commandments; and having our life hid with him in thee, may we, when Christ who is our life shall appear again, appear with him in glory. We ask these great mercies, for his sake, who came not to condemn, but to save; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be given all glory and praise, majesty and dominion, both now and evermore. Amen.

EVENING.

Anthem.

T The dominion of Christ.

THY seat, O God, endureth for ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord; with my mouth will I ever be showing thy truth, from one generation to another.

For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever; thy truth shalt thou establish in the heavens.

The Lord is our defence; the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I will set his dominion in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.

And I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my

right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion; be thou ruler, even in the midst among thine enemies.

In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.

The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Glory be to the Father, &c.

Collect.

T For daily renewal.

ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin; grant that we, being regenerate and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit, through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Thanksgiving.

Ir is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should, at all times and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, everlasting God; because thou didst give Jesus Christ, thine only Son, to be born as at this time for us; who, by the operation of the Holy Ghost, was

made very man, of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother; and that without spot of sin, to make us clean from all sin: therefore, with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord Most High. Amen.

Sunday after Christmas Way.

Anthem.

The promises concerning the Jews.

THE Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh.

The gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in, and so all Israel shall be saved. Even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is on their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

If thou, being a Gentile, wert cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature, and wert graffed

contrary to nature into a good olive-tree, how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive-tree?

They are beloved for the fathers' sakes; their fulness shall be the riches of the Gentiles; the receiving of them shall be life from the dead.

It shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

Behold, saith the Lord, I will extend peace to Jerusalem, like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.

The Lord shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.

Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Glory be to the Father, &c.

Collect.

For the conversion of the Jews.

LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob, who hast not cast away thy people, and who commandest us to give thee no rest, till thou establish, and till thou make Jerusalem a praise in the earth; arise, we beseech thee, and have mercy upon Zion. Assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Jacob. Take away the vail from

their hearts, turn them to the Lord Jesus, and graft them again into their own olive-tree; that receiving as their Messiah, Him, whom their fathers by wicked hands crucified and slew, they may publish his name, and spread his gospel among the Gentiles. Hasten the time, thou King of Zion, who in wrath rememberest mercy, for the sake of Him, who is the Root and Offspring of David, who was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and who tasted death for every man; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all dominion and glory, both now and for ever. Amen.

St. Stephen's Day.

December 26.

Collect.

For faith and charity.

GRANT, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may steadfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors, by the example of thy first martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God, to succor all those who suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.