A36061:148
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 solemn charging of the persons to be married, before the Great God, who searcheth all hearts, and to whom they must give a strict account at the last Day, that if either of them know any cause, by precontract or otherwise, why they may not lawfully proceed to marriage, that they now discover it: The Minister (if no impediment be acknowledged) shall cause, first, the man to take the woman by the right hand, saying these words,
After solemn charging of the persons to be married, before the Great God, who searcheth all hearts, and to whom they must give a strict account at the last Day, that if either of them know any cause, by praecontract or otherwise, why they may not lawfully proceed to marriage, that they now discover it: The Minister (if no impediment be acknowledged) shall cause, first, the man to take the woman by the right hand, saying these words,
I N. do take thee N. to be my married ⟨p. 63⟩wife, and do, in the presence of God, and before this Congregation, promise and covenant to be a loving and faithful husband unto thee, until God shall separate us by death.
I N. doe take thee N. to be my married ⟨p. 63⟩wife, and doe, in the presence of God, and before this Congregation, promise and covenant to be a loving and faithfull husband unto thee, untill God shall separate us by death.
Then the woman shall take the man by his right hand, and say these words,