The same preamble ordered that in every church there should be kept a register for the names of all who were baptized, married, or buried in the churchyard. The Directory may be condensed as follows:— 1. Orderly behaviour in Church without salutations, greetings, or whispering. 2. Commencement with Prayer. “In all reverence and Humility acknowledging the incomprehensible Greatnesse and Majesty of the Lord (in whose presence they doe then in a speciall manner appeare) and their owne vilenesse to approach so neare him; with their utter inability of themselves, to so great a work: And humbly beseeching him for pardon, Assistance, and Acceptance in the whole service then to be performed; and for a Blessing on that particular portion of his Word then to be read: and all, in the Name and Mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ.” 3. After prayer reading of the scriptures; the length and the portion chosen to be left to the Minister, with a recommendation to read one chapter of the Old and one of the New at every meeting. 4. Expounding of the Scripture read to be performed after the reading. 5. After the Reading, Public Prayer, the general heads of which are set forth at length. 6. The Sermon. Here follow instructions for the preacher. 7. After the sermon, another prayer. 8. The Prayer ended, let a Psalm be sung, if with conveniency it may be done. The rite of baptism is ordered; one notes that the sign of the Cross is omitted. The celebration of the Lord’s Supper is to take place after the sermon and psalm. The communicants are to sit round a table covered with a white cloth. Prayer is to be offered, in which it is to be specially noted that the bread and wine remain bread and wine, but that by faith the body and blood of Christ are taken by the communicant. The “Sanctification of the Lord’s Day” assumes that it is the Sabbath, and orders that no unnecessary work be carried on, and that the same not spent in church is to be devoted to reading, meditation, and catechising. The marriage service is very short. There is to be a prayer with a declaration of Scripture on the subject, after which the man and the woman are to take hands and take each other for wife and husband:— “Concerning the Burial of the Dead,” the _Directory_ says, “and because the customes of kneeling down, and praying by, or towards the dead Corps, and other such usages, in the place where it lies, before it be carried to Buriall, are Superstitious: and for that, praying, reading, and singing both in going to, and at the Grave, have been grosly abused, are no way beneficiall to the dead, and have proved many ways hurtfull to the living; therefore let all such things be laid aside.” On days of fasting there is to be total abstinence from all kinds of food and from all kinds of work. As for singing of Psalms:—