 | 1837 - 504 Seiten
...the 20th article, that the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies- and authority in matters of faith, is not in King Edward's articles, nor does it appear how it came into Elizabeth's. Indeed, it appears to be an interpolation. And as to the title of the articles, which... | |
 | 1830 - 456 Seiten
...and consciences of men; and both assert and put in execution the assertion, that " the Church bath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Now, this is an assumption, we conceive, which cannot be allowed, without a total abandonment of our... | |
 | 1831 - 442 Seiten
...her ecclesiastical polity, the assertion which introduces the twentieth article, " The Church bath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," is it not a forgery? Good grounds are there for believing it to be as surreptitious, as the passage by... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - 1833 - 458 Seiten
...of the social compact; and nothing is to be apprehended from those, who hold, "That the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Were we to hold this, in opposition to the natural right of freedom from 'physical constraint and restraint,... | |
 | 1833 - 984 Seiten
...ingenuity, was written by Mr. Collins to prove that the passsge in the twentieth article, " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," was not to be found in any copy of the Latin articles, till it was introduced by Laud.J We cannot enter... | |
 | James Abbott - 1833 - 398 Seiten
...Parliament which ratified the thirty-nine articles of their faith, one of which affirms, " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." This clause is said by them to mean, that the " governors of the church have power to determine what... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - 1834 - 640 Seiten
...meant by falling from grace. So again, whereas it is said in the twentieth Article, the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ; ministers may not enquire what is meant by the Church, whether the Church Catholic, or Church of... | |
 | John Kempthorne - 1835 - 230 Seiten
...for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written ;" yet " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Indeed, to speak of a Society without its consultations, of a Christian Society without its Synod,... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1835 - 806 Seiten
...is infallible. The 20th article speaks " of the authority of the church," declaring that sJw " bath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;" but confines that authority to the decreeing of such things only as are consonant with the Scriptures.... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1836 - 538 Seiten
...is infallible. The 20th article speaks " of the authority of the church," declaring that she " hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;" but confines that authority to the decreeing of such things only as are consonant with the Scriptures.... | |
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