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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

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

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