A36061:99
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.
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⟩of Adoption, Remission of Sin, Regeneration, and Eternal Life, and of all other Promises of the Covenant of Grace: That the Child may be planted into the likeness of the Death and Resurrection of Christ; and that the body of sin being destroyed in him, he may serve God in newness of life all his days.
That the Lord who hath not left us as strangers without the Covenant of Promise, but called us to the priviledges of his Ordinances, would graciously vouchsafe to sanctifie and blesse his owne Ordinance of Baptisme at this time: That he would joyne the inward Baptisme of his Spirit with the outward Baptisme of water; make this Baptisme to the Infant a Seale of⟨p. 45⟩Adoption, Remission of Sin, Regeneration, and Eternall Life, and of all other Promises of the Covenant of Grace: That the Child may be planted into the likenesse of the Death and Resurrection of Christ; and that the body of sin being destroyed in him, he may serve God in newnesse of life all his dayes.
Then the Minister is to demand the Name of the Child, which being told him, he is to say (calling the Child by his Name)
I Baptise thee in the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.