...article let us compare the twentieth, which has for its title, Of the Authority of the Church. *• The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies,...and authority in controversies of faith: 'and yet it b not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written, neither may...

...editions, tins article is expressed in the following terms, " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies ; and authority in controversies of Faith...is contrary to God's word written ; neither may it expound one place of scriptures, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be...

...the late Queen Elizabeth,! except the 34th, 33th, 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 17th year of the reign...

...late Queen Elizaij;'i h.| except the 34th, 35th, and 30th, and these words of the 20th article, viz. [the church hath, power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies ofjaitti, and yet,'] shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act made iu the...

...— Eighth Article. And again in the Twentieth Article: ' the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith...Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's written v,(,rd; neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.'...

...erred, not only in their living, but also in matters of faith. 2i. Of the Authority of the Church. It is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing...God's word written, neither may it so expound one plac* of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another : wherefore, although tbe church be a witness and...

...the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,* — yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written," and that, " besides the same, it ought not — to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of...

...Bible : but it is expressly declared to be limited and confined and hedged in by Holy,Scripture. " It is not lawful " for the Church to ordain any thing...of Scripture, that it be repugnant to " another." Accordingly, in strict agreement with this rational principle, which is evidently propounded by way...

...and to point out to the unlearned part of the community, the snares which may be laid in their paths. AND YET IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR THE CHURCH TO ORDAIN ANY THING THAT IS CONTRARY TO GOD'S WORD WRITTEN. The written word of God is the rule of our faith and practice, and no consideration whatever can justify...

...and our twentieth Article enforces the doctrine already delivered in the sixth, denying all right in the Church to " ordain any thing that is contrary...place of Scripture, that it be repugnant, to another." The author of the History of the Jesuits has given a body of irrefragable proof, " that the Church...