power to those who are yet to come.



SERMON V.--GOOD FRIDAY



HEBREWS ix. 13, 14.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?

The three collects for Good Friday are very grand and very
remarkable. In the first we pray:-

'Almighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family,
for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and
given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the
cross, who now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever
one God, world without end. Amen.'

In the second we pray:-

'Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the
Church is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy