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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

and liberty To turne the chiefe and most usefull heads of the Sermon into some few Petitions and to pray that it may abide in the heart and bring forth fruit To pray for preparation for Death and Judgement and a watching for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ To intreat of God the forgivenesse of the iniquities of our holy things and the acceptation of our spirituall sacrifice through the merit and mediation of our great High-Priest and Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ And because the Prayer which Christ taught his Disciples is not only a Pattern of Prayer but it selfe a most comprehensive Prayer we recommend it also to be used in the Prayers of the Church And whereas at the Administration of the Sacraments the holding Publique Fasts and dayes of Thanksgiving and other speciall occasions which may afford matter of speciall Petitions and Thanksgivings It is requisite to expresse somewhat in our publike Prayers as at this time it is our duty to pray for a blessing upon the Assembly of Divines the Armies by Sea and Land for the defence of the King Parliament and Kingdome Every Minister is herein to apply himselfe in his Prayer before or after his Sermon to those occasions but for the manner he is left to his liberty as God shall direct and inable him in piety and wisdome to discharge his duty The Prayer ended let a Psalme be sung if with conveniency it may be done After which unlesse some other Ordinance of Christ that concerneth the Congregation at that time be to follow let the Minister dismisse the Congregation with a solemne Blessing THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS And first Of BAPTISME BAPTISME As it is not unnecessarily to be delayed so is it not to be administred in any case by any private person but by a Minister of Christ called to be the Steward of the Mysteries of God Nor is it to be administred in private places or privately but in the place of Publique Worship and in the face of the Congregation where the people may most conveniently see and heare and not in the places where Fonts in the time of Popery were unfitly and superstitiously placed The Child to be Baptized after notice given to the Minister the day before is to be presented by the Father or in case of his necessary absence by some Christian friend in his place professing his earnest desire that the Child may be Baptised Before Baptisme the Minister is to use some words of Instruction touching the Institution Nature Use and ends of this Sacrament shewing That it is Instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ That it is a Seale of the Covenant of Grace of our Ingrafting into Christ and of our Vnion with him of Remission of Sins Regeneration Adoption and Life eternall That the Water in Baptisme representeth and signifieth both the bloud of Christ which taketh away all Guilt of Sinne Originall and Actuall and the sanctifying virtue of the Spirit of Christ against the Dominion of Sin and the Corruption of our sinfull Nature That Baptizing or sprinckling washing with water signifieth the cleansing from sin by the Bloud and for the Merit of Christ together with the Mortification of sin and rising from sin to Newnesse of life by virtue of the Death and Resurrection of Christ That the Promise is made to Beleevers and their seed and that the seed and posterity of the faithfull born within the Church have by their birth interest in the Covenant and right to the Seale of it and to the outward Priviledges of the Church under the Gospell no lesse then the Children of Abraham in the time of the Old Testament the Covenant of Grace for substance being the same and the Grace of God and the consolation of Beleevers more plentifull then before That the Sonne of God admitted litle children into his presence imbracing and blessing them saying For of such is the Kingdome of God That children by Baptisme are solemnly received into the bosome of the visible Church distinguished from the world and them that are without and united with Beleevers and that all who are baptized in the Name of Christ doe renounce and by their Baptisme are bound to fight against the Devill the World and the Flesh That they are Christians and foederally holy before Baptisme and therefore are they Baptized That the inward Grace and virtue of Baptisme is not tyed to that very moment of time wherein it is administred and that the fruit and power thereof reacheth to the whole course of our life and that outward Baptisme is not so necessary that through the want thereof the Infant is in danger of Damnation or the Parents guilty if they doe not contemne or neglect the Ordinance of Christ when and where it may be had In these or the like Instructions the Minister is to use his own liberty and godly wisdome as the Ignorance or Errours in the Doctrine of Baptisme and the Edification of the people shall require He is also to admonish all that are present To looke back to their Baptisme to repent of their sins against their Covenant with God to stirre up their faith to improove and make the rigbt use of their Baptisme and of the Covenant sealed thereby betwixt God and their soules He is to exhort the Parent To consider the great mercy of God to him and his child To bring up the child in the knowledge of the grounds of the Christian Religion and in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and to let him know the danger of Gods wrath to himselfe and child if he be negligent Requiring his solemne promise for the performance of his duty This being done Prayer is also to be joyned with the word of Institution for sanctifying the water to this spirituall use and the Minister is to pray to this or the like effect That the Lord who hath not left us as strangers without the Covenant of Promise but called us to the priviledges of his Ordinances would graciously vouchsafe to sanctifie and blesse his owne Ordinance of Baptisme at this time That he would joyne the inward Baptisme of his Spirit with the outward Baptisme of water make this Baptisme to the Infant a Seale of Adoption Remission of Sin Regeneration and Eternall Life and of all other Promises of the Covenant of Grace That the Child may be planted into the likenesse of the Death and Resurrection of Christ and that the body of sin being destroyed in him he may serve God in newnesse of life all his dayes Then the Minister is to demand the Name of the Child which being told him he is to say calling the Child by his Name I Baptise thee in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost As he pronounceth these words he is to Baptize the Child with water which for the manner of doing it is not only lawfull but sufficient and most expedient to be by powring or sprinckling of the water on the face of

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