A36061:97
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.
To consider the great mercy of God to him and his child; To bring up the child ⟨p. 44⟩in the knowledge of the grounds of the Christian Religion, and in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: and to let him know the danger of Gods wrath to himself and child, if he be negligent. Requiring his solemn promise for the performance of his duty.
To consider the great mercy of God to him and his child; To bring up the child in⟨p. 44⟩the knowledge of the grounds of the Christian Religion, and in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: and to let him know the danger of Gods wrath to himselfe and child, if he be negligent. Requiring his solemne promise for the performance of his duty.
This being done, Prayer is also to be joined with the word of Institution, for sanctifying the water to this spiritual use, and the Minister is to pray to this or the like effect.
This being done, Prayer is also to be joyned with the word of Institution, for sanctifying the water to this spirituall use, and the Minister is to pray to this or the like effect.
That the Lord who hath not left us as strangers without the Covenant of Promise, but called us to the privileges of his Ordinances, would graciously vouchsafe to sanctify and bless his own Ordinance of Baptism at this time: That he would join the inward Baptism of his Spirit with the outward Baptism of water; make this Baptism to the Infant a Seal ⟨p. 45⟩