...enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation. XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils. GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without...with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary...

...reverence of them consisteth not in any opinion of their infallibility: as appears by Article Fourteen. ' General Councils may not be gathered together without...with the Spirit and Word of God) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary...

...both."* The church of England expresses the same sentiments in the article concerning general councils: " When they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they...with the Spirit and word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, 'even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them, as necessary...

...or shall err in any matter of faith." 2 The twenty-first Article declares, that " General Councils, when they be gathered together (forasmuch as they...be not governed with the SPIRIT and Word of GOD), may err." 3 Similarly LAUD remarks—" That all General Councils, be they never so lawfully called,...

...really or only nominally general, from the reason given for the assertion, viz, because they are " an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God.' I have also heard, that in the eleventh article, "justified by faith only," meant something different...

...Councils of the Church, is clearly expressed in the twenty-first Article of the Church of England. " Forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed by the Spirit and Word of God, they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto...

...pretended that the sense of the Church Universal can be made known or determined. The article is, " General Councils may not be gathered " together without...commandment and " will of Princes. And when they be ga" thered together (forasmuch as they be an " assembly of men, whereof all be not go" verned with...

...being compared with other passages of Scripture. ARTICLE XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils.* GENERAL councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of princes.b And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they a In the last article the power of...

...When general councils are gathered together (forasmuch as they are an assembly of men, whereof all are not governed with the Spirit and word of God) they...sometime have erred, even in things pertaining unto God."t Hereunto agree many other churches in their confessions.^ 3. The doctrine of the papists concerning...

...having given abundant evidence of the truth of the assertion in our Article, that general councils " be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God." — Art. xxi. the faith proclaimed by the ancient oecumenical councils upon the ground of the universally...