 | 1843 - 822 pages
...their subscription. Surely, according to the twentieth Article, which states that ' the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,' it is quite competent for any clergyman to state strongly his conviction, that a Church, without even... | |
 | Bible - 1843 - 114 pages
...Articles distinctly declare this when speaking of the authority of the Church ; as, ' 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 contrary to God's Word written, neither... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1844 - 566 pages
...notwithstanding this sanction, rejected ! — £D. controverted clause of the twentieth article, that the Church 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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, German - 1844 - 484 pages
...Priestcraft in perfection or detection of the fraud of inserting and continuing that Clause -the Church, hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in controversies of Faith in the Twentieth Article of the Church in England. (Ib. 1709. 2)aju Reflections on a late pamphlet... | |
 | 1844 - 788 pages
...faith, are the first half of the 6th ; the middle of the 20th, omitting the words, " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,' and all that relates to the Church being a witness and keeper of Holy Writ ; part of the 19th; a few... | |
 | 1844 - 406 pages
...Article upon which most that is popish in the liturgy rests. I mean the twentieth. "The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith !" Now, where has Christ given her this authority ? Has he not asserted, "that One is our Master (teacher)... | |
 | John Brown - Apostolic succession - 1844 - 520 pages
...liturgy. Our readers arc aware of the controversy "as to how the celebrated clause, (" the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,") crept into the Twentieth Article of the Church of England, when it occurs neither in the first printed... | |
 | George Peck - Authority - 1844 - 490 pages
...religion. He says, " The doctrine then maintained was THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH : ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and AUTHORITY IN CONTROVERSIES OF FAITH.'^ And accordingly it is afterward said, ' Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely... | |
 | Thomas Madge - Anglo-Catholicism - 1844 - 328 pages
...understand then by the language of the twentieth of the thirty-nine articles, that " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith?" In what sense are we to take the word ' Church ? ' Does it mean the clergy met in convocation ? No.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 570 pages
...Priestcraft in perfection or detection of the fraud of inserting and continuing that Clause -the Church, hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in controversies of Faith in the Twentieth Article of the Church in England. (Ib. 1709. £aju Reflections on a late pamphlet... | |
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