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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

the Child without adding any other Ceremony This done he is to give thanks and pray to this or the like purpose Acknowledging with all thankefulnesse that the Lord is true and faithfull in keeping Covenant and Mercy That hee is good and gracious not onely in that hee numbreth us among his Saints but is pleased also to bestow upon our children this singular token and badge of his love in Christ That in his truth and speciall providence hee daily bringeth some into the bosome of his Church to be partakers of his inestimable benefits purchased by the blood of his dear Son for the continuance and increase of his Church And praying That the Lord would still continue and daily confirm more and more this his unspeakable favour That he would receive the Infant now baptized and solemnly entred into the household of Faith into his Fatherly tuition and defence and remember him with the favour that he sheweth to his people That if he shall be taken out of this life in his Infancy the Lord who is rich in mercy would be pleased to receive him up into glory and if he live and attain the years of discretion that the Lord would so teach him by his word and spirit and make his Baptisme effectuall to him and so uphold him by his Divine power and grace that by faith he may prevail against the devil the world and the flesh till in the end he obtain a full and finall victory and so be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ Of the celebration of the Communion or Sacrament of the LORDS Supper THe Communion or Supper of the Lord is frequently to be celebrated but how often may be considered and determined by the Ministers and other Church-Governours of each Congregation as they shall finde most convenient for the comfort and edification of the people committed to their charge And when it shall be administred we judge it convenient to be done after the morning Sermon The Ignorant and the Scandalous are not fit to receive this Sacrament of the Lords Supper Where this Sacrament cannot with conveniency be frequently administred it is requisite that publike warning be given the Sabbath day before the administration thereof and that either then or on some day of that weeke something concerning that Ordinance and the due preparation thereunto and participation thereof be taught that by the diligent use of all meanes sanctified of God to that end both in publique and private all may come better prepared to that heavenly Feast When the day is come for administration the Minister having ended his Sermon and Prayer shall make a short Exhortation Expressing the inestimable benefit we have by this Sacrament together with the ends and use thereof setting forth the great necessity of having our comforts and strength renewed thereby in this our pilgrimage and warfare How necessary it is that we come unto it with Knowledge Faith Repentance Love and with hungring and thirsting souls after Christ and his benefits How great the danger to eat and drink unworthily Next he is in the Name of Christ on the one part to warn all such as are Ignorant Scandalous Profane or that live in any sin or offence against their knowledge or conscience that they presume not to come to that holy Table shewing them That he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgement unto himself And on the other part he is in especiall manner to invite and encourage all that labour under the sense of the burden of their sins and fear of wrath and desire to reach out unto a greater progresse in Grace then yet they can attain unto to come to the Lords Table assuring them in the same Name of ease refreshing and strength to their weak and wearied souls After this Exhortation Warning and Invitation the Table being before decently covered and so conveniently placed that the Communicants may orderly sit about it or at it The Minister is to begin the action with sanctifying and blessing the elements of Bread and Wine set before him the Bread in comely and convenient vessels so prepared that being broken by him and given it may be distributed amongst the Communicants The Wine also in large Cups having first in a few words shewed That those elements otherwise common are now set apart and sanctified to this holy use by the word of Institution and Prayer Let the words of Institution be read out of the Evangelists or out of the first Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians Chap. 11. verse 23. I have received of the Lord c. to the 27. verse which the Minister may when he seeth requisite explaine and apply Let the Prayer Thanksgiving or Blessing of the Bread and Wine be to this effect WIth humble and hearty acknowledgement of the greatnesse of our misery from which neither man nor Angel was able to deliver us and of our great unworthinesse of the least of all Gods mercies To give thanks to God for all his benefits and especially for that great benefit of our Redemption the love of God the Father the sufferings and merits of the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God by which we are delivered and for all means of Grace the Word and Sacraments and for this Sacrament in particular by which Christ and all his benefits are applied and sealed up unto us which notwithstanding the deniall of them unto others are in great mercy continued unto us after so much and long abuse of them all To professe that there is no other name under Heaven by which we can be saved but the Name of Jesus Christ by whom alone we receive liberty and