...under Queen Mary.^ It is probable that the controverted clause of the 20th article, the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, was not among the articles of 1562, as has been shewn under that year ; though jt might be (according...

...all things," and then " hold fast that which is good." Your twentieth article says, that, though " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,* — yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written,"...

...that it expressly and strenuously renounces such admission. The 20th article indeed asserts, that ' the church hath power to ' decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in con* troversies of faith ;' that is, that its conclusions have weight cozteris paribus, which is no...

...will heartily join in it. It turns upon the single point of the XXth Article of your Church, w'z. That the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith. For, if the Church hath really this authority and power, then all objections of the...

...man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying." In fine, she declares that " the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Now it is evident that these principles are calculated altogether to prevent disturbance and schism....

...Religion, subм-TÍb«! by the Clergy of the Church of England, the Twentieth Article reads thus : " 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 ortlaid any thing that is contrary to...

...of Holy Writ," enthrones the Book of God amid her assembled councilors, and declares that, having " power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," she yet may not "ordain anything that is 497 contrary to God's Word written, neither so expound one...

...sanction, rejected ! — ED. tions. The' controverted clause of the twentieth article, that the clinrch 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...

...alteration made by the archbishop's red-lead pen ; and it ran not as we have it now, beginning thus, " The church hath power to decree " rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of " faith ;" but thus it began : " Ecclesiae non licet quicquam " instituere, quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur;...

...law ; and, in the other, that the authority of the Church is subordinate to that of Holy Scripture? " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith ;" but she pretends neither to decree any thing contrary to Scripture, nor to propound...