¶ The Gospell on the fyrste Sondaye in aduent. The. xxi. chapiter of mathewe. A.

WHē Iesus drewe nye vnto Ie­rusalē / & came to Betphage vn to the mounte Oliuete / thē sēt Iesus two of his disciples / sayeng to thē. Go into the castell that lyeth ouer agaynst you and anone ye shal fynde an Asse boundē / & her Colte with her / lose thē & brynge thē vn­to me / & yf any mā say ought vnto you / saye ye that your lorde hathe nede of thē: & strayght way he wyll let them go. All this was done to fulfyl that whiche was spokē by the ꝓphet / sayeng Tel ye the doughter of Syon beholde thy kynge cōmeth vnto the meke: & sytting vpon an Asse & a Colte / the fole of an Asse vsed to the yoke. The disciples wente & dyd as Iesꝰ [Page] cōmaūded thē & brought the Asse & the Colte / & put on thē theyr clothes / & set hī therō. Many of the people spredde theyr garmentes in the waye / other cut­te downe braunches from the trees and strawed thē in the waye.

¶ Morcouer the people that wēte before / and they also that folowed after / cryed sayenge. O sanna the sonne of Dauyd. Blessyd be he that commeth in the name of the lorde.

¶ The Gospel on the seconde Sonday in Aduent The. xxi. chapiter of Luke. D.

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IEsꝰ sayde vnto his disciples there shalbe sygnes in the Sōne / & in the Mone / & ī the Starres / & ī the earthe / the people shalbe in suche per­plexite: that they shall nat tell whiche way to turne them selues. The see & the waues shal rore / & mennes hertes shall fayle thē for feare / & for lokynge after those thynges which shall come on the erthe / for the powers of heuē shall moue / and then shall they se the sone of mā come ī a cloud with power & great glory. whē these thynges begyn to cōe to passe / thē loke vp & lyft vp your hedes / for your re dēpcyon draweth ny. And he shewed thē a simylytu de / behold the fygge tree: & al other trees when they shutt forth theyr buddes / ye se & knowe of youre owne selues that somer is thē nye at hāde So lyke wyse ye (whē ye se these thynges cōe to passe) vnderstāde / that the kyngdome of god is ny. Uerely I sayevnto you / this genetatiō shall not passe / tyl al be fulfylled heuē & erthe shall passe / but my wordes shal nat passe

¶ The Gospel on the iij. Sōday ī aduēt. The. xi. chap̄. of Mathewe. A

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WHen Iohn̄ beyng in prysō her de the workes of Christ he sēte two of his disciples & sayde vn to hī Arte thou he that shal cōe or shal we loke for another. Iesꝰ an­swered & sayd vnto thē. Go & shewe Iohn̄ what ye haue herd & sene The blinde se / the halte go / the lyppers are clēsed / the defe heare / the deade ar reysed vp agayne: & the Gospell is preached to the pore / & happy is he that is nat hurte by me Euē as they de parted Iesꝰ begā to speake vnto the people of Iohn̄ Uvhat went ye for to se in the wyldernes went ye out to se a rede wauering with thewīde / other what / wente ye out for to se. Uvēt ye to se a mā clothed in softe rayment. Beholde they that weare softe clo­thing / are ī kynges houses. But what wēt ye out for to se Uvent ye out to se a prophete? Ye I [...]aye vnto you / & more thē a prophet / for this is he of whom it is wryttē. Beholde I sēde my messenger before thy face / whiche shall prepare thy waye before the.

¶ The Gospell on the. iiij. sōdaye ī Aduēte the fyrste Chap. of Iohn̄. C.

UUhē the Iewes sēt prestes & leuites frō Ierusalē to axe Iohn̄ Uvhat art thou. And he ꝯfessed / & de­nyed nat / and sayd playnly / I am nat [Page iiij] Christ & they axed hym / what thē? arte thou Helias and he sayde I am nat / Arte thou a prophet. And he answered no. Thā sayd they vnto him: Uvhat arte thou / that we may gyue an answere to thē that sent vs. what sayest thou of thy selfe? he sayd. I am the voyce of a cryar in the wyldernes make strayght the way of the lorde / assayde the prophete Esaias. And they whiche were sent / were of the pharises and they a [...]ed him & sayde vnto him. Uvhy baptysest thou thē if thou be nat Christe / nor Helyas neyther a ꝑphet? Iohan answered thē sayeng / I baptyse with water / but one is come amonge you / whom ye knowe nat. He it is that commeth after me whiche was before me / whose sho latchet / I am nat worthy to vnlose. These thinges were don ī Bethabara beyonde Iordam where Iohan dyd baptyse.

¶ The Gospell at hye masse on Chrystmas day / the fyrst chapyter of Iohan. A.

IN the begynnyng was the worde / & the worde was with god / and god was the worde. The same was in the begyn­nynge with god. All thynges we­re made by it: and without it was made nothynge that was made In it was lyfe: and the lyfe was the lyght of men: and the lyght shyneth in the darknes and the darknes comprehēdeth it nat. There was a mā sent frome god: whose name was Iohn̄ The same came as a wytnes: to beare wytnes of the lyght: that all mē through him myght beleue: he was nat the light / but to beare wytnes of the lyght. That was a true lyght / whiche lyghteth al mē that come ī to the worlde / he was ī the worlde / & the world by hym was made / & the worlde knewe him nat / he came amōge his [Page v] owne / & his owne receaued hym nat / vnto as many as receaued hī / gaue power to be the sones of god / ī that they byleued on his name / whiche were borne nat of blod / nor of the wyll of the flesshe / nor yet of the wyll of men / but of god & the worde was made flesshe / and duelte among vs / and we sawe the glory of it / as the glory of the onely begoten sone of the father / whiche worde was ful of grace and verite.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Steuen daye. The xxiij. chapiter of Mathewe. D

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IEsus sayd vnto the Iewes / & chefe preestes beholde I sende vnto you wyse ꝓphetes / wyse men & scrybes / & of thē some shall ye scour­ge in your synagoges / & persecute frō cytie to cytie that al ryghtuous blode may fall on you / which wasshed vpō the erth / from the blode of ryghtuous Abell vnto the blode of zacharias the sonne of Barrachias / whome ye slewe bytwene the temple & the aulter. Uerely I say vnto you / al these thynges shall lyght vpō this generaciō Ierusalem / Ierusalē / whiche kyllest ꝓphetes & stonest thē which ar sent to the / how ofte wolde I haue gadred thy chyldrē togyder / as the henne gadereth her chyckēs vnder her wynges / but ye wolde nat / beholde your habitacyō shalbe lefte vnto you desolate. For I say vn to you / ye shall nat se me hensforth tyll that ye saye. Blyssed be he that cōmeth in the name of the lorde.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Iohn̄ daye the euā ­gesyst. The. xxi. chapiter of Iohn̄. E

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IEsus sayde to Peter folow me Peter turned about and sawe that di [...] whō Iesꝰ loued folowyng which also lened on his brest at supper / and sayd. Lord whiche is he that shal betray the? Uvhē Peter sawe hym he sayd to Iesus. Lord what shal he here do? Iesꝰ sayd vnto hym if I wyll haue hym to tary tyl I cōe / what is that to the / folow thou me. Thē went this sayēg abrode [...]ge the brethrē that that dyscyple shulde nat dye. And Iesꝰ sayd nat to hym / he shal nat dye / but if I wyl that he tary tyl I com / what is that to the / the same dyscyple is he / which testifyeth of these thynges & wrote these thyn­ges / and we knowe that his testimony is true.

¶ The Gospell on Chyldermas daye. The seconde chapiter of Mathewe. C

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THe angell of the lorde appe­red to Ioseph ī dreme sayēge Arise & take the chylde & his mother & flye into Egypt & abyde there tyl I brynge the worde / for herode wyll seke thou chylde to destroye hym. Thē he arose & toke the chylde & his mother by nyght and departed into Egypte / & was there vnto the deth of Herode / to fulfyll that whiche was spoken of the lorde / by the ꝓphet / which sayth. out of Egypt haue I called my sone. Thē herode perceauynge that he was mocked of the wyse mē / was excedynge wrothe & sent forthe & slewe all the chyldrē that were ī beth­leem / & in al the costes therof as many as were two yere olde & vnder / accordynge to the tyme whiche he had diligētly serched out of the wyse men. Thē was fulfylled the whiche was spokē by the ꝓphete Iere mye sayēge. On the hylles was a voyce herde / mour nyng wepig / & great lamētacyō / Rachel wepyng for her chyldrē & wolde nat be [...]forted bycause they were nat.

¶ The gospell on saynt thomas daye of Canterbury. The. xix. chap̄. of Luke. B

IEsus put forthe a parable vnto his disciples sayenge. A certay­ne noble mā wēt in to a farre coūtre / to receaue him a kyngdom & then to come agayne / he callede his tē seruaū ­tes / & delyuered them ten poūde sayēg vnto thē. Bye & sell tyl I come. But hys cytesens hated hī / & sente messen gers after hym sayenge we wyll nat haue this man to raygne ouer vs / & it came to passe when he was come agayne & had receaued his kyng­dome he cōmaūded his seruaūtes to be called to him to whome he gaue his money / to wytte what euery mā had done. Then came the fyrst sayēge / lorde / thy poūde hath encreaseth ten poūde / & he saydvnto hym well good seruaūt / because thou waste faythfull in a very lytell thynge / take thou auctoryte ouer ten cyties: and the other cā sayēg lorde. Thy poūde hath en creased fyue pounde & to the same he sayde. And be thou also ruler ouer fyne cyties. And the thyrde came & sayd lorde / beholde here thy poūde which I haue kept in a napki for I feared the bycause thou arte a streyghte mā / thou takeste vp that thou laydeste nat downe and repest that thou dydest nat sowe. And he sayde to hī of thyn owne mouthe iudge I the. Thou euyll seruaūre / knewest thou nat that I am a strayte mā / takynge vp that I layde nat downe & repynge that I dyd nat sowe: wherfore thē gauest nat thou my money ī to the banke: & then at my cōmynge I myght haue req ⁱred myne owne vauntage: & he sayd to thē that stode by. Take frō him that poūde & gyue it hym that hath tene poūde. And they sayde to hym Lorde he hath ten poūde. I saye vnto you / that vnto [Page] all them that haue it shall be gyuē. And frō hym that hath nat / euen that he hathe / shall be taken awaye frō hym. Moreouer those myn enemyes: whiche would nat that I shoulde raygne ouer thē / brynge hyther & sle them before me / And when he had thus spokē / he ꝓceded forth before thē. And went vp so to Ierusalē

¶ The gospel on the sonday after Chrystmas day: the second chapyter of Luke. E.

IOseph and Mary / the mother of Iesꝰ meruaylede those thin ges whiche wer spoken of him / and Symeō blyssede them / & sayd vnto Mary his mother behold this chyl­de shall be the fall & resurrectyon of many ī israell / & sygne whiche shal be spokē agaynst / and moreouer the swerde shall pearce thy soule that the thoughtes of many hertes may be opened and the­re was Anna a pphetesse / the doughter of Phanuell of trybe of Aser? & she was of a greate age / & hade ly­nede [Page viij] with an husbande seuen yere frō her vyrgynyte & she had bē awydowe aboute foure score & foure yeares / whiche went neuer out of the Tēple / but serued there / with fastynge & prayer nyght & daye / & she ca­me for the that same houre / & praysed god & spake of hym / to all that lokede for redēpcyon in Ierusalē & as sone as they had perfourmed al thynges accordīg to the lawe of the lorde they returned ī to Galyle ī to theyr owne cytye Nazareth / & the chylde grewe & we xed stronge in spiryte / and was ful of wysdome and the grace of god was / with hym.

¶ The Gospell on newe yeres daye. The. i. chapi­ter of Luke. C.

ANd whē the eyght daye was come that the chylde should be cyrcūcysed hys name was called Iesꝰ which was named of the Angell before he was [...]ceaued ī his mothers wōbe

¶ The Pystell on twelfe. daye. Esaye. ix

[...]P & receaue lyght. Ierusalem: for thy lyght is cōe / & the glory of the lord isvp ouer the / for be hold darkenes shal couer the erth: & a thicke myst the nacyons / but the lorde shal ryse as the sone ouer the and his glorye shall be sene vpon the / and the [Page] hethen shall walke in thy lyght / and the kyn­ges in the bryghtnes that is rysen ouer the / lyft vp thyne eyes rounde aboute & se / all these are gathered to gyther & are cōe to the thy sones shal cōe frō farre & thy doughter shal be euer by thy syde / thē thou shalt se & shalte haue plēty / thy hert shal wōder / and break out ī ioye / whē the multytude of the see are turned to the / & the armyes of the hethene are cōe vnto the The abundaunce of Camelles shal couer the & the Dromadoryes of Madiā & Epha / shal come al of them from Saba / & bring golde / & frankensence / & shal preach the prayse of the lorde.

¶ The Gospell on the twelfe daye. The seconde chapyter of Mathewe. A.

UUhē Iesꝰ was borne ī Beth leem in Iurye / in the tyme of kynge Herode / beholde / there came wyse men from the Eest to Ierusa lē sayenge where is he that is borne kynge of the Iewes / we haue sene his starre in the Eest / & are come to worshyppe him. Herode the kynge / after he hade herde this was trou­bled / & all Ierusalem with him / & he gatheryd all the chefe preestes & scrybes of the people / & demaunded of them wher Chryst shoulde be borne. They sayde vnto hym in Bethleem ī Iury for thus it is wryttē by the ꝓphet. And thou Bethleē ī the lāde of Iury / arte nat the lest concerninge the prynces of Iuda for out of the shall come a captayne / whiche shal gouerne my people Israel. Thē Herode p̄uelly called the wyse men / & dilygētly enquyrede of thē / the tyme of the starre that appered / & sent them to bethleē sayenge. Go and serche dylygētly for the chylde / and whē ye haue foūde hym / bryng me worde that I maye come & worshyppe hym also / when they hade herde the [Page ix] kynge: they departed: & loo the starte whiche they sawe in the Eest / went before them / vntyl it came & stode ouer the place where the chylde was when they sawe the starre they were meruaylously glade & en­tred in to the house / & founde the chyld with Marye hys mother: & kneled downe & worshyppede hym: & openede theyr treasures: & offred vnto hym gyttes / golde / frākēsence & myrre. And after they were war­ned of god ī theyr slepe / that they shulde nat go agayn to herod / they returned in to theyr owne countree another waye.

¶ The Gospell on the Sondaye with ī the vtas of the Epiphany. The fyrst chapiter of Iohfi. D

IOhn̄ sawe iesꝰ cōmynge vn to hym & sayd. Beholde the lambe of god / whiche take the awaye the synne of the worlde. This is he of whome I sayd: after me cōmeth a mā whiche was before me / for he was yer then I / and I knewe hym nat: but that he shulde be declared to israel. Therfore & I com baptysyng with water And Iohn̄ bare recorde sayēg I sawe the spirite descēdīg frō heuē: like vnto a doue & it abode vpon hī & I knewe hī nat / he that sēt me to baptyse the ī water sayde vnto me / vpō whome thou shalt se the speryte descēde and tari styl on hym that / same is he which baptyseth with the holy goost. And I sawe & bare recorde / that this is the sone of gode.

¶ The Gospel on the fyrst Sondaye after the vtas of the Epipha. The secōde chap̄. of Lucke. F.

UUhen iesus was. xij. yere olde / they wente vp to Ie rusalem after the custome of the feaste / & when they had fulfylled the dayes / as they re­tourned home. the chylde iesus bode stylle in Ierusalem vnknowynge to his father and mother / for they supposed he had ben ī the company. They came a dayes iorney / and sought hym amōge theyr kynsfolke and acquayntaunce / and founde hym nat They wente backe agayne to Ierusalem / & sought hym / & it fortuned that after thre dayes / they foūde hym in the temple syttynge in the myddes of the doctures bothe hearynge them: and posynge them and all that herd hym / meruayled at his wytte & answe­res and when they sawe hym / they were astoyned / and his mother sayd vnto hym / sone why hast thou thus dealt with vs. Beholde thy father and I haue soughte the sorowyng / & he sayd vnto thē how is it / [Page x] that ye haue soughte me / wyst ye nat that I muste go about my fathers busynes / and they vnderstode nat the sayeng that he spake to them / and he wentes with them and came to Nazareth / & was obedyent to them / but his mother kepte all these thynges in her herte / and Iesus encreased ī wysdome and age / and in fauoure with god and man.

¶ The Gospell on the seconde. Sondaye after the vtas of the Epypha. the. ij. Chapiter of Iohan. A.

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THere was a maryage ī Ca­na a cytie of galyle / & iesꝰ mother was there / Iesꝰ was called also & his discyples vnto the mariage / & when the wyne fayled Iesꝰ mother sayde vnto hym / they haue no wyne / Iesꝰ sayde vnto her / wo­mā what haue I to do with the / myn houre ys nat yet come his mother sayde vnto the mynysters / what so euer he saythe vnto you do it There were stādyng. vi. water pottes of stone after the maner of purifyenge of the Iewes cōtayning two or. iii. fyrkyns a pece. Iesus sayd vnto thē / fyl the water pottes & they fylled thē vp to the harde brym / & he sayd vnto thē. Drawe oute nowe / & beare vnto the gouernour of the feaste & they bare it Uvhā the ruler of the feaste hade tastede the water that was turnede vnto wyne / neyther knewe whēse it was / but the mynysters which drewe the water knewe he cal­led the bryde grome and sayde vnto hym / al men at the begynnynge set forth good wyne / and when men be dronke / them that whiche is worse / but thou hast kept backe the good wyne vntyll nowe. This begyn nynge of myracles dyde Iesus in Cana of Galyle / & shewed his glorye / & hys dysciples byleued on hym

¶ The Gospell on the thyrd Sondaye after the [...]as of the Epypha. The. viij. Cha. of Mathew. A

WHen Iesus was come downe from the mountayn. moche people folowed hym & lo ther­re came a Lepre and worshyp­ped hym / sayenge / mayster / yf thou wylte thou canste make me clene / he put forth his hande and touched hym sayeng I wyl / be thou clene / & imme­diatly his leprosy was clēsed / & iesus sayd vnto hym / se thou tell no man / but go and shew thy selfe to the preest / and offre the gyfre that Moy­ses commaunded. in wytuesse to then whē Iesꝰ was entred in to Capernaū / there came vnto hym a cer­tayne Cēturion / besechyng hym / and sayeng / May­ster / my seruaūte īyeth syche / at home of the palseye / and is greuously payned / and iesus sayd vnto hym. I wyll come and cure hym. The Cēturyon answe­red and sayd. Syr I am nat worthy that thou shul­dest come vnder the rofe of my house but speake the word only and my seruaunt shall be healede / for I also my selfe / am a man vnder power / and haue soul­dyours vnder me / & I saye to one go / and he goeth / and to another come and he commeth and to my seruaunt do this / and he doeth it. Uvhen Iesus herde that he meruaylede and sayde to them that folowed hym. Uerely I saye vnto you. I haue nat founde so greate fayth: no nat ī israel. I say therfore vnto you that many shall come from the est and west / and shal rest withe Abraham / Isaac and Iacobe / ī the kyng­dome of heuen / and the chyldren of the kyngdome shal be caste out in to the vtter darknes / there shal be wepynge and gnass [...]yng of teeth. Then Iesus [Page] sayde vnto the Centureō / go thy waye / and as thou haste byleuede / so be it to the / and hys seruaunt was healed the same houre.

