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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

all marriage cares and troubles sanctifying Gods name in a thankefull sober and holy use of all Conjugall comforts praying much with and for one another watching over and provoking each other to love and good works and to live together as the heires of the Grace of life After solemn charging of the persons to be married before the Great God who searcheth all hearts and to whom they must give a strict account at the last Day that if either of them know any cause by praecontract or otherwise why they may not lawfully proceed to marriage that they now discover it The Minister if no impediment be acknowledged shall cause first the man to take the woman by the right hand saying these words I N. doe take thee N. to be my married wife and doe in the presence of God and before this Congregation promise and covenant to be a loving and faithfull husband unto thee untill God shall separate us by death Then the woman shall take the man by his right hand and say these words I N. doe take thee N. to be my maried husband and I doe in the presence of God and before this Congregation promise and covenant to be a loving faithfull and obedient wife unto thee untill God shall separate us by death Then without any further Ceremony the Minister shall in the face of the Congregation pronounce them to be husband and wife according to Gods Ordinance and so conclude the action with Prayer to this effect That the Lord would be pleased to accompany his own Ordinance with his blessing beseeching him to enrich the persons now married as with other pledges of his love so particularly with the comforts and fruits of marriage to the praise of his abundant mercy in and through Christ Jesus A Register is to be carefully kept wherein the names of the parties so married with the time of their marriage are forthwith to be fairly recorded in a Book provided for that purpose for the perusall of all whom it may concern Concerning Visitation of the Sicke IT is the duty of the Minister not onely to teach the People committed to his charge in publique but privatly particularly to admonish exhort reproove cōfort them upon all seasonable occasions so far as his time strength and personall safety will permit He is to admonish them in time of health to prepare for death and for that purpose they are often to confer with their Minister about the estate of their souls and in times of sicknesse to desire his advice and help timely and s●…bly before their strength and under●…ing 〈◊〉 them Times of Sicknesse and affliction are speciall opportunities put into his hand by God to minister a word in season to weary souls because then the Consciences of men are or should be more awakened to bethink themselves of their Spirituall estates for Eternity and Satan also takes advantage then to load them more with sore and heavy temptations Therefore the Minister being sent for and repairing to the sick is to apply himself with all tendernesse and love to administer some Spirituall good to his soul to this effect He may from the consideration of the present sicknesse instruct him out of Scripture that diseases come not by chance or by distempers of body only but by the wise and orderly guidance of the good hand of God to every particular person smitten by them And that whether it be laid upon him out of displeasure for sin for his correction and amendment or for Triall and exercise of his graces or for other speciall and excellent ends all his suffrings shall turn to his profit and work together for his good if he sincerely labour to make a sanctified use of Gods Visitation neither despising his chastening nor waxing weary of his correction If he suspect him of ignorance he shall examine him in the Principles of Religion especially touching Repentance and Faith and as he seeth cause instruct him in the nature use excellency and necessity of those graces as also touching the Covenant of Grace and Christ the Son of God the Mediator of it and concerning Remission of sins by faith in him He shall exhort the sick person to examine himself to search and try his former wayes and his estate towards God And if the sick person shall declare any scruple doubt or temptation th●… are upon him instructions and resolutions shall be given to satisfie and settle him If it appear that he hath not a due sen●e of his sins endeavours ought to be used to convince him of his sins of the guilt and deser● of them of the filth and pollution which the soul contracts by them and of the curse of the Law and wrath of God due to them that he may be truly affected with and humbled for them and withall to make known the danger of deferring Repentance and of neglecting salvation at any time offered to awaken his Conscience and rowze him out of a stupid and secure condition to apprehend the Justice and wrath of God before whom none can stand but he that being lost in himself layeth hold upon Christ by Faith If he have endeavoured to walk in the wayes of holinesse and to serve God in uprightnesse although not without many failings and infirmities or if his spirit be broken with the sense of sin or cast down through want of the sence of Gods favour then it will be fit to raise him up by setting before him the freeness and fulness of Gods grace the sufficiency of righteousnesse in Christ the gracious offers in the Gospel that all who repent and believe with all their heart in Gods mercy through Christ renouncing their own righteousnes shall have life and salvation in him It may be also usefull to shew him that death hath in it no Spirituall evill to be feared by those that are in Christ because sin the sting of death is taken away by Christ who hath delivered all that are his from the bondage of the fear of death triumphed over the grave given us victory is Himself entred into glory to prepare a place for His people So that neither life nor death shall be able to seperate them from Gods love in Christ in whom such are sure though 〈◊〉 they must be laid in the dust to ob●… 〈…〉 ●…rection to 〈…〉 Advice also may be given as to beware of an ill grounded perswasion on mercy or on the goodnesse of his condition for heaven so to disclaime all merit in himself and to cast himself wholly upon God for mercy in the sole Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ who hath engaged himself never to cast off them who in truth and sincerity come unto him Care also must be taken that the sick person be not cast down into dispaire by such a severe representation of the wrath of God due to him for his sins as is not mollified by a seasonable propounding of Christ and his merit for a door of hope to every penitent Believer

