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.’