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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

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

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