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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36061	A directory for the publique worship of God, throughout the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland together with an ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of common-prayer, ... die Jovis, 13. Martii, 1644 / ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance and directory bee forthwith printed and published.	England and Wales. Parliament. Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of common prayer.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1644 (1644)	Wing D1545; ESTC R210506	26,872	96

A DIRECTORY FOR The Publique VVorship of GOD Throughout the Three KINGDOMS OF England Scotland and Ireland Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of COMMON-PRAYER AND For establishing and observing of this present DIRECTORY throughout the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales Die Jovis 13. Martii 1644. ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That this Ordinance and Directory bee forthwith Printed and Published Joh Brown Cleric Parliamentorum H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON Printed for Evan Tyler Alexander Fifield Ralph Smith and John Field And are to be sold at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill neer the ROYALL-EXCHANGE 1644. Die Veneris 3. Januarii 1644. An Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer and for the establishing and putting in execution of the Directory for the publique Worship of God THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament taking into serious consideration the manifold Inconveniences that have arisen by the Book of Common-Prayer in this Kingdom and resolving according to their Covenant to reform Religion according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches have Consulted with the Reverend Pious and Learned Divines called together to that purpose And do judge it necessary that the said Book of Common-Prayer be abolished the Directory for the Publique Worship of God herein after mentioned be established and observed in all the Churches within this Kingdom Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That the Statute of the second and third years of King Edward the sixth Intituled The Penalty for not using Vniformity of Service and Administration of Sacraments c. And the Statute of the fifth and sixt yeares of the same King Intituled Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of Sacraments shall be used in the Church And so much of the Statute of the first year of Queen Elizabeth Intituled There shall be Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of Sacraments as concernes the said Book of Common-Prayer and the Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments And so much of the Statute of the fifth year of the same Queen Intituled By whose Order the Bible and Book of Common-Prayer shall be Translated into the Welch Tongue as concerns the Book of Common-Prayer And so much of the Statute of the eighth year of the same Queen Intituled All Acts made by any person since Primo Eliz. for the Consecrating Investing c. of any Archbishop or Bishop shall be good as concerns the said Book Be and stand from henceforth Repealed void and of none effect to all intents constructions and purposes whatsoever And that the said book of Common-Prayer shall not remain or be from henceforth used in any Church Chappell or place of Publique Worship within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales And that the Directory for Publique Worship herein set forth shall be henceforth used pursued and observed according to the true intent and meaning of this Ordinance in all Exercises of the Publique Worship of God in every Congregation Church Chappell and place of Publique Worship within this Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales Which Directory for the Publique Worship of God with the Preface thereof followeth And it is further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be provided at the charge of every Parish or Chappelry in this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales a fair Register Book of Velim to be kept by the Minister and other Officers of the Church And that the Names of all Children Baptized and of their Parents and of the time of their Birth and Baptizing shall be written and set down by the Minister therein And also the Names of all persons Married there and the time of their Marriage And also the Names of all persons Buried in that Parish and the time of their Death and Buriall And that the said Book shall be shewed by such as keep the same to all persons reasonably desiring to search for the Birth Baptizing Marriage or Buriall of any person therein Registred and to take a Copy or procure a Certificate thereof A DIRECTORY FOR The Publique Worship OF GOD In the three KINGDOMES THE PREFACE IN the beginning of the blessed Reformation our wise and pious Ancestors took care to set forth an Order for Redresse of many things which they then by the VVord discovered to be Vain Erroneous Superstitious and Idolatrous in the Publique VVorship of God This occasioned many Godly and Learned men to rejoyce much in the Book of Common-Prayer at that time set forth Because the Masse and the rest of the Latine-Service being removed the Publique VVorship was celebrated in our own Tongue many of the common People also received benefit by hearing the Scriptures read in their own Language which formerly were unto them as a Book that is sealed Howbeit long and sad Experience hath made it manifest That the Leiturgie used in the Church of England notwithstanding all the pains and Religious intentions of the Compilers of it hath proved an offence not only to many of the Godly at home but also to the Reformed Churches abroad For not to speak of urging the Reading of all the Prayers which very greatly increased the burden of it the many unprofitable and burdensome Ceremonies contained in it have occasioned much mischief as well by disquieting the Consciences of many godly Ministers and people who could not yield unto them as by depriving them of the Ordinances of God which they might not enjoy without conforming or Subscribing to those Ceremonies Sundry good Christians have been by means thereof kept from the Lords Table and divers able and faithfull Ministers debarred from the exercise of their Ministery to the endangering of many Thousand Souls in a time of such scarcity of faithfull Pastors and spoiled of their livelyhood to the undoing of them and their Families Prelates and their Faction have laboured to raise the Estimation of it to such an height as if there were no other VVorship or way of VVorship of God amongst us but onely the Service-Book to the great hinderance of the Preaching of the VVord and in some places especially of late to the justling of it out as unnecessary or at best as far inferior to the Reading of Common-Prayer which was made no better then an Idol by many Ignorant and Superstitious People vvho pleasing themselves in their presence at that Service and their Lip-labour in bearing a part in it have thereby hardened themselves in their ignorance and carelesnesse of saving knowledge and true piety In the mean time Papists boasted that the Book was a compliance with them in a great part of their Service and so were not a little confirmed in their Superstition and Idolatry expecting rather our return to them than endeavouring the Reformation of themselves In which expectation they were of late very much incouraged when upon the pretended warrantablenesse