life have accesse to the throne of Grace are admitted to eat and drink at his own Table and are sealed up by his Spirit to an assurance of happinesse and everlasting life Earnestly to pray to God the Father of all mercies and God of all consolation to vouchsafe his gracious presence and the effectuall working of his Spirit in us and so to sanctifie these Elements both of Bread and Wine and to blesse his own Ordinance that we may receive by Faith the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ crucified for us and so to feed upon him that he may be one with us and we with him that he may live in us and we in him and to him who hath loved us and given himself for us All which he is to endeavour to performe with suitable affections answerable to such an holy Action and to stir up the like in the people The Elements being now sanctified by the Word and Prayer The Minister being at the Table is to take the Bread in his hand and say in these expressions or other the like used by Christ or his Apostle upon this occasion According to the holy Institution command and example of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ I take this Bread and having given thanks I break it and give

them that doe well the terrour of all that doe evill and the great good of the whole Church and of all his Kingdomes for the conversion of the Queen the religious education of the Prince and the rest of the Royall seed For the comforting of the afflicted Queen of Bohemia sister to our Soveraign and for the restitution and establishment of the illustrious Prince Charles Elector Palatine of the Rhene to all his Dominions and Dignities For a blessing upon the High Court of Parliament when sitting in any of these Kingdomes respectively the Nobility the subordinate Iudges and Magistrates the Gentry and all the Commonalty For all Pastors and Teachers that God would fill them with his Spirit make them exemplarily holy sober just peaceable and gratious in their lives sound faithfull and powerfull in their Ministery and follow all their labours with abundance of successe and blessing and give unto all his people Pastors according to his owne heart For the Vniversities and all Schooles and Religious seminaries of Church and Common-wealth that they may flourish more and more in Learning and piety For the particular City or Congregation that God would powre out a blessing upon the Ministery of the Word Sacraments and Discipline upon the Civill Government and all the severall Families and persons therein For mercy to the afflicted under any inward or outward distresse For seasonable weather and fruitfull seasons as the time may require For averting the Judgements that wee either feele or feare or are liable unto as famine pestilence the sword and such like And with confidence of his mercy to his whole Church and the acceptance of our persons through the merits and mediation of our great High Priest the Lord Jesus To professe that it is the desire of our soules to have fellowship with God in the reverent and conscionable use of his holy Ordinances and to that purpose to pray earnestly for his grace and effectuall assistance to the sanctification of his holy Sabbath the Lords day in all the duties thereof publike and private both to our selves and to all other Congregations of his people according to the riches and excellency of the Gospel this day celebrated and enjoyed And because wee have been unprofitable hearers in times past and now cannot of our selves receive as we should the deep things of God the mysteries of Jesus Christ which require a spirituall discerning To pray that the Lord who teacheth to profit would graciously please to poure out the Spirit of Grace together with the outward means thereof causing us to attain such a measure of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord and in him of the things which belong to our peace that wee may account all things but as drosse in comparison of him And that wee tasting the first fruits of the glory that is to be revealed may long for a more full and perfect communion with him that where he is we may be also and enjoy the fulnesse of those joyes and pleasures which are at his right hand for evermore More particularly that God would in speciall manner furnish his Servant now called to dispense the bread of life unto his houshold with wisdome fidelity zeale and utterance that hee may divide the Word of God aright to every one his portion in evidence and demonstration of the Spirit and power and that the Lord would circumcise the eares and hearts of the Hearers to heare love and receive with meeknesse the ingrafted Word which is able to save their soules make them as good ground to receive in the good seed of the Word and strengthen them against the temptations of Satan the cares of the World the hardnesse of their owne hearts and whatsoever else may hinder their profitable and saving hearing that so Christ may be so formed in them and live in them that all their thoughts may bee brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and their hearts established in every good word and work for ever We judge this to be a convenient Order in the ordinary Publique Prayers yet so as the Minister may deferre as in prudence he shall think meet some part of these Petitions till after his Sermon or offer up to God some of the Thanksgivings hereafter appointed in his Prayer before his Sermon Of the Preaching of the Word PReaching of the Word being the power of God unto Salvation and one of the greatest and most excellent Works belonging to the Ministry of the