...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...

...ceremonies, but also in matters of faith. ARTICLE XX, Of the Authority of the Church. 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,...

...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;...

...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...

...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 before...

...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...

...Priestcraft in Perfection : or a Detection of the Fraud of inserting this Clause, " The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith," in the Twentieth Artic1e of the Church of England. [By Matthew TINDAL.] 8 vo. London, 1710. [P. 224....

...feelings of Dissenters, on the subject of ecclesiastical establishments. The Church of England claims power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith (article 20th) : — Power to decree rites and ceremonies, this is precisely what Paley calls dictating...

...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...

...Priestcraft in Perfection : or a Detection of the Fraud of inserting this Clause, "The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith," in the Twentieth Article of tlie Church of England. [By Matthew TINDAL.] 8vo. London, 1710. [P. 284....