...catholics, from the writings of her most learned divines, from her present established terms of communion, (The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, Art. XX. inter. 39.) and from her repeated practice in holding synods at home, and in sending representatives...

...for her head, and lays claim to some of the highest powers and prerogatives asserted by the other : ' power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' Here is a foundation laid, broad enough to support almost any superstructure, though as enormous an...

...believed, for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture." She claimed to the Church " power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," but always with the provision that her " ordinances be not contrary to God's word written," and that...

...of Queen Elizabeth,t except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the 20th article, viz : " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies...and authority in controversies of faith, and yet," shall be liable to any of the pains and penalties mentioned in an act made the seventeenth year of...

...the two first lines in the twentieth Article, concerning the power of the Church ; in these words, " The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith;" which words are left out in divers printed copies of the Articles, and are not in the one and twentieth...

...the author's remarks on this subject we select a few sentences. ' We knew that it had been said, ' the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' We know that it had been said, 'Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely doth...

...Articles—" except the .'54th, 35th and 3(ith Articles, and these words of the 20th Article, viz., The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." All VOL. vi. 2т persons that would subscribe all the Thirty-nine Articles, with those exceptions,...

...enjoined. This doctrine is strictly maintained in the Church of England, when she declares that she " hath power to decree rites and ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith." If this be the case, if the Church in which Your Grace holds so high a rank and station is really invested...

...decisively pronounces, in opposition to the single and unparticipated supremacy of scripture, that " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;" — while it somewhat inconsistently adds — after other matter of the same import relating to...

...sanctions ; for we are ordered to submit to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake. Agreeably to the twentieth Article, the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith, over her own members ; and parliament confirms, by civil authority, what had previously...