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{{Tnavbar|Calvinism}} |} The Directory for Family Worship is a directory is for general directions for Family-Worship, in the Calvinist theological tradition. While the Directory was not a direct product of the Westminster_Assembly, it's work was seen by the Church_of_Scotland as incomplete. The Directory was approved by the General Assembly at Edinburgh, Scotland on August 24, 1647, it became, the standard of Family Worship in the Church_of_Scotland and has been influential within Presbyterian churches worldwide. In American Presbyterianism for example is was highlighted in the 1733 by the Synod of Philadelphia, in seeking "some proper means to revive the declining Power of Godliness," recommended "to all our ministers and members to take particular Care about visiting families, and press family and secret worship, according to the Westminster Directory."¹ When adopted by the Assembly in 1647, the follow measure was added : "...the Assembly doth require and appoint ministers and ruling elders to make diligent search and enquiry, in the congregations committed to their charge respectively, whether there be among them any family or families which use to neglect this necessary duty; and if any such family be found, the head of the family is to be first admonished privately to amend his fault... after which reproof, if he still be found to neglect family worship, let him be, for his obstinacy in such offence, suspended and debarred from the Lord's Supper, as being firstly esteemed unworthy to communicate therein, till he amend." == References == # Family Worship - Biblical Basis - Historical Reality - Current Need by Kerry Ptacek (1997), Greenville Theological Seminary published this work to encourage their students to make use of the Directory for Family Worship adopted by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1647. # The Nature, Warrant, and History of Family Worship by Dr. J.W. Alexander (1850), Dr. J.W. Alexander was the eldest son of Archibald Alexander, the first professor of Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Alexander establishes that through this document the practice of Family Worship became universal throughout the Presbyterian body in Scotland and among all the Dissenters in England. # A Westminster Bibliography (Part 6) by By Dr. Richard Bacon (1996), An investigation of the Westminster Assembly regarding the construction of this document. ==External links== * The Directory for Family Worship ==See also== * Puritan * Calvinist * Presbyterian_Church * Reformed_churches * Bishops'_Wars * Long_Parliament * Glorious_Revolution *Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom Category:Calvinism Category:Christian_confessions,_creeds_and_statements_of_faith Category:Presbyterianism Category:Puritanism