...Articles of Reltgion except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the zoth Article, viz. — (the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith, &c.) [155.] STOXLEY. Qu. Sessions at, July 14, 1691. Before Sir Tho. Pennyman, Sir Will. Hustler, Tho....

...of the Reformation to our days to get inserted or foisted into the twentieth article this clause : ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' As it is to be read at large in the 'Historical and Critical Essay on the Thirty-nine Articles of the...

...treatise Collins shows that the clause in the twentieth Article of the Church of England, declaring that " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith " is not contained in the Articles as sanctioned by law, and was fraudulently foisted in afterwards....

...fervently kindle their love towards God : So, for curious and THE Church bath power to decre« Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : and yet it is not lawful for the Church to carnal persona, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of...

...that nothing be ordained against God's word. And by the 2oth of those Articles it is declared, That "the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." What is there meant by the word Church, will appear from the i9th of those Articles, which declares,...

...Bishops' Courts, moreover, granted all kinds of dispensations, from which considerable fees were received. power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," were somehow omitted in a new edition of these Articles which Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury, had prepared...

...by Convocation in 1571, and changes and additions made, notably the famous clause in Article XX., ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,' the insertion of which was afterwards quite falsely attributed to Archbishop Laud, and made a charge...

...the Thirty-sixth, on the Consecration of Bishops and Ministers ; with the words in the Twentieth, ' the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ' ; also, in the case of the Baptists, that part of the Twenty-seventh which relates to Infant Baptism....

...is, all of the articles except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the 2Oth article, viz., ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, and yet — ' ' In 1779 an Act was passed for the relief of the Dissenters which substituted a general declaration...

...derived their binding force. The twentieth Article the Articles. now contained a clause 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...