¶ The Gospell on the fourthe Sonday after the vtas of the Epiphanye the. viij. Chapiter of Mathewe. C.

VUhen Iesus entred in to ashyp and hys dyscyples folowed hym / and beholde there arose a greate stor­me in the see / in so moche that the shyp­pe was hydde with waues / and he was a slepe and hys discyples came vnto hym / and awoke hym sayēg. Mayster saue vs we perysshe / he sayde vnto them why are ye feareful O ye of lytell fayth. Thē he arose and rebuked the wyndes and the see / and there folowed a great cal­me / and the men meruayled and sayde what man is this / that bothe wyndes and see obey hym.

¶ The Gospell in the. v. Sondaye after that vtas of Epyphanye the. xiiij. Chapiter of Mathewe. G.

IEsus sayde vnto his disciples. The kyng­dome of heuen is ly­ke vnto a man whi­che sowed goode se­de in his felde: but whyle men slept: the­re came his foo: and sowed tares a­monge the wheate and went his way. Uvhen the blade was spronge vp: and had brought forth fruyte them appered the tares al­so. The seruauntes came to the householder: [Page] & sayde vnto hī. Syr sowedest nat thou goode seede in thy close / frō whense thē hathe it tares / he sayde to thē the enuyous mā hath done this. Thē the seruaun ces sayd vnto hym. Uvylt thou thē that we go & ga­ther thē & he sayd nay / lest whyle ye go about to wede oute the tares / ye plucke vp also with thē the wheate by the rotes let bothe grow togyther tyl haruest comand ī tyme of heruest / I wyl saye vnto my reapers / gather ye fyrste the tares / and bynde thē yn sheues / to be brēt / but gather the wheate in to my barne.

¶ The Gospel on the Sonday after weddynge goeth out called Septuageūma the. xx. chapyter of Matthewe. A.

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IEsus sayde vnto his disciples. The kyngdome of heuen is ly­ke vnto an householder / whiche wēt out erly ī the mornynge to hyrelabourers in to his vynyard. and he agreed with the labourers for apeny a daye / and sent them ī his vynyard. And he went out aboute the thyrde houre / & sawe other standynge ydell ī the market place / and sayd vnto them / go ye also in to my vyneyarde / and what so euer is ryght / I wyll gyue you / and they went theyr way Agayne he wente out aboute the syxte and nynth houre / & dyde lykewyse. And he went oute abouthe the eleuēth houre / and founde other standyng ydell / and sayde vnto thē. Uvhy stā ­de ye here al the day ydell. They sayd vnto hym. Bycause no man hath hyred vs. He sayde vnto theym. Go ye also in to my vyneyarde & what soeuer shall be ryght / that shall ye receaue. Uvhan euen was co­me / the lorde of the vyneyarde sayd vnto his Ste­ward cal the labourers / & gyue thē theyr hyre / begin­ne at the laste tyl thou cō to the fyrste And they whi­che were hyred about the eleuēth houre / cam & recea­ued euery man a penye / Then came the fyrst / suppo­synge that they shulde receaue more / & they lykewy­se receaued euery man a peny. And whē they had re­ceaued yt / they grudged against the good man of the house sayeng. These last haue wrought but one hou­re / & thou haste made thē equall vnto vs / which haue borne the burthen & hete of the daye. He answered to one of them sayēg frēde I do the no wronge / dyd dest thou nat agre with me for a peny Take that whiche ys thy dutye / and go thy waye / I wyll gyue vnto this laste / as moche as to the / is it nat laufull for me to do as me lysteth with myne owne is thyn eye euyl because I am good / so the last shal be fyrst / & the fyrst [Page] shal be laste / for many are called / & fewe be chosen.

¶ The Gospell on the Sondaye of. lx. The. viij. chapyter of Luke. A.

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[...]Uhē moche people were gathered to gyther: and were come to Iesꝰ oute of the cytyes: he spak by a similitude. A sower went out to sow his sede. And as he sowed: som fel by the way syde: and it was trodē vnder fete: and the foules of the ayre deuoured yt vp and some fel on stones: and as soone as it was spronge vp: yt wyddred away bycause it lacked moystnes: & some fell a­monge thornes: and the thornes syrong vp with it: and choked it. And some fell on good grounde: and spronge vp and bare fruyt an hōdred folde. And as he sayd these thynges: he cryed: he that hath eares to heare: let hym heare: his dyscyples asked hym: sayenge: what maner symylytude this shulde be: and he sayd: vnto you it is gyuen to knowe the secretes of the kyngdome of god: but to other in similitudes: that whē they se: they shuld nat se & whē they hear: they shulde nat vnderstande: the similitude is this The sede is the worde of god: those that are besyde the waye are they that heare: and afterwarde com­meth the deuyl and taketh a waye the worde oute of theyr heries: lest they should byleue and be saued They on the stones: are they whiche when they heare the worde receaue it wyth ioye: and these haue no rotes: which for a whyle byleue: & ī tyme of tēptacyō goo awayne. That whiche fell amonge thornes: are they whiche heare & go forth: and are choked with care and ryches & voluptuous lyuing: & bryng forth no fruyte. That ī the good groūde: they are which with a good & pure hert: heare the worde and kepe it: and bryng forth fruyte with pacience.

¶ The Gospell on the Sōday of. l. The. xviij. Chapyter of Luke. F.

IEsus toke vnto hī the twel­ue & sayde vnto thē beholde we go vp to Ierusalē / and all shall be fulylled that are wryttē by the prophetes / of the sones of man / he shall be delyue­red [Page xv] vnto the gentyls / & shall be mocked / and shall be despytefully entreated / & shall be spetten on / & when they haue scurged hym / they wyll put hym to deth / and the thyrd day shall he aryse agayn. They vnderstode none of these thynges & this sayinge was hyd from thē / and they perceyued nat the thynges which were spoken / it cā to passe / as he was come nye vnto Ierico / a certayne blynde man sate by the waye syde beggyng / and when he herde the people passe by / he asked what it meante. They sayde vnto hym / that Iesus of nazareth went by / and he cryed sayeng. Ie­sus the sone of Dauyd haue mercy on me / and they whiche went before rebuked hym / bycause he shuld hold his peace / and he moche the more cryed. The sonne of Dauyd haue mercy on me. Iesꝰ stod styll / and commaūded hym to be brought vnto hym / and when he was come nere / he asked hym sayenge.

Uvhat wylt thou that I do vnto the / and he sayde / lorde that I maye receaue my syght / Iesus sayd vn­to hym Receaue thy syght / thy fayth hath saued the / & imedyatly he sawe & folowed hym praysynge god / & al the people when they sawe it / gaue laude to god.

¶ The Gospell on Asshedwednysday. The. vi. chapyter of Mathewe. B.

CHrist sayd vnto hys discy­ples whē ye faste / be nat sad de as the hypocrites are / for they dysfygure theyr faces: that it myght appere vnto mē that they faste. Uerely I saye vn­to you: they haue theyr rewarde. But thou when thou fastest: anoynt thyne heed: and wass he thy face: that it appere nat vnto men how that thou fastest: but vnto thy father that is in secret: and thy father whiche seythe in secrete: shal rewarde the openly. Gather nat treasure to gyther on erth: where ruste and mothes cor­rupte: and where theues breake through & steale but gather the treasure to gyther in heuē: where neyther rust: nor mothes corrupt: & wher theues neyther breke vp nor yet steale: For wher soeuer youre treasure ys: there wyll youre hertes be also.

¶ The Gospel on the fyrst Sonday in Lent the iiij. chapyter / of Mathew. A.

UUhē Iesus was lede away of the spiryte in to wyldernes to be tēpted of the de­uyl. And when he hadde fasted forty dayes & forty nyghtes / at the laste he was an hūgred. Thē came vnto hym the tēpter / & sayd: if thou be the sone of god / cōmaūde that these stones demade breade. He answered and sayd. It is wryttē / mā shall nat lyue onely by breade / but by euery worde that procedeth out of the mouthe of god. Thē the deuyl toke hī vp ī to the holy cyte / & let hym on a pynacle of the temple and sayde vnto hym if thou be the sone of god / cast thy selfe downe / for it is wrytten / he shal gyue his angels charge ouer [Page] the / & with theyr handes they shal holde the vp that thou dassh nat thy fote agaynst a stone. Iesus sayde to hym / this is wryttē also. Thou shalt nat tēpte thy lorde god. The deuyl toke hym vp agayn and let hym in to an excedynge hye moūtayne / and she wed hym al the kyngdomes of the world and al the glory of them / & sayd vnto hym / al these wyll I gyue the / yf thou wylt fall downe & worshyp me. Then sayd Iesus vnto hym / auoyde Sathan for it is wrytten. Thou shalt worshyp thy lorde god / and hym only shalte thou serue.

¶ The Gospel on the seconde Sō ­day in Lent the. xv. chapiter. of Mathewe. C.

IEsus went thēe [...] and departed in to the costes of Tyre and Sydon. And beholde a woman whiche was a Ca­nanite came out of the same costes & [Page xvij] tried vnto hym / sayeng / haue mercy on [...]orde the sone of Dauyd / My doughter is petyously vexed with a deuyl And he gaue her neuer aword to answere. Thē came to hym his dyscy [...]les & besought hym sayēg / send her away / for she foloweth vs cryenge / he answered & sayd. I am nat sent / but vnto the loste shepe of the house of Israell. Thē she came and worshypped hym / sayēg / mayster / sucker me / he answe­red & sayde it is nat good / to take the chyldrens bred & to cast it to the whelpes / she answered and sayde it is truth / neuertheles the whelpes eate of the crōmes whiche fall from theyr maysters table Thē Iesꝰ an swered & sayd vnto her. O womā great is thy fayth / be it to the euen as thou desyrest / & her doughter was made hole / euen at that same houre.

¶ The Gospell on the. iij. Sonday in Lent the. xi. chapyter of Luke. C.

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IIesus was a castynge out a deuyll / whiche was domme And it foloweth whē the deuyl was gone out / the dōme spake and the people won­dred. Some of them sayd he casteth out deuylles / by the power of Belze­bub / the cheyfe of the deuylles & other tempted hym sekynge of hym a sygne from heuen he knewe theyr thoughtes and sayde vn to them. Euery kyngdome at debate wythin it selfe shall be desolate And one house shall fall vpon an o­ther. So if Sathan be deuyded with in hym selfe / how shal his kyngdome endure / because ye saye that I cast out deuylles by the power of Belzebub / if I by the power of belzebub caste oute deuyls / by who­se power / do youre chyldren caste thē oute Therfo­re shal they be your iudges / But if I with the fyn­ger of god caste out deuylles / no doubte / the kyngdome of god is come vpon you when a strong man ar­med watched hys house. That he possesseth / is ī peace but when a stronger then he commeth vpon hym / and ouercommeth hym he taketh frō hym his har­neys wherin he trusted / and diuydeth his goodes he that is nat with me is agaynst me / and he that gathe reth nat with me scattereth when the vncleane spiri­te is gone out of a mand / he walketh through water­lese places sekyng rest / and when he fyndeth none / he sayeth I wyl ceturne agayne vnto my house whē se I came out / and when he commeth / he fyndeth it swept and garnysshed. Thē goeth he and taketh se­uen other spirytes with hym worse then hym selfe & they entre in & dwell there. and the ende of the mā is worse then the begynnyng. It fortuned as he thus spake a certayn woman of the company lyfte vp her voyce / and sayd vnto hym / happy is the wombe that [Page xviij] bare the & the pappes which gaue the sucke / & he sayd happy are they that beare the worde of god & kepe it.

¶ The Gospell on my­delēt Sondaye. the. vi. chapiter of Iohan. A

IEsus went his way ouer the see of Galyle nye to a cyte called ti­berias / and a greate multytude folo­wed hym / bycause they had sene the myracles that he dyd on thē whiche were dyseased. Iesus went vp in to a mountayne / and there he sate with his discyples / & Easter a feast of the [Page] Iewes was nye. Then Iesus lyft vp his eyes and sawe a great company com vnto him and sayd vnto Philyp. whēse shall we bye breade that these myght eate. This he sayde to proue hym / for hī selfe knew what he wold do. Phylyp answered hym. Two hō ­dred peny worth of breade are nat sufficient for thē that euery man myght haue a lytell. Then sayd vn­to hym one of his discyples. Andrew Symō peters brother. There is a lade here / which hath fyue bar­ley loues / and two fysshes but what is that amonge so many / Iesus sayd / make the people to syt downe there was moke haye in the place. And the men sate downe / ī nombre aboute fyue thousāde. Iesus toke the breade & gaue tankes. And gaue to the discyples And his disciples / to thē that were set downe. And lykewyse of the fysshes / as moche as they wold / whē they had eatē ynoughe he sayd vnto his disciples gather vp the broken meate that remayneth that no­thyng be last. They gathered it togyther / and fylled twelue basketes with the broken meate of the fyue barley loues / whiche broken meate remayned vnto thē that had eten. Thē those men when they had se­ne the myracle that Iesus dyd / sayde. This is of a trueth / the prophet whiche shal come ī to the worlde

¶ The Gospell on Passyō sonday. The. viii. cha­piter of Iohan. F.

IEsus sayde vnto the cōpany of the Iewes & the hye preestes / which of you can rebucke me of syn­ne / if I say the trueth / why do nat ye byleue me / he that is of god / heareth goddes wordes ye therfore heare thē nat / bycause ye are nat of god. Thē answered the Iewes & sayd vnto hī? say we nat wel / that thou arte a samaritane & haste the deuyll. Iesus answered? I haue nat the deuyl / but I honour my father & ye haue di­shonoured me. I seke nat myn owne prayse but there is one that seketh & iudgeth Uerely verely. I saye vnto you yf a man kepe my sayenges / he shall neuer se deth. Thē sayd the Iewes to hym / now know we that thou hast the deuyl. Abrahā is deed / & also the ꝓphetes / & yet thou sayest yf a mā do kepe my sayen ge he shall neuer taste deth / arte thou greater them oure father A brahā / whiche is deed / & the ꝓphetes ar dead / whō makest thou thy selfe? Iesꝰ answered yf I honour my selfe / my honour is nothīge worth / it is my father that honoureth me / whiche ye say is your god / & yet haue ye nat knowē hī / but I knowe hym / and if I shulde say I knowe hym nat. I shuld be a lyer / lyke vnto you / but I knowe hym / and kepe his sayenge / your father Abrahā was glad [Page] to se my daye / and he saw it & reiorsed. Then sayde the Iewes vnto hym. Thou art nat yet. l. yere olde / & hast thou sene Abraham? Iesus sayd vnto thē Uerely verely I say vnto you yer Abraham was / I am Thē toke they vp stones to caste at hym / but Iesus hyd hym selfe and went out of the temple.

¶ The passyon on palme Sonday. The. xxvi. Chapiter of Mathewe. A.

IEsus sayde vnto his discy­ples ye know that after. ii. daye shal be Easter a the sone of mā shall be delyue­red for to be crucyfyed / thē assēbled to gyther the chefe preestes & the scrybes / and the elders of the people ī to the palays of the h ye p̄est whiche was called Cayphas / & helde a counsell / howe the myght take Iesus by subtylte / and kyl hym / but they sayde / nat on the holy daye / lest any trouble aryse amonge the people / when Ie­sus [Page xx] was ī Bethany in the house of Symon the lyp­per / there cā vnto hym a woman / whiche had an ala­baster box of precyous oyntment / and powred it on his hede as he sate at te bourde / when his discyples sawe that they had indignacyon / sayenge / what ne­ded this wast? this oyntment myght haue ben well solde / & gyuē to the poore / whē iesꝰ vnderstode that / he sayd to them why troble ye the womā She hath wrought a good worke vpon me / for ye shall haue poore folke alwayes with you / but me shall ye nat haue alwayes. And in that she casted this oyntment on my body / she dyd it to burye me with all. Uere­ly I say vnto you / where soeuer this Gospel shal be p̄ached through out al the world / there shal also this that she hath done / be tolde for a memoryall of her. Thē one of the twelue called Iudas yscarioth wēte vnto the chefe preestes / & sayde / what wyl you gyue me / and I wyll delyuer hym vnto you / and they ap­poynted vnto hym thyrty peces of syluer / & from the time he sought oportunite to betray hym. The fyrst daye of swete breade the discyples cam to iesus say­eng vnto hym where wylt thou that we prepare for the to eate the Paschall lābe / and he sayd go ī to the cyte / vnto suche a man / and say vnto hym the may­ster sayth my tyme is at hāde I wyl kepe myn Ea­ster at thy house with my discyples / & the discyples dyd as Iesus had apoynted them / and made redy the Easter lambe / when the euen was come / he sate downe with the. xii. And as they dyd eate he sayde. Uerely I say vnto you / that one of you shal betraye me / and they were excedynge sorowfull / and began euery one of them to say vnto hym / is it I mayster / he answered & sayde. He that depeth his hand with me in the dyshe shal betray me the sōne of mā goeth as it is wrytten of hym / but wo be to that man by whom the sone of man shal be betrayed / it had ben [Page] good for that man / if he had neuer ben borne. Then iudas whiche betrayed hym / answered & sayd. Is it I mayster he sayd vnto hym? thou hast sayd as they dyd eate / iesus toke breade & gaue tankes / brak it / & gaue it to the discyples & sayde / take eate / this is my body and he toke the cup / and thanked / and gaue it them / sayenge drynke of it euery one / for this my blode of the new Testament / that shall be shed for many / for the remyssyō of synnes I saye vnto you / I wyll nat drynke hensforth of this fruyte of the vyne tree / vntyl that day whē I shal drinke it newe with you in my fathers kyngdom / & when they had sayd grace: they went out in to moūt Olyuete. Thē sayd Iesus vnto thē al ye shal be offēded by me this nyght for it is wrytten I wyll smyte the shepeherde and the shepe of the flocke shalbe scattered abrode: but after I am rysen agayn: I wyl go before you in to Galyle. Peter answered & sayde vnto hī: though al men shuld be offēded by the: yet wold I be neuer offended. Iesus sayd vnto hym. Uerely: I saye vn­to the: that this same nyght before the coke crowe thou shalt deny me thryse. Peter sayd vnto hym / yf I shuld dye with the: yet wold I nat deny the: lyke­wyse also sayd al the discyples. Then went iesꝰ with then in to a place whiche is called. Bethsemane: and sayde vnto the disciples: syt ye here: whyle I go and pray yonder: & he toke with hym. Peter & the two sones of zebede: and began to waxe sorowfull: and to be in agonie. Then sayd iesus vnto then: my soules is heuy euen vnto the deth: tary ye here and watche with me. And he went a lytel aparte: and fel flatte on his face: and prayed sayeng. O my father yf it be possyble let: this cuppe passe frō me: neuertheles: nat as I wyl: but as thou wylt: & he came vnto the discyples: and founde them a slepe and sayde to peter.

