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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

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

of imposing of the former Ceremonies new ones were dayly obtruded upon the Church Adde hereunto which was not foreseen but since hath come to passe that the Leiturgie hath been a great means as on the one hand to make and increase an idle and unedifying Ministery which contented it self with set Forms made to their hands by others without putting forth themselves to exercise the gift of Prayer with which our Lord Jesus Christ pleaseth to furnish all his Servants whom he calls to that office So on the other side it hath been and ever would be if continued a matter of endlesse strife and contention in the Church and a snare both to many godly and faithfull Ministers who have been persecuted and silenced upon that occasion and to others of hopefull parts many of which have been and more still would be diverted from all thoughts of the Ministery to other studies especially in these latter times wherein God vouchsafeth to his people more and better means for the discovery of Error and Superstition and for attaining of knowledge in the mysteries of godliness and gifts in Preaching and Prayer Upon these and many the like weighty considerations in reference to the whole Book in generall and because of divers particulars contained in it not from any love to Novelty or intention to disparage our first Reformers of whom we are perswaded that were they now alive they would joyn with us in this work and whom we acknowledge as Excellent Instruments raised by God to begin the purging and building of his House and desire they may be had of us and Posterity in everlasting Remembrance with thankfulnesse and honour but that we may in some measure answer the gracious Providence of God which at this time calleth upon us for further Reformation and may satisfy our own Consciences and answer the expectation of other Reformed Churches and the desires of many of the godly among our selves and withall give some publique Testimony of our endeavors for Uniformity in Divine Worship which we have promised in our Solemn League and Covenant VVe have after earnest and frequent calling upon the Name of God and after much Consultation not with flesh and blood but with his holy VVord resolved to lay aside the former Leiturgie with the many Rites and Ceremonies formerly used in the VVorship of God And have agreed upon this following Directory for all the parts of Publique VVorship at ordinary and extraordinary times VVherein our care hath been to hold forth such things as are of Divine Institution in every Ordinance and other things we have endeavoured to set forth according to the Rules of Christian Prudence agreeable to the generall Rules of the VVord of God Our meaning therein being onely that the generall heads the sense and scope of the Prayers and other parts of Publique VVorship being known to all there may be a consent of all the Churches in those things that contain the substance of the Service and VVorship of God And the Ministers may be hereby directed in their Administrations to keep like soundnesse in Doctrine and Prayer and may if need be have some help and furniture And yet so as they become not hereby slothfull and negligent in stirring up the gifts of Christ in them But that each one by meditation by taking heed to himself and the Flock of God committed to him and by wise observing the wayes of Divine Providence may be carefull to furnish his heart and tongue with further or other materials of Prayer and Exhortation as shall be needfull upon all occasions A DIRECTORY FOR Publique Prayer Reading the Holy Scriptures Singing of Psalmes Preaching of the Word Administration of the Sacraments and other parts of the Publique Worship of God Ordinary Extraordinary Of the Assembling of the Congregation and their Behaviour in the Publique Worship of God WHen the Congregation is to meete for Publique Worship the people having before prepared their hearts thereunto ought all to come and joyne therein not absenting themselves from the Publique Ordinances through negligence or upon pretence of Private meetings Let all enter the Assembly not irreverently but in a grave and seemly manner taking their seates or places without Adoration or Bowing themselves towards one place or other The Congregation being assembled the Minister after solemne calling on them to the worshiping of the great name of God is to begin with Prayer In all Reverence and Humility acknowledging the incomprehensible Greatnesse and Majesty of the Lord in whose presence they doe then in a speciall manner appeare and their own vilenesse and unworthinesse to approach so neare him with their utter inability of themselves to so great a Work And humbly beseeching him for Pardon Assistance and Acceptance in the whole Service then to bee performed and for a Blessing on that particular portion of his Word then to bee read and all in the Name and Mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Publique Worship being begun the people are wholly to attend upon it forbearing to Reade any thing except what the Minister is then reading or citing and abstaining much more from all private whisperings conferences salutations or doing reverence to any persons present or comming in as also from all gazing sleeping and other undecent behaviour which may disturbe the Minister or people or hinder themselves or others in the service of God If any through necessity be hindred from being present at the beginning they ought not when they come into the Congregation to betake themselves to their private Devotions but reverently to compose themselves to joyne with the Assembly in that Ordinance of God which is then in hand Of Publique Reading of the holy Scriptures REading of the Word in the Congregation being part of the publique Worship of God wherin we acknowledge our dependence upon him and subjection to him and one Means sanctified by him for the edifying of his People is to bee performed by the Pastors and Teachers Howbeit such as intend the Ministery may occasionally both reade the Word and exercise their gift in Preaching in the Congregation if allowed by the Presbytery thereunto All the Canonicall Books of the Old and New Testament but none of those which are commonly called Apocrypha shall be publiquely read in the vulgar Tongue out of the best allowed Translation distinctly that all may heare and understand How large a portion shall be read at once is left to the wisdome of the Minister But it is convenient that ordinarily one Chapter of each Testament bee read at every meeting and sometimes more where the Chapters be short or the coherence of matter requireth it It is requisite that all the Canonical books bee read over in order that the people may be better acquainted with the whole Body of the Scriptures And ordinarily where the Reading in either Testament endeth on one Lords day it is to begin the next Wee commend also the more frequent reading of such Scriptures as hee that readeth shall