 THE Church hath power to decree Rites or 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 may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it...  Ecclesiastical Law - Page 185de Richard Burn - 1797Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Wilton Rix - 1837 - 278 pages
...revealed in the Scriptures, and there stands as a directory both of faith and manners. We deny that the ' church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,' most heartily adhering to this description, that' the visible church of Christ... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...specified exception of " the Thirty-fourth, Thirty -fifth, Thirty-sixth, and those words of the Twentieth Article, viz. (the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith, and yet) :" or, in case the subscriber scrupled also the baptizing of infants,... | |
 | John Henry Browne - 1838 - 204 pages
...of Holy Scripture.' Let us see again how our Church speaks of the matter in hand, Article Twenty. ' The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith. XX. Of the Authority of the Church. THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary... | |
 | David Irving - 1839 - 400 pages
...the convocation, was added to the twentieth article ;ia clause which makes the Romish averment that " the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." The king or queen superseded the pope as head of the church ; and thus a protestant... | |
 | Philalethes (pseud) - 1839 - 130 pages
...weakness may be thus briefly stated. In the twentieth article, the church of England declares that "the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith." But as she no longer possesses this power, having surrendered it into the... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1840 - 182 pages
...place, let me call your attention to the twentieth article of the English Church. That declares, that ' the Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...Puritans immediately charged Laud with forging the clause in question. The clause is as follows : — " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." On this point we cannot but conceive that Dr. Cardwell has done injustice... | |
 | Michael Solomon Alexander (bp. of Jerusalem.) - 1841 - 526 pages
...And in Article xx. she delivers her opinion "of the authority of the Church" in these terms : — " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary... | |
 | William Curling - 1841 - 398 pages
...had so cruelly oppressed them, asserts this, concerning those who are set to rule in the Church, " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." We will endeavour to shew that our Reformers have here stated nothing that... | |
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