The Burial of Christ.

COLLECT, EPISTLE, GOSPEL, CREEDS.

Who begged the body of Jesus from Pilate ? (Matt. xxvii. 57-8.)

How did Pilate assure himself that Jesus was really dead? (Mark xv. 44-5.)

(John xix.

How was the body of our Lord prepared for burial, and where was he buried? 39-41.)

What measures did the chief priests and Pharisees adopt to prevent the removal of the body of Jesus from the sepulchre? (Matt. xxvii. 62-6.)

How did our Lord's death and burial fulfil the prophecy in Isaiah liii. 9 ?

How was Jonah a type of Christ? 40.)

(Matt. xii.

In what way should we seek to be buried with Christ? (Collect.)

In what respect was our Lord put to death? (1 Peter iii. 8.)

How was he quickened? (1 Peter iii. 18.)

To whom did he go and preach? (1 Peter iii. 19.)

Easter is the great festival of the yearly commemoration of our Saviour's resurrection. This was the birth-day of our Saviour in his state of glory and exaltation, as his nativity was his birth-day to his state of humiliation.

The commemoration of our Saviour's resurrection should tend to confirm our belief in his holy religion, which received the utmost confirmation by his resurrection. It should quicken our repentance, and increase our faith, since we are assured by that event that he has made full satisfaction for our sins, and that by believing in him we may obtain remission of them, and the justification of our persons. The contemplation of the resurrection of Christ should also excite us to rise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that by the grace of the Holy Spirit we may be meet to be counted children of the resurrection. And we should be led, by a due commemoration of this festival, to live under a more lively sense of that happiness which our Lord has completely purchased for us by rising from the dead; to set our affections upon things above; and to breathe after that state of unspeakable and endless bliss, that perfect freedom from sin and misery, which the saints enjoy in heaven.

The Resurrection of Christ.

COLLECT, EPISTLE, GOSPEL, LESSONS, CREEDS, ARTICLE IV.

1. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 COR. XV. 20.

2. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 COR. xv. 21-2.

3. Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. ROM. iv. 25.

4. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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ROM. vi.

5. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. COL. iii. 1.

6. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 1 THESS.

iv. 14.

Repeat the portions of the Creeds relative to this festival.

What Creeds are read on Easter Day?

On what day did our Lord rise from the dead? (Matt. xxviii. 1.)

What happened at the sepulchre at the time of our Lord's resurrection? (Matt. xxviii. 2-4.) What information did the angels give to the women who went early to the sepulchre? (Matt. xxviii. 5-7.)

How did the chief priests act when the guard told them what had taken place at the sepulchre? (Matt. xxviii. 11-15.)

To whom did our Lord first appear after his resurrection? (John xx. 11-18.)

When our Lord appeared to his disciples how did he prove to them that the body which was crucified had been raised again from the dead? (Luke xxiv. 36-40.)

What change in respect to the Sabbath was made in honour of our Saviour's resurrection?

Of whom is the risen Saviour said to be the firstfruits? (1 Cor. xv. 20.)

What duty is taught us by the resurrection of Christ? (Rom. vi. 4-11. Col. iii. 1.)

What great blessings do we derive from the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ?

iv. 25.)

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Will all the dead rise again? (John v. 28-30.) What Jewish sect denied the doctrine of the resurrection? (Acts xxiii. 8.)

Faith.

COLLECT, EPISTLE, ARTICLE XI.

1. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. ST. JOHN iii. 36.

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2. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ROM. v. 1.

3. For in Christ Jesus neither circumci. sion availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. GAL. v. 6.

4. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. TITUS iii. 8.

5. Without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. HEB. xi. 6.

6. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. HEB. iii. 12.