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B02199	Directions of the Generall Assembly concerning secret and private worship, and mutuall edification, for cherishing piety, for maintaining unity, and avoiding schisme and division. With an act for observing these directions, and censuring such use to neglect family worship. And an act against such as withdraw themselves from the publike worship in their own congregations.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Ker, A.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4223A; ESTC R175805	5,962	17

which otherwise are not tollerable Yet when God hath blessed us with peace and the purity of the Gospel such meetings of persons of divers families except in the cases mentioned in these directions are to be disaproved as tending to the hinderance of the Religious exercise of each Family by it selfe to the prejudice of the publike Ministery to the renting of the Families of particular Congregations and in progresse of time of the whole Kirk besides many offences which may come thereby to the hardning of the hearts of carnall men and grief of the godly VIII On the Lords day after every one of the Family apart and the whole Family together have sought the Lord in whose hands the preparation of mens hearts are to fit them for the publike worship and to blesse to them the publike Ordinances The Master of the Family ought to take care that all within his charge repair to the publike Worship that he and they may joyn with the rest of the Congregation And the publike Worship being finished after prayer he should take an account what they have heard And thereafter to spend the rest of the time which they may spare in Catechising and in spirituall conferences upon the Word of God Or else going apart they ought to apply themselves to reading meditation and secret prayer that they may confirm and increase their communion with God That so the profit which they found in the publike Ordinances may be cherished and promoved and they more edified unto eternall life IX So many as can conceive Prayer ought to make use of that gift of God Albeit these who are rude and weaker may begin at a set form of Prayer But so as they be not sluggish in stirring up in themselves according to their daily necessities the spirit of Prayer which is given to all the children of God in some measure To which effect they ought to be the more ferven and frequent in secret Prayer to God for enabling of their hearts to conceive and their tongues to expresse convenient desires to God for their Family And in the mean time for their greater encouragement let these materials of Prayer be meditated upon and made use of as followeth Let them confesse to God how unworthy they are to come in his presence and how unfit to worship his Majesty And therefore earnestly ask of God the spirit of Prayer They are to confesse their sins and the sins of the Family accusing judging and condemning themselves for them till they bring their souls to some measure of true humiliation They are to poure out their souls to God in the Name of Christ by the Spirit for forgivenesse of sins for Grace to repent to beleeve and to live soberly righteously and godly and that they may serve God with joy and delight walking before him They are to give thanks to God for his many mercies to his people and to themselves and especially for his love in Christ and for the light of the Gospel They are to pray for such particular benefits Spirituall and Temporall as they stand in need of for the time whether it bee Morning or Evening as health or sicknesse prosperity or adversity They ought to pray for the Kirk of Christ in generall for all the Reformed Kirks and for this Kirk in particular and for all that suffer for the Name of Christ for all our Superiours The Kings Majesty the Queen and their Children for the Magistrates Ministers and whole body of the Congregation whereof they are members as well for their Neighbours absent in their lawfull affairs as for those that are at home The Prayer may be closed with an earnest desire that God may be glorified in the comming of the Kingdome of his Son and in the doing of his will And with assurance that themselves are excepted and what they have asked according to his will shall be done X. These Exercises ought to be performed in great sincerity without delay laying aside all exercises of worldly businesse or hinderances Notwithstanding the mocking of Atheists and profane men In respect of the great mercies of God to this Land and of his severe Corrections wherewith lately he hath exercised us And to this effect persons of eminencie and all Elders of the Kirk not only ought to stir up themselves and their Families to diligence herein But also to concurre effectually that in all other Families where they have power and charge the said Exercises be conscionably performed XI Besides the ordinary duties in families which are abovementioned extraordinary duties both of humiliation and thanksgiving are to be carefully performed in Families when the Lord by extraordinary occasions private or publike calleth for them XII Seing the Word of God requireth That we should consider one another to provoke unto love and good works Therefore at all times and specially in this time wherein profanity abounds and mockers walking after their