the refurrection of Jefus Chrift: who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels, and authorities, and powers being made fubject unto him.

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The Gospel. S. Matth. 27. 57.

Hen the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Jofeph, who also himself was Jefus disciple. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jefus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the fepulcher, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, fitting over against the sepulcher. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharifees came together unto Pilate, faying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver faid, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rife again. Command therefore that the fepulcher be made fure until the third day, *lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, and fay unto the people, He is risen from the dead: fo the last error shall be worse than the firft. Pilate faid unto them, Ye have a watch, go your way, make it as fure as you can. So they went and made the fepulcher fure, fealing the stone, and fetting a watch.

Eafter-day.

At Morning Prayer, instead of the Pfalm [O come, let us, &c.] thefe Anthems fhall be fung or faid:

Hrift our paffover is facrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast. Not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of

Left bis Difciples fhould come by Night, &c. Tho' it was very unlikely that a company of poor difpirited Perfons fhould engage in fuch an undertaking as the carrying off the Body would not have been ferviceable to their intereft; yet the care which the Jews took to prevent it, afforded another strong proof of Chrift's Refurrection; becaufe under the cuftody of fuch a guard; it was improbable that his Difciples fhould attempt remove the Body:-but as it was removed and the

Sepulcher left empty, notwithstanding; it must have been done by a divine power. Thus God not only fruftrates the councels of the wicked; but makes them inftruments to his glory.

Chrift our Paffover, &c. Chrift refembled the Lamb of the Paffover amongst the Jews. Because, as by the fprinkling of the Blood of the Pafchal Lamb upon the Doors of the Ifraelites, the deftroying Angel paffed over them: fo by the fhedding of the precious Blood

malice and wickednefs but with the unleavened bread of fincerity and truth. Cor. 567.me Las

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Hrift being raifed from the dead, dieth no more: death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto fin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewife reckon ye alfo yourselves to be dead indeed unto fin: but alive unto God through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Rom. 6. 9.

Hrift is rifen from the dead: and become the first-fruits of them that flept. For fince by man came death: by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die: even fo in Chrift fhall all be made alive. 1 Cor. 15. 20.1 Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the beginning, &c.

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The Collect.

Lmighty God, who through thine only begotten Son Jefus Christ, haft overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlafting life; We humbly befeech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou doft put into our minds good defires; fo by thy continual help we may bring the fame to good effect, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

The Epiftle. Col. 3. 1,

* F ye then be risen with Chrift, feek those things which are above, where Chrift fitteth on the right hand of God. Set your

Paraphrafe on the Collect for Eafter-Day.

Moft mighty God, who, through thy Son Jefus Grace, produce in us good actions, through the fame Chrift haft vanquished Death, and given us eternal Jefus Chrift, who reigneth with thee and the Holy Life; grant, we beseech thee, that thofe good defires, Spirit one God for ever and ever. which thou infpireft into our Hearts, may, by thy

of Christ, we are faved from the wrath to come. As the Paffover was kept in commemoration of the Ifraelites deliverance from the Bondage of Egypt: fo the Feaft of Chrift's Refurrection is inftituted in remembrance of our deliverance from the flavery of Sin and Death. As the Jews were commanded to eat no lea wened Bread during their Feast of the Paflover; fo fhould Christians commemorate their Redemption by

abstaining from the leaven of Sin, and by the practice of all Christian Purity."

* If ye then be rifen with Chrift, &c. The Doc trine of Chrift's Resurrection should be a continual mo tive to Believers to rife from the death of Sin to a life of Righteoufnefs,-to mortify and fubdue in themfelves all inordinate Affections to the Things of this World, and principally to defire, and endeavour to ate

affection on things above, not on things on the earth: for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Chrift in God. life is hid with Chrift in God. When Chrift who is our life fhall appear, then fhall ye alfo appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetoufness which is idolatry: for which things fake the wrath of God cometh on the children of difobedience.

which ye also walked fome time, when ye lived in them.

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The Gospel. S. John 20. 1.

