[Rarebooks] FA: Puritans' DIRECTORY FOR THE PUBLIQUE WORSHIP OF GOD - 1644

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

On eBay now, ending Sunday, Nov. 4:

Puritan DIRECTORY FOR THE PUBLIQUE WORSHIP OF GOD 1644 w/ the ORDINANCE 
for Banning the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

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: And for 
establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the 
Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales. Die Jovis, 13. Martii, 1644. 
Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this 
Ordinance and Directory bee forthwith printed and published: Joh: 
Brown, Cleric. Parliamentorum. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. London: 
Printed for Evan Tyler, Alexander Fifield, Ralph Smith, and John Field; 
And are to be sold at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, neer the 
Royall-Exchange, 1644...

Includes sections on: the Assembling of the Congregation; Publique 
Prayer before the Sermon; the Preaching of the Word; the Solemnization 
of Marriage; the Sacrament of Baptism; the Visitation of the Sick; 
Buriall of the Dead; Publique solemne Fasting; singing Psalmes; etc., 
etc. Also with a Preface, Contents, an Appendix touching Dayes and 
Places of Publique Worship, and the complete text of the Ordinance of 
Parliament printed in black-letter type... Exceptionally clean, fresh 
and crisp. An uncommon and uncommonly nice copy of an important relic 
from the English Civil War as well as a landmark in the history of the 
church in Britain...


This - and  other items relating to the English Civil War and 17th- and 
early 18th-century British history - can be found at the URL below or 
by searching under the seller name arch_in_la. Auctions end Sunday, 
Nov. 4.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZarch_in_la

Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.