A36061:55
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.
In Analysing and dividing his Text, he is to regard more the order of matter, then of words; and neither to burden the memory of the hearers in the beginning, with too many members of Division, nor to trouble their minds with obscure terms of Art.
In Analysing and dividing his Text, hee is to regard more the order of matter, then of words; and neither to burden the memory of the hearers in the beginning, with too many members of Division, nor to trouble their minds with obscure termes of Art.
In raising Doctrines from the Text, his care ought to be, First, that the matter be the truth of God. Secondly, that it be a truth contained in, or grounded on that Text, that the hearers may discern how God techeth it from thence. Thirdly, that he chiefly insist upon those Doctrines which ⟨p. 30⟩are principally intended, and make most for the edification of the hearers.
In raising Doctrines from the Text, his care ought to bee, First, that the matter be the truth of God. Secondly, that it be a truth contained in, or grounded on that Text, that the hearers may discern how God techeth it from thence. Thirdly, that he chiefly insist upon those Doctrines which are⟨p. 30⟩principally intended, and make most for the edification of the hearers.
The Doctrine is to be expressed in plain terms; or if any thing in it need explication, is to be opened, and the consequence also from the Text cleared. The parallel places of Scripture confirming the Doctrine are rather to be plain and pertinent, then many, and (if need be) somewhat insisted upon, and applied to the purpose in hand.