AFTER PENTECOST.

Twenty- fourth Sunday after Pentecost.

The Epistle. Phil. iii. 17.

BRETHREN, be followers together of me,

and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.( For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, accord­ing to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 15.

THE

THE Pharisees took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the He­rodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou re­gardest not the person of men. Tell us there­fore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not? But Jesus per­