1644 PRESBYTERIAN / PURITAN. Directory for the Publique Worship of God - Replaced Common-Prayer. Leather We saw on our way

We saw on our way from Rhoades Diggings to Sacramento the far off Sierra Nevadas covered with snow

and American colonial history

"The voice of reason

Very good in wraps

Rubbed at extremities and faded

1644 PRESBYTERIAN / PURITAN. Directory for the Publique Worship of God - Replaced Common-Prayer. Leather We saw on our wayVery rare first issue of the Directory for Public Worship, i. e. the Westminster Directory, which was a manual or worship approved by the Puritan Parliament in 1644 to replace the Book of Common Prayer and subsequently adopted in Scotland in 1645. In 1644, a new form of worship was presented to the Westminster Assembly of Divines as a replacement for the Common Prayer, but wishing to resist the prescriptive nature of the Common Prayer, the present was