, and overthrew the tables of the
| money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and
| said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the
| house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the
| blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed
| them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful
| things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and
| saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
| and said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith
| unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes
| and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
|
| AT THE THANKSGIVING FOR HARVEST
|
| THE COLLECTS.
|
| _One or more of these Collects may be said_.
|
| O almighty and everlasting God, who hast given unto us the
| fruits of the earth in their season, and hast crowned the year
| with thy goodness: Give us grateful hearts, that we may unfeignedly
| thank thee for all thy loving-kindness, and worthily magnify thy
| holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. _Amen_.
|
| Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful
| people, that they who have freely received of thy bounty, may,
| of thy bounty, freely give; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
| _Amen_.
|
| O Lord Jesus Christ, who hast taught us that man doth not live
| by bread alone: Feed us, we humbly beseech thee, with the true
| Bread that cometh down from heaven, even thyself, O blessed
| Saviour, who livest and reignest, with the Father and the Holy
| Spirit, one God, world without end. _Amen_.
|
| FOR THE EPISTLE. Deut. xvi. 13.
|
| Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
| that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: and thou
| shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter,
| and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
| stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within
| thy gates. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the
| Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because
| the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in
| all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
|
| THE GOSPEL. St Matth. vi. 28.
|
| Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
| neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon
| in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore,
| if God so clot