thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God. Rom. iii. 2. Unto them were committed the oracles of God. John xii. 34. The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever. Rom. ii. 14, 15. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another. SECTION VII. Rom. iii. 31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid : yea we establish the law. Gal. iii. 17, 18, 19. But, if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. Rom. ix. 4. Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises. Heb. x. 1. For the law, having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Matt. v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Gal. iii. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. SECTION VIII. Rom. xi. 25-27. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. Heb. x. 16. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them. Acts iv. 12. Neither is there salvation în any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Heb. ix. 27, 28. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement: So Christ was offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation. Rom. x. 4. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. From the Book of Common Praper. MORNING PRAYER. Benedictus. Blessed be. the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people; And hath raised up a mighty Salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets, which have been since the world began ; That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers, and to remember his holy Covenant; To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham, that he would give us ;.......... Magnificat. He remembering his mercy, hath holpen his servant Israel, as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever. COLLECT for the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany. O God, whose blessed Son was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil, and make us the sons of God, and heirs of eternal life;...... BURIAL OF THE DEAD. Collect. O merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth, shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth and believeth in him, shall not die eternally;......and receive that blessing which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce on all that love and fear thee, saying, Come ye blessed Children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world; ..... From the Homilies. · BOOK I. HOMILY 2. Of the Misery of all Mankind. (passim.) HOMILY 3. Of the Salvation of all Mankind. (passim.) BOOK II. HOMILY 12. Of the Nativity. (throughout.) SUM AND CONTENT OF THE HOLY SCRIP- And further, that Christ Jesus, his Son, was promised of God the Father, to be a Saviour to this Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and the other fathers; which should deliver them from their sins and tyranny of the devil, who with a quick and living faith would believe this promise, and trust to this Jesus Christ, hoping to have this deliverance of and by him. And truly, this promise is very oft rehearsed in the books of the Old Testament: as that is called the New, which teacheth that this promise is fulfilled. And, that in the mean season (while the fathers look for salvation and deliverance promised, because man's nature is such, that he not only cannot, but also will not confess himself to be a sinner, and especially such a sinner that hath need of the saving health promised), the law was given wherethrough men might know sin, and that they are sinners when they see that they do none of the things, that the law commandeth, with so glad and willing a mind as God requireth; but rather against their wills, without affection, and as though they were constrained with the fear of that hell, which the law threateneth, saying, Cursed be he that maintaineth not all the words of this law to keep them." And that this law was given to the intent that sin and the malice of men's hearts, being thereby the better known, men should the more fervently thirst for the coming of Christ, which should redeem them from their sins as it was figured unto the Jews by many ceremonies, hosts, and sacrifices, which were ordained of God, not to the intent to take away sins, but to shew and declare, that they should be put away by faith in the salvation promised through Christ; and which now are put |