Uvhat coulde ye nat watche with me one houre: [Page xxi] watche and pray: that ye al nat in to temptacyon: the spiryte is wyllyng: but the flesshe is weake.

He went away ones more & prayed / sayēg. O my father / yf this cuppe cam nat passe away from me / but that I drynke of it / thy wyll be fulfylled / & he cam & founde thē aslepe agayn / for theyr eyes were heuy / & he left them & wēt agayne & prayed the thyrde tyme / sayeng the same wordes Then came he to his discyples & sayd vnto thē. Slepe hens forth & take youre rest / take hede the houre is at hande. & the sone of mā shalbe betrayed in to the hādes of synners. Ryse let vs be goyng / behold / he is at hād that shal betray me Uvhile he yet spake / loo Iudas one of the twelue came & with hym a great multytude / with swerdes and staues / sent frō the cheyf of the preestes & elders of the people / and he that betrayed hym / had gyuen thē a token / sayeng who so euer I kysse / that same is he: lay hādes on hym. And forth with all he came to Iesus / and sayde. Hayle mayster. And kyssed hī / and Iesꝰ sayd vnto hī? Frend wherfore arte thou com. Thē cam they & layd handes on Iesꝰ & toke hī: And behold one of thē which were with Iesus stretched out his hand & drew his swerd & stroke a seruaūt of the hye preest & smote of his eare. Then sayd Iesus vnto hī. Put vp thy swerd ī to his shethe: for al that lay hād on the swerd: shal perishe with the swerd: eyther thinkest thou that I can nat now pray to my father & he shal gyue me mo thē. xii. legiōs of angeles: but how thē shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be: The same tyme sayde Iesus to the mul­tytude: ye be come out as yt were vnto a thefe with swerdes and staues for to take me: I sate dayly te­ching ī the temple amonge you: and ye toke me nat. Al this was done that the scriptures of the ꝓphetes myght be fulfylled. Then all the dyscyples forsoke hym: and fledde. And they toke Iesꝰ and led him to [Page] Cayphas the hye preest / where the scrybes and the elders were assembled / and Peter folowed hym a far­re of / vnto the hye p̄estes place. And went in / and sa­te with the seruauntes / to se the ende. The cheyf preestes / and the elders / and all the counsel / sought fals witnes agaynst iesus for to put hym to death / but founde none / in so moche that when many fals wyt­nesses came / yet founde they none. At the last cam two fals wytnesses and sayd. This folow sayd I cā destroye the temple of god and buylde it agayn in. iii dayes. And the cheyf preest arose and sayd to hym / answerest thou nothyng / how is it that these bere witnesse agaynst the / But iesus helde his peace. And the chief preest answered & sayd to hī I charge the in the name of the lyuyng god / that thou tel ws whe­ther thou be Christ the sōe of god. Iesꝰ sayd to him / thou haste sayde / neuertheles I say vnto you / here after shal ye se the sone of mā / syttynge on the ryght hande of power / and come in the cloudes of the skye Then the hye preest rēt his clothes / sayeng. He hath blasphemed / what nede we of any moo wytnesses / beholde / now ye haue herde his blasphemy / what think ye. They answered and sayde? he is worthy to dye / then spatte they in his face / and buffetted hym with fystes / and other smote hym with the palme of theyr hādes on the face / sayeng / Tel vs thou Christ: who is he that smote the. Peter satt without in the palayes / and a damseel came to hym sayenge. Thou also wast with iesus of Galyle but he denied before them al sayeng I wote nat what thou sayest. Uvhē he was gone out ī to the porche / another wēche sawe hym / & sayde vnto thē that were there. This folowe was also with iesus of nazareth / & agayne he denied with an othe that he knew nat the man. And after a whyle came vnto hym they that stode by / & sayd vnto Peter / Surely thou art euē one of thē / for th [...] speache [Page xxij] be wrayeth the. Thē begā he to curse / & to swere that he knewe nat the man. & immediatly the cocke crewe / and Peter remēbred the wordes of Iesu whiche sayd vnto hī / Before the cocke crew / thou shalt deny me thryse. And wēt out at the dores / and wept bytterly when the mornynge was come al the cheyf preestes and the elders of the people helde a counsell agaynst Iesu / to put him to deth / & brought hī boūde & delyuered hī vnto Pōcius Pilate the debyte. Thē when Iudas which betrayed hym / sawe that he was cōdēpned / he repēted hym self. And brought agayn the. xxx. plates of syluer to the hye preestes & elders sayenge. I haue synned / betrayenge the innocēt blode. And they sayd what is that to vs / se thou to that: And he cast downe the syluer plates in the temple & departed / & went and hōge hym selfe / and the cheyfe preestes toke the syluer plates and / sayed / It is nat lauful for to put them in to the treasury / bycause it is the pryce of blode / and they toke counsell / and bought with them a potters felde / to burye straun­gers in / wherfore the felde is called the felde of blo­de vnto this daye. Them was fulfylled that whiche was spoken by Ieremy the prophet sayenge / and they toke. xxx. syluer plates / the pryse of hym that was valued / whom they bought of the chyldren of Israel / and they gaue them for the potters felde / as the lorde appoynted me. Iesus stode before the de­bite / and the debite axed hym / sayenge / Art thou the kyng of the Iewes. Iesus say de vnto hym. Thou sayest / and whē he was accused of the cheyf preestes and elders / he answered nothyng / Then sayde Pi­late vnto hym / herest thou nat how many thynges they laye against the / and he answered to hym ne­uer a worde in so moche that the bebite meruayled greatly. At the feest the debite was wont to delyuer vnto the people a prisoner / whom they world desyre [Page] He had then a notable prisoner called Barrabas / & when they were gathered togyther Pylate sayd vnto thē? whether wyll ye that I / gyue lose vnto you / Barrabas or Iesus whiche is called Chryste / for he knew wel / that for enuye they had delyuered hī whē he was set downe to gyue Iudgement his wyfe sent to hym sayēge. Haue thou nothynge to do with that iust mā / for I haue suffred many thynges this dare in a dreame aboute hym. But the cheyf preestes and the elders had perswaded the people that they shul­de are Barrabas / & shulde distroy Iesus. Then the debite answered and sayd vnto them. whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let lose vnto you / & they sayd Barrabas Pylate sayde vnto thē what shal I do thē with iesus whiche is called Chryste. They all sayde to hym let hym be crucifyed. Thē sayde the debyte? what euyl hath he done. And they cryed the more / sayeng let hym be crucifyed. whē Pylate sawe that he preuayled nothynge▪ but that more busynes was made / he toke water and wasshed his handes before the people sayenge. I am innocent of the blode of this iust person. And that ye shal se. Thē answered all the people & sayde. His blode be on vs / & on our chyldrē. Thē let he Barrabas lose vnto thē / & scour­gede iesus & delyuered hym to be crucifyed. Thē the souldyours of the debite toke Iesꝰ vnto the cōmen hal. And gathered vnto hym al the company / & they stripped hym / & put on hym a purple robe. And plat­ted a crowne of thornes / and put vppon his hedde / and a rede in his ryght hande. And bowed theyr ke­nees before hym and mocked hym / sayenge / Hayle kynge of the Iewes / & spytted on hym / and toke the rede & smote hym on the hed. And when they hade mocked hym / they toke the robe of hym agayn and put his owne reyment on hym / and lede hym awaye to crucyfy hym. And as they came out / they foūde a [Page xxiij] man of Cyren / named Symō? hym they cōpellede to beare his crosse. ✚ And when they cam vnto the place called Golgotha / that is to sar / a place of deed mens srules they gaue hym vyneger to drynk men­gled with gall and when he tasted thereof / he wolde nat drynke / when they had crucifyed hym / they par­tede his garmētes / & dyd caste lottes to fulfyll that was spoken by the prophet. They deuydede my garmentes amōge thē / & vpon my vesture dyd caste lot­tes & they sate and watched hym there / & they set vp ouer his hed the cause of hys deth wrytten. This is the kynge of the Iewes / and there were two theues crucifyed with hym / one on the ryght hande / & ano­ther on the lefte. They that passed by / reuylede hī / waggynge theyr heedes & sayenge / Thou that de­stroyest the temple of god & buyldest it in thre dayes saue thy selfe yf thou be the sone of god come dow­ne frō the crosse / lykewyse also the hye preestes moc­kynge hym / with the scrybes & elders sayde. He sa­ued other / hym self he cā nat saue / yf he be the kynge of Israel / let hym now come downe frō the crosse / & we wyl byleue hym / he trusted in god / let hym dely­uer hym nowe / yf he wyl haue hym / for he sayde I am the sone of god. That same also the theues whi­che were crucifyed with hym / caste ī his teeth / from the syxt houre was there darkenes ouer all the land vnto the nynth houre. And about the nynth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce / sayenge. Ely Ely Lama As [...]athany. That is to saye My god / my god why hast thou forsaken me / Home of thē that stode there / when they [...] that [...] This man calleth for Helias. And strayt way one of them ranne and tok a sponge and fylled it ful of vynegre / and put it on a rede / and gaue hym to drynke. Other sayde / let be / lette vs se whether Helyas wyll come & delyuer hym. Iesus cryed agayn with a loud voyce and yel­ded [Page] vp the ghost. And beholde the vayle of the tem­ple dyd rent in twayne / from the toppe to the botto­me. And the erth dyd quake. And the stones dyd rēt and graues dyd open / and the bodyes of many sain­tes whiche slept / arose and came out of the graues after his Resurreccyon / and came in to the holy ci­te / and appered vnto many / whē the Century on and they that were with hym watchyng. Iesus sawe the earthe quake & those thynges which happened / they feared greatly sayeng / of a suerty this was the sone of god. And many women were there / beholdynge hym a farre of / which folowed Iesus from Galyle / ministryng vnto hī. Among which was Mary mag daleyne / & Mari the mother of Iames & Ioses / & the mother of zebedes chyldrē. Uvhē the euē was come there came a ryche mā of aramathia named Ioseph / which also was Iesꝰ disciple He wēt to Pilate & begged the body of Iesus. Then Pilate commaunded the body to be delyuered and Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane lynyn clothe / and put it ī hys new tom be / which he had hewen out euin in the rocke. And rolled a great stone at the dore of the Sepulchre / & departed And there was Mary magdalem & the mother Mary sittīg ouer agaīst the Sepulchre

¶ The Gospell on Palme. Sondaye.

THe next daye that foloweth good fryday / the hye pree­stes & Pharyses got thē sel­ues to Pylate & sayde. Syr we remembre / that this de­ceauer sayde whyle he was yet alyue. After. iij. dayes I wyll aryse agayne. Commaunde therfore the Sepulchre be made sure / vntyl the thyrde daye / leest perauenture his disciples come and steale hym away / and saye vnto the people / he is rysen from [Page xxiiij] death / and the laste errour be worse thē the fyrst. Pi late sayd vnto them. Take watchemen / go and make it as sure as ye cā. And they went & made the se­pulchre sure with watchemen / and seased the stone.

¶ The Passyon on good frydaye. The. xviij. Chapyter of Iohan. A.

IEsus wēt forth with his disciples ouer the broke Cedron wher was a gardeyne / into the whiche he entred with hys discyples. Iudas also / whiche betrayed hym knew the place for Iesus oftimes resorted thither with his disciples. Iudas thē after he hade receaued abōd of mē / and mynysters of the hye p̄estes and Pharises came thyther with lāternes & fyrebrōdes & wepons Then Iesus knowyng al thinges that shulde come on hym went forth and sayd vnto them whom se­ke ye. They answered hym. Iesus of nazareth. Ie­sus sayd vnto them? I am he. Iudas also which be­trayed hym / stode with them / but as soone as he hade sayd vnto them I am he / they wēt backewardes and fell to the grounde and he asked them again. Uvhom seke ye. They sayde? Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus answered? I sayd vnto you / I am he / yf ye se ke me / let these go theyr way / that the sayenge myght be fulfylled whiche he spake. Of them whi­che thou gauest me / haue I nat lost one. Symō Peter had a sword / & drewe it / & smote the hye preestes seruaūt & cut of his ryght eare The seruaūtes name was Malchus Thē sayd Iesꝰ vnto Peter put vp thy swerd ī to the sheath shal I nat drynke of the cuppe [Page] whiche my father hathe gyuen me / Then the com­pany & the captayn & the ministers of the Iewes to­ke Iesus & bounde hym / and let hym away to Anna fyrst / for he was father in law vnto Caphas whiche was the hie preest that sam yere Caphas was he that gaue counsel to the [...]ewes that it was expedyent that one man shulde dye for the people. And Symō Pe­ter folowede Iesꝰ and another dyscyple / that dyscy­ple was knowen of the hye preest / & went in with Iesus ī to the Palars of the hye preest but Peter stode at the dore withoute. Thē went out the other dyscyple whiche was knowen vnto the hye preest / & spake to the damsell that kept the dore & brought in Peter Then sayd the damsell that kepte the dore / vnto Peter. Art nat thou one of this mans dyscyples he sayd I am nat. The seruauntes and the mynysters stode there & hade made a fyre of coles / for it was colde / & they warmede them selues. Peter also stode amon­ge them / & warmed hym selfe. The hye preest axed Iesꝰ of his dys [...]les & of his doctrine. Iesꝰ answeted hym? I spake openly ī the worlde I euer taught in the Sinagege & ī the tēple why th [...] al the Iewes resorted & ī secrete haue I sayd nothynge / why axest thou me are them whiche herde me / what I sayde vnto them / beholde they can tel what I sa [...]d. Uvhē he had thus spoken / one of the ministers whiche stode by / smote Iesus on the face sayenge / answerest thou the hye preest so / Iesus answered hym / yf I haue euyl spoken beare wytnesse / of the euyl / yf I haue wel spoken why smytest thou me. And Annas sent hym bounde vnto Cayphas the hye preeste. Symō Peter stode & warmed hym selfe / & they sayde vnto hym / a [...]te thou nat also one of his discyples. He de­nyede it & sayde. I am nat. One of the seruantes of the hye preest / his cosen whose eare Peter smote of sayde vnto hym / dyd nat I se the ī the gardeyn with [Page xxv] hym. Peter denied it agayne / & īmediatly the cocke crewe. Then led they Iesus from Cayphas ī to the hall of Iudgemente. It was in the mornyng / & they thē selues wēte nat in to the iudgemēt hall / lest they shulde be defyled / but that they myght eate the Pa­schall lambe. Pylate then went out vnto them / and sayde. Uvhat accusacyon brynge ye agaynste this man. They answered & sayde vnto hym yf he were nat an euyll doer / we wolde not haue delyuered hym vnto the. Then sayde pylate vnto thē / take ye hym / & iudge hym after your owne lawe Thē the Iewes sayd vnto hym / it is not laufull for vs to put any mā [...]o deth. That the wordes of Iesus myght be fulfylled / whiche he spake / sygnifieng what deth he shulde dy [...]. Then Pylate entred in to the iudgemente hall aga [...]ne & called Iesus and sayd vnto hym. Art thou the k [...]nge of the iewes. Iesꝰ answered? sayeste thou that o [...] thy selfe / or dyd other tel it the of me. Pylate answe [...]ed? Am I [...]a [...]iewe. Thyne owne nacyon and hye p̄estes haue delyuered the vnto me. Uvhat hast thou done. Iesus answered. My kyngedome is nat of this worlde. yf my kyngdome were of this world then worlde my mynisters surely fyght that I shuld nat be delyuered to the iewes / But now is my kyngdome nat from hense. Pylate sayde vnto hym. Arte thou a kynge / Then Iesus answered Thou sayest that I am a kynge for this cause was I borne / & for this cause came I in to the world / that I shuld bea­re witnesse vnto the trueth / & al that are of the truth heare my voyce. Pylate sayd vnto hī / Uvhat thyn­ge is trueth / & whē he had sayd that / he wente out a­gayne vnto the Iewes / & sayd vnto thē. I fide ī hym no cause at al / Ye haue a custōe that I shulde delyuer you one lose at Easter. Uvyll ye that I lose vnto you the kynge of the Iewes. Then cryed they all agayne sayenge / Nat hym but Barrabas / that Bar­rabas [Page] was a robber. Then Pylate toke Iesus and scourged hym / and the souldyours woūde a crowne of thornes and put it on his heed and they dyd on hym a purple garment / and sayd. Hayle kyng of the Iewes and they smote hym on the face. Pyla [...]e wente forthe agayne / & sayde vnto them. Beholde I brynge hym forthe to you / that ye may know / that I fynde no fau [...]e in hym. Then came Iesus forth wearing a crowne of thorne and a robe of purple / & Pylate sayd vnto thē / beholde the man. Uvhen the hye preestes & mynysters sawe hī / they cryed sayeng Crucifye hī / crucifye hī. Pylate sayd vnto thē. Ta­ke ye hym and crucyfye hym for I fynde no caus [...] ī him. The Iewes answered him / we haue a lawe & by our lawe he ought to dye / bycause he made his el­fe the sone of god. Uvhē Pylate herde the sayer [...]ge / he was the more afrayde / & wēt agayne in to th [...] iudgemēt hall / & sayde vnto Iesus. whense art th [...]u but Iesus gaue hym none answere. Then Pyl [...]te say­de vnto hī / speakest thou not vnto me know est thou nat / that I haue power to crucifye the / & ha [...]e power to lose the. Iesus answered? Thou couldeste haue no power at al agaynst me / except it were gyuen the from aboue. Therfore he that delyuered me vnto the / is more ī synne / & from thensforth sought Pylate meanes to lose him / but the Iewes cryed / sayeng. Yf thou let hym go / thou art nat Cesars frende For who soeuer makethe hym selfe a kyng / is agaynst Cesar whē Pylate herde that sayeng / he brought ie­sus forth and sat downe to gyue sētēce in a place called the pauement / but in the Hebrewe tōge. Gabba tha / it was the Saboth euen whiche falleth ī the ea­ster feest / & aboute the. vi. houre / he sayde vnto the Iewes / behold your kyng. they cryed away with hī awaye with hym crucyfye hī. Pylate sayd vnto thē sha [...] ▪ I crucifye your kyng. The hye p̄estes āswered [Page xxvi] we haue no kyng but cesar. Thē delyuered he hym vnto thē / to be crucyfyed / and they toke Iesus & led de hym away & he bare hys crosse / & wente forthe in to a place called the place of deedmenssculles / whi­ [...]he is named ī hebrewe Golgotha / wher they crucyfyed hym / & two other with hī / on eyther syde one: & Iesus in the myddes / & pylate wrote his tytle / & put it on the crosse. The writyng was Iesus of Naza­reth kynge of the Iewes Thys ty [...]le rede many of the Iewes / for the place where Iesꝰ was crucyfyed / was nye to the Cytie. And it was wrytē / ī Hebrwe / Greke / & Laten. Then sayde the hye preestes of the Iewes to pylate. wryte nat kyng of the Iewes / but that he sayd I am kīge of the Iewes. pylate answe­red what I haue wryttē that I haue wryttē Thē the souldyours / whē they had crucyfyed Iesꝰ toke his garmētes & made foure partes / to euery souldyour a parte / and also his cote the cote was without seme wrought vpon thorowe out / & they sayd one to ano­ther / let vs not deuyde it / but caste lotteswho shal haue it. That the scripture myght be fulfylled whiche sayth They parted my raymēt among thē / & on my cote dyd cast lottes & the souldyours dyd suche thynges in dede. There stode by that crosse of Iesus his mother / & his mother syster / Mary the wyfe of Cleophas & Mary Magdaleyne. whē īesus sawe his mother & the dyscyple stādyng whom he loued / he sayd vnto his mother. Uvomā beholde thy sone. Then sayde he vnto the dyscyple / beholde thy mother / and from that houre the dyscyple toke her for his owne. After that whē iesꝰ perceaued that all thynges were perfourmed that the scrypture myght be fulfylled / he sayde. I thryst / there stode a vessell full of vyue­ger by / and they fylled a sponge with vyneger / and vounde it about with ysope / and put it to his mouth as sone as Iesꝰ had receaued of the vineger h [...]sayd [Page] it is fynisshed / & bowed his heed & gaue vp the gost. The Iewes them bycause it was the Sabothe euē that the bodyes shulde not remayne vpon the crosse on the saboth daye / for that saboth day was an hye day / besought Pylate that theyr legges myghte be brokē & that they myght be takē downe Then came the souldyours and brake the legges of the fyrst / & of the other whiche was crucyfied with iesꝰ but whē they came to iesꝰ and sawe that he was deest alredy theyr brake not his legges but one of the souldiours with a spere thruste hym in to the syde / & forth with came there out blode & water / & he that s [...]we it bare recorde / & his recorde is trewe / & he knoweth that he sayth true / that ye myght byleue also These thinges were done that the scrypture shuld be fulfylled. Ye shal not breake a bōe of hī / & agayne another scripture sayth. They shal loke on hī / whōe they ꝑsed.

