A36061:114
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.
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.
Let the Prayer, Thanksgiving, or Blessing of the Bread and Wine, be to this effect;
With humble and hearty acknowledgement of the greatness of our misery, from which neither man nor Angel ⟨p. 52⟩was able to deliver us, and of our great unworthiness of the least of all Gods mercies; To give thanks to God for all his benefits, and especially for that great benefit of our Redemption, the love of God the Father, the sufferings and merits of the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, by which we are delivered; and for all means of Grace, the Word and Sacraments, and for this Sacrament in particular, by which Christ and all his benefits are applied and sealed up unto us, which, notwithstanding the denial of them unto others, are in great mercy continued unto us, after so much and long abuse of them all.
WIth humble and hearty acknowledgement of the greatnesse of our misery, from which neither man nor Angel ⟨p. 52⟩was able to deliver us, and of our great unworthinesse of the least of all Gods mercies; To give thanks to God for all his benefits, and especially for that great benefit of our Redemption, the love of God the Father, the sufferings and merits of the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, by which we are delivered; and for all means of Grace, the Word and Sacraments, and for this Sacrament in particular, by which Christ and all his benefits are applied and sealed up unto us, which, notwithstanding the deniall of them unto others, are in great mercy continued unto us, after so much and long abuse of them all.