When the sick person is best composed may be least disturbed and other necessary offices about him least hindred the Minister if desired shall pray with him and for him to this effect 〈…〉 and bewailing of sin Original and Actual the miserable condition of all by nature as being Children of Wrath and under the Curse acknowledging that all Diseases Sicknesses Death and Hell it self are the proper issues and effects thereof Imploring Gods mercy for the sick person through the Blood of Christ beseeching that God would open his eyes discover unto him his sins cause him to see himself lost in himself make known to him the cause why God smiteth him reveal Jesus Christ to his soul for Righteousnesse and life give unto him his holy Spirit to create and strengthen faith to lay hold upon Christ to work in him comfortable evidences of his love to arm him against Temptations to take off his heart from the world to sanctify his present visitation to furnish him with patience and strength to beare it and to give him perseverance in Faith to the end That if God shall please to adde to his dayes he would vouchsafe to blesse and sanctify all means of his recovery to remove the disease renew his strength and enable him to walk worthy of God by a faithfull remembrance and diligent observing of such vows and promises of holinesse and obedience as men are apt to make in times of sicknesse that he may glorifie God in the remaining part of his life And if God have determined to finish his dayes by the present Visitation he may finde such Evidence of the Pardon of all his sins of his interest in Christ and Eternall life by Christ as may cause his inward man to be renewed while his outward man decayeth that he may behold Death without fear cast himself wholly upon Christ without doubting desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ and so receive the end of his Faith the Salvation of his Soule through the only merits and intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ our alone Saviour and All-sufficient Redeemer The Minister shall admonish him also as there shall be cause to set his house in order thereby to prevent inconveniences to take care for the payment of his debts and to make restitution or satisfaction where he hath done any wrong to be reconciled to those with whom he hath been at variance and fully to forgive all men their trespasses against him as he expects forgivenesse at the hand of God Lastly the Minister may improve the present occasion to exhort those about the sick person to consider their own mortality to return to the Lord and make Peace with him in health to prepare for sicknesse death and judgement and all the dayes of their appointed time so to wait untill their change come that when Christ who is our life shall appear they may appear with him in glory Concerning Buriall of the Dead WHen any person departeth this life let the dead body upon the day of Buriall be decently attended from the house to the place appointed for publique Buriall and there immediately interred without any Ceremony And because the customes of kneeling down and praying by or towards the dead Corps and other such usages in the place where it lies before it be carried to Buriall are Superstitious and for that praying reading and singing both in going to and at the Grave have been grosly abused are no way beneficiall to the dead and have proved many wayes hurtfull to the living therefore let all such things be laid aside Howbeit we judge it very convenient that the Christian friends which accompany the dead body to the place appointed for publique Buriall doe apply themselves to meditations and conferences suitable to the occasion and that the Minister as upon other occasions so at this time if he be present may put them in remembrance of their Duty That this shall not extend to deny any civill respects or differences at the Buriall suitable to the ranke and condition of the party deceased whiles he was living Concerning Publique Solemne Fasting WHen some great and notable Judgements are either inflicted upon a People or apparently imminent or by some extraordinary provocations notoriously deserved as also when some speciall blessing is to bee sought and obtained Publique solemne Fasting which is to continue the whole Day is a Duty that God expecteth from that Nation or people A Religious Fast requires totall abstinence not only from all food unlesse bodily weaknesse doe manifestly disable from holding out till the Fast be ended in which case somewhat may be taken yet very sparingly to support nature when ready to faint but also from all worldly labour discourses and thoughts and from all bodily delights although at other times lawfull rich apparell ornaments and such like during the Fast and much more from what ever is in the nature or use scandalous and offensive as garish attire lascivious habits and gestures and other vanities of either sexe which we recommend to all Ministers in their places diligently zealously to reproove as at other times so especially at a Fast without respect of persons as there shall be occasion Before the Publique meeting each Family and person apart are privately to use all religious care to prepare their hearts to such a solemne work and to be early at the Congregation So large a portion of the Day as conveniently may be is to be spent in Publique Reading and Preaching of the Word with singing of Psalmes fit to quicken affections suitable to such a Duty but especially in Prayer to this or the like effect Giving Glory to the Great Majesty of God the Creator Preserver and Supreame Ruler of all the World the better to affect us thereby with an holy reverence and awe of Him Acknowledging his manifold great and tender mercies especially to the Church and Nation the more effectually to soften and abase our hearts before him Humbly confessing of sins of all sorts with their severall aggravations justifying Gods righteous Judgements as being farre lesse then our sins doe deserve yet humbly and earnestly imploring his mercy and grace for our selves the Church and Nation for our King and all in Authority and for all others for whom we are bound to pray according as the present exigent requireth with more speciall importunity and inlargement then at other times Applying by faith the Promises and Goodnesse of God for Pardon help and deliverance from the Evils felt feared or deserved and for obtaining the blessings which we need and expect together with a giving up of our selves wholly and for ever unto the Lord. In all these the Ministers who are the mouthes of the people unto God ought so to speak from their hearts upon serious and through premeditation of them that both themselves and their people may be much affected and even melted thereby especially with sorrow for their sins that it may be indeed a Day of deepe humiliation