The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity.
Cantate
Domino.
Psalm
xcviii
O SING unto the Lord a new song : for he hath done marvellous things.
With his own right hand, and with his
holy arm : hath he gotten himself the victory.
The Lord declared his salvation : his
righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.
He hath remembered his mercy and truth
toward the house of Israel : and all the ends of the world have seen the
salvation of our God.
Show yourselves joyful unto the Lord,
all ye lands : sing, rejoice, and give thanks.
Praise the Lord upon the harp : sing to
the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving.
With trumpets also and shawms : O shew
yourselves joyful before the Lord the King.
Let the sea make a noise, and all that
therein is : the round world, and that dwell therein.
Let the floods clap their hands, and
let the hills be joyful together before the Lord : for he cometh to judge the
earth.
With righteousness shall he judge the
world : and the peoples with equity.
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.
The Collect.
LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may always *prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*N.B. In older use prevent meant: to act ahead of; forestall; to precede; to anticipate.
Old
Testament Reading: Jeremiah 13.15-21
Psalter:
Psalm 91, 92 | 105, 60
Epistle
Reading: Ephesians 4.1-6
Gospel Reading: St. Luke 14.1-11
“This is the universal rule, in evangelism as elsewhere. God
will make us pray before he blesses our labors in order that we may constantly
learn afresh that we depend on God for everything. And then, when God permits
us to see conversions, we shall not be tempted to ascribe them to our own
gifts, or skill, or wisdom, or persuasiveness, but to his work alone, and so we
shall know whom we ought to thank for them” (J.I. Packer, “Evangelism and the
Sovereignty of God,” 119).
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