...daughter Elizabeth was peculiarly anxious. Hence, she interpolated " into the 20th Article the words ' the Church hath power to decree "' rites and ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith,' " which was equivalent to declaring herself ' the sole director of " ' her subjects' faith.' " (Lamb,...

...upon the only true principle laid down in the XX. Article : " The Church hath power to decree Rules or Ceremonies and authority in controversies of Faith, and yet it is not lawfnl for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to GOD'S Word written, neither msy it so...

...downfal, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into des>TlHE Church hath power to J- decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of .Faith: And yet It is not lawful for the Church lo ordain any thing that is contrary to (iodis Word written, neither may it so expound one place of...

...presence — was struck out, and a clause was added to the twentieth article which asserted that ' the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' A great controversy has arisen about this clause. In the English copy, printed soon after the Latin...

...a debt of infinite obligation, prefixed, or, as it is believed, caused to be prefixed, the clause, 'The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' But the debt due to the Queen must be mitigated. The Church * Report, p. 143. which had this supreme...

...derived their binding force. The twentieth Article the ArticW now conta in ed a dause asserting that "The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Such a clause might easily be quoted in support of the pretensions of Convocation. It had been absent...

...Diocese, or the Archdeacon, or a Justice of the Peace, and registered in the Bishop's or Archdeacon's * "The Church hath power to decree rites and Ceremonies and authority in Controversies of Faith." ' By Sec. IX. the names of those who subscribed were to be registered, " for which sixpence shall be...

...not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper ; " and they had added to the 20th the clause, "The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Both alterations seem to have been made entirely by the authority of the Crown, acting, no doubt, under...

...he argues that the clause in the 20th of the Thirty-nine Articles, declaring that ' the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith,' had been fraudulently inserted. Two more editions were published in 1710, and ' reflections ' (by Collins)...

...consecration of bishops and ministers,' and so much of the twentieth as declares that the ' Church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' " * Mr. Davies complied with these terms and obtained licenses for four " meeting- houses," and, soon...