At the Westminster Assembly, the English Puritans, with the help of Presbyterians from Scotland, set out to achieve a great reformation of public worship in the Church of England. Note the use of the word directory rather than liturgy. The preface states that “long and sad experience hath made it manifest, that the Liturgy used in the Church of England, (notwithstanding all the pains of religious intentions of the Compilers of it,) hath proved an offence, not only to many of the godly at home, but also to the reformed Churches abroad.”

Living for God’s Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism by Joel R. Beeke, Sinclair B. Ferguson, James Grier, Michael A. G. Haykin, Nelson Kloosterman, Ray Lanning, Robert Oliver, Ray Pennings, Derek W. H. Thomas, Loc. 3081.