FRIDAY.

Of the 2nd Ep. to the Corinthians.

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Lesson I. Chap. xii.

is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the LORD. I knew a man in CHRIST above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: GOD knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

Ry. I will thank thee, O LORD my GOD, with all my heart and will praise Thy Name for evermore: * for great is Thy mercy toward me. y. Thou art my GoD, and I will thank Thee: Thou art my GoD, and I will praise Thee. For.

Lesson II.

OF such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing 1 besought the LORD thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:

for my strength is made perfect in

weakness.

Ry. Great is Thy mercy toward me,

established.

THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: since ye seek a proof of CHRIST speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of GoD toward you.

Ry. Destroy me not. p. lxxvi.

Lesson II.

EXAMINE yourselves, whether ye

be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,

how that JESUS CHRIST is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil: not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

Ry. My heart. p. lxxvii.

Lesson III.

THEREFORE I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the LORD hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one

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Lesson II.

SO MARVEL that ye are soon removed from him that called you into the grace of CHRIST unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of CHRIST. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now

persuade men, or Gop? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of CHRIST.

Ry. GOD, Who sittest. p. lxxiii.

Lesson III.

love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with an holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and the love of GOD, and the communion of the HOLY GHOST, be with you all.

Amen.

Rz. Unto Thee. p. lxxvii.

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY.
FIRST NOCTURN.

Here beginneth the Epistle of S. Paul the Apostle to the Galatians. Lesson I. Chap. i.

PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by JESUS CHRIST, and GOD the FATHER, who raised him from the dead;) and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: grace be to you and peace from GOD the FATHER, and from our LORD JESUS CHRIST, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of GOD and our FATHER: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Ry. O LORD, rebuke me not. p. lxxiii.

the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of JESUS CHRIST. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of GoD, and wasted it and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Ry. The LORD is on. p. lxxiii.

SECOND NOCTURN.

not the doctrine of the free gift of

THIRD NOCTURN.

the burden of the law, which the LORD GOD had imposed, not on the servants of righteousness, but on the servants of sin: for He gave unrighteous men a righteous law, to bring to light, not to take away, their sins. For nothing removes sin, except the grace of faith, which worketh by love.

Ry. Thou shalt shew me. p. lxxiv.
Lesson V.

THESE persons then desired to subject to the burdens of the law the Galatians, who were already subject to this dispensation of grace, asserting that, unless they were circumcised and submitted to the other carnal ordinances of the Jewish law, the Gospel profited them nothing. And so they began to look with suspicion on the Apostle Paul, by whom the Gospel had been preached to them, as not maintaining the discipline of the other Apostles, who were obliging the Gentiles to live like Jews.

Ry. I will love Thee. p. lxxiv.

Lesson VI.

SUCH is the question discussed also

in the epistle to the Romans. Yet, as it would seem, with a difference,

in that there he breaks off the strife itself, and settles the dispute that arose between Jewish and Gentile believers, when the Jews assumed that the Gospel was their due reward for observance of the law, and were unwilling that this reward should be given to the uncircumcised; and the Gentiles, on the other hand, claimed that they should be counted superior to the Jews, who were guilty of the death of the LORD. But in this epistle he addresses those who had been disturbed by the authority of those who were of the Jews, and who were forcing on them the observance of the law.

Ry. The earth is the LORD's. p. lxxiv.

to S. Matthew. Lesson VII. Chap viii.

AT that time: When JESUS was

come down from the mountain great multitudes followed Him. And behold there came a leper and worshipped Him. And that which follows. A Homily of S. Jerome the Priest. Comm. on S. Matthew viii., B. 1. When the LORD descended from the

mountain, multitudes met Him, because they were not strong enough to ascend to the higher places with Him. And first a leper met Him: because, with leprosy, he could not hear the SAVIOUR'S very detailed sermon on the mount. Where it is to be noticed that he was the first to be specially cured; in the second place, the centurion's servant: in the third, Peter's wife's mother, sick of the fever at Capernaum; in the fourth, those that were brought to Him vexed with devils from whom He cast out the spirit by a word, when also He healed all that had any sickness.

Ry. Unto Thee, O LORD. p. lxxiv.
Lesson VIII.

AND behold a leper came and wor

shipped Him, saying. Rightly after preaching and doctrine, follows an opportunity for a Sign: that, by virtue of a miracle, the previous discourse might be impressed on the hearers. LORD, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean. Whoso appeals to the will, doubts not of the power. And JESUS put forth His hand and touched him, saying: I will, be thou clean. When the LORD put forth His hand, forthwith the leprosy fled. And consider how humble and unboastful the answer. He had said, If Thou wilt: the LORD answers, I will. He had begun with saying, Thou canst make me clean: the LORD continues the sentence, and says, Be thou clean. Not therefore are the clauses

to be joined, as most Latins suppose, reading, I will make thee clean: but

Lesson II.

then commands, Be thou clean.

Ry. Two Seraphim. p. lxxv.

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Lesson IX.

ND JESUS said unto him: See thou tell no man. And, in truth, what need was there that he should boast with speech of that which he shewed plainly with his body? But go, shew thyself to the priest. For divers reasons He sends him to the priest; first, for humility's sake, that He might be seen to give honour to the priests. For it was a precept of the law, that whoso were cleansed from leprosy, should offer gifts to the priests. Further, that they, seeing the leper

healed, would either believe or disbelieve the SAVIOUR: if they believed, they would be saved; if they believed not, they would be inexcusable. And lest also, according to that whereof He was very frequently accused, He should seem to break the law.

Te Deum, p. 15.

MONDAY.

Of the Epistle to the Galatians.

Lesson I. Chap. iii. FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes JESUS CHRIST hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed GOD, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Ry. O how plentiful. p. lxxv.

are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Ry. Thou art my Helper. p. lxxv.
Lesson III.

BUT that no man is justified by the

law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 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: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through JESUS CHRIST; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Ry. I will bless. p. lxxv.

TUESDAY.

Of the Epistle to the Galatians. Lesson I. Chap. v. STAND fast therefore in the liberty

wherewith CHRIST hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, CHRIST shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law. CHRIST is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Ry. Hear my prayer. p. lxxvi.

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Lesson III.

ND I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. I would they were even cut off which trouble you. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is ful filled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not

fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Ry. I said, LORD. p. lxxvi.

WEDNESDAY.

Here beginneth the Epistle of S. Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians. Lesson I. Chap. i.

PAUL, an apostle of JESUS CHRIST by the will of GoD, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in CHRIST JESUS: grace be to you, and peace from GoD our Father, and from the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in

heavenly places in CHRIST: accord

ing as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

Ry. Destroy me not. p. lxxvi.

Lesson II.

HAVING predestinated us unto the

adoption of children by JESUS CHRIST to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in CHRIST, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.

Ry. My heart is fixed. p. lxxvii.

Lesson III.

IN whom also we have obtained an

inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in CHRIST. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Ry. Unto Thee. p. lxxvii.

THURSDAY.

Of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Lesson I. Chap iv. THEREFORE, the prisoner of the LORD, beseech you that ye walk