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1644 PRESBYTERIAN / PURITAN. Directory for the Publique Worship of God - Replaced Common-Prayer. Leather a fine and established AmericanaVery 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