 | William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1822 - 344 pages
...surreptitiously obtained. The evidence relative to the spuriousness of the commencement of Article xx, " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," is as follows : ] . This clause does not exist in the MS. copy of the Articles in Latin, presented... | |
 | Arminianism - 1835 - 1024 pages
...hierarchical." The twentieth Article, which treats of the " Authority of the Church," explicitly declares, " The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Is this power despotic f Or is it exercised by the episcopal hierarchy in a despotic way, in the sense... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 544 pages
...except the thirty-fourth, thirtyfifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth articles, — (the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith}, — were exempted from certain penalties in the act for restraining non-conformists from inhabiting... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 538 pages
...the thirty-fourth, thirtyfifth, and thirty-sixth, and these words of the twentieth articles,—(the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith),—were exempted from certain penalties in the act for restraining non-conformists from inhabiting... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...purpose, we proceed to a consideration of the important powers which it claims in giving to the church power to " decree rites or ceremonies and authority in " controversies of faith," It is an unquestionable fact, says Mr. Robinson, of Cambridge, " that the ceremonies ." and holy days... | |
 | Church of England - Sermons, English - 1824 - 648 pages
...living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith. XX. OP 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 ; neither... | |
 | Hinduism - 1