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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

thinke best for edification of his Hearers as the Book of Psalmes and such like When the Minister who readeth shall judge it necessary to expound any part of what is read let it not bee done untill the whole Chapter or Psalme bee ended and regard is alwayes to be had unto the time that neither Preaching or other Ordinance bee straitned or rendred tedious Which Rule is to be observed in all other publique performances Beside Publique Reading of the Holy Scriptures every person that can reade is to be exhorted to reade the Scriptures privately and all others that cannot reade if not disabled by age or otherwise are likewise to bee exhorted to learne to reade and to have a Bible Of Publike Prayer before the Sermon AFter Reading of the Word and singing of the Psalme the Minister who is to Preach is to endeavour to get his own and his Hearers hearts to be rightly affected with their Sinnes that they may all mourn in sense thereof before the Lord and hunger and thirst after the grace of God in Iesus Christ by proceeding to a more full Confession of Sinne with shame and holy confusion of face and to Call upon the Lord to this effect To acknowledge our great sinfulnesse First by reason of Originall sin which beside the guilt that makes us liable to everlasting Damnation is the seed of all other sinnes hath depraved and poysoned all the faculties and powers of Soule and Body doth defile our best actions and were it not restrained or our hearts renewed by Grace would breake forth into innumerable transgressions and greatest rebellions against the Lord that ever were committed by the vilest of the sons of Men. And next by reason of Actuall sins our own sins the sins of Magistrates of Ministers and of the whole Nation unto which wee are many wayes accessory Which sins of ours receive many fearefull aggravations wee having broken all the Commandements of the holy just and good Law of God doing that which is forbidden and leaving undone what is enjoyned and that not onely out of Ignorance and Infirmity but also more presumptuously against the light of our Minds checks of our Consciences and motions of his own Holy Spirit to the contrary so that we have no cloak for our sins Yea not onely despising the riches of Gods goodnesse forbearance and long-suffering but standing out against many invitations and offers of grace in the Gospel not endeavouring as wee ought to receive Christ into our hearts by Faith or to walke worthy of him in our lives To bewaile our blindnesse of minde hardnesse of heart unbelief impenitency security lukewarmnesse barrennesse our not endeavouring after mortification and newnesse of life nor after the exercise of godlinesse in the power thereof and that the best of us have not so stedfastly walked with God kept our garments so unspotted nor been so zealous of his glory and the good of others as wee ought And to mourn over such other sins as the Congregation is particularly guilty of notwithstanding the manifold and great Mercies of our God the Love of Christ the Light of the Gospel and Reformation of Religion our own purposes promises vows solemn Covenant and other speciall obligations to the contrary To acknowledge and confesse that as wee are convinced of our guilt so out of a deep sense thereof wee judge our selves unworthy of the smallest benefits most worthy of Gods fiercest wrath and of all the Curses of the Law and heaviest Judgements inflicted upon the most rebellious Sinners and that hee might most justly take his Kingdome and Gospel from us plague us with all sorts of spirituall and temporall judgements in this life and after cast us into utter Darknesse in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone where is weeping and gnashing of teeth for evermore Notwithstanding all which To draw neare to the Throne of Grace encouraging our selves with hope of a gracious Answer of our Prayers in the riches and all-sufficiency of that onely one oblation the satisfaction and intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ at the right hand of his Father and our Father and in confidence of the exceeding great and precious promises of mercy and grace in the new Covenant through the same Mediator thereof to deprecate the heavy wrath and curse of God which wee are not able to avoid or beare and humbly and earnestly to supplicate for mercy in the free and full remission of all our sins and that onely for the bitter sufferings and pretious merits of that our onely Saviour Jesus Christ That the Lord would vouchsafe to shed abroad his love in our hearts by the Holy Ghost seale unto us by the same Spirit of Adoption the full assurance of our Pardon and Reconciliation comfort all that mourn in Zion speak peace to the wounded and troubled spirit and bind up the broken hearted And as for secure and presumptuous sinners that he would open their eyes convince their Consciences and turn them from darknesse unto light and from the power of Satan unto God that they also may receive forgivenesse of sin and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in Christ Jesus With remission of sins through the blood of Christ To pray for sanctification by his Spirit the Mortification of sinne dwelling in and many times tyrannizing over us the quickening of our dead spirits with the life of God in Christ grace to fit and inable us for all duties of conversation and callings towards God and Men strength against temptations the sanctified use of blessings and crosses and perseverance in Faith and obedience unto the end To pray for the Propagation of the Gospell and Kingdome of Christ to all Nations for the conversion of the Jewes the fulnesse of the Gentiles the fall of Antichrist and the hastening of the second comming of our Lord For the deliverance of the distressed Churches abroad from the tyranny of the Antichristian faction and from the cruell oppressions and blasphemies of the Turke For the blessing of God upon all the Reformed Churches especially upon the Churches and Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland now more strictly and religiously united in the solemne Nationall League and Covenant and for our Plantations in the remote parts of the World more particularly for that Church and Kingdome whereof we are Members that therein God would establish Peace and Truth the purity of all his Ordinances and the power of Godlinesse prevent and remove heresie schisme prophanenesse superstition security and unfruitfulnesse under the meanes of Grace heale all our rents and divisions and preserve us from breach of our solemne Covenant To pray for all in Authority especially for the Kings Majesty that God would make him rich in blessings both in his Person and Government establish his Throne in Religion and Righteousnesse save him from evill Counsell and make him a blessed and glorious Instrument for the conservation and propagation of the Gospell for the encouragement and protection of

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