And canst not look on in-iqui- ty:1 O Lord, righteousness belongeth | unto thee.2 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself | merci- |ful With the upright thou wilt show thy-self upright, With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure: 3 O Lord, righteousness belongeth | unto thee.2 The afflicted people | thou wilt save, But thine eyes | are up-| on the haughty, That thou mayest | bring them down :4 O Lord, righteousness belongeth | unto thee.2 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains, Thy judgments | are a | great deep,5 The sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre, O Lord, righteousness be- | longeth unto | thee.2 Our iniquities are increased over our head, Our trespass is grown up un- - to the heavens,' 1 Isaiah lxiv. 6. 3 Psa. xcvi. 13. 5 Acts.xvii. 31. A LMIGHTY God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. ΑΙ LMIGHTY Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. ALMIGHTY God, who hast given thine only Son to be sent unto us both as a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life; Give us grace that we may always most thankfully reeeive that his inestimable benefit, and alto daily endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Service the Eleventh. THE GOD OF PEACE. derer shall be put to death.1 If a man come presumptously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.2 If he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer. And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer. Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer. Ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are for blood it defileth the land.3 1 Num. xxxv. 30. 2 Exod. xxi. 14. 3 Num. XXXV. 16-18, 33. Congregation. Bonty and deceitful men shail act ire out half their days Minister. When he maketh inquisifion for blood, he rememBereth them 2 Whosoever kareth his brother is a RENTGeter: and we know that no murderer hath eternal life anding in him Murderers shan have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Congregation, Rejcice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengance to his adversaries. Minister. [The War Spirit Prohibited in the Old Testament.] Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: lest the Lord see it, and it displease him." If thine enemy be hungry, ↑ Psa. ix. 12. Rev. xxi. 8. xxxii. 437. 17-18. |