A36061:202
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.
An Appendix touching Days and Places for Public worship.
An Appendix touching Dayes and Places for Publique worship.
There is no Day commanded in Scripture to be kept holy under the Gospel, but the Lords day, which is the Christian Sabbath.
THere is no Day commanded in Scripture to be kept holy under the Gospell, but the Lords day, which is the Christian Sabbath.
Festival days, vulgarly called Holy days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.
Festivall daies, vulgarly called Holy daies, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.
Nevertheless it is lawful and necessary upon special emergent occasions, to separate a day or days for Public Fasting or Thanksgiving, as the several eminent and extraordinary dispensations of Gods providence shall administer cause and opportunity to his people.