A36061:42
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
Of Public Prayer before the Sermon.Of Publike Prayer before the Sermon.
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.
With remission of sins through the blood of Christ, To pray for sanctification by his Spirit; the Mortification of ⟨p. 20⟩sin dwelling in, and many times tyrannizing over us, the quickening of our dead spirits with the life of God in Christ, grace to fit and enable us for all duties of conversation and callings towards God and Men, strength against temptations, the sanctified use of blessings and crosses, and perseverance in Faith, and obedience unto the end.
With remission of sins through the blood of Christ, To pray for sanctification by his Spirit; the Mortification of ⟨p. 20⟩sinne dwelling in, and many times tyrannizing over us, the quickening of our dead spirits with the life of God in Christ, grace to fit and inable us for all duties of conversation and callings towards God and Men, strength against temptations, the sanctified use of blessings and crosses, and perseverance in Faith, and obedience unto the end.
To pray for the Propagation of the Gospel and Kingdom of Christ to all Nations, for the conversion of the Jews, the fullness of the Gentiles, the fall of Antichrist, and the hastening of the second coming of our Lord; For the deliverance of the distressed Churches abroad, from the tyranny of the Antichristian faction, and from the cruel oppressions and blasphemies of the Turk: For the blessing of God upon all the Reformed Churches, ⟨p. 21⟩especially upon the Churches and Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, now more strictly and religiously united in the solemn National League and Covenant; and for our Plantations in the remote parts of the World: more particularly for that Church and Kingdom whereof we are Members, that therein God would establish Peace and Truth, the purity of all his Ordinances, and the power of Godliness; prevent and remove heresy, schism, profaneness, superstition, security, and unfruitfulness under the means of Grace, heal all our rents and divisions, and preserve us from breach of our solemn Covenant.