1. This was celebrated with great devotion in the ancient Church, with watching & prayer. The churches also were illuminated as to foreshew the Sun of Righte: :susness, who was warice on the Morrow. On this day also Catechumens were bastined; the time yous foros lyzin grave representing, to the life thought our passage from the death of sim

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was no collect appointed. _ Phose for Good Friday were probably repeated.

The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth also now save us, (not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

THE GOSPEL. ST. MATTH. XXVII. 57.

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HEN the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 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 sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as you can. So they went and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

At Morning Prayer, instead of the Psalm, O come let us, &c. these Anthems shall be sung or said.

CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us :

therefore let us keep the feast;

Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7.

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him.

HRIST being raised from the dead dieth no more : death hath no more dominion over

For in that he died, he died unto sin once : but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. vi. 9.

CHRIST is risen from the dead : and become

the first-fruits of them that slept.

For since by man came death

also the resurrection of the dead.

by man came

For as in Adam all die : even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. xv. 20.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :

and to the Holy Ghost;

Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

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THE COLLECT.

LMIGHTY God, who through thine onlybegotten 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;

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