...sanction, rejected ! — ED. tions. The' controverted clause of the twentieth article, that the clinrch has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, is not in king Edward's articles, nor does it appear how it came into queen Elizabeth's. It is evident...

...alteration made by the archbishop's red-lead pen ; and it ran not as we have it now, beginning thus, " The church hath power to decree " rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of " faith ;" but thus it began : " Ecclesiae non licet quicquam " instituere, quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur;...

...law ; and, in the other, that the authority of the Church is subordinate to that of Holy Scripture? " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith ;" but she pretends neither to decree any thing contrary to Scripture, nor to propound...

...Catholic Church." — Dr. Milner's End of all Controversy, pp. 119. 130. The Church of England says, " The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith; and yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written ; neither...

...institute an order of ministers, with an injunction that it should be perpetuated ? The church, then, "hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," so far as it may go in accordance with God's written word". As the church, within these limits, has...

...same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed, for necessity of Salvation. The Church hath Power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and Authority in CoulroTersie* of Faith. It is not lawful for the Church. &e. XXII. Of the Authority of General Councils....

...agreed on the thirty-nine articles ; but the beginning of the twentieth article being this, that ' the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,' Fuller tells us that both the English and Latin articles set forth in 1571, when they were first ratified...

...agreed on the thirty-nine articles ; but the beginning of the twentieth article being this, that ' the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faiih,' Fuller tells us that both the English and Latin articles set forth in 1571, when they were...

...Discipline into their hands. And yet, by the 20th article of the Reformation, the Church is said to have power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith. This article pronounces the Church the judge in matters of faith, and seems to contradict the Statute...

...which they made, or which were made for them, at their baptism. Our twentieth article says, that " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;" and indeed without this authority, she could not be kept together as a society called out of a corrupt...