A36061:113
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.
After this Exhortation, Warning, and Invitation, the Table being before decently covered, and so conveniently placed, ⟨p. 51⟩that the Communicants may orderly sit about it, or at it, The Minister is to begin the action with sanctifying and blessing the elements of Bread and Wine set before him (the Bread in comely and convenient vessels, so prepared, that being broken by him, and given, it may be distributed amongst the Communicants: The Wine also in large Cups;) having first in a few words showed, That those elements, otherwise common, are now set apart and sanctified to this holy use, by the word of Institution and Prayer.
After this Exhortation, Warning, and Invitation, the Table being before decently covered, and so conveniently placed, that⟨p. 51⟩the Communicants may orderly sit about it, or at it, The Minister is to begin the action with sanctifying and blessing the elements of Bread and Wine set before him (the Bread in comely and convenient vessels, so prepared, that being broken by him, and given, it may be distributed amongst the Communicants: The Wine also in large Cups;) having first in a few words shewed, That those elements, otherwise common, are now set apart and sanctified to this holy use, by the word of Institution and Prayer.
Let the words of Institution be read out of the Evangelists, or out of the first Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians. Chap. 11. verse 23. I have received of the Lord, &c. to the 27. verse, which the Minister may, when he seeth requisite, explain and apply.
Let the words of Institution be read out of the Evangelists, or out of the first Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians. Chap. 11. verse 23. I have received of the Lord, &c. to the 27. verse, which the Minister may, when he seeth requisite, explaine and apply.