Gospell should bee so performed that the Workman need not been ashamed but may save himself and those that heare him It is presupposed according to the Rules for Ordination that the Minister of Christ is in some good measure gifted for so weighty a service by his skill in the Originall Languages and in such Arts and Sciences as are handmaids unto Divinity by his knowledge in the whole Body of Theology but most of all in the holy Scriptures having his senses and heart exercised in them above the common sort of Beleevers and by the illumination of Gods Spirit and other gifts of edification which together with reading and studying of the Word hee ought still to seek by Prayer and an humble heart resolving to admit and receive any truth not yet attained when ever God shall make it known unto him All which hee is to make use of and improve in his private preparations before hee deliver in publike what he hath provided Ordinarily the subject of his Sermon is to be some Text of Scripture holding forth some principle or head of Religion or suitable to some speciall occasion emergent or hee may goe on in some Chapter Psalme or Booke of the holy Scripture as hee shall see fit Let the Introduction to his Text be brief and perspicuous drawn from the Text it self or context or some parallel place or generall sentence of Scripture If the Text be long as in Histories and Parables it sometimes must be let him give a briefe summe of it if short a Paraphrase thereof if need be In both looking diligently to the scope of the Text and pointing at the chief heads and grounds of Doctrine which he is to raise from it In Analysing and dividing his Text hee is to regard more the order of matter then of words and neither to burden the memory of the hearers in the beginning with too many members of Division nor to trouble their minds with obscure termes of Art In raising Doctrines from the Text his care ought to bee First that the matter be the truth of God Secondly that it be a truth contained in or grounded on that Text that the hearers may discern how God techeth it from thence Thirdly that he chiefly insist upon those Doctrines which are principally intended and make most for the edification of the hearers The Doctrine is to be expressed in plaine termes or if any thing in it need explication is to bee opened and the consequence also from the Text cleared

it unto you There the Minister who is also himselfe to communicate is to breake the Bread and give it to the Communicants Take yee eat yee This is the Body of Christ which is broken for you Do this in remembrance of him In like manner the Minister is to take the Cup and say in these expressions or other the like used by Christ or the Apostle upon the same occasion According to the Institution command and example of our Lord Jesus Christ I take this Cup and give it unto you Here he giveth it to the Communicants This Cup is the new Testament in the Blood of Christ which is shed for the remission of the sins of many Drink ye all of it After all have communicated the Minister may in a few words put them in mind Of the grace of God in Jesus Christ held forth in this Sacrament and exhort them to walk worthy of it The Minister is to give solemn thanks to God For his rich mercy and invaluable goodnesse vouchsafed to them in that Sacrament and to entreat for pardon for the defects of the whole service and for the gracious assistance of his good Spirit whereby they may be enabled to walk in the strength of that Grace as becometh those who have received so great pledges of salvation The Collection for the poore is so to be ordered that no part of the publique worship be thereby hindred Of the Sanctification of the Lords Day THe Lords day ought to be so remembred beforehand as that all worldly businesse of our ordinary Callings may be so ordered and so timely and seasonably laid aside as they may not be impediments to the due sanctifying of the Day when it comes The whole Day is to be celebrated as holy to the Lord both in publique and private as being the Christian Sabbath To which end it is requisite that there be a holy cessation or resting all the Day from all unnecessary labours and an abstaining not onely from all sports and pastimes but also from all worldly words and thoughts That the Diet on that Day be so ordered as that neither servants be unnecessarily detained from the publique worship of God nor any other persons hindred from the sanctifying that Day That there be private preparation of every person and family by prayer for themselves and for Gods assistance of the Minister and for a blessing upon his Ministry and by such other holy exercises as may further dispose them to a more comfortable communion with God in his publique Ordinances That al the people meet so timely for publique Worship that the whole Congregation may be present at the beginning and with one heart solemnly joyne together in all parts of the publique Worship and not depart till after the Blessing That what time is vacant between or after the solemne meetings of the Congregation in publique be spent in Reading Meditation Repetition of Sermons especially by calling their families to an account of what they have heard and catechizing of them holy conferences Prayer for a blessing upon the Publique Ordinances singing of Psalms visiting the sick relieving the poore and such like duties of piety charity and mercy accounting the Sabbath a delight The Solemnization of Marriage ALthough Marriage be no sacrament nor peculiar to the Church of God but common to mankind and of Publique interest in every