha; where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either fide one, and Jefus in the midit. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the crofs. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jefus was crucified was nigh to the aity: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then faid the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he faid, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written. Then the foldiers, when they had crucified Jefus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every foidier a part; and allo his coat: now the coat was without team, woven from the top throughout: They faid therefore among themfelves, Let us not rend it, but cait lots for it, whole it thall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which faith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vefture they did caft lots. Thefe things therefore the foldiers did. Now there flood by the crofs of Jefus his mother, and his mother's fifter, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jefus therefore faw his mother, and the difciple ftanding by whom he loved, 'he faith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy fon! Then faith he to the difciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that difciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jefus knowing that al! things were now accomplifhed, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, faith, I thirft. Now there was fet a veifel full of vinegar: and they filled a fpunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyffop, and put it to his mouth. When Jefus therefore had received the vinegar, he faid, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghoft. The Jews therefore, becaufe it was the Preparation, that the bodies fhould not remain upon the crofs on the fabbath-day, (for that fabbath-day was an high day,) befought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the foldiers, and brake the legs of the firft, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jefus, and faw that he was dead already, they brake! not his legs: but one of the foldiers with a fpear pierced his fide, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that faw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he faith true, that ye might believe. For thefe things were done, that the Scripture fhould be fulfilled, A bone' of him thall not be broken. And again an other Scripture faith, They fhall look on him whom they pierced. Easter Even. The Collect. RANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy bleffed Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift; fo by continual mortifying our corrupt affections, we may be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death, we may pafs to our joyful returrection, for his merits who died and was buried, and role again for us, thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epifle. 1 Pet.iii. 17. The Gofpel. Matt. xxvii. 57. alfo himfelf was Jefus difciple: he went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jefus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Jofeph 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 ftone to the door of the fepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, fitting over against the fepulchre. Now the next day, that followed the day of the Preparation, the chief priests and Pharifees came together unto Pilate, faying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver faid, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rife again. Command therefore that the fepulchre be made fure until the third day, left his difciples come by night, and fteal him away, and fay unto the people, He is rifen from the dead: fo the laft error thail be worse than the firft. Pilate faid unto them, Ye make it as fure as you can. So have a watch; go your way, they went, and made fepulchre fure, fealing the ftone, and letting a watch. EASTER DAY. the [At Morning Prayer, instead of the Pfalm, O come, let us fing &c. the following Anthems hall be fung or faid.] Cficed for us! therefore let us HRIST our paffover is facrikeep the feaft, ther with the leaven of malice Not with the old leaven, neiand wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of fincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7. HRIST, being raised from death hath no more dominion the dead, dieth no more: over him. For in that he died, he died unto fin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewife reckon ye alfo yourfelves to be dead indeed unto fin: W there care a rich man of but alive unto God through Jelus Arimathea, named Jofeph, who 51 Chrift our Lord. Rom. vi. 9. D2 HRIST is rifen from the dead and become the firftfruits of them that flept. For fince by man came death: by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die: even fo in Chrift thall all be made alive. 1 Cor. xv. 20. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghofi; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever fhall be: world without end. Amen. The Collect. Anthine through thine only-begotten Son Jefus Christ haft overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everiafting life; We humbly befeech thee, that as by thy fpecial grace preventing us, thou dof put into our minds good defires; to by thy continual help we may bring the fame to good effect, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end. Amen. The Epiftle. Col. iii. 1. F ye then be rifen with Chrift, feek thofe things which are above, where Chrift fitteth 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 Chrift in God. When Chrift, who is our life, thali appear, then thall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleannets, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetoufnefs, which is idolatry: for which things' fake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye alfo walked fometime, when ye lived in them. The Gofpel. John xx. 1. T cometh cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the fepulchre, and feeth the ftone taken away from the fepulchre. Then the runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other difciple whom Jefus loved, and faith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the fepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other difciple, and came to the fepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other difciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the fepulchre. And he, stooping down, and looking in, faw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the fepulchre, and feeth the that was his head por that was about his head' not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itfelf. Then went in alfo that other difciple which came first to the fepulchre, and he faw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he muft rife again from the dead. Then the difciples went away again unto their own home. Monday in Eafter Week. The Collect. LMIGHTY God, who A through thine only-begotten Son Jefus