A36061:100
A Directory for the Public Worship of God
A directory for the public 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 be forthwith printed and published.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.
London: printed for Evan Tyler, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 lawful, but sufficient and most expedient to be, by pouring or sprinkling of the water on the face of the Child, without adding any other Ceremony.
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 the Child, without adding any other Ceremony.
This done, he is to give thanks and pray, to this or the like purpose;