Common-wealth yet because such as marry are to marry in the Lord and have speciall need of Instruction Direction and Exhortation from the Word of God at their entring into such a new condition and of the blessing of God upon them therein we judge it expedient that marriage be solemnized by a lawfull Minister of the Word that he may accordingly counsell them and pray for a blessing upon them Marriage is to be betwixt one man and one woman onely and they such as are not within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited by the Word of God And the parties are to be of years of discretion fit to make their own choice or upon good grounds to give their mutuall consent Before the solemnizing of Marriage between any Persons their purpose of Marriage shall be published by the Minister three severall Sabbath dayes in the Congregation at the place or places of their most usuall and constant abode respectively And of this Publication the Minister who is to joyne them in marriage shall have sufficient Testimony before he proceed to solemnize the marriage Before that Publication of such their purpose if the parties be under age the consent of the Parents or others under whose power they are in case the Parents be dead is to be made known to the Church Officers of that Congregation to be Recorded The like is to be observed in the proceedings of all others although of age whose Parents are living for their first marriage And in after marriages of either of those parties they shall be exhorted not to contract marriage without first acquainting their Parents with it if with conveniency it may be done endevouring to obtaine their consent Parents ought not to force their children to marry without their free consent nor deny their own consent without just cause After the purpose or contract of marriage hath beene thus published the marriage is not to be long deferred Therefore the Minister having had convenient warning and nothing being objected to hinder it is publiquely to solemnize it in the place appointed by Authority for publique Worship before a competent number of credible witnesses at some convenient houre of the day at any time of the year except on a day of Publique humiliation And we advise that it be not on the Lords Day And because all Relations are sanctified by the Word and Prayer the Minister is to pray for a blessing upon them to this effect Acknowledging our sins whereby we have made our selves lesse then the least of all the mercies of God and provok'd him to imbitter all our comforts earnestly in the name of Christ to intreat the Lord whose presence and favour is the happinesse of every condition and sweeten's every Relation to be their Portion and to owne and accept them in Christ who are now to be joyned in the honourable Estate of Marriage the Covenant of their God and that as he hath brought them together by his Providence he would sanctifie them by his Spirit giving them a new frame of heart fit for their new estate enriching them with all Graces whereby they may perform the duties enjoy the comforts undergoe the cares and resist the temptations which accompany that condition as becommeth Christians The Prayer being ended it is convenient that the Minister doe briefly declare unto them out of the Scripture The Institution Vse and ends of marriage with the Conjugall duties which in all faithfulnesse they are to perform each to other exhorting them to study the holy Word of God that they may learn to live by faith and to be content in the midst of

and afflicting of the soul Speciall choice is to be made of such Scriptures to be read and of such Texts for Preaching as may best work the hearts of the hearers to the speciall businesse of the day and most dispose them to humiliation and repentance insisting most on those particulars which each Ministers observation and experience tels him are most conducing to the edification and reformation of that Congregation to which he preacheth Before the close of the Publique Duties the Minister is in his own and the peoples names to engage his and their hearts to be the Lords with professed purpose and resolution to reform what ever is amisse among them and more particularly such sins as they have been more remarkably guilty of and to draw neerer unto God and to walk more closely and faithfully with him in new obedience then ever before He is also to admonish the people with all importunity that the work of that day doth not end with the Publique duties of it but that they are so to improve the remainder of the day and of their whole life in reinforcing upon themselves and their families in private all those godly affections and resolutions which they professed in Publique as that they may be setled in their hearts for ever and themselves may more sensibly finde that God hath smelt a sweet savour in Christ from their performances and is pacified towards them by answers of Grace in pardoning of sin in removing of Judgements in averting or preventing of plagues and in conferring of blessings suitable to the conditions and prayers of his people by Jesus Christ Beside solemne generall Fasts injoyned by Authority we judge that at other times Congregations may keepe dayes of Fasting as Divine Providence shall administer unto them speciall occasions And also that Families may doe the same so it be not on dayes wherein the Congregation to which they doe belong is to meet for fasting or other publique Duties of Worship Concerning the Observation of Dayes of Publique Thankesgiving WHen any such Day is to be kept let notice be given of it and of