 | 1809 - 674 pages
...living and manner of ceremonies, but alfo in matters of faith. XX. Of the Authority of the Church. THE Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controverfies of faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - 1811 - 340 pages
...hath expressly guarded against any such abuse of the power it claims, by adding, in the XXth article, Yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that it contrary to .Goo's word written; neither may it so expound one place of scripture that it be repugnant... | |
 | T. Drummond - 1812 - 112 pages
...true, you commit no breach in your obedience; for " it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it le repugnant of another." Thus equity and candour inducing us to plead the consistency of the Articles,... | |
 | 1809 - 618 pages
...13th • of Queen Eliz. 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," — shalr- be liable to any . of the pains or penalties mentioned in former acts. Sect. X. recites,... | |
 | 1812 - 88 pages
...except the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth Article, viz. (the Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, andyet) shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an Act made in the seventeenth... | |
 | William Findley - 1812 - 380 pages
...respect to the worship of God. Ri the 20th article of that national church, it is said, " The chtirch hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;" and it concludes by saying, " it ought not to decree any thing against God's word ; and besides the same,... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1818 - 460 pages
...power of the church) which he denies her td possess. — By the 20th of the 39 articles it is held that the church hath, power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ; and accordingly, in her " constitutions and canons ecclesiastical," as agreed upon in 1(>03, by the bishops... | |
 | 1813 - 684 pages
...of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. XX. Of the Authority of tht Church. The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and Authority in Controvertid of Faith | and yet it is not lawful lor the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary... | |
 | Gamaliel Smith Olds - 1815 - 216 pages
...heaven. Nor is the severity of the case in reality alleviated by the qualifying clause in the article: " Yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any...place of scripture, that it be repugnant to another." For, " of this repugnance and conerariety, the church alone," as it has been well observed, " and not... | |
 | 1815 - 880 pages
...the Authority of the Chvrrh. " The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority hi controversies of faith : and yet it is not lawful...neither may it so expound one place of scripture that ft be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the church be a witness and a keeper of holy writ,... | |
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THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith... 
