The First Lesson Taken Out of Several Places in the Old Testament

The first Lesson taken out of several Places in the old Testament.

You shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

You shall not make you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.

You shall not bow down your self to them, nor serve them.

To whom will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

You saw no similitude on the day that the Lord spake to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

You heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude, only you heard a voice.

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

I am the Lord, that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Every founder is confounded by the graven image, for his molten image is falshood, and there is no breath in them.

They are vanity, and the work of errours, in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities, and their molten images are wind and confusion.

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their own witnesses, they see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

They shall be ashamed and also confounded all of them; they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Take heed to your selves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing which the Lord your God has forbidden you.

Wo to him that says to the wood awake; to the dumb stone arise, it shall teach; behold it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal Peor; for all the men that followed Baal Peor the Lord your God has destroyed them from among you.

You shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places.

You shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

If you do return to the Lord with all your hearts; then put away the strange gods, and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to the Lord, and serve him only.

The children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.

The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Thus endeth the first Lesson for this morning prayer.

We praise you (O God,) we acknowledge you to be the Lord,

All the earth does worship you: the Father everlasting.

To you all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein.

To you Cherubim, and Seraphim, continually do cry,

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabboth.

Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of your glory.

The glorious company of the Apostles praise you.

The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise you,

The noble army of Martyrs praise you,

The Holy Church throughout all the world, does acknowledge you,

The Father of an infinite majesty,

Your honourable true and only Son,

Also the Holy Ghost the Comforter.

You are the King of Glory, O Christ!

You are the everlasting Son of the Father.

When you tookest upon you to deliver man, you did not abhor the Virgin's womb.

When you had overcome the sharpness of death, you did open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

You sittest at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father.

We believe that you shall come to be our Judge.

We therefore pray you, help your servants whom you have redeemed with your most precious blood.

Make them to be numbered with your saints in glory everlasting.

O Lord save your people, and bless your heritage.

Govern them, and lift them up for ever.

Day by day we magnifie you.

And we worship your name, ever world without end.

Vouchsafe O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.

O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us.

O Lord let your mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is in you.

O Lord in you have I trusted, let me never be confounded, Amen.