the occasion thereof some convenient time before that the people may the better prepare themselves thereunto The Day being come and the Congregation after private preparations being assembled the Minister is to begin with a word of Exhortation to stir up the people to the Duty for which they are met and with a short prayer for Gods assistance and blessing as at other Conventions for Publique Worship according to the particular occasion of their meeting Let him then make some pithy narration of the Deliverance obtained or Mercy received or of whatever hath occasioned that assembling of the Congregation that all may better understand it or be minded of it and more affected with it And because singing of Psalmes is of all other the most proper Ordinance for expressing of Joy and Thanksgiving let some pertinent Psalme or Psalmes be sung for that purpose before or after the reading of some portion of the Word suitable to the present businesse Then let the Minister who is to preach proceed to further Exhortation and Prayer before his Sermon with speciall reference to the present work after which let him preach upon some Text of Scripture pertinent to the occasion The Sermon ended let him not only pray as at other times after preaching is directed with remembrance of the necessities of the Church King and State if before the Sermon they were omitted but inlarge himself in due and solemn Thanksgiving for former mercies and deliverances but more especially for that which at the present calls them together to give thanks with humble petition for the continuance and renewing of Gods wonted mercies as need shall bee and for sanctifying grace to make a right use thereof And so having sung another Psalme suitable to the mercy let him dismisse the Congregation with a blessing that they may have some convenient time for their repast and refreshing But the Minister before their dismission is solemnly to admonish them to beware of all excesse and riot tending to gluttony or drunkennesse and much more of these sins themselves in their eating and refreshing and to take care that their mirth and rejoycing be not carnall but spirituall which may make Gods praise to be glorious and themselves humble and sober and that both their feeding and rejoycing may render them more cheerfull and inlarged further to celebrate his Praises in the midst of the Congregation when they return unto it in the remaining part of that Day When the Congregation shall be againe assembled the like course in praying reading preaching singing of Psalmes and offering up of more praise and thanksgiving that is before directed for the morning is to be renewed and continued so far as the time will give leave At one or both of the publique meetings that day a Collection is to be made for the poor and in the like manner upon the Day of Publique Humiliation that their loynes may blesse us and rejoyce the more with us And the people are to be exhorted at the end of the latter meeting to spend the residue of that Day in holy duties and testifications of Christian love and charity one towards another and of rejoycing more and more in the Lord as becommeth those who make the joy of the Lord their strength Of Singing of Psalmes IT is the duty of Christians to praise God publiquely by singing of Psalmes together in the Congregation and also privately in the Family In singing of Psalmes the voice is to be tunably and gravely ordered but the chief care must be to sing with understanding and with Grace in the heart making melody unto the Lord. That the whole Congregation may joyne herein every one that can reade is to have a Psalme book and all others not disabled by age or otherwise are to be exhorted to learn to reade But for the present where many in the Congregation cannot read it is convenient that the Minister or some other fit person appointed by him and the other Ruling Officers doe read the Psalme line by line before the singing thereof An Appendix touching Dayes and Places for Publique worship THere is no Day commanded in Scripture to be kept holy under the Gospell but the Lords day which is the Christian Sabbath Festivall daies vulgarly called Holy daies having no warrant in the word of God are not to be continued Neverthelesse it is lawfull and necessary upon speciall emergent occasions to separate a day or daies for Publique Fasting or Thanksgiving as the severall eminent and extraordinarie dispensations of Gods providence shall administer cause and opportunity to his people As no place is capable of any holines under pretence of whatsoev●… Dedication or Consecration so neither is it subject to such pollution by any superstition formerly used and now laid aside as may render it unlawfull or inconvenient for Christians to meet together therein for the publique worship of God And therefore we hold it requisite that the places of publique assembling for worship among us should be continued and imployed to that use FINIS THE CONTENTS THe Ordinance The Preface Pag. 1 Of the Assembling of the Congregation 9 Of Publique reading of the holy Scripture 12 Of Publique Prayer before the Sermon 14 Of the Preaching of the Word 27 Of Prayer after the Sermon 36 Of the Sacrament of Baptisme 39 Of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper 48 Of the Sanctification of the Lords Day 56 Of the Solemnization of Marriage 58 Of the Visitation of the Sick 64 Of Buriall of the Dead 73 Of Publique solemne Fasting 74 Of the observation of dayes of Publique thanksgiving 80 Of singing of Psalmes 83 An Appendix touching Dayes and Places of Publique Worship 85