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thee, To-day shalt thou being God, by whose spirit

with me in paradise. And it
was about the sixth hour:
and there was a darkness over
all the earth until the ninth
hour. And the sun was dark-
ened, and the vail of the
temple was rent in the midst.
And when Jesus had cried
with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into thy hands I
commend my spirit: and
having said thus, he gave up
the ghost. Now when the
centurion saw what was done,
he glorified God, saying, Cer-
tainly this was a righteous
man. And all the people that
came together to that sight,
beholding the things that were
done, smote their breasts, and
returned. And all his ac-
quaintance, and the women
that followed him from Gali-
lee, stood afar off, beholding
these things.

GOOD FRIDAY.
The Collects.

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the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified; Receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve thee; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Merciful God, who hast

made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd,

ALMIGHTY God, we Jesus Christ our Lord, who

beseech thee graciously liveth and reigneth with thee to behold this thy family, for and the Holy Spirit, one God, which our Lord Jesus Christ world without end. Amen. The Epistle. Hebrews x. 1. was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the handsTHE law having a shadow of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the cross, who now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

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

crifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his foot-stool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified: Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; and having an High Priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love, and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of

perfect: for then would they | not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure: Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offerings, and of fering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein, which are of fered by the Law: then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sa

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ourselves together, as the to him, Speakest thou not manner of some is; but ex- unto me? knowest thou not horting one another and so that I have power to crucify much the more, as ye see the thee, and have power to reday approaching. lease thee? Jesus answered, The Gospel. St. John xix. 1. Thou couldest have no power ILATE therefore took at all against me, except it Jesus, and scourged him. were given thee from above: And the soldiers platted a therefore he that delivered crown of thorns, and put it me unto thee hath the greater on his head, and they put on sin. And from thenceforth him a purple robe, and said, Pilate sought to release him: Hail, King of the Jews: and but the Jews cried out, saythey smote him with their ing, If thou let this man go, hands. Pilate therefore went thou art not Cæsar's friend: forth again, and saith unto whosoever maketh himself a them, Behold, I bring him king speaketh against Cæsar. forth to you, that ye may When Pilate therefore heard know that I find no fault in that saying, he brought Jehim. Then came Jesus forth, sus forth, and sat down in wearing the crown of thorns, the judgement-seat, in a place and the purple robe. And that is called the Pavement, Pilate saith unto them, Be- but in the Hebrew, Gabbahold the man! When the tha. And it was the prepachief priests therefore and ration of the passover, and officers saw him, they cried about the sixth hour: and he out, saying, Crucify him, saith unto the Jews, Behold crucify him. Pilate saith un- your King! But they cried to them, Take ye him, and out, Away with him, away crucify him: for I find no with him, crucify him. Pifault in him. The Jews an- late saith unto them, Shall I swered him, We have a law, crucify your King? The chief and by our law he ought to priests answered, We have no die, because he made himself king but Cæsar. Then delithe Son of God. When Pi- vered he him therefore unto late therefore heard that say- them to be crucified and ing, he was the more afraid; they took Jesus, and led him and went again into the away. And he, bearing his judgement-hall, and saith un- cross, went forth into a place to Jesus, Whence art thou? called the place of a scull, But Jesus gave him no an- which is called in the Heswer. Then saith Pilate un-brew, Golgotha: where they

crucified him, and two other | ther, and the disciple stand

with him, on either side one, ing by, whom he loved, he and Jesus in the midst. And saith unto his mother, WoPilate wrote a title, and put man, behold thy son. Then it on the cross; and the writ- saith he to the disciple, Being was, JESUS OF NAZA- hold thy mother. And from RETH THE KING OF that hour that disciple took THE JEWS. This title then her unto his own home. read many of the Jews: for After this, Jesus, knowing the place where Jesus was that all things were now accrucified was nigh to the complished, that the Scripcity and it was written in ture might be fulfilled, saith, Hebrew, and Greek, and La- I thirst. Now there was set tin. Then said the chief a vessel full of vinegar and priests of the Jews to Pilate, they filled a spunge with Write not, The King of the vinegar, and put it upon Jews; but that he said, I hyssop, and put it to his am the King of the Jews. mouth. When Jesus therePilate answered, What I have fore had received the vinewritten, I have written. gar, he said, It is finished: Then the soldiers, when they and he bowed his head, and had crucified Jesus, took his gave up the ghost. The Jews garments, and made four therefore, because it was the parts, to every soldier a part; preparation, that the bodies and also his coat: now the should not remain upon the coat was without seam, wov- cross on the sabbath-day, (for en from the top throughout. that sabbath - day was They said therefore among high day,) besought Pilate themselves, Let us not rend that their legs might be it, but cast lots for it, whose broken, and that they might it shall be that the Scrip- be taken away. Then came ture might be fulfilled, the soldiers, and brake the which saith, They parted my legs of the first, and of the raiment among them, and for other which was crucified my vesture they did cast lots. with him. But when they came These things therefore the to Jesus, and saw that he was soldiers did. Now there stood dead already, they brake not by the cross of Jesus, his mo- his legs., But one of the solther, and his mother's sister, diers with a spear pierced his Mary the wife of Cleophas, side, and side, and forthwith forthwith came and Mary Magdalene. When thereout blood and water. Jesus therefore saw his mo- | And he that saw it bare re

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cord, and his record is true: | in the days of Noah, while

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. RANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. [T is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evildoing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited

the ark 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 conscience 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 unto him.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxvii. 57. HEN the even was

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come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded 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 sepulchre, 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 remember

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