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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

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