¶ The Gospell on good friday.

AFter that Ioseph of Aramathia / whiche was a discyple of Iesꝰ / but secretly for feare of the Iewes / besought Pylate that he myght take downe the body of Iesus & Pylate gaue hym lycence / and there came also Nichodemꝰ whiche at the begyn­nynge came to Iesus by nyght & broughte of myrre and Aloes myngled togyther about an. C. pounde weyght. Thē toke they the body of Iesu & woūde it in lynnyn clothes with the odoures as the maner of the Iewes is to bury / & in the place where I [...]ꝰ was crucifyed was a gardeyn and in the gardeyn a newe sepulcre wherin was neuer man layde. There layde they Iesus bycause of the Iewes s [...]both euē for the sepulcre was nye at hande.

¶ The Gospel on Easter day. The. xvi. chapiter of Marke. A.

MAry magdalayne and Mary Iacobi & Salome / bought odures / that they myght cōe & anoynte Iesꝰ. And erely in the mornyng the next day after the Saboth daye / they came vnto the Sepulcre / whē the sōne was rysen & they sayd one to another / who shall rolle vs awaye the stone frō that dore of the Sepulcre. And whē they loked / they saw how the stone was rolled awaye / for it was a very great one. And they went in to the Sepulcre / and sawe a yonge man syttynge on the ryght syde clothed in a long whyte garment & they were abasshed. And he sayde vnto thē / be nat afrayde / ye seke Iesus of Nazarethe whiche was crucifyed / he is rysen / he is nat here / beholde the place where they put hym but go your way / and tel his discyples and namely peter he wyl go before you in to Galyle / there shal ye se hym as he sayde vnto you.

¶ The Gospell on the Mōdaye ī the Easter weke The. xiiij. chapyter of Luke. C.

Two of the dyscyples of Iesus wēte that same daye to a castel which was frō Ie­salē about thre score forlōges / called Emaus / and they talked togyther of al these thynges that had happened And it chaunsed / as they cōmoned togyther and reasoned / that Iesꝰ hymselfe drewe nere / & wēte with thē but theyr eyes were holden that they coulde not knowe hym and he sayd vnto thē. Uvhat maner of communycacyons are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sadde. And the one of them named Cleophas answered and sayde vnto hym: art thou onely astraunger in ierusalē / and hast nat knowen the thynges which haue chaūsed there ī these dayes to whome he sayde what thynges / and they sayd vnto hym of Iesus of Nazareth whiche was a prophe­te / myghty ī dede & worde before god and all the people. And howe the hye preestes and our rulers dely­uered hym to be condēp [...]ed to deth and haue crucy­fyed hym / but we trusted that it shulde haue ben he that shulde haue delyuered israel And as tou­chynge all these thynges / to day is euen the thyrd [Page xxxvij] daye / that they were done / ye & certeyne womē al­so of our company made vs astonyed / whiche came erely vnto the Sepulcre and founde nat his body / and came sayeng that they had sene a visyon of an­gels / whiche sayd that he was alyue / and certeyne of them whiche were with vs went theyr waye to the Sepulcre / and founde it euen so as the women had sayde but him they sawe nat. And he sayde vnto thē O foles and siowe of herte to byleue al that the prophetes haue spoken / ought nat christ to haue suffred these thynges and to entre in to his glori. And he began at Moyses and at al the prophetes and inter­preted vnto them in al scryptures whiche were written of him and they drewe nye vnto the castel which they went to and he made as though he wolde haue gone further / but they constraned hym sayeng / abi­de with vs for it draweth towardes nyght and the day is far passed / and he wēt in. To tary with thē / & it came to passe as he sate at meate with them he to­ke breade / blyssed it / brake and gaue to theym and theyr eyes were opened / & they knewe hym / and he vanysshed out of theyr syght / & they sayde bytwene them selues / dyd nat oure hertes burne within vs / whyle he talked with vs by the waye / and as he ope­ned to vs the scriptures. And they arose vp the same hour and retorned agayne to Ierusalem / and foun­de the eleuē gathered togyther and them that were with them / whiche sayd the lorde is rysen ī dede / & hathe appered to. Simon and they tolde what thynges was done in the waye / and how they knowe hī in brekynge of brede.

¶ The Gospel on tewisdaye in the Easter weke. The. xxiiij. chapiter of Luke. F.

IEsus hym selfe stode ī the myddes of his discyples & sayd vnto thē peace be with you. And they were abas­shed & a frayde / supposynge that they hadde sene a spyryte / And he sayde vnto thē. Uvhy are ye [...]ou­bled / & why do thoughtes a [...]se ī your hertes / beholde my handes & my fete that it is euen my selfe handle me and se / for spiry­tes haue not flesshe & bones as ye se me haue / & whē he had thus spokē he shewed thē his hādes & his fete and whyle they yet byleued nat for ioy / & wōdred / he sayde vnto thē / haue ye here any meate / & they gaue hym a pece of a broyled fysshe / and of an hony come be / and he toke it and eate it before them / & he sayde vnto them. These are the wordes whiche I spa­ [...]e vnto you / whyle I was yet with you that al must [Page xxix] be fulfylled whiche were wrytten of me in the lawe of Moyses / and in te prophetes / and in the psal­mes. Thē opened he theyr wyttes / that they myght vnderstāde the scriptures / and sayd vnto thē / thꝰ is it wryttē / & thus it behoueth christ to suffre / & to ryse agayne from deth the. iij. day. And the repentaun­ce and remission of synnes shulde be preached ī his name among al nacions.

¶ The Gospell on the wednysday in the Easter weke. The. xxi. Chapiter of Iohn̄. A.

AFter that Iesꝰ shewed hym selfe agayne to his dyscyples at the see of Tiberias And on thiswyse shewed he hym selfe. There were togyther Symō peter & Thomas whiche is called Didimus. And Natha nael of Cana a cytye of Galyle & the sonnes of zebedes / & two other of the dyscyples. Symon peter sayd vnto thē I go a fysshynge. They sayd vnto hym / we also [Page] wyl go with the They wēt theyr way & entred in to a shyp straytewaye / and that nyghte caught they no­thyng / but whē the mornynge was nowe come iesus stode on the shore / neuertheles the discyples knewe nat that it was iesus. Iesꝰ sayde vnto thē / syrs haue ye any meate. They answered hym no & he sayd vn­to thē / caste out the net on the ryght syde of the shyp & ye shal fynde. They cast out & anone they were nat able to drawe it / for the multytude of fysshes. Then sayd the discyple whō Iesus loued vnto Peter / it is the lord. Uvhā Simō Peter herde that it was the lorde / he gyrde his mātel to hym for he was naked / & sprang ī to the see the other discyples came byshyp for they were not farre frō lande / but as it were two hōdred cubytes & they drewe the nette with fysshes As sone as they were come to lande / they sawe hote coles & fysshe layd therō / & breade. Iesꝰ sayd vnto thē brynge of the fysshe whiche ye haue caughte Symō Peter stepped for the & drewe the nette to lande full of greate fysshes an hondred and. liij. & for all there were so many / yet was nat the nette brokē. Iesꝰ sayd vnto then / Come & dyne. And none of the discyples durste axe hī / what arte thou / for they knewe that it was the lorde / iesꝰ thē came & toke breade & gaue thē and fyshe lykewyse. And this is now the thyrd tyme that Iesꝰ appered to his discyples / after that he was rysen agayne from death.

¶ The Gospell on the fyrst Sonday after Easter day called lawe Sōday. The. xx. chap̄. of Iohā. E

[...]He same daye at nyght / which was the morowe after the Sabaoth day / whē the dores were shutte where the disciples were assembled to gyther for feare of the Iewes / came Iesꝰ / & sto­de ī the myddes / & sayde to thē. Peace be with you / and when he hade so sayde / he shewed vnto thē his hādes / and his syde. Then were the discy­ples glad / when they saw the lorde. Them sayde ie­sus to them agayne. Peace be with you. As my fa­ther sent me / euen so send I you / and when he had sayde that / he brethed on them and sayd vnto them. Receaue the holy ghost / who soeuers synnes ye re­myt / they are remytted vnto them and who soeuers synnes ye retayne / they are retayned / but Thomas one of the twelue called Didimus: was nat with them when Iesus came / the other discyples sayd vnto hym. Uve haue sene the lorde / and he sayde vnto them. except I se in his handes / the prynt of the nay les / and put my fynger in the hooles of the nayles / & thruste my hāde ī to his syde I wyll nat byleue. And after. viij. dayes. agayne / his discyples were within: and Thomas with thē. Then cam Iesus when the [Page] dores were shut & stode in the myddes / & sayd. Pea­ce be with you. after that sayd he to Thomas / bryng thy fynger hyther / & se my handes / & brynge thy hande & thruste it in to my syde / & be nat faythlesse / but byleuyng Thomas answered & sayde vnto hym. my lorde and my god Iesus sayde vnto hym. Thomas bycause thou hast sene me therfore thou byleuest. Happy are they that hath nat sene / & yet byleue. And many other sygnes dyd Iesus in the presence of his discyples / which are nat wryttē in this boke. These are wryttē that ye myght byleue that Iesꝰ is christe the sone of mā / and that ī byleuyng / ye myght haue lyfe thorowe his name.

¶ The Gospel on the secōde sōday after easter day. the. x. cha. of Iohā. C.

IEsus sayd to his di­scyples. I am the good shepherd / the good shepherd gy­ueth hys lyfe for the shepe / an hyred seruaunt / whiche is nat the shepherd neyther the shepe are hys [Page xxxi] owne seythe the wolfe commynge and leaueth the shepe and flyeth / and the wolfe catchet them / & scat­tereth the shepe. The hyred seruaūt flyeth / bycause he is an hyred seruaūt / & careth nat for the shepe. I am the good shepherde / & knowe mine / & am knowē of myne. As my father knoweth me / euē so knowe I my father / And I gyue my lyfe for the shepe / and other shepe I haue whiche are nat of this folde / thē also must I bryng / that they may heare my voyce / & that theare may be one floke / and one shepherde.

¶ The Gospel on the. iij. Sonday after Easter­day the. xvi. chapyter of Iohan. D.

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IEsus sayd to his discyples after a whyle ye shall nat se me & agayne after a whyle ye shall se me. for I go to the father / thē sayde some of hys discyples betwene thē selues / what is this that he sayth vnto vs. After a whyle ye shal nat se me / and agayn after a whyle ye shall se me / & that I go to the father. They sayde therfore what is this that he sayth after a whyle / we can nat tell what he sayth. Iesus ꝑceaued that they wold axe hym / & sayd vnto thē. This is it that ye enquyre of bytwene your selues / that I sayde after a whyle ye shal nat se me / & agayne / after a whyle ye shal se me. Uerely verely / I say vnto you / ye shall wepe & lament / and the worlde shal reioyce / ye shal sorowe / but your sorowe shall be turned to ioye / A woman whē she trauayleth hath sorow / bycause her houre is come / but as soone as she is delyuered of the chyld / she remēbreth nomore the anguyss he. for ioy that a man is borne in to the worde. And ye now are in sorowe / but I wyl se you agayn / And your hertes shal reioyse / and youre ioye shal no man take from you.

¶ The Gospel on the. iiij. Sondaye after Easter daye the. xvi. chapiter of Iohan. B.

IEsus sayde to his discyples now I go my waye to him thatsēt me. and none of you axeth me / whyther goest thou / but bycause I haue sayde suche thynges vnto you / your hertes are ful of sorowe. Neuerthe­les I tell you the trueth / it is expe­dyent for you that I go awaye for yf I go nat awaye / that conforter wyl nat come vnto you / but yf I departe I wyll sende hym vnto you. And when he is come / he wyl rebuke the worlde of synne / & of ryghtwysenes & of iudgemēt of synne / bycause they byleue nat on me: of ryghtwysenes bycause I go to my father / & ye shall se me no more. And of iudgemēt / bycause the cheyfe ruler of thys world is iudged all redye. I haue yet many thynges to say vnto you / but ye can nat beare them awaye nowe. How be it when he is com I meane the spyryte of truth he wyl tech you all truth. He shall nat speake of hym selfe but what soeuer he shal heare / that shal he speke / and he wyl shew you thynges to come he shal gloryfye me / for he shall receaue of myne & shal shew vnto you. Al thynges that the father hath / are myne. Therfore sayde I vnto you / that he shall ta­ke of myne and shewe vnto you.

¶ The Gospel on the. v. Sonday after Easter day whiche is the next sondaye before the Crosse dayes the. xvi. chapiter of Iohan. E.

IEsus sayde vnto his discyples / verely verely I saye vnto you / what so euer / ye shall aske the father in my name / he wyl gyue it you / he­therto haue ye asked nothyng in my name aske & ye shall receaue it that youre ioye may be full. These thyn­ges haue I spoken vnto you ī prouer bes / the tyme wyl come / whē I shall speake no more to you in puerbes / but I shal shew you playnly frō my father. At that daye shall ye aske in my name / & I saye nat vnto you that I speake vn to my father for you. For the father hī selfe loueth you / bycause ye haue loued me / & haue byleued that I came out frō god. I wente out frō the father and came in to the worlde. I leaue the world agayne / & [Page xxxiij] hym: behold nowe speakest thou playnly / and thou vsest no prouerbes. Now we know that thou vnder standest al thynges / & nedest nat that any man shul­de aske the any questyon. Therfore byleue we that thou commest from god.

¶ The Gospell on Monday in the Crosse dayes the. xi. Chapyter of Luke. B.

IEsꝰ sayd vnto his disciples whiche of you shuld haue a frēde and shulde go to him at mydnyght / and sayd vn­to hym frēde lend me thre loues for a frende of myne is come out of the waye to me / & I haue no­thynge to set before hym & he within shulde answere & sayde: trouble me nat / nowe the dore is nowe shyt / & my seruauntes are with me ī the chāber. I cā nat aryse & gyue thē vnto the I say vnto you thoughe he wyl nat aryse & gyue hī bycause he is his frēde yet bycause of his im [Page] portunite he wold ryse / & gyue hym as many as ne deth / & I saye vnto you / aske / & it shall be geuē you. Seke & you shal fide knocke / & it shal be opened vn to you for euery one that asketh receaueth / & he that seketh fyndeth / and to hym that knocketh shal it be opened. Yf the sone aske breade of any of you / that is a father / wyll he gyue hym a stone. Or if he aske fyshe / wyll he for a fyshe gyue hym a serpēt Or if he aske an egge / wyl ye offre hī a Scorpyon? Yf ye thē which are euyl / cā gyue good gyftes vnto your chyldrē? How moche more shal your father of heuē gy­ue the holy ghoost to them that desyre it of hym.

¶ The Gospel on the assensyon euen the. xvij. chapyter of Iohan. A.

Iesꝰ lifted vp his eies to heuē & said father the houre is come / glorify thy sōe / that thy sōe may glorify the As thou hast gyuē hym power ouer all flesshe / that he shulde giue eternall lyfe to as many as thou hast gyuē hī. This is life eternall that they myght [Page xxxiiii] knowe the / that onely very god: & whō thou hast sēt Iesus Chryst. I haue gloryfyed the on the earth. I haue fynysshed the worke whiche thou gauest me to do / and nowe gloryfy me thou father with thyne owne selfe / with the glory whiche I had with the yer the world was I haue declared thy name vnto those which thou gauest me out of the world. Thy­ne they were & thou gauest them me / and they haue kepte thy sayēges. Now haue they knowen that al thynges what soeuer thou hast gyuē me / are of the. For I haue gyuē vnto thē the wordes / whiche thou gauest me / & they haue receyued thē & haue knowen surely that I came out frō the / & haue beleued that thou dyddest send me. I pray for thē. I prayed nat for the worlde / but for thē which thou hast gyuē me for they are thyne / & al myne are thyne / & thyne are myne / & I am gloryfyed ī thē And nowe am I nomo re ī the world / but they ar ī the world & I cōe to the

¶ The Gospel on the Ascension daye the. xvi. chapiter of Marke. C.

