Venite
¶ Then shall be said or sung this Psalme following.
O COME let us syng unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvacion.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and shew our selfes glad in him with Psalmes.
For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the drie land.
O come, let us worship and fall downe: and kneele before the Lord our maker.
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hands.
To day if ye heare his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocacion, and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse.
When your fathers tempted me: prooved me, and saw my workes.
Fourty yeeres long was I grieved with this generation, and said: It is a people that doe erre in their hearts, for they have not knowen my wayes.
Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that the[y] should not enter into my rest.
Glory be to the father, and to the Sonne: and to the holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall bee: world without end. Amen.
¶ At Morning Prayer [on Easter Day], instead of the Psalm, O come let us, &c. These Anthems shalbe song or sayed.
CHRIST rising again from the dead, nowe dieth not. Death from henceforth hath no power upon hym. For in that he dyed, he dyed but once to put away sinne: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. And so lykewyse, counte yourselfes dead unto synne: but lyvyng unto God in Christe Jesus our Lorde.
CHRISTE is risen againe: the firste fruytes of them that slepe: for seyng that by man came death: by man also commeth the resurreccion of the dead. For as by Adam all men do dye, so by Christe all menne shalbe restored to lyfe.