called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. Mark vi. 3. Is not this the carpenter the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses, and of Juda and Simon? Luke ii. 51, 52. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. From the Book of Common Praper. MORNING PRAYER. Te Deum. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb. Benedictus. Apostles' Creed. I believe....in Jesus Christ ....who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary. EVENING PRAYER. Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis. CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting Salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the world; .... LITANY. By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation; by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision; ...... COLLECT for Christmas Day. Almighty God who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin ;................ For the Innocents' Day. O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths;...... For the Circumcision of Christ. Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man;...... For the Epiphany. O God, who by the leading of a star, didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the Gentiles; For the Purification. Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the Temple in substance of our flesh;.. For the Annunciation. We beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts; that as we have known the Incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an Angel ;.... COMMUNION. Nicene Creed. I believe.... in one Lord Jesus Christ....who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made Man,.. ...... Proper Preface upon Christmas Day. Because thou didst give Jesus Christ thine only Son to be born, as at this time, for us; who, by the operation of the Holy Ghost, was made very Man, of the Substance of the Virgin Mary his Mother; and that without spot of Sin to make us clean from all Sin. From the Thirty-nine Articles. ARTICLE II. Of the Word, or Son of God, which was made very Man. The Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one Substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her Substance. From the Homilies. BOOK II. HOMILY 12. Of the Nativity. CRANMER'S CATECHISM. Secondly, learn this also, by what means Christ did redeem us: for whatsoever God hath commanded in the ten commandments, which we have not fulfilled, because we be all sinners, that Christ himself hath fulfilled for us; and whatsoever punishment we have deserved to suffer of God for our sins and offences, that Christ hath taken upon himself and suffered for us. By this you may perceive how requisite it was that Christ, God and man, should be conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of a pure virgin. For if Christ should redeem us, and satisfy for our sins, then must he needs be holy and without sin: for if he had been guilty and a sinner, then could not he have holpen his own self, but he must needs have had another Saviour and Redeemer for him, as well as we have for us; for whatsoever he had done or suffered should have been worthily for his own offences, and yet could he not have satisfied for himself, much less then he could have satisfied for other. Wherefore, it was necessary (if he should satisfy for us), that he should be conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of a virgin, that his nativity might be pure, without sin, and not corrupt, as ours is; that our corrupt and damnable nativity might be purified and made holy by the holy and pure nativity of Christ. Therefore, we say in the Creed," He was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary," that Christ, being pure and clean from all sin, might redeem sinners, and satisfy for them. Now; forasmuch as the justice of God did require, that Christ should suffer and make satisfaction for us, and do all things that we were bound to do, it was |