In the

HE first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the fepulcher, and feeth the ftone taken away from the fepulcher. Then the runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jefus loved, and faith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other difciple, and came to the fepulcher. So they ran both together; and the other difciple did outrun Peter, and came firft to the fepulcher: and he stooping down, and looking in, faw the linen clothes lying, yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the fepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes lie; and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other difciple which came first to the fepulcher, and he saw and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. Then the difciples went away again unto their own home.

Monday in Eafter-week.

The Collect.

God, who begotten Son Jefus

Chrift, haft overcome death, and opened unto us the gate

it is worthy to be obferved in general concerning this portion of Scriptare appointea for this day's Gol pel, that the Teftimonies of our Lord's Refurrection

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contained in it, go on (to ufe David's Expreffion) from Strngth to Streength, and fine as it were more and more unto the perfe& Day.

of everlafting life; We humbly befeech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou doft put into our minds good defires, fo by thy continual help we may bring the fame to good effect, through Jefus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God world without end. Amen. For the Epifle. Acts 10. 34.

Eter opened his mouth, and faid, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of perfons; but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteoufnefs, is accepted with him. The word which God fent unto the children of Ifrael, preaching peace by Jefus Chrift, (he is Lord of all) that word, (fay) you know which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptifm which John preached: how God anointed Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghoft and with power, *who went about doing good and healing all that were oppreffed of the devil: for God was with him. And we are witneffes of all things which he did, both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerufalem, whom they flew, and hanged on a tree: Him God railed up the third day, and shewed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chofen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he arose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. To him give all the prophets withefs, that through his Name, whofoever believeth in him fhall receive remiffion of fins.

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The Gofpel. S. Luke 24. 13.

Ehold, two of his disciples went that fame day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerufalem about §threefcore

infpires us may produce in us good Works, through the fame thy Son Jefus Chrift, who reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Paraphrafe on the Collect for Monday in Eafter-Week. O all powerful God who through the Returrection of thy Son our Lord haft triumphed over Death, and given us an Affurance of eternal life: grant, we befeech thee, that thofe good difpofitions, with which thou

Who went about doing good. The Life of Chrift was not folitary, but focial. And he certainly is the

beft Chriftian who is most actively employed in promo ting the Welfare of his Fellow-Creatures.

furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pafs, that while they communed together, and reasoned, Jefus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden, that they fhould not know him. And he faid unto them, What manner of communications are the fe that ye have one to another, as ye walk and are fad? And the one of them, whofe name was Cleopas, anfwering, faid unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerufalem, and haft not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? And he faid unto them, What things? And they faid unto him, Concerning Jefus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God, and all the people: And how the chief priests, and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have cruci+ fied him. But we trufted that it had been he who fhould have redeemed Ifrael: and befide all this to day is the third day fince these things were done. Yea, and certain women alfo of our company made us aftonifhed, who were early at the fepulcher; and when they found not his body, they came, faying, that they had alfo feen a vifion of angels, which faid that he was alive. And certain of them who were with us, went to the fepulcher, and found it even fo as the women had faid; but him they faw. not. Then he faid unto them, *O fools and flow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! ought not Chrift to have fuffored thefe things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Mofes, avà. Ino tro.b.. bio X2 dum f5

‡ Threefcore Furlongs. Which is about seven Miles. Whoje Name as Cleef as or diphius. He was the Hufband of Mary who was fifter to our Lord's Mother, and who is elewhare called Mary the mother of James. But we trufted, that it had been he, &c. Obferve Lerewhat carnal Notions. our Lord's Difciples had conCaring Chrift's Redemption. They fuspofing that it confifted only in the Deliverance of the Jews from the tyranny of the Romans, to whom they were then tributary. This national prejudice however was happily corrected by the defcent of the Holy Spirit at the Feast of Penticost: But however excufable this ignorance might be in our Lord's Difciples at that time,

we cannot plead this in behalf of the ambitious, covetous, worldly Views which they who profets thenfelves Chriftians in thefe days are apt to indageFortho' Godlings is indeed great gam; having benomife of the Life that now is and if that which is to come: yet they who embrace Religion only for the fake worldly gain will never be truly religious as they ought, and have all the Reward they are to expect,

O Fools. Hence obferve that the Comm Matt. v. 22. is not always tranfgreffed by this expr. "fion, but only when it is ufed without caule, from an undue commotion of Spirit, or a Mind evil affected towards our Brother.