Chrift halt overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlafting life; We humbly befeech thee, that as by thy fpecial grace preventing us, thou doft put into our minds good defires; fo by thy continual help we may bring the fame to good effect, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end. Amen. For the Epistle. Acts x. 34. and faid, of a truth I perETER opened his mouth, I ceive that God is no refpeéter of perfons: but in every nation he i, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. The word which God fent unto the children of Ifrael, preaching peace by Jefus Chrift; he is Lord of all;) that word, lay, ye know, which was publihed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptifm which John preached: how God anointed Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghoft and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppreffed of the devil: for God was with him. And we are witneffes of all things which he did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerufalem; whom they flew and hanged on a tree. Him God railed up the third day, and thewed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witneifes chofen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rofe from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to teftify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. To him give all the prophets witnefs, that through his Name whofoever believeth in him thall receive remullion of fins. The Gofpel. Luke xxiv. 13. BEHOLD, two of his disciples went that fame day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerufalem about threefcore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pafs, that, while they communed together and reafoned, Jefus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they thould not thould not know him. And he laid unto them, What manner of communications are thete that ye have one to another, as ye waik, and are fad? And the one of them, whofe name was Cleophas, anfwering faid unto him, Art thou only a ftranger in Jerufalem, and haft not known the things which are come to pafs there in thefe days? And he faid unto them, What things? And they faid unto him. Concerning Jefus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God anda i the people: and how the chief prients and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trutted, that it had been he which thould have redeemed Ifrael: and befide all this, to-day is the third day fince thefe things were done. Yea, and certain women alfo of our company made us aftonished, which were early at the fepulchre and when they found not his body, they came, faying, That they had alfo feen a vifion of angels, which faid that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the fepulchre, and found it even fo as the woman had faid; but him they faw not. Then he faid unto them, O fools, and flow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not Chrift to have fuffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Mofes and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himfelf. And they drew nigh unto the village whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, taying Abide with us; for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pafs, as he fat at meat with them, he took bread, and bieffed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their tight. And they faid one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures? And they rofe up the fame hour, and returned to Jerufalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, faying, The Lord is rifen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they toid what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. the gate of everlafling life; We humbly befeech thee, that as by thy fpecial grace preventing us, thou doft put into our minds good defires, fo by thy continual help we may bring the fame to good effect, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghöft, ever one God, world without end. Amen. For the Epifle. Acts xiii. 26. through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of fins: and by him, all that believe are juftified from all things, from which ye could not be juftified by the law of Mofes. Beware therefore, left that come upon you which is fpoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye depifers, and wonder, and perith: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye thall in no wife believe, though MEN and brethren, children a man declare it unto you. of the ftock of Abraham, and whofoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this falvation fent. For they that dwell at Jerufalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every fabbath-day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no caufe of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he fhould be flain. And when they had fulalled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a fepulchre. But God raised him from the dead: and he was feen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerufalem, who are his witneffes unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promile which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the fame unto us their children, in that he hath raifed up Jefus again; as it is alfo written in the fecond Pfalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he faid on this wife, I will give you the fure mercies of David. Wherefore he faith alfo in another Pfalm, Thou thalt not fuffer thine Holy One to fee corruption. For David, after he had ferved his own generation by the will of God, fell on fleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and faw corruption: but he whom God raifed again, faw no corrupBe it known unto you tion. The Gofel. Luke xxiv. 36. ESUS himself food in the J midst of them, and faith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and fuppofed that they had feen a fpirit. And he faid unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arife in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myfelf: handle me, and fee; for a fpirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye fee me have. And when he had thus fpoken, he fhewed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he faid unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fifh, and of an honey-comb. And he took it, and did eat before. them. And he faid unto them, Thefe are the words which I fpake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Mofes, and in the Prophets, and in the Pfalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might underftand the Scriptures, and faid unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Chrift to fuffer, and to rife from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remiffion of fins fhould he preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerufalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. Fir Sunday after Eafter. therefore, men and brethren, that AMIGHTY Father, who haft 54 given thine only Son to die |