own lusts think it strange that others run not with them to the same excesse of riot every member of this Kirk ought to stir up themselves and one another to the duties of mutuall Edification by instruction admonition rebuke exhorting one another to manifest the grace of God in denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and in living godly soberly and righteously in this present world by comforting the feeble minded and praying with or for one another Which duties respectively are to be performed upon speciall occasions offered by divine providence As namely when under any calamity crosse or great difficulty counsell or comfort is sought Or when an offender is to be reclaimed by private admonition and if that be not effectuall by joyning one or two more in the admonition according to the rule of Christ that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established XIII And because it is not given to every one to speak a word in season to a wearied or distressed conscience it is expedient that a person in that case finding no ease after the use of all ordinary means private and publike have their addresse to their own Pastour or some experienced Christian But if the person troubled in conscience be of that condition or of that sex that discretion modesty or fear of scandal requireth a godly grave and secret friend to be present with them in their said distresse it is expedient that such a friend be present XIV When persons of divers Families are brought together by divine providence being abroad upon their particular Vocations or any necessary occasions As they would have the Lord their GOD with them whithersoever they go they ought to walk with GOD and not neglect the duties of Prayer and Thanksgiving but take care that the same be performed by such as the company shall judge fittest And that they likewise take heed that no corrupt communication proceed out of their mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers The drift scope of all these Directions is no other but that upon the one part the power and practise of godlinesse among all the Ministers Members of this Kirk according to their severall places and vocations may bee cherished and advanced and all impiety and mocking of Religious exercises suppressed And upon the other part that under the name and pretext of Religious Exercises no such meetings or practises be allowed as are apt to breed errour scandal schisme contempt or mis-regard of the publike Ordinances and Ministers or neglect of the duties of particular Callings or such other evils as are the works not of the Spirit but of the Flesh and are contrary to Truth and Peace A. Ker. Act against such as withdraw themselves from the publike worship in their own Congregation SInce it hath pleased GOD of his infinite goodnesse to blesse his Kirk within this Nation with the riches of the Gospel in giving to us his Ordinances in great purity liberty and withall a comely and well-eshablished order The Assembly in the zeal of God for preserving Order Unity and peace in the Kirk for maintaining that respect which is due to the Ordinances and Ministers of Jesus Christ for preventing Schisme noisome Errours and all unlawfull practises which may follow on the peoples with-drawing themselves from their own Congregations Doth charge every Minister to bee diligent in fulfulling his Ministry to be holy grave in his conversation to be faithfull in Preaching declaring the whole counsel of GOD and as he hath occasion from the Text of Scripture to reprove the sins errours and presse the duties of the time in all those to observe the rules prescribed by the Acts of Assembly wherein if he be negligent he is to be censured by his own Presbytery As also ordains every member in every congregation to keep their own Paroch Kirk to communicate therein the Word andSacraments And if any person or persons shall hear after usually absent themselves from their own Congregations except in urgent cases made known to and approven by the Presbytery The Ministers of these Congregations whereunto they resort shall both in publike by preaching and in private by admonition shew their dislike of their with-drawing from their own Minister That in so doing They may witnesse to all that hear them their due care to strengthen the hands of their fellow-labourers in the work of the Lord and their detestation of any thing that may tend to Separation or any of the above-mentioned evils Hereby their own Flock will be confirmed in their stedfastnesse and the unstable spirits of others will be rectified Like as the Minister of that Congregation from which they do withdraw shall labour first by private admonition to reclaim them and if any after private admonition given by their own Pastor do not amend in that case the Pastour shall dilate the foresaid persons to the Session who shall cite and censure them as contemners of the comely order of the Kirk And if the matter be not taken order with there It is to be brought to the presbyterie For the better observing whereof the Presbyteries at the Visitation of their severall Kirks and Provincial Assemblies in their censure of the severall Presbyteries shall inquire hereanent Which inquiry and report shall be registrate in the Provincial Books that their diligence may be seen in the General Assembly A. Ker. FINIS