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S. Philip and Iames day.
The Collect.
ALmightie God, whom truely to know is euerla∣sting life: grant vs perfectly to knowe thy Sonne Iesus Christ to be the way, the Trueth, and the Life, as thou hast thught S.Philip, and other the Apostles, throught Iesus Christ our Lord.
The Epistle.
IAmes the seruant of God, * 1.1 and of the Lorde Iesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelue Tribes which are scattered abroad. My brethren, count it for an exceeding ioye, When yee fall into diuers temptations: Knowing this, that the trying of your faith gendreth patience, and let patience haue her perfect woorke, that yee may bee perfect and sounde, lacking nothing. If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of him that giueth it, euen God, which giueth to all men indifferent∣ly, and casteth no man in the teeth, and it shall be giuen him. But let him aske in faith, and wauer not. for he that doub∣teth, is like a waue of the Sea, which is tost of the windes, and caried with violence: neither let that man thinke, that he shall receiue any thing of the Lord. A wauering minded man is vnstable in all his wayes. Let the brother which is of lowe degree, reioyce when hee is exalted. Againe, let him that is rich, reioyce when he is made lowe: For euen as the floure of the grasse shall hee passe away. For as the Sunne reseth with heat, and the grasse withereth, and his floure fal∣leth away, and the beautie of the fashion of it perisheth: euen to shall the rich man perish in his wayes. Happy is the man that endureth temtation: for when he is tryed, hee shall re∣ceive the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.