...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...

...proved by most certain warrantsof holy scripture." Art. viii. So again in the twentieth article. " It is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's words written, neither may it so expound one place of scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...authority in I'omroverMCS of Faith : And yet it is nul lawful for the Church to ordein any :Iiing- that Is contrary to God's Word written; neither may it so expound one .*lace of Scripture, that it be repugnant :o another- Wherefore, dltbougli tK Church be a Witness and...

...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...

...or Ceranonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it к not lawful for the Church в ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound or,; place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness...

...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...

...objector. For the Article, which is never quoted entire by our opponents, goes on to affirm, that " it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing...may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it may be repugnant to another ; wherefore, although the Church be a witness and keeper of holy writ,...