...authorised copies. " Habet Ecclesia Ritus statuendi jus, et in fidei controversiis auctoritatem." " The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies and Authority in Matters of Faith." I shall now proceed to state what I consider to be the real history of this clause....

...approbation of, and subscribe the 39 Articles, except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and the words of the 20th [" The Church hath power to decree Rites or " Ceremonies,...authority in controversies of Faith, and yet''—] shall be liable to the penalties of 17 Car. 2. ch. 2—22 Car. 2 ch. 1, as to preaching—or to the...

...thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth articles,-— (the church hatfi power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith), — were exempted from certain penalties in the act for restraining nonconformists from inhabiting...

...late queen Elizabeth,* except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the 20th article, viz. " the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies,...and authority in controversies of faith, and yet," shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act made in the seventeenth year of...

...living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters oi faith. ART. XX. Of the Authority of the Church. The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies,...and Authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain auv thing thai is contrary to God's Word written ; nefthermay...

...surreptitiously obtained. The evidence relative to the spuriousness of the commencement of Article xx, " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," is as follows : ] . This clause does not exist in the MS. copy of the Articles in Latin, presented...

...hierarchical." The twentieth Article, which treats of the " Authority of the Church," explicitly declares, " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Is this power despotic f Or is it exercised by the episcopal hierarchy in a despotic way, in the sense...

...except the thirty-fourth, thirtyfifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth articles, — (the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith}, — were exempted from certain penalties in the act for restraining non-conformists from inhabiting...

...the thirty-fourth, thirtyfifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth articles,—(the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith),—were exempted from certain penalties in the act for restraining non-conformists from inhabiting...

...purpose, we proceed to a consideration of the important powers which it claims in giving to the church power to " decree rites or ceremonies and authority in " controversies of faith," It is an unquestionable fact, says Mr. Robinson, of Cambridge, " that the ceremonies ." and holy days...