AFter that Iesus appered vnto the eleuē as they sate at meate / & cast ī theyr teth theyr vnbelefe & hardnes of herte / because they beleued nat thē / which had sene hī after his resurreccyon / and he sayde vnto them / Go ye in to all the worlde / and preache the. Gospel to al creatures / and he that byleueth / and is baptysed shal be saued / and he that̄ byleueth nat shall be dampned. And these sygnes shall folowe them that shall byleue in my name / they shall cast out deuyls / and shall speake with new tonges / and shall kyll serpentes / and yf they drynke any deedly thynge / it shall nat hurte them / they shal laye theyr handes on the sycke and they shall recouer. So thē when our lorde Iesus had spoken vnto them / he was receaued in to heuen / and is sette downe on the ryght hande of god / and they went forth / and preached euery where. And ower lorde wrough [Page xxxv] with them / and confyrmed theyr preachynge with myracles folowynge.

¶ The Gospell on the sōdaye after the Assensyon daye the. xv. Chapyter of Iohn̄. D.

IEsus sayd vnto his dyscyples / when the cōforter is come who me I wyll sende vnto you from the father whiche is the spyryte of veri­te / whiche procedeth of the father / he shall testifie of me & ye shal beare witnes also / bycause ye haue bē with me frō the begīnyng These thīges haue I said vnto you / bicause ye shuld nat be hurte ī your fayth. They shal excōmunicate you ye the tyme shal come / that who soeuer kylleth you: wyl thynke that he doth god true seruyce. And such thīges wyl they do vnto you / bycause they haue nat knowen the father / neyther yet me. But these thynges haue I tolde you that when that houre is come / ye myght remember them that I tolde you so.

¶ The Gospel on wytson sondaye the. xiiij. chapyter of Iohan. E.

IEsus sayde vnto his disci­ples yf any mā loue me / & wyll keape my sayenges. My father also wyl loue hī & we wyl com vnto hym & wyll dwell with hym. He that loueth me nat / ke­peth nat my sayenges / and the wor­des whiche ye heare are nat myne but the fathers whiche sent me / This ha­ue I spoken vnto you / beyng yet presēte with you / [...]ut the conforter whiche is the holy ghost (whome [Page xxxvi] my father wyll gyue in my name) shall teache you all thynges / and brynge all thynges to your remembraunce / what so euer I haue tolde you / Peace I leaue with you / my peace I gyue vnto you / nat as the world gyueth / gyue I vnto you / let nat your hartes be greaued / neyther fere ye / ye haue herd how I sayd vnto you. I go & come agayn vnto you / yf ye loued me ye wolde verely reioyce / bycause I sayde. I go vnto the father / for the father is greater thē. I And now haue I shewed you before it cō / that whē it is come to passe. ye myght byleue. Hereafter wyll I nat talke many wordes vnto you / for the cheyf ruler of this worlde commeth & hath naught ī me / but that the worlde may know that I loue the father / & as the father gaue me cōmaundement / euē so do I.

¶ The Gospell on Mōdaye in the wytson weke the. iiij. Chapyter of Iohan. B.

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IEsus sayde vnto a rular a­monge the Pharyses God so loued the world / that he gaue his onely sone for the entent / the none that beleue in hym shulde perysshe / but shuld haue euerlastyng lyfe / for god sent nat his sone in to the worlde to condēp­ne the worlde but that the worlde thorowe hym myght be saued. He that beleuyth on hym shall nat be condempned. But he that be­leueth nat is condempned al redy / because he be­leued nat ī the name of the onely sone of god / And thys is the condempnacyon. That lyght is come in to the worlde and the mē haue loued darknes mo­re them lyght: because theyr dedes were euyl / for euery man that doth euyl hateth the lyght neyther cōmeth to lyght leste his dedes shulde be reproued but he that doeth the trueth commeth to the lyght / that his dedes myght be knowē / how that they are wrought in god.

¶ The Gospell on the tewysday in the wytson weke the. x. Chapyter of Iohan. A.

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IEsus sayde vnto his discy­ples verely verely I saye vn to you who so euer entreth nat in by the dore in to the shepe fold but clymeth vp some other way he is a thefe / & a robber. He that goeth ī by the dore / is the shepherd of the shepe. To this man the Porter openeth the dore / & the shepe here his voyce / & he calleth his owne shepe by name / & he leadeth them out / and when he hath sent forth his owne shepe / he goeth before thē / and the shepe folow hym / for they knowe his voyce A straunger they wyll nat folowe: but wyl fly from hym / for they know nat revoyce of straungers. This maner of sayenge spoke Iesꝰ vn­to them / and they vnderstode nat what thynges they were / whiche he spake vnto thē. Then sayde Iesus vnto thē agayn. Uerely verely I say vnto you / that I am the dore of the shepe. All euē as many as came before me / are theues & robbers / but the shepe dyde nat heare them. I am the dore / by me yf any mā en­tre in / he shal be safe / & shall go ī and out / and fynde pasture. The thefe cōmeth nat but for to steale / kil / and destroy / I am come that they myght haue lyfe / and haue it the more habundauntly.

¶ Te Gospel on the wednysdaye in wytson weke the. vi. Chapiter of Iohan. E.

IEsus sayde vnto his discy­ples and to the company of the Iewes. No mā cā come vnto me except my father whiche had sente me drawe hym / & I wyl rayse hym vp at the last daye. It is wryttē ī the ꝓphetes. And they shall all be taught of god Euery mā which hathe herde & lerned of the father commeth vnto me / nat that any man hathe sene the father / saue he whiche is of god. The same hath sene the father. Uerely verely I say vnto you he that beleueth on me hath euerlastyng lyfe. I am that breade of lyfe / your fathers dyd eate Manna in wyldernesse / & arre deed. This is the breade whiche commeth from heuen / that he which doth eate of it / shulde nat dye. I am that lyuyng bread which came downe from heuen / Yf any man eate of this breade he shall lyue for euer. And the bread that I wyl gy­ue is my flesshe / which I wyl gyue for the lyfe of the worlde.

¶ The Gospel on Trinyte sonday. The thyrde chapiter of Iohan. A.

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THere was a mā of the pha reses named Nichodemꝰ / a ruler among the Iewes / He came to Iesꝰ by nyght & sayd vn­to hym. Mayster we know that thou arte a teacher / whiche art come from god / for no man coulde do suche my­racles as thou doest except god were with hym. Iesus answered and sayd vnto hym. Uerely verely I say vnto the / except that a man be borne a newe / he can nat se the kyngdome of god Nichodemus sayd vnto hym. How cā a mā be borne whē he is olde? Can he entre in to his mo­thers wombe & be borne agayne? Iesus answered. Uerely verely I saye vnto she / except that a man be borne of water / & of the spirite / he can not entre ī to the kyngdome of god. That whiche is borne of the flesshe / is fleshe and that which is borne of the spiri­te is spirite / Meruayle nat that I sayde to the / ye must be borne a newe The wynd bloweth wher he lysteth / & thou hearest his sound / but thou canst nat tell whense he commeth / & whyther he goeth. So is euery man that is borne of the spirite. Nichodemus answered and sayd vnto him / how cā the se thynges be. Iesus answered and sayd vnto hym / Arte thou a maister in Israel / & knowest nat these thynges. Ue­rely verely I say vnto the we speak that we knowe / and testifye that we haue sene / & ye receaue nat our wytnes / yf I haue told you erthly thinges / & ye haue nat byleued / how shulde ye byleue if I shal tel you heuenly thynges. And no man hath ascended vp to heuen / but he that came downe from euen / that is to say the sone of mā / whiche is in heuen. And as moy­ses lyfted vp the serpent in wyldernes / euen so must the sone of man be lyfted vp / that no man which by­leueth in hym perysh / but haue eternal lif.

¶ The Gospell on Corpus christ day. The. vi. Chapyter of Iohan. F

IEsus sayde vnto his discysciples and to the company of the Iewes / my flesshe is meate in dede / & my blode is drynke in dede. He that eateth my flesshe / & drynketh my blode dwelleth in me. And I in hym as the lyuynge father hathe sēte me euē so lyue I by my father / & he that ea­teth me shal lyue by me. This is the breade which came frō heuē / nat as your fathers haue eaten Māna / & are deed. He that eateth of this breade shallyue euer

¶ The Gospel on the fyrst Sondaye after Trinyte sondaye. The. xvi. chapiter of Luke. D

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IEsus put forthe a para­ble vnto his dyscyples sayeng / there was a cer­tayne riche mā / whiche was clothed in purple & fyne raynes / & fared dely cyously euery day. And there was a certayne begger named Lazarus / whiche laye at his gate full of sores / desyrynge to be refresshed with the crōmes which fel frō the riche mānes borde. Neuer theles that dogges came & lycked his sores. And it fortuned that the begger dyed / & was caryed by the angels in to Abraham bosome. The ryche man also dyed / & was buryed / and beynge in hell in tormētes he lyft vp his eyes and sawe Abrahā a farre of / And Lazarus in his bosome and cryed / & sayde / Father Abraham haue mercy on me / and send Lazarꝰ that he maye dyppe the typpe of his fynger in water / and cole my tong / for I am tormented in this flābe / but Abraham sayd vnto hym sone / remembre that thou in thy lyfe tyme receauedest thy pleasures & cōtrary wyse Lazarꝰ payne / Now therfore is he comforted & thou art punysshed beyonde al this / bytwene you and vs ther is a greate space set / so that they whiche wolde go from hense to you can nat / neyther may com frō thens to vs. Then he sayd / I pray the ther­fore father / sende hym to my fathers house / for I haue fyue brethrene / for to warne them / lest they al­so com in to this place of tourment. Abraham sayde vnto hym / they haue moyses and the prophetes / let them heare thē. And he sayd / nay father Abraham / but yf one came vnto them from the deed / they wold repent. He sayd vnto hym. Yf they here nat Moy­ses & the ꝓphetes / neyther wyl they byleue / thoughe one rose from deth agayne.

¶ The Gospel on the. ij. Sōday after Trinite sonday. The. xiiij. chapiter of Luke. D.

IEsus put forth a similitu­de to his discyples sayēge. A certayne man ordeyned agreat supper and bad ma­ny / & sente his seruaunte at supper tyme / to saye to thē that were byddē [...] come / for all thyngꝭ are nowe redy / & they all at ones begā to make excuse the fyrst sayd vnto hym / I haue boughte a towne / and I muste nedes go & se it / I praye the haue me excused. And another sayde I haue bought fyue yoke of oxen & I go to proue thē / I praye the haue me excused. The thyrde sayde I haue maryed a wyfe / and therfore I can nat come. And that seruaūte wēt & brought his mayster word therof. Then was the good mā of the house displeased / and sayd to his seruaūte. Go out quyckely in to the stretes / & quarters / & brynge ī hyther the poore / & the maymed / & the halte / & the blynd. And the ser­uaunte [Page xli] sayd / lorde it is done as thou cōmaundest & yet there is roume. And the lorde sayde to the ser­uaūt / go out in to the hye wayes & hedges / & cōpelle thē to come in / that my house maye be fylled / for I saye vnto you / that none of these whiche were byd­den shal tast of my supper.

¶ The Gospell on the thyrde sonday after Trinyte Sonday. The. xv. chapyter of Luke. A.

THe Publycanes & the syn­ners resorted vnto Iesꝰ to heare him and the Phary­ses & Scrybes murmured sayeng. He receaued to his ꝯpany synners / and eateth with thē. Them put he forthe this symylytu­de to them sayenge. Uvhat man of you hauyng an hondred shepe / Yf he lose one of them / dothe nat leaue nynty and nyne in the wyldernes / and go after that whiche is lost vntyl hefynde hym. And when he hath founde him [Page] he putteth hym on his shulders with ioye / & as sone as he commeth home / he calleth togither his louers and neyghbours sayeng vnto thē / reioyse with me / for I haue foūde my shepe which was loste / I saye vnto you / that lykewyse ioye shal be ī heuē ouer one synner that repenteth / more thē ouer nynethy & ny­ne iuste persones / whiche nede no repentaunce. Gyther what woman hauynges. x. grotes / yf she lose one / doth nat lyghte a candel & swepe the house / & seke diligently tyl she fynde it / And when she hathe founde it / she calleth hir louers & her neyghbours sayēge / Reioyse with me / for I haue found the grote whiche I hadde loste / lykewyse I saye vnto you / ioye is made ī the presēce of the angles of god ouer one synner that repenteth.

¶ The Gospel on the. iiij. Sondaye after Trinyte sonday The. vi. Chapyter of Luke. F.

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IEsus sayde vnto his discy­ples be ye merciful as your father is merciful. Iudge nat / & ye shal nat be iudged Cōdemne nat / and ye shal nat be condempned. Forgyue / and ye shal be forgyuen. Gyue / and it shall be gyuē vnto you good measure pres­sed downe shaken togyther and run­nynge ouer / shall men gyue vnto youre bosomes. For with what measure ye meate with the sāe shall men mete to you agayne. & he put fourth a simylytude vnto thē. Cā the blynde leade the blynde. do they nat both then fal ī to the dyche. The dyscyple is nat aboue hys master / euery mā shal be ꝑfecte. Yf he be as his mayster is. Uvhy seyst thou a mote ī thy brothers eye / and consydereste nat the beame that is in thyne owne eye / eyther howe canst thou saye to thy brother / brother / let me pull out the mote that is in thyne eye / whē thou perceauest nat the beame that is ī thyne owne eye? ypocrite cast out the beame out of thyn owne eye fyrste / & then shalt thou se ꝑfectely to pul out the mote out of thy brothers eye.

¶ The Gospell on the. v. Sonday after Trynyte sonday. The. v. chapyter of Luke. A.

WHē the people p̄ased vnto Ie­sus / to heare the worde of god he stode by the lake of geneza­reth & sawe two shyppes stan­dyng by the lakes syde but the fyssher mē were gone out of them / and were wasshinge theyr nectes and he en [...]red in to one of the shypes which pertey­ned to Symō & prayed hi that he wolde thruste out a lytel from the lāde / & he sate downe and taught the people out of the shyp / whē he hadde lefte speakynge / he sayde vnto Symō / launche out into the depe / and let slype your nettes to make a draught and Symō answered & sayde to hym / may ster we haue laboured al nyght & haue takē nothīge neuer the lather at thy worde. I wyll loose forthe the net / and when they had so done / they inclosed a great multytude of fysshes / & theyr nette brake / but they made sygnes to theyr felowes / whiche were in the other shyp / that they shuld come and helpe them and they came / & fylled both the shyppes that they sonke agayne. When Symon Peter sawe that / he fel downe at Iesus knees sayenge. Lorde goo from me for I am a synful man for he was vtterly asto­nyed / and all that were with hym / at the draught of [Page xliij] fysshe which they toke / and so was also Iames and Iohan the sones of zebede / whiche were parteners with Symon and Iesus sayd vnto Symon / feare nat from hensforth thou shalte catche men and they brought the shyppes to lande / and forsoke al and folowed hym.

¶ The Gospel on the. vi. Sondaye after Trynyte sonday the. v. chapiter of Mathewe. C.

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IEsus sayd vnto hys dyscy­ples verely I say vnto you except your ryghtwysenes excede the ryghtwysnes of the Scribes / and Phary­ses / ye cā nat entre ī to thekyngdome of heuen ye haue herde it was sayde vnto them of the olde tyme. Thou shalt nat kyl / for who soeuer kylleth shal-be in daūger of iudgement but I saye vnto you who soeuer is angry with hys brother shal be in da­unger of iudgement. Uvho so euer sayeth vnto his brother Racha / shalbe ī daūger of a coūcell but who soeuer sayeth thou fole / shalbe in daūger of hell fyre Therfore whē thou offereste thy gyfte at the Aulter and there remembrest that thy brother hath oughte agaynst the / leue there thyne offering before the aulter & go thy waye fyrst & be reconsyled to thy brother and them come and offre thy gyfte.

¶ The Gospell on the. vij. sondaye after Trinite sonday The. viij. Chapyter of Marke. A.

WHē there was a very gret company with Iesus and they had nothyng to eate Iesus called his disciples to hym / & sayd vnto thē. I haue cōpassyon on this peo­ple bycause they haue ben now with me thre dayes / & haue nothyng to ea­te / & yf I shulde sende them awaye fastynge to theyr owne howses / they shuld faynt by the waye / for dyuers of them came frō farre. And his discyples āswered hi / where shulde a mā haue bread here in the wyldernes to satisfy these. And he asked them howe many Loues haue ye? They sayd / seuen. And he cōmaunded the peo­ple to syt downe on the ground / & he toke the seuen loues / gaue thākes / brake / & gaue vnto his discyples to set before thē / & they dyd sette thē before the peo­ple / & they had a fewe smal fysshes & he blyssed them & commaunded thē also to be set before them / & they dyd eate & were suffysed / & they toke vp of the brokē meate that was left. vij. baskettes ful / and they that dyd eate / were in nōber about fowre thousande and he sent them awaye.

¶ The Gospell on the. viij. Sondaye after Tri­uyte sonday the. viij. Chapyter of Mathewe. C.

I Es [...] sayd vnto his disciples Beware of fals ꝓphet; whith com to you ī shepes clothīge / but īwardly they are rauenyng wolues / ye shall knowe thē by theyr fruytes Do men gather grapes of thornes / or fygges of breres euē so euery good tree bryngeth forth good fruyte / but a corrupt tre bringeth forth euyl fruyte / a good tre cā nat brīg forth bad fruyte / nor yet a bad tree cā bryng forth good frute euery tree that bryngeth nat forth good fruyte / shal be he wē down & cast ī to the fyre / wherfore by theyr fruytes ye shal knowe thē. Nat al they that saye vnto me. Mayster / mayster / shal entre in to the kyngdom of heuen / but he that doth my fathers wyl whiche is in heuē he shal entre in to the kyngdome of heuen.

¶ The Gospell on the. ix. Sōdaye after Trinyte sonday the. xvi. Chapiter of Luke. A.

IEsus put forth a simylytude vn to his discyples sayenge. The­re was a certayne ryche man whiche had a bayly / that was accused vnto hī that he had wasted his goodes / & he called hym / & sayde vnto hym Howe is it that I heare this of the? Gyue accōptes of thy baylisshippe / for thou mayste be no longer bayly. The bayly sayde within hym selfe / what shall I do? for my master wyll take away frō me the baylyshyp I can nat dygge / & to beg / I am ashamed. I wot what I wyll do that when I am put out of the baylysshypp / they maye receaue me in to theyr howses. Thē cal­led he al his maysters detters & sayde vnto the fyrst how moche owest thou vnto my mayster & he sayde an hondred tonnes of oyle / & he sayde to hym take thy byll / & sytte down quicly & wryte fifty. Thē sayd he to another / what owest thou & he sayde & hōdred quarters of wheate: he sayd vnto him / take thy byll & wryte four score / & the lorde commended the vniust bayly / bycause he had done wyselye / for the chyldrē of this worlde are in theyr kynde wyser thē the chyldrē of lyght. And I saye vnto you / make you frēdes of the wycked Mammon / that when ye shal departe they maye receaue you ī to euerlastyng habitacyons

¶ The Gospeil on the. x. Sonday after Trinyte sondaye the. xix. Chapiter of Luke. F.

