¶ Then shalbe sayd or song,

I HEARDE a voyce from heaven, sayinge unto me: Wryte from henceforth, blessed are the dead which dye in the Lorde. Even so sayth the spyrite, that they rest from theyr laboures.
 

CHRISTE is rysen from the dead, and become the fyrst fruites of them that slepte. For by a manne came death, and by a manne came the resurreccion of the dead. For as by Adam all dye, even so by Christ shall all be made alyve, but every man in hys owne ordre. The fyrst is Christ, then they that are Christes, at his comming. Then cometh the ende, when he hath delyvered up the kyngdome to God the father, when he hath put downe all rule and all aucthoritie and power. For be must reygne tyll he have put all hys enemies under his feete. The laste enemie that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath putte all thinges under his feete. But when he sayth all thinges are put under him, it is manyfest that he is excepted, which dyd put all thinges under him. When all thinges are subdued unto him, then shal the sonne also himself be subject unto him that put al thinges under him, that God may be al in al. Els what doe they which are Baptised over the dead, yf the dead ryse not at all? Why are they then Baptysed over them? yea and why stande we alwaye then in jeopardie? By our rejoysing, whiche I have in Christ Jesu oure Lorde, I dye daylye. That I have foughte with beastes at Ephesus after the maner of men, what avantageth it me, if the dead ryse not agayne? Lette us eate, and drinke, for to-morowe we shall dye. Be not ye deceyved: evil wordes corrupt good maners. Awake truely oute of slepe, and synne not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speake this to youre shame. But some man wyl saye: How aryse the dead? with what body shal they come? Thou foole, that whiche thou soweste is not quickened, excepte it dye. And what sowest thou? Thou sowest not that body that shalbe; but bare corne as of wheat, or of some other: but God geveth it a bodye at his pleasure, to every sede his owne bodi. Al fleshe is not one maner of fleshe: but there is one maner of fleshe of men, and other maner of fleshe of beastes, and other of fisshes, another of birdes. There are also celestial bodies, and there are bodies terrestriall. But the glorye of the celestiall is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one maner glory of the sunne, and another glory of the mone, and another glory of the starres. For one starre differeth from another in glory. So is the resurreccion of the dead. It is sowen in corrupcion, it ryseth agayne in incorrupcion. It is sowen in dishonoure, it ryseth agayne in honour. It is sowen in weaknesse, it ryseth agayne in power. It is sowen a naturall bodye, it ryseth agayne a spyrituall bodye. There is a naturall bodye, and there is a spirituall bodye: as it is also written: the fyrst man Adam was made a lyving soule, and the laste Adam was made a quickening spyryte. Howbeit, that is not fyrst which is spyrytuall: but that whiche is naturall, and then that whiche is spyrytuall. The fyrst man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven, heavenly. As is the earthy, suche are they that are earthy. And as is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly. And as we have borne the Image of the earthy, so shall we beare the Image of the heavenly. Thys say I, brethren, that fleshe and bloud cannot inherite the kyngdome of God: neyther doeth corrupcion inherite uncorrupcion. Beholde, I shewe you a mistery. We shall not all slepe: but we shall all be chaunged and that in a momente, in the twinkeling of an eie by the last trumpe. For the trumpe shall blowe, and the dead shall ryse incorruptible, and we shall be chaunged. For thys corruptyble must put on incorrupcion: and this mortall must put on immortalitie. When this corruptible hath put on in corrupcion, and this mortal hath put on immortalitie: then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory: Death, where is thy styng? Hell, where is thy victorye? The styng of death is sinne: and the strength of sinne is the law. But thanks be unto God whiche hath geven us victory, through oure Lorde, Jesus Chryst. Therefore, my deare brethren, be ye stedfaste and unmovable, alwayes riche in the worke of the Lorde, forasmuche as ye knowe that your labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.
 

Lorde, have mercy upon us.
Christe, have mercy upon us.
Lorde, have mercy upon us.
Our father which art in heaven, &c.
And leade us not into temptacion.
Aunswere. But delyver us from evill. Amen.

The Priest.

ALMIGHTIE God, with whom doe lyve the spirites of them that departe hence in the lord, and in whom the soules of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the fleshe, be in joye and felicitie: We geve thee hearty thankes, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver thys N. our brother out of the myseryes of this sinneful world: beseching thee, that it maye please thee of thy gracious goodnesse, shortely to accomplyssh the noumbre of thyne electe, and to haste thy kingdome, that we with this our brother, and al other departed in the true faith of thy holy name, maye have our perfect consummacion and blisse, both in body and soule, in thy eternal and everlastyng glory. Amen.

The Collect.

O MERCIFUL God, the father of our Lorde Jesus Christe, who is the resurreccion and the lyfe, in whom whosoever beleveth, shall lyve though he dye; and whosoever liveth and beleveth in hym, shall not dye eternally: who also taught us (by his holy Apostle Paule) not to be sorye, as men without hope, for them that slepe in hym: We mekely beseche thee (O father) to raise us from the death of sinne unto the life of righteousnes, that when we shal depart thys lyfe, we may reste in him, as our hope is thys our brother doeth; and that at the general resurreccion in the laste daye, we may be founde acceptable in thy syghte, and receive that blessing which thy welbeloved sonne shall then pronounce to al that love and feare thee, saying: Come, ye blessed children of my father, receive the kyngdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Graunt this we beseche thee, O merciful father, through Jesus Christ our mediatour and redeyemer. Amen.