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| God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might
| live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but
| that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
| our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love
| one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one
| another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
| Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
| hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify
| that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
| Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
| dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed
| the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth
| in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
|
| THE GOSPEL. St Matth. xvi. 13.
|
| When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked
| his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man
| am? and they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist:
| some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He
| saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter
| answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
| God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou,
| Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto
| thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee
| that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
| and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will
| give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever
| thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever
| thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged
| he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus
| the Christ.

THE EPIPHANY,

OR THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST TO THE GENTILES

_January_ 6.

THE COLLECT.

O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten
Son to the Gentiles: Mercifully grant, that we, which know thee
now by faith, may after this life have the fruition of thy
glorious Godhead; through Jesus Christ our Lord. _Amen_.

THE EPISTLE. Ephes. iii 1.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
Gentiles; if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God,
which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known
unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few wor