 | John Bainbridge Smith - 1830 - 540 pages
...AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH. The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of Faith. And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordai any thing that is contrary to God's Word written ; neither may it so expound one place of Scripture,... | |
 | Thomas Vowler Short - 1832 - 548 pages
...auctoritatem ; quam" vis" Ecclesiae non licet, &c. " The church hath power to decree rites and cere" monies, and authority in controversies of faith : " and yet" it is not lawful for the church, &c. The testimonies concerning the authenticity of this clause are as follows : It is not found, 1.... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 314 pages
...of course, as it relates to his subject, viz. " It is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing contrary to God's word written, neither may it so expound one place wf Scripture, that it be repugnant to another," &c. That MILTON should have appealed in his old age,... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - 1904 - 478 pages
...except the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and 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, and yet] shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act14 made in the seventeenth year... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 pages
...gallows as the proper place for them. He even had the impudence to assert that the words of Article 20, 'The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies and authority in Controversies of Faith' were a forgery inserted in the Prayer Book in 1628. The punishments inflicted on these men were brutal... | |
 | 1868 - 968 pages
...— In 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 anything that is contrary to God's Word written neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that... | |
 | 1868 - 1208 pages
...Church in her Articles on this subject is expressed as follows : In Article 20,— " Of the Authority of the Church. " The Church hath power to decree rites...And yet 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,... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 484 pages
...the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and 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, and yet' shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act (17 Cha. II, c. 2.) ... nor the... | |
 | William P. Haugaard - 1968 - 424 pages
...not ordain anything 'contrary to God's word written'. The new version prefaced a positive preamble: 'The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' Although the sentence disappeared and reappeared in a bewildering succession of sixteenth-century editions... | |
 | 1905 - 1078 pages
...Articles which every member of the Church of England is supposed to accept ? Article XX. runs thus : The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies,...And yet 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... | |
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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... 
