ddenly like the grass.

In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening
it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy
wrathful indignation.

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in
the light of thy countenance.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our
years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though
men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years: yet is their
strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and
we are gone.

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as
a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.

Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last: and be gracious unto thy
servants.

O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice
and be glad all the days of our life.

Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us:
and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

Shew thy servants thy work: and their children thy glory.

And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper
thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy-work.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;

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

_Then shall follow the Lesson taken out of the fifteenth chapter
of the former Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians_.

1 Cor. xv. 20.

Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of
them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the
resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ
the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming.
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and
all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all
enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death. [For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he
saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is
excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things
shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be
subject unto h