 | William Burder - 1841 - 624 pages
...living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith. XX.— Of the Authority of the Church. THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - Constitutional history - 1904 - 478 pages
...except the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth article, viz. [The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, and yet] shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act14 made in the seventeenth... | |
 | John William Allen - Church and state - 1644 - 700 pages
...gallows as the proper place for them. He even had the impudence to assert that the words of Article 20, 'The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies and authority in Controversies of Faith' were a forgery inserted in the Prayer Book in 1628. The punishments inflicted on these men were brutal... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 1208 pages
...Articles on this subject is expressed as follows : In Article 20,— " Of the Authority of the Church. " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written,... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 484 pages
...the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth article, viz. ' The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, and yet' shall be liable to any of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act (17 Cha. II, c. 2.) ...... | |
 | William P. Haugaard - Great Britain - 1968 - 424 pages
...not ordain anything 'contrary to God's word written'. The new version prefaced a positive preamble: 'The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' Although the sentence disappeared and reappeared in a bewildering succession of sixteenth-century editions... | |
 | English periodicals - 1888 - 1008 pages
...secure foundation. The twentieth of the Articles of the Church of England begins in these words : ' The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' These words were not in the original draft of the Articles of 1562 ; and the reference in the statute... | |
 | S. L. Greenslade - Religion - 1975 - 660 pages
...thought requisite or necessary to salvation '. In accordance with this principle, Article xx stated that ' the Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith; and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written.... | |
 | George Wolfgang Forell - Religion - 1975 - 324 pages
...living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith.] [XX. OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written,... | |
 | John H. Leith - Religion - 1982 - 760 pages
...living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith. XX. Of the Authority of the Church. The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written,... | |
| |
THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it... 
