the Father: having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And fupper being ended: the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray him; 93. The Paffover. Mat. xxvi. and I Cor. xi. night in which he was be Jefus knowing that the FatherUR Lord Jefus Chrift: the fame had given all things into his hands: and that he was come from God, and went to God; He rifeth from fupper, and laid afide his garments, and took a towel and girded himself after that, he poureth water into a bafon, and began to wash the difciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter faith unto him : LORD, doft thou wash my feet? Jefus answered, and faid unto him what I do, thou knoweft not now, but thou fhalt know hereafter. Peter faith unto him, thou shalt never wash my feet. Jefus anfwered him, if I wash thee not, thou haft no part with me. Simon Peter faith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but alfo my hands and my head. Jefus faith to him, he that is washed, needeth not fave to wash his feet, but is clean every whit. And ye are clean, but not all for he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, ye are not all clean. : So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was fet down again, he faid unto them: Know ye what I have done to you? ye call me Mafter and Lord, and ye fay well, for fo I am; If I then your Lord and Mafter have washed your feet, ye alfo ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye fhould do as I have done to you. trayed, Took bread: blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to his difciples, and faid, Take, eat, this is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the fame manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, ment in my blood, which is shed for faying, This cup is the new teftayou and for many for the remiffion of fins. This do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup: ye do fhew the Lord's death, till he come. Wherefore whofoever fhall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, fhall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord: but let a man examine himself, and fo let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not difcerning the Lord's body. I am the vine: ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much. fruit for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is caft forth as a branch, and is withered: and men gather them and caft them into the fire, and they are burned. I have manifefted thy name : unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word now they have known that all things whatsoever thou haft given me, are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavestme: and they have received them, and have known furely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Teftamentary Words. If ye abide in me, and my words I Pray for th but for Play not for abide in you: ye fhall afk what ye will, and it fhall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: fo fhall ye be my difciples. As the Father hath loved me, fo have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. John xv. JESUS ESUS lift up his eyes to heaven, and faid: Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son alfo may glorify thee. As thou haft given him power over all flesh that he fhould give eternal life to as many as thou haft given him. And this is life eternal: that they might know thee the only true God, and Jefus Chrift whom thou haft fent. I have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished the work which thou gaveft me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own felf, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. the world, them which thou haft given me, for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine and I am glorified in them.. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world : and I come to thee.. Holy Father, keep thro' thine own name those whom thou haft given me that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Thofe that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is loft, but the fon of perdition, that the fcripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee: and these things I fpeak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word: and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldft take them out of the world, but that thou fhould keep them from the evil: they are are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou haft fent me into the world even fo have I alfo fent them into the world. And for their fakes I fanctify myfelf: that they alfo might be fanc tified thro' the truth. Neither pray I for thefe alone: but for them also, which shall believe on me thro' their word; That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they alfo may be one în us: that the world may believe that thou haft fent me. And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one, I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one: and that the world may know that thou haft fent me, and haft loved them, as thou haft loved me. The 98. Bridegroom's Prophecy of his TH Father, I will, that they alfo whom thou haft given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold Hen fhall the kingdom of my glory which thou haft given me : heaven be likened unto ten for thou lovedft me before the foun. virgins, which took their lamps : dation of the world. and went forth to meet the bridegroom. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou haft fent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou haft loved me, may be in them, and I in them. 96. Our Lord's laft will. O ye into all the world: and And five of them were wife: and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wife took oil in their veffeis with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried: they all flumbered and flept. And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all thofe virgins arofe: and G preach the gofeel to every trimmed their lamps. creature. And the foolish faid unto the wife: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. But the wife answered, Not fo, left there be not enough for us and you but go ye rather to them that fell, and buy for felves. : your And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. Afterward came alfo the other virgins, faying: Lord, Lord, open A S the lightning cometh out of the east and fhineth even unto the weft: fo fhall alfo the coming of the fon of man be. And then shall appear the fign of the Son of man in heaven. And then fhall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with and great power And he shall fend his angels with And he fhall fat glory. a great found of a trumpet: and they fhall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Verily I fay unto you: this generation fhall not pafs, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth fhall pafs away: but my words fhall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven: but my Father only. But as in the days of Nor, they knew not, until the flood came and took them all away: fo fhall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then fhall two be in the field: the one fhall be taken, and the other left. Matt. xxiv. In that night there fhall be two in one bed: the one fhall be taken, and the other shall be left. Luke xvii. When the son of man fhall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him: then fhall he fit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he fhall feparate them one from another, as a fhepherd divideth his fheep from the goats. And he fhall fet the fheep on his right hand but the goats on the left. Then fhall the king fay unto them : on his right hand: come, ye bleffed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in ; Naked, and ye clothed me: I was fick, and ye vifited me, I was in prifon, and ye came unto me. Then fhall the righteous anfwer him, faying: LORD, when faw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and thee drink? gave When faw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? or when faw we thee fick, or in prifon, and came unto thee? And the king fhall answer, and fay unto them: verily I fay unto you, inafmuch as ye have done it unto one of the leaft of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then 1 Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand depart from me, ye curfed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirty, and ye gave me no drink. I was a ftranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not: fick, and in prifon, and ye vifited me not. Then shall they also answer him, faying: Lord, when faw we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or fick, or in prifon, and did not minifter unto thee? Then shall he anfwer them, faying: verily I fay unto you, inafmuch as ye did it not to one of the leaft of thefe, ye did it not to me. And thefe fhall go away into ever lafting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matt. XXV. F 100. Paul's prophecy. Ollow after charity! tho' I fpeak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not this love, I am become as founding brafs or a tinkling cymbal. Luke vii. 47. Rom. v. 5. Cant. viii. 6. And tho' I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all myfteries and all knowledge, and tho' I have all faith, fo that I could remove mountains and have not this love, I am nothing. And tho' I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and tho' I give my body to be burned and have not this love, it profiteth me nothing. This love fuffereth long, and is kind, this love envieth not: this love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; Doth not behave itfelf unfeemly, feeketh not her own is not eafily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things: hopeth all things, endureth all things. This love never faileth: but whether there be prophefies, they fhall fail, whether there be tongues, they fhall ceafe, whether there be knowledge, it fhall vanish away. For we know in part and we prophefy in part. But when that which is perfect is come: then that which is in part, fhall be done away. When I was a child, I fpake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we fee thro' a glafs darkly but then face to face. Now I know in part but then fhall I know even as alfo I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, love, thefe three: but the greatest of thefe is love. 1 Cor. xiii. |