Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

3rd Wednesday after Trinity

While Pilate now fainteth in the righteousness that he knoweth and is sure of, and holdeth not on stoutly, as he should, to deliver Christ, God suffereth him still to fall till he come to this point, that he condemneth the innocent to death against his own conscience.  Thus goeth it with all those that for the grace of God lent unto them are unthankful and unfaithful in the litte.

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons on the Passion.

  Our heart must we give wholly unto him; that hath opened his heart so wide.  His heart and ours must be all one.  Nothing requireth he of us but the heart.  'Son', saith he, 'give me thy heart.'

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons on the Passion.

  Death is ugsome [loathsome] and very terrible unto the flesh; but joyful and welcome is it unto all such as are instructed in the secret science of God.

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons upon the Passion.

  When Pilate now fainteth in the righteousness that he knoweth and is sure of, and holdeth not on stoutly, as he should, to deliver Christ, God suffereth him still to fall till he come to this point, that he condemneth the innocent to death against his own conscience.  Thus goeth it with all those that for the grace of God lent unto them are unthankful and unfaithful in the little.

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons on the Passion.

  Pull up the wicked root of covetousness, and the false shine of feigned spirituality out of us.

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons upon the Passion.

Sexagesima Friday

What is Sexagesima?

Our heart must we give wholly unto him; that hath opened his heart so wide.  His heart is ours must be all one.  Nothing requireth he of us but the heart.  "Son," saith he, "give me thy heart."

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons on the Passion.

The Feast of St. Stephen

Death is ugsome (loathsome) and very terrible unto the flesh; but joyful and welcome is it unto all such as are instructed in the secret science of God.

Miles Coverdale: Fruitful Lessons upon the Passion.