[...]Uhē Iesus came ny vnto Ierusalem / he behelde the cytye / and wepte on it sa­yēge / yf thou haddest knowen those thynges whiche belōge vnto thy peace / euen at thys tyme / but nowe are they hyd frō thyne eyes / for the da­yes shall come vpon the / that the enemyes shal cast a banke about the / and compasse the rounde / and kepe the in on euery syde and make the euen with the grounde with thy chyl­dren [Page xlvi] whiche are in the / and they shall nat leaue in the one stone vpon another / bycause thou knewest nat the tyme of thy vysytacyon / & he went in to the temple / and began to cast out them that solde the­rin / and them that bought / sayenge vnto them / It is wrytten my house is the house of prayer / but ye haue made it a den of theues and he taught dayly in the temple.

¶ The Gospel on the leuenth Sondaye after Trinyte Sondaye. The. xviij. Chapyter of Luke. A.

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IEsus put forth this symilytude vnto certayne which trusted in thē selues that they were perfecte / & dispysed other. Two men went vp in to the tēple to praye / the one a Pha ryse / & the other a Publycan / the pha ryse stode and prayed thus with hym selfe. God I thanke the that I am nat as other mē are / extorcioners vn iust / adulterers / or as this Publycan. I fast twyse ī the weke / I gyue the tithe of all that I possesse. And the Publycan stode a far of / and woide nat lyfte vp hys eyes to heuen / but smote his breest sayēg. God be mercyful to me synner. I tell you this mā depar­ted home to hys house iustyfyed more thē the other for euerye mā that exalted him self shall be brought low / & he that hūbleth hym selfe / shal be exalted.

¶ The Gospel on the. xij. sōday after trinyte sōday. the. vij. cha. of Marke. D

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IEsus departed from the co­stes of Tyre / & came by Sy don vnto the see of Galyle thorowe the myddes of the coostes of x. cyties / and they brought vnto hym one that was deafe & dome / & prayed hym to lay his hāde ypō hym / and he toke hym asyd frō the people and put his fyngers in his eres / & dyd spytte & touched his tonge / & loked vp to heuen & syghed / & sayd vnto hym / Ephata / that is to say / be opened / & strayte waye his eares were opened / & the strynge of his tōge was loosed / & he spake playne / & he cōmaū ­ded thē that they shulde tel no man / but the more he forbad thē / in so moche the more a greate deale they publysshed / sayēge. He hathe done al thynges wel / & hath made both the deafe to heare / and the domme to speake.

¶ The Gospel on the. xiij. Sonday after Trinite sonday. The. x. Chapiter of Luke. D.

IEsus sayde vnto his discyples / happy are the eyes / whiche se that ye se. For I tell you that many pro­phetes and kynges haue desyred to se those thynges which ye se / and haue nat sene thē / and to heare those thynges whiche ye heare & haue nat herde them / & beholde / a certayne lawier stode vp / and tempted hym sayēge. Mayster what shall I do to inheryte eternal lyfe? He sayd vnto hym / what is wryttē ī the lawe? howe redest thou? and he answered & sayd. Loue thy lorde god with all thy herte & with all thy soule / and with all thy strength and with all thy myude / and thy neyghbour: as thy selfe. And he sayde vnto hym / thou hast answered ryght this, do and thou shalt ly­ue / he wyllynge to iustifye hym selfe sayde vnto Ie­sus / who is then my neyghbour. Iesus answered and sayde. A certayne man descended from Ieru­salem in to Ierico / and fel in to the handes of the­ues / whiche robbed hym of his rayment / and woun­ded hym / & departed leauynge hym halfe deed / and by chaunce there cam a certayne p̄est that same way and when he sawe hym he passed by / and lykewyse a Leuyte / when he was come nye to the place / wēte and loked on hym / and passed by. Then a certayne Samaritan as he iorned cam nye vnto hym / & whē [Page xlviij] he saw hym had cōpassyon on hym and wēt to hym and boūd vp his woundes / and powred in oyle and wyne / and put hym on his owne beest / and brought hym to a comon in / and made prouysion for hym / & on the morowe when he departed / he toke out two pens / and gaue them to the hoste / and sayde vnto hī take cure of hym / and what soeuer thou spēdest mo­re / when I come agayne / I wyl recompence the. which now of these thre / thynkest thou / was neygh­boure vnto hym that fell in to the theues handes. And he sayde he that shewed mercy on hym. Then sayde Iesus vnto hym / go and do thou lyke wyse.

¶ The Gospel on the. xiiij. Son­day after Trinyte sondaye the xvij. chapyter of Luke. [...].

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AS Iesus went to Ierusa­lem he passed thorowe Sa maria & Galyle / & as he entred in to a certayne towne or castel / ther met hym ten men that were Lepers / whiche stone a fare of / and put forth theyr voyces & sayde. Iesu mayster haue mercy on vs. Uvhē he saw them / he sayd vnto thē / go & shewe your selues to the preestes & it chaū ­sed as they wēt they were clensed / & one of thē / whē he saw that he was clensed / turned backe agayne / & with a lowde voyce praysed god / & fell downe on his face / at his fete & gaue hym thankes / & the same was a Samaritane. And i [...]us answered and sayde / are there nat ten clensed but wher are those nyne. Ther are not founde that retourned agayne / to gyue god prayse / saue onely this straunger / and he sayde vnto hi: arise / & go thy way / thy faith hathe made the hoole

¶ The Gospel on the. xv. Sonday after Trinyte sonday. The. vi. chapyter of Mathewe. C

Iesus sayd vnto his disciples that no mā can serue two maysters / for eyther he shal hate the one & loue the other / or els he shall leue to the one / & despy­ce the other / ye cā nat serue god & mā ­mon. Therfore I say vnto you / be nat carefull for youre lyfe / what ye shal ea te / nor what ye shal drynke / nor yet for your body / what ye shal put on / is nat the lyfe more worth thē meate / & the body more of value then rayment / beholde the foules of the ayre / for they sowe nat / neyther reape / nor yet cary in to the barnes & yet your heuēly father fedeth thē / are ye nat moche better thē they? which of you / thoughe he toke though therfore / coulde put one cubit vnto his statu­re? & why care ye thē for raymēte? Cōsyder the lylyes of the felde / how they grow. They labour nat neyther spynne / & yet for al that / I say vnto you that euē Sa­lomō in al his royalte was nat araed lyke vnto one of these. wherfore yf god so clothed the grasse / which is to day ī felde / & to morowe shalbe caste in to the fur­nesse / shall he nat moche more do the same vnto you. O ye of lytell fayth? Therfore take no thought saig. Uvhat shal we eate or what shal we drinke / or wher with shall we be clothed / after all these thynges seke the gētyls / for your heuēly father knoweth that ye haue [Page] nede of al these thynges / but rather seke ye fyrste the kyngdome of heuē and the ryghtwysnes therof / and al these thynges shalbe mynystred vnto you.

¶ The Gospel on the. xvi. Sondaye after Trynyte sonday The. vij. chapiter of Luke. B.

IEsꝰ wēt ī to a cyte called Naim & many of his dyscyples wente with hym and moch people / whē he came nye vnto the gate of the cytie / be­holde there was a deed mā caried out whiche was the onely sone of his mo­ther and she was a wydow / and moch people of the cytie was with her / and when Iesus sawe her he had compas­syon on her / & sayde vnto her / wepe not & he wente & [Page l] touched the coffyn / and they that bare him stode styl: and he sayde yonge man / I saye vnto the / aryse / and the deed sate vp and began to speke / and he delyue­red hī to his mother / & there came a feare on theym all / [...]oryfyed god sayenge / a great prophet is rysen among vs / and god hathe vysyted his people.

¶ The Gospel on the. xvij. Sonday after Trinyte sondaye / The. xiiij. Chapyter of Luke. A.

UUhen Iesus wente in to the house of one of the cheyfe Pharyses to eate breade on the sabothe day and they watched hym / and beholden there was a man before hym whiche had the dropsye / and Iesus answe­red and spake vnto the law yers / and Pharyses sayenge / it is laufull to hea le on the Saboth day? and they helde theyr peace / & he toke hym & healed hym / & let him go / & answered them sayeng. Uvhiche of you shal haue anAsse or an ore fallē in to apytte / & wyl not strayte waye pull hī [Page] out on the Saboth daye? and they coulde nat answe­re hym agayne to that. He put forth a simylytude to the gestes / when he marked how they preased that hiest roames / & sayde vnto thē whē thou arte bydden to a weddyng of any mā / sit nat downe ī the hyest rou me lest a more honourable mā thē thou be biddē of hī & he that badde both hym & the / come & saye to the: gy­ue this mā roume / & thou thē begyn with shame to take the lowest roume but rather whē thou arte byddē / go & syth in the lowest roume / the whē he that badde the cōmeth / he maye saye vnto the: frēde syt vp hyer. Thē shalte thou haue worshyp / in the presēce of thē that syt at meate with the / for who soeuer exalteth hī selfe / shalbe brought low / and he that humbteth hym selfe shall be exalted.

¶ The Gospel on the. xviij. sonday after Trinyte sonday The. xxij. chapiter of Mathewe. D.

THe Pharyses wēt vnto Iesu s / & one of thē which was a doctour of the lawe / asked hym a question / tē ­ptyng hym & sayeng. Mayster whiche is the great cōmaundemēt in the law? Iesus sayd vnto hym thou shalt loue thy lord god with al thyne arte / with al thy soule & with al thy mynd this is [Page li] the fyrste & that greatest cōmaūdemēt / & there is another lyke vnto this. Thou shalt loue thy neyghbour as thy self. In these two cōmaūdymētes hange al the law & the ꝓohetes / Uvhyle the Pharyses were gathe red to gyther iesus asked thē sayeng. Uvhat thynke ye of Chryste? Uvhose sone is he / they sayd vnto hī / the sone of Dauid. He sayd vnto thē. Howe thē doth Dauid in spirite call hym lorde sayēg. The lord sayd to my lorde / syt on my ryght hande tyll I mak thyne enemyes thy fote stole / if Dauid called hī lorde / howe is he then his sone? & none of thē could answere hym agayne one worde. Neyther durst any mā from that day forthe aske hym any mo questyons.

¶ The Gospel on the. xix. Sondaye after Trinyte sondaye The. xix. Chapiter of Mathewe. A.

IEsus entred ī to the shyppe and passed ouer and came in to his owne citye / and beholde they brought vnto hym a man sycke of the palse y / lyeng in his bed / and whē Iesus sawe theyr fayth / he sayd to the sycke of the palsey / sonne be of good chere: thy syn nes are forgyuē the / & beholde certay­ne of the scribes sayd in thē selues / he [Page] blasphemeth & whē Iesꝰ saw teyr thoughtes he sayde wherfore thynke you euyl'in your hertes? whether is esyer to say / thy syn̄es are for gyuē the / or to say aryse & walke? That ye maye knowe / that the sone of man hath power to forgyue synnes in erth / thē sayd he vn to the sycke of the palsey aryse / take vp thy bed / & go home to thy house. And he arose and departed to his house / & whē the people sawe it / they meruailled & gloryfied god / whiche had gyuen suche power to men.

¶ The Gospel on the. xx. sōday after trinyte sōday. the. xxij. cha. of mathew. A

IEsus sayd vnto his discyples the kyngdome of heuen is lyke vnto a certayne kynge / whiche maryed his sone & sent forth his seruaūtes / to cal thē that were bydde to the weddynge & they wolde nat come. Agayne he sent forth other seruauntes / [...]yenge / tell them whiche are bedden / beholde I haue prepared my dyner / myne oxen and my fatlynges are kylled / & al thynges are red y / come vnto the maryage. They made lyght of it / and wente theyr wayes: one to hys ferme place / another aboute hys marchaundyse / the remnaunte toke hys [Page lij] seruauntes and intreated thē vngoodly & slew them: whē the kynge herde that: he was wroth / & sent forth hiswarrers & destroed those murthers & brēt vp their cyte / thē sayd he to his seruaūtes / the weddynge was prepared: but they which were biddē therto were nat worthy Go ye therfore out ī to the high wayes / & as many as ye fynde byd thē to the mariage / the serua­untes went out in to the hygh wayes / & gathered to gyther as many as they coulde fynde / both good and bad / and the weddynge was furnyssed with gestes. The kynge came in to viset his gestes and spied there a man which had nat on a weddyng garment / and sayd vnto hym / frende howe camist thou in hythe r / and hast nat on a weddynge garment? and he was euen specheles. Thē sayd the kyng to his ministers: take and bynde hym hande and fote and cast hym in to vtter darkenes / ther shal be wepynge / & gnassyng ofteth / for many are called and fewe be chosen.

¶ The Gospell on the. xxi. Sonday after Trinyte sonday. The. iiij. chapiter of Iohan. G.

THere was a certayne ruler / who se sone was sycke at Capernaū as he herde that Iesꝰ was come out of Iewry in to Galyle / he wente vnto hī and besoughte hym that he worlde de scēde / & heale his sone for he was euen redy to dye. Thē sayd Iesꝰ vnto hym / except ye se sygnes & wounders. ye by­leue nat / the ruler sayde vnto hym: syr come away or euer that my chylde dye / Iesꝰ sayd vn­to hym go thy way thy sone lyueth / & the mā byleued the wordes that Iesus had spoken vnto hym / & wēte his way & anone as he wente on his waye / his seruaū tes met hym & tolde hym sayēg. Thy sone lyueth thē enquyred he of thē the houre whē he begāne to amēde & they sayd vnto hym: yester daye the seuē the houre / the feuer left hym / & the father knew that it was that same houre / whē Iesus sayd vnto hym / thy sone ly­uethe / and he byleued and al his housholde.

¶ The Gospell on the. xxij. Sondaye after Tri­nyte Sondaye. The. xviij. cha. of Mathewe. C.

IEsus put for the a similitude vn to his discyples sayenge. The kyngdome of heuen is lykened vnto a certayne kynge whiche woulde take a cōptes of his seruauntes & whē he had begō to reken / one was brought vnto hym whiche ought hym. x. thousande Talētes / but when he had nought to pay / the lorde cōmaunded hym to be solde & his wyfe & his chyldrē / & al that he had & pay­mēt to be made. The seruaūt fel downe & besought hym sayēge. Syr gyue me respyte and I wyl paye it euerye whyt. thē had the lorde pyte on the seruaūt / & loosed him & forgaue hym the det. The same seruaūt wēt out & foūd one of his felowes which ought hym an hōdred pens / & layd hādes on hym & toke hym by the throte sayēg. Pay me that thou owest & his felow fell downe & besought hym sayēg. Haue pacyēce with me. & I wyl paye the al / & he wolde nat / but wēt & cast hym in to prison / tyl he shuld paye the dette. whē his other felowes sawe what was done / they were very sory / & came & tolde to theyr lorde all that had happe­ned. Thē his lorde called hym / & sayde vnto hym. O euyll seruaunte I forgaue the all the dette / bycause thou praydest me / was it nat mete also / that thou shul deste haue had cōpassyō on thy felowe euen as I had pity on the? & his lord was wroth & delyuered hym to the Iaylers / tyll he shuld pay all that was owe vnto hym. So lykewyse shall my heuenly father do vnto you / If ye wyl nat forgyue with al your hertes / eche one to his brother theyr trespases.

¶ The Gospel on the. xxiij. Sōday after Trinyte sonday the. xxij. Chapiter of Mathewe. B.

THe pharyses wēte & tooke coū ­seyll / howe they myght tangle Christe Iesꝰ ī his wordes / & sent vnto hym theyr dyscyples with Herodes seruaūtes sayēg Mayster / we knowe that thou arte true / & that thou techest the way of god truly / neyther careste for any mā / for thou [...]syderest nat mē ­nes estate / tell vs therfore how thyn­kest thou? Is it laufull to gyue tribute vnto. Cesar or nat? Iesꝰ ꝑceaued theyr wylines / and sayde. why tēpt ye me ye Ipocrytes? Let me se the tribute mo­ney / & they toke hym a peny / & he sayd vnto thē? who­se is this Image & suꝑscrypcyon? They sayd vnto hī cesars / thē sayde he vnto thē. Gyue therfore to cesar that whiche is cesars / & gyue vnto god / the whiche is goddes.

¶ The Gospell on the. xxiiij. Sonday after Tri­nyte sōdaye. The. ix. Chapi. of. Mathewe. C.

UUyles Iesꝰ spake vnto the peo­ple / beholde there came a certey­ne ruler / & worshypped hī sayeng / my doughter is euē now decessed / but co­me & laye thy hād on her / & she shall ly­ue / & Iesꝰ arose & folowed hī with his discyples & beholde a womā whiche was dyseased with an yssue of blode twelue yeres came behynde hī / & tou­ched the heme of his vesture / & she sayd ī herselfe. Yf I may touche but euē his vesture onely. I shal be sa [...] Iesꝰ turned hym about / & behold her / sayēg doughter be of good cōforte / thy fayth hath made the safe / & she was made hole euen the same houre.

¶ The Gospel on the next sōdaye before Aduēt sō ­day The. vi. Chapiter of Iohan. A.

UUhen Iesꝰ lyfted vp his eyes & sawe a greate cōpany come vn­to hī / sayd vnto Phylyp: whence shall we bye breade that these myght eate. Thys he sayd to ꝓue hym / for he him selfe knewe what he wolde do. Phi­lyp answered hym / two hondred peny worth of breade are nat sufficient for thē / that euery man haue a litel Then sayd vnto hym one of hys dyscyples / Andrewe Sy­mon Peters brother. There is a chylde here / which hath fyue barley loues and two fysshes / but what is that amonge so many? Iesus sayde make the people to sytte downe (there was moche haye in the place) and the men satte downe? in nomber / about fyue thousāde. Iesꝰ toke the breade and gaue thākes / and gaue to his dyscyples / and his dyscyples to them that were set downe / & lykewyse of the fysshes / as moche as they wolde / when they had eaten inough / he sayd vnto his disciples / gather vp the brokē meate that remayneth / that nothyng be lost. They gathered it togyther / & fylled twelue baskettes with the brokē meate / of the fiue barly loues / & too fyshes which broken meate remayned vnto thē that hade eatē. Thē those men / when they had sene the myracle that Iesꝰ dyd / sayde. This is of a trueth the same prophet / whiche shal come in to the worlde.

¶ The Gospell on the Dedicacyon day. The. xix. chapyter of Luke. A.

IEsus entred ī / and wēt tho­rowe Ierico / & beholde there was a mā named zacheus / & he was a ruler amōg the Publycās and ryche also and he made meanes to se Iesꝰ what he shuld be / & he coulde nat for the preace / be­cause he was of a low stature. Uvherfore he ran before / and ascended vp in to a wylde fygge tre / to se hym / for he wolde com that same waye & whē Iesꝰ came to the place / he loked vp and sawe hym / & sayd vnto hym / zache / hastely come downe / for to day I must abyde at thy house / & quicly he came downe / & receaued hym ioyfully & whē they sawe that / they all grutched sayenge / he is gone in to. Tary with a mā that is a synner. zache stode forth & sayde vnto the lorde. Beholde lorde / the halfe of my goodes I gyue to the poore / & if I haue done any mā wrong. I wyl restore hym foure folde Iesꝰ sayd vn­to hym / this daye is helth come vnto this house / for as moche as this same house is be come the chylde of Abraham / for the sone of man is come to seke and to saue that whiche was loost.

¶ The Gospell on saynt Andrewes day. the fourthe cha. of Mathew. C

AS Iesꝰ walked by the see of galile / he sawe two brothren / Symon whiche was called Peter and Andrew his brother castynge a nette ī to the see [...] for they were fyshers & he sayde vn­to thē / folow me / & I wyll make you fysshers of men And they strayght waye left theyr nettes / & folowed hym. And he went forth frō thence / & sawe other two brothren. Iames the sōne of zebede / & Iohn̄ his bro­ther in the shyp / with zebede theyr father mendynge theyr nettes / & called thē: & they with out taryēg lefte the nettes / and theyr father / and folowed hym.

¶ The Gospel on Saynt Nicolas day. the. xxv. cha. of Mathew. B

IEsus sayde vnto his discyples. A certayne man redy to take his iourney to astraunge countre / called his seruauntes to hym / and delyuered to thē his / goodes / & vnto one he gaue. v. talētes / to another. ij. & to another one / to euery mā after his abilyte / & strayte waye de­parted. Then he that had receaued the. v. talētes wēt & bestowed thē / & wan other. v. lykewyse he that receaued. ij. gayned other. ij. but he that receaued one / wēt & dygged a pytte ī the erth & hyd his maysters money After a lōge seasō / the lord of those seruaūtes came & rekened with thē. Thē cā he that had receaued. v. ta­lētes & brought other fyue sayēg. Mayster thou dely­uerdest vnto me fiue talētes / lo I haue gayned with thē. v. mo Thē his mayster sayd vnto him well good seruaunte & faythfull / thou haste bē faythfull ī lytell / I wyll make the rular ouer moche. Entre into thy [Page] masters ioye / also he that receaued two talētes / came & sayde / mayster / thou delyueredest vnto me. ij. talē ­tes [...]o I haue wonne two other with thē / & his may­ster sayde vnto hym wel good seruaunte & faythful I wyl make the rular ouer moch go ī / ī to thy maysters ioye.

¶ The Gospel ou the Concepcyon of our Lady the fyrst chapiter of Mathewe. A.

THis is the boke of the generacyō of Iesꝰ christ the sone of Dauid / the sone also of Abraham. [...] begate Isaac. Isaac begate Iacob. Iacob be [...] Iudas / & his brothrene. Iudas begate Phares / [...] of Thamar. Phares begate Esrō. Esrō be­ [...] begate Aminadab. Aminadab begate [...]n. Naasson begate Salmon. Salmō begate [...]oos of Ra [...]ab. Boos irgate Obed of Ruth. Ol [...]d [...]egate Iesse. Iesse begate Dauid the kynge. Dauid the kyng tegate Salomō of her that was Uries wyf Salomō begate Roboā. Roboā begate Abia. Abia begate Asa. Asa begate Iosaphat. Iosaphat begate [Page lvij] Iorā. Ioram begate Ozias. Ozias begate Ioatham Ioathā begate Achas. Achas begat Ezechias. Eze­chias begat Manasses. Manasses begat Amō. Amō begat Iosias Iosias begat. Iechonias & his brothren about the tyme they were caried awaye to Babylon / and after they were bronght to Babilō Ieconias be­gate Salathiel. Salathiel begate zorobabel. zoroba­bel begate Abiud. Abiud begat Eliachim. Eliachim begat Azor. Azor begat Sadoc. Sadoc begat Achim. Achim begate Eliud. Eliud begate Eleasar. Elea­sar begate Mathan. Mathā begate Iacob. Iacob be gate Ioseph the husbande of Mary / of whome was borne that Iesus / whiche is called Chryst.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Thomas daye the Apostell The. xx. chapiter of Iohan. F

THomas one of the twelue called Didimꝰ was not with theym whē Iesus came. The other discyples sayd vnto hym / we haue se­ne the lorde. And he sayde vnto the: except Ise ī his hādes the prynt of the nayles / and put my fynger in the holes of the nayles / and thrust my hande in to his syde / I wyll nat byleue / & after viij. dayes agayne / the discyples were within / & Thomas was with theym. Iesus came when the dores [Page] were shutte / and stode in the myddes and sayd. Pea­ce be with you. Then sayde he to Thomas / put ī thy fynger here and se my handes / and put forth thy han­de / and thruste it in to my side / & be not without fayth but byleue. Thomas answered and sayde vnto hym / my lorde and my god. Iesꝰ sayd vnto hym. Thomas bycause thou hast seue me / therfore hast thou bileued Happy are they that haue not sene / & yet haue bileued

¶ The Gospel on the Conuersyon of saynt Paule. The. xix. chapiter. of Mathewe. D

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PEter sayd vnto Iesus. Be holde we haue forsaken al an haue folowed the / what shall we haue therfore. Iesus sayd vn to thē / verely I say vnto you / that ye whiche haue folowed me ī the secōde generacyon (when the sone of mā shal syt in the seate of his maiesty) shal syt also vpon. xij. seates / & iudge the. xij. tribes of Israel / & who soeuer forsaked house or bro­thren or systers / or father / or mother / or wyfe / or chyldren or lyuelod / for my names sake / the same shal re­ceue an houndred folde / and shal inheryte euerla­styng lyfe.

¶ The Gosuel on Candelmas daye. The seconde chapiter of Luke. D.

UUhen the tyme of Puryfycacyon (after the law of Moyses) was come / they brought I­sus [Page lix] to Ierusalē / to present hym to the lorde / as it is wrytten in the law of the lorde? euery mā chylde that fyrste openeth the ma [...]yr / shalbe called holy to the lorde / & to offre as it is sayde in the lawe of the lorde / a payre of turtle Doues / or. ij. yong Pygyons / and beholde there was a mā in Ierusalem / whose name was Symeō & the same mā was iuste & feared god / & longed for the cōsolacyon of Israell / & the holy ghost was in hym / & an answere was gyuē hym of the holy ghost / that he shulde not se dethe / before he had sene the lorde Chryst. And he came by inspyracyon ī to the tēple. And whē the father & the mother brought ī the chylde Iesus / to do for hym after the custome of the law. Then toke he hym vp in his armes & sayd lorde nowe lettest thou thy seruaūte departe in peace accordynge to thy promyse / for myne eyes haue sene the sauyour sent frō the / whiche thou hast prepared before the face of all the people. A lyght to lyghten the gen­tyls / and the glorye of thy people Israel.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Mathias the Apostles daye / The. xi. chapiter of Mathewe. D.

THen Iesus answered and sayde I prayse the O father lorde of heuen & erthe / bycause thou haste hyd these thynges from the wyse and prudent / and hast opened them vnto babes / euen so father / for so it pleased the althynges are gyuen vnto me of my fa­ther / & no man knoweth the sone / but the father / ney­ther knoweth any man the father / saue the sone & he to whome the sone wyll opē hym. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are ladē / and I wyl ease you / take my yoke on you and lerne of me / for I am meke and lowely in herre / and ye shall fynde rest vnto your soules / for my yoke is easy / and my burthen is lyght.

¶ The Gospel on the Annūcyacyō of our lady. the. i. cha. of luke. C

ANd in the. vi. moneth the aūgell Gabryel was sent frō god vnto a cytie of Galile na­med nazareth to a virgyn spoused to a mā whose name was Ioseph of the hous of david / & the virgyus name was Mary / & the angell wēt ī vnto her / & sayd: hayle full of grace / the lorde is with the / blyssed arte thou amonge women. whē she sawe hym she was abasshed at his sayenge / & caste ī her mīde / what maner of salutacyū that shulde be. & the angell sayde vnto her / feare nat Mary / for thou hast foūde grace with god / loo thou shalle con­ceyue ī thy wōbe / & shalt beare a sone / & shalte call his name Iesus. He shall be greate and shal be called the sōne of the hyeste / and the lord god shall gyue vn to hī the seate of his father Dauid / & he shall raygne ouer the house of Iacobe for euer / & of his kyngdom shal be none ende. Thē sayde mary vnto the angel / how shal this be / seynge that I knowe nat a man? & the angell answered & sayd vnto her / the holy ghost shall come vpō the / & the power of the hyest shal ouer shadow the. Therfore also that holy thīge which shal [Page] be borne / & shall be called the sone of god and marke / thy cosyn. Elizabeth / she hath also conceaued a sone in her olde age & this is the. vi. monethe to her which was called baraine for with god shall nothynge be vnyossyble. Mary sayde? Beholde the hande maydē of the lorde / be it vnto me euen as thou haste sayde.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Georges daye. The xv. chapiter of Iohan. A.

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IEsus sayd vnto his discyples I am the true vyne / & my fa­ther is an housbande man / euery braunche that bearethe nat fruite in me / he wyl take away / and euery braunche the beareth fruyte wyl he pourge that it may brīg more fruyte. Nowe are ye cleane / by the meanes of the wordes wiche I ha­ue spoken vnto you / byde yn me / & let me byde ī you / as the braūche can nat beare fruyte of it selfe / excepte it byde in the vyne? no more can ye excepte ye abyde in me. I am the vyne / & ye are the braunches hethat abydeth in me / & I in hym the same bryngeth forthe moche fruythe / for without me can ye do nothynge yfa mā byde nat ī me / he is cast forth as braunche / & is wyddred & men gather it / & caste it in to the fyre / and it burnethe yf ye abyde in me / & my wordes also bide in you / aske what ye wyl / & it shalbe gyuē to you

¶ The Gospel on saynt Marke the euāgelystes day. The. xv. cha. of Ioh. A

IAm the true vyne. &c. as it is wrtten worde by word ī the Gospel of saīt Georges daye. fo. lxi

¶ The Gospel on saynt Phylyp and Iames day. The. xiiii. chapiter of Iohan. A.

IEsꝰ sayde to his disciples let not your her­tes be troubled / byleue in god / & byleue ye in me. In my fathers house are many mā ­syons. Yf it were nat so I wold haue tolde you. I go to p̄pare a place for you / & yf I go to prepare a place for you / I wyll come agayne / & receaue you euen vnto my selfe / that where I am / there may ye be also / & whether I go ye know & the waye ye know Thomas sayd vnto hym Lord we know nat whither thou goeste Also howe is it possyble for vs to know [Page lxij] the way? Iesus sayde vnto hym. I am the way / the verite / & the lyfe. No mā cōmeth vnto the father but by me / if ye had knowen me / ye had knowen my fa­ther also. And now ye knowe hī & ye haue sene hym. Phylyp sayde vnto hym Lorde shewe vs the father & it suffyseth vs. Iesꝰ sayd vnto hym / haue I ben so long tyme with you / & yet haste thou nat knowē me. Phylyp he that hath sene me / hath sene the father / & how sayest thou them / shewe vs the father? byleueste thou nat that I am in the father / & the father in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you I speake nat of my self / but the father dwellyng ī me / is he that dothe the workes / byleue me that I am the father & the fa­ther ī me / at the leest byleue me for the verye workes sake. Uerely verely. I say vnto yo [...] who so euer by­leueth on me the workes that I do / the same shall he do / and greater workes thē these shall he do / bycause I go vnto my father / and what soeuer ye aske in my name / that wyll I do.

¶ The Gospel on the Inuencyon of the Crosse the. iiij. Chapyter of Iohn̄. A

THere was a man of the Pharises na med Nicodemꝰ a ruler amōg the Ie wes / he came to Iesꝰ by nyghte & said vnto hym. Mayster we knowe that thou arte a teacher / whiche is cōe frō god / for no man coulde do suche my­racles as thou doest / except god were with hym. Iesus answered and sayde vnto hym. Ue rely verely I say vnto the / except a man be borne a newe / he can nat / se the kyngedome of god. Nicode­mus sayd vnto hym / howe can a man be borne when he is olde / can he entre in to his mothers bodye & be borne agayne? Iesus answered. Uerely verely I say vnto the / except that a man be borne of water / and of the spyryte / he can nat entre in to the kyngdome of god. That whiche is borne of the fleshe is fleshe / & that whiche is borne of the spiryte / is spiryte. Mer­uayle nat that I sayd to the / ye must be borne a new The wynde bloweth where he lysteth / and thou hea­rest his sounde / but thou canste nat tel whense he cō ­meth and whyther he goeth. So is euery man that is borne of the spiryte. Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto hym. How can these thynges he? Iesus [Page xiij] answered & sayde vnto hī. Arte thou a mayster in Is rael / and knowest nat these thynges? Uerely verely I say vnto the / we speake that we knowe / and testy­fye that we haue sene / and ye receaue nat our wytte­nes / if I haue tolde you erthly thynges / and ye haue nat beleued howe shulde ye beleue if I shall tel you of heuenly thynges? And no man hath ascēded vp to heuen / but he that came downe from heuen? that is to saye the sone of man / whiche is in heuen. And as Moyses lyfted vp the serpent in wyldernes / euen so must the sone of man be lyfted vp / that no man whi­che beleueth in hym peryshe / but haue eternall lyfe.

¶ The Gospel on the Natiuite of saynt Iohn̄ the [Page] Baptist. The fyrst Chapiter of Luke. F.

ELizabethes tyme was cō that she shulde be delyuered & she brought forth a sone & her neyghboures / & her cosīs herd tell how the lord had shewed greate mercy vpō her / they reioysed with her And it fortuned the eight day? they came to circūcyse the chyld / & called his na me [...]achary / after the name of his father / & his mo­ther āswered & sayd nat so: but he shal be called Iohā And they sayde vnto her. There is none of thy kyn that is named with thys name / & they made sygnes to his father howe he wold haue hī called / & he asked for wrytinge tables & wrote / sayenge / his name is Io [...]ā. And they meruayled al & his mouth was opened immediatly / & his tōg & he spake lauding god / & fea­re cāe on all thē the dwelt nye / & all these thīges we­re noysed abrod throughout all the hilly countrey of Iewry? & all they that herd thē / layd thē vp ī theyr har tes say [...]g Uvhat maner chyld shall this be? & the hā ­de of god was with hī / & his father zacharias was fyl led with the holy ghost / & ꝓphesied sayēg. Blyssed be the lord of Israel / for he hath vysyted and redemed his people.

¶ The Gospel on saint Peter and Powles daye the. xvi. chapyter of Mathewe. [...].

TUhē Iesꝰ came ī to the costes of the cytye whi che is called Cesarea Philippi / he asked his di sciples sayēg whōe do mē saye that I the sone of mā am? They sayd / some say that thou art Iohā baptist sōe Helias / some Ieremias / or one of the ꝓphetes. He sayd vnto the / but whō saye ye that I am. Simō Peter answered and sayde. Thou art Christe the sone of the lyuynge god And Iesus answered and sayde vnto hym. Happy arte thou Symon the sone Ionas / for fleshe and blode hathe nat opened vnto the that / but my father which is in heuen. And I say also vnto the that thou arte Peter? & vpon this roke I wyl buylde my [...]gregacyon / and the gates of hell / shall nat preuayle agaynst it / & I wyll gyue vnto the / [Page] the keyes of the kyngdome of heuen / & what soeuer thou bindelte vpō erth / shall be bounde ī heuē / & what so euer thou lowsest on erth / shal be lowsed ī heuen.

¶ The Gospell on the Commemoracyon of saynt Paule. The xix. chapiter of Mathewe. D.

[Page lxv] PEter sayde vnto Iesus beholde we haue. &c. ye shal fynde this gospel on the conuer­syon of saynt Paule. Folio. lviij.

¶ The Gospell on the visytacyon of our Lady The fyrst Chapiter of Luke. D.

MAry arose in those dayes and went ī to the mountayns with haste in to a Citie of Ie­wry / and entred in to the hous of zacharie and saluted Elizabeth / and it fortuned as Elizabeth herde the salutacyon of Mary / the babe spronge in herbelly / & Elizabeth was fylled with the holy ghost / and cryed with a loude voyce / & [Page] sayde? Blyssed arte thou amonge women / & blyssed is the fruyte of thy wombe: & whence happeneth this to me / that the mother of my lord shulde come to me Loo as soone as the voyce of this salutacyon soūded in myne eares / the babe lept in my bely for ioye / and blyssed arte thou that beleuest / for those thynges shall be perfourmed whiche were tolde the from the lorde. And Mary sayd my soule magnifieth the lorde & my spyryte reioseth in god my sauyoure.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Thomas of Cāterbury the. xix. cha. of Luke. B

A Certayne noble man. &c. ye shal finde this gospel on saīt Thomas daye after Chyl­dermas daye. Folio. vij.

¶ The Gospel on Relyke sondaye. The. v. Chapiter of Mathewe. A.

T [...]hen Iesus sawe the people he went vp in to a moūtayne and whē he was set his discyples [Page lxvi] came vnto hym / & he openeth his mouth & taught thē sayeng. Blyssed are the poore in spyryte / For theyrs is the kyngdom of heuē. Blissed are theyr that morne for they shal be comforted. Blyssed are the meke / for they shal enherete [...]h. Blyssed are they whiche hongre and thruste [...]g [...] ousnes / for they shall be fylled. Blyssed are the [...]yfull / for they shal op­tayne mercy. Blyssed are the pure in herte / for they shal se god. Blissed are the mainteyners of peace / for they shall be called the chyldrene of god. Blyssed are they which suffre ꝑsecucyon for ryghtuousnes sake / for theyrs is the kyngdome of heuen. Blyssed are ye whē mē shal reuyle you / & ꝑsecute you / & shall falshly saye all maner of euyl sayenges agaynst you / for my sake. Reioyce & be glade / for greate is your rewarde ī heuē.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Margaretes daye. The. xiij. Chapyter of Mathewe. G.

IEsus sayd vnto his discyples. The kyng­dome of heuen is lyke vnto treasure hyd in the felde / the whiche a man founde and hyd it / & for ioy thereof / goeth / & selleth all that he hath / & byeth that felde. Agayne the kyngdom̄ of heuen is lyke vnto a Ma [...]haunte se kynge after [Page] good peerles / which whē he had found one precyous perle. wente and solde all that he had and bought it. Agayne the kyngdome of heuē is lyke vnto a Nette caste ī to the see / that gadereth of al kyndes of fyshes whiche when it is full / mē draw to lande / and syt and gathereth the good in to theyr vesselles and caste the bad away. So shall it be at the ende of the worlde / The angelles shall come and seuer the bad from the good / and shal caste them ī to a furneys of fyre / there shal be waylyng / and gnasshynge of teeth. Iesus sayd vnto theym / haue ye vnderstanded all these thynges they sayd ye syr. Then sayde he vnto them / therfore euery scrybe whiche is taughte vnto the kyngdome / is lyke an housholder / whiche bryngeth forth / out of his treasure / thynges bothe newe and olde.

¶ The Gospel on Mary magdaleyn day. The. vij. chapiter of Luke. E

ONe of the Pharyses desyred Iesꝰ that he wolde eate with hym / and he came ī to the pharyses house / & sat downe to meate. And beholde a womā ī that cytie / whiche was a synner as soone as she knewe that Iesꝰ sat at meate in the pharyses howse she brought an Alabaster boxe of oyntmēt / & she stode at his fete behīde hī wepyng and begā to wasshe his fete with teares / & dyd wype thē with the eares of her heed / & kissed his fete / and anoynted thē with oyntmēt. whē the Pharyse whi­che bade hym to his house sawe that / he spake within hym selfe sayenge: yf this man were a prophete / he wolde surely haue knowen who & what maner wo­man this is / whiche touched hym / for she is a sinner And Iesus answered and sayde vnto hym / Symon I haue somwhat to saye vnto the / and he sayd: may­ster [Page] saye on. There was a certayne lēder whiche had two detters / the one ought fyue houndred pens / and the other fyfty. Uvhē they had nothynge to paye / he forgaue them bothe. Uvhiche of them tell me wyll loue hym moost? Symon answered and sayde / I suppose that he to whome he forgaue moost / and he sayde vnto hym. Thon hast truely iudged. And he turned to the woman / and sayde vnto Symon.

Seest thou this womā / I entred in to thy house / and thou gauest me no water to my fete / but she hath wasshte my fete / with teares / and wiped then with the heares of her heed. Thou gauest me no kysse: but she sence the tyme I came in hath nat ceased to kysse my fete. My heed with oyle thou dydeste nat anoynt and she hathe anoynted my fete with oyntmente.

Uvherfore I saye vnto the many synnes are forgy­uen her / bycause she loued moche. To whome lesse is forgyuē / the same doth lesse loue. And he sayd vn­to her thy synnes are forgyuen the. And they that sa­ [...]e at meate with hym / began to say within thē selues Uvho is this which forgyueth euē synnes / & he sayde to the womā. Thy fayth hath saued the / go in peace.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Iames daye the Apostle. The. xx. Chapiter Mathewe. C

THere came to Iesus the mother of zebedes chyldren with her sones / worshyppyng hym / & desyryng a certayne thynge of hym he sayde vnto her / what wilt thou haue she sayde vnto hym. Graunte that these my two sones / maye syt one on the right hāde / and the other on thy lefte hāde / ī thy kyndome. Iesꝰ answered & sayde / ye wotte nat what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cuppe that I shall drynke of? & to be baptysed with the bapty me that I shal be baytysed with? They an­swered to hym. That we are He sayd vnto then / ye shal drynke of my cuppe / & shall be baptysed with the baptyme that I shall be baptysed with / but to sytte on my ryght hāde / & on my lyfte hande / is nat myne to gyue but to then for whom it is p̄pared of my father

¶ The Gospell on saynt ānes daye. The fyrst echapiter of Mathewe. A

THis is the boke of the generacyon. &c. ye shal fide thꝭ gospel on the [...]cepcyō of our lady. f. lvi

¶ The Gospel on saynt Peter day ad vincula. The. xvi. chapiter of Mathewe. B.

WHen iesꝰ came ī to the costes. &c. ye shall fynde this gospell on saint peter & paules day. f. lxiiij

¶ The Gospel on the Transfyguraciō of our lorde The. xvij. chapiter of Mathewe. A

IEsus toke Peter and Iames / & Iohā his brother & brought thē vp in to an hye mo­untayne out of the way & was transfygu­red before them / & his face did shine as the [Page lxix] sonne & his clothes were as whyte as the lyght. And beholde there apered vnto them Moyses & Helias / talkynge with hym. Thē answered Peter & sayde to Iesus. Mayster here is good beyng for vs / yf thou wylte / let vs make here. iij. tabernacles / one for the / and one for moyses / and one for helias. whyle he yet spake / beholde a bryght cloude shadowed theym / and beholde there came a voyce oute of the cloude & sayde This is my dere sonne / ī whom I delyte / here hym. And whan the dyscyples herde that they fell flatte on theyr faces / & were sore affrayde. And Iesꝰ came and touched theym & sayde aryse and be nat a frayde then lyfted they vp theyr eies & sawe no mā but Iesꝰ one­ly. And as they came downe frō the mountaine. iesꝰ charged thē sayenge / se that ye she we the vysiō to no man tyll the sōne of mā be rysē agayne from deth.

¶ The Gospell in the feest of the name of Iesus. The fyrste chapiter of Mathewe. C.

[Page] THe aungell of god apered to Ioseph in slepe sayēg. Ioseph the sonne of da uid / feare not to take vnto the mary thy wyfe / for that which is conceaued in her / is of the holy ghost. She shal bring forth a sone / & thou shalt cal his name Iesus / for he shall saue his people from theyr syn̄es. Al this was done to fulfyl that which was spoken of our lorde by the ꝓphete sayēg. Beholde a mayde shal be with chylde / & shall bringe forth a sonne / & they shall call his name Emanuel / whiche is by interpretacy on / god with vs.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Laurence daye. The. xij. chapyter of Iohan. D.

IEsꝰ sayed vnto his discyples. Uerely verely I say vnto you / excepte the wheathe corne fal into the groūde & dye / it bydethe alone. yf it dye it bryngethe fort moche fruyte. He that loueth his lyfe shall destroye it / & he that [Page lxx] hathethe his lyfe ī this worlde / shall kepe it vnto the lyfe eternal yf any mā minystre vnto me / let hym fo­lowe me & where I am / there shall also my mynyster be / and yf any man mynystre vnto me / hym wyl my father honoure whiche is in heuen.

¶ The Gospel on the Assumpcyon of our lady. The. x. chapiter of Luke. G.

IEsus entred into a certaine Castell. And a certaine woman named Martha / receaued hym in to her house? And this woman had a syster called Mary: whiche satte at [Page] Iesus fete / & herde Iesus preachynge. Martha was cōbred aboute moche seruynge: & stode & sayd? May­ster doest thou nat care: that my syster hath left me to ministre alone? bidde her therfore that she helpe me. And Iesus answered & sayd vnto her Martha Mar tha thou carest & arte troubled about many thynges / verely one is nedeful. Mary hathe chosen the beste parte which shal not be taken away from her.

¶ The gospel on saint bartylmewes day. The. xxij. chapi. of Luke. C

THere was a stryfe amonge the discyples of Iesꝰ / whi­che of thē shulde be taken for the greatest / & he sayd vnto thē / the kynges of the gētyls raygne ouer thē & they that beare rule ouer thē are called gracyous lordes / but ye shall not be so but he that is greatest amōg you shall be as the yongest & he that is chyefe shal be as the mynystre for whether is great / he that syttethe at meate? or he that seruethe is nat he that syttethe at meate? And I am amōg you as he that ministrethe / ye are they which haue byddē with me ī my tēptacyōs / & I apoynt vnto you a kyn­dome / as my father hath apointed to me that ye maye eate & drynke at my table in my kyndome / & sytte on seates / and iudge the twelue trybes of Israell.

¶ The Gospell on the decollacyon of saynt Iohā. The. vi. Chapiter of Marke. C.

HErode the kynge hym selfe sēt forth and toke Iohn̄ & bounde hym & cast hym ī pryson / for Herodias sake / which was his brother Philyppys wyfe. For he had maryed her. Iohan sayde vnto Herode. It is nat laufull for the to haue thy brothers wyfe. Herodias layd wayte for hym / & wold haue kylled hym / but she coulde nat For herode feared Iohan knowynge that he was a iuste man / & an holy / and gaue hym reuerence and when he herde hym / he dyd many thynges and herd hym gladly. And when conuenyente daye was come Herode on his byrth day made a supper to the Lor­des / Capteynes / and cheyfe estates of Galile. And the daughter of the same Herodias came in. & daun­sed / and Pleased Herode and thē that sate at bourde [Page] also. Then the kynge sayde vnto the maydē / aske of me what thou wylte / & I wyll gyue it the / & he sware vnto her. what soeuer thou shalte aske of me / I wyll gyue it the / euen vnto the one halfe of my kyngdo­me. And she went forth: & sayde to her mother. what shal I are and she sayde Iohan Baptistes heed And she came in strayte waye with haste vnto the kynge and asked sayeng / I wyll that thou gyuest me by and by in a dysshe / the heed of Iohan Baptyste. And the kynge was sory. Yet for his othes sake / and for theyr sakes whiche sate at supper also / he woulde nat put her besyde her purpose. And ī medyatly the kyng sente Hangeman / and commaunded his heed to be brought in / and he went and beheded hym in the pryson and brought his heed ī a dyshe and gaue it to the mayden / and the mayden gaue it to her mother. Uvhen his dyscyples herde of it / they came and toke vp hys body / and put it in a tombe.

¶ The Gospel on the Natiuite of our Lady. The fyrste Chapyter of Mathewe. A.

THis is the boke of the genera­cyon of Iesꝰ. &c. Ye shall fynde this Gospell on the Cōcepcyō of our Lady. Fo. ivi.

¶ The Gospell on the exaltacyon of the Crosse the. xij. Chapiter of Iohan. E.

[Page lxxij] IEsus sayd vnto the people of the Ie wes / nowe is the iudgement of this worlde now shal the Prynce of thys world be cas [...]e out. And I (if I were lyft vp frō the erth) wyl drawe al mē vnto me This sayd Iesus sygnyfyen ge what deth he shulde dye. The people answered hym. Uve haue herde of the lawe that Chryst bydeth euer? And how sayest thou then that the sone of man must be lyft vp Uvho is that sone of mā? Iesus sayd vnto them / yet a lytell whyle is the lyght with youe: walke whyle ye haue lyght lest the darkenes come on you. He that walketh ī the darke woteth nat whyther he goeth. But whyle ye haue lyght / byleue on the lyghte that ye maye be the Chyldren of lyght.

¶ The Gospell on saynt Mathewes daye the Apo­stle / The. ix. Chapyter of Mathewe. B.

[Page] WHē Iesꝰ wēt forth / he sawe a man sytte recea­uyng of a custome named Mathewe / & sayde to hī / Folowe me / & he arose & folowed hym.

And it came to passe / that Iesꝰ sate at meate ī the house / beholde many Publycanes & synners ca­me and sate downe also with Iesus & his dyscyples. Uvhen the Pharyses had ꝑceaued that they sayd to hys dyscyples / why eateth your mayster with Publy canes & synners? Uvhē Iesꝰ herd that: he sayd to thē The whose nede nat the Phisysiō / but they that are sehe. Go & lerne / what that meaneth? I haue Pleasure ī mercy / & nat ī offerīg / for I am nat come to calle the ryghtwyse / but the synners to repentaunce.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Mygheles daye the. xviij. Chapyter of Mathewe. A.

THe dyscyples cāe vnto Iesꝰ sayēge. who is the greatest ī the kyngdome of heuē? Iesꝰ called a [Page lxxiij] chyld vnto hī / & set hym ī the myddes of them & sayde / ve­rely I say vnto you / except ye tourne and become as childrē / ye can nat entre ī to the kyngdome of heuē. Uvho so euer therfore shall submytte hym selfe as this chylde / he is the greatest ī the kyndome of heuē. And who so euer receaueth suche a Chylde in my name / receaueth me / but who so euer offende one of these lytell wones / which byleueth ī me / it were beter for hī that a mylstone were hāged about his necke / & that he were drowned in the depth of the see. Uvo be vnto the world / bycause of offēces / how­beit it cā nat be auoyded neuertheles wo be to the mā by whome the offēce comith. Uvherfore if thy hande or thy fote gyue the an occasyon of euyl / cut hym of / & cast hī frō the / it is better for the to entre ī to lyfe halte or maymed / rather thā thou shuldest hauynge two hādes / or two fete / be caste in to the euerlastyng fyre. And yf also thyne eye offēde the / plucke hym out and cast hym frō the. It is better for the to entre ī to lyfe with one eye / thē hauyng two eyes to be caste in to the hell fyre. Se that ye despyse nat one of these lytell wones. For I saye vnto you / that in he uen theyr angelles / beholde the face of my father whiche is in heuen.

¶ The Gospell on the Translacyon of saynt Edward the Kinge & cōfessoure the. xi. Chapiter of Luke. E.

IEsussayd vnto his dyscyples. No mā lyghteth a cādell / & putteth it ī a preuye place / neyther vnder a busshell / but on a cādelstyhe that they that come in / maye se lyght. The lyght of thy body is thyne eye. Therfore when thyne eye is syngle / then is all thy bodye full of lyght / but yf thyne eye be euyll / then shal all thy bodye be full of darkenes. Take hede therfore that the lyght whiche is in the / be nat darkenes / for if all thy bodye shall be lyght hauynge no parte darke / thē shal all be ful of lyght / euen as when a cādell doeth lyght the with his bryghtnes.

¶ The Gospell on Saynte Luke the Euangelistes day The. x. Cha­piter of Luke. A.

OUr lord apoynted other seuēty also / and sent them two & two before his face / in to euery cytye and place / whyther he hym selfe wolde come. And sayde vnto thē / the haruest is greate / but te labourers are fewe / pray therfore the lorde of the haruest to sende forth hys labourers in to hys harueste. Go your wayes / behold I īend you forth as Lābes amō ge wolues. Beare no wallet neyther scrippe / nor shoes & salute no mā by the way In whatsoeuer house ye entre ī fyrst saye / peace be to thꝭ house. And if the sone of peace be there your peace shall reste on hī / if nat it shall retur­ne [Page lxxiiij] to you agayne & in the same house tary styl eatynge & drynkynge such as they haue / for the labourer is worthy of hī srewarde.

¶ The Gospel on the. xi. thousand Uyrgyns day. The xxv. Chapiter of Mathewe. A.

IEsꝰ sayd vnto his disciples. The kyngdome of heuē is lykened to. x. Uirgins / which toke theyr lāpes & wente to mete the brydegrome / & fyue of thē were folyshe / & fyue were wyse. the foles toke theyre lāpes but toke none oyle with thē / but the wyse toke oyle with thē in theyr vessels with theyr lāpes also. whyle the brydgrōe taried / al slōbred & slept / & euē at mydnyght the re was a cry made / behold the brydgrome cōmeth. Go & mete hī. Thē al those vrgyns arose & p̄pared theyr lāpes And the folysshe sayd vnto the wyfe gyue vs of your oyl [...] for our lāpes go out / but the wyse āswered sayēg / nat so lest there be nat inough for vs & you / but go rather to thē that sel / & bye for your selues ī ꝯclusyō whyle they wet to [Page] bye: the brydgrome cam / & they that were redy went in with hym to the weddynge / and the gate was shut vp. After wardes came also the other virgyns sayēg. May­ster / mayster / open to vs / but he answered and sayde. Ue rely. I saye vnto you I know you nat / loke that you watche therfore / for ye know neyther the day nor yet the houre / when the sone of man shall come.

¶ The Gospell on Symon and Iudes daye the. xv. Chapiter of Iohan. C.

IEsus sayde vnto his discyples. This I commaunde you that ye loue to gyther / yf the worlde hate you / ye knowe that it hated me before it hated you / yf ye were of the worlde / the worlde wolde loue you / his owne bycause ye are nat of the world but I haue chosen you out of the world / therfore hateth you the worlde. Remember my sayinge that I sayde vnto you / the seruaunte is nat greater then his lorde / if they haue persecuted me / so wyl they perse­cute you / if they haue kepte my sayinge / so wyll they kepe yours / but al these thynges wyl they do vnto you / for my namis sake bicause they haue nat knowen hym that sēte me. yf I had nat come & spoken vnto them / they shulde haue had synne / but nowe haue they nothynge to cloke theyr synne / with all. He that hateth me / haeth my father yf I had nat done workes amōgeth whiche none other mandyd / they had natte sene but nowe haue they sene / & yet haue hared both me and my father / euen that the say­inge myght be fulfylled that is written ī theyr law They hated me without a cause.

¶ The Gospel on the al Hallowes day. The. v. chapiter of Mathewe. A.

UUhen Iesus saw the people. &c. ye shal fyde this gospel on Relike sonday. Folio. lxv.

The gospell on thy all soules day. the. xi. cp̄. of ioh. C

MArtha sayd vnto Iesus lord yf thou had­dest ben here my brother had nat bene deed / but neuerthelesse I knowe that what soeuer thou askeste of god / God wyll gyue it the. Iesus sayde vnto her / thy brother shall ryse agayne. Martha sayde vnto hym. I knowe well he shal ryse agayn in the Resurrecyon at the laste daye / Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the Resurrecyon & the lyfe. Uvho soener byleuethe on me ye though he were deed / yet shall he lyue: and who soeuer lyuethe / and byleuethe on me / shall neuer dye / byleueste thou this She sayde vnto hym ye lorde I byleue that thou arte Chryste the sōne of god whiche haste come in to the worlde.

¶ The Gospell on saynt Martyns day. The. xyv. chapiter of mathewe. B.

ACertain mā redy to take hꝭ iourneye. &c. ye shal fynde this gospel on saynt Nicholas day. fo. lvi.

¶ The Gospel on saynt Katheryns daye. The. xiij. Chapiter of Mathewe. F.

UHe kyngedome of heuen is lyke vnto trea­sure. &c. ye shal fynde this gospel on saynt Margerates day. Folio. lxvi.

¶ The Gospel on the day of weddynges / the. xix. chapiter of Mathewe. A.

THe Pharyses came vnto Iesus to tempte hym and sayde to hym / is it laufull for a man to put away his wyfe for al maner of cau­ses. He answered and say­de vnto them. haue ye not read how that he whiche made man at the begynnynge made them man and womā / and sayde for this thynge shall a man leue father and mother / & cleue vnto his wyfe / and they twaine shal be one fleshe / wherfore nowe are they nat twaine but one fles­she. Let no man therfore put asonder that whiche god hath coupled togyther.

¶ The Gospel on buryenges the. xi. Chapiter of Iohan. C.

MArtha sayde vnto Iesus / lorde yf thou. &c. ye shal fynde this gospel on al soules d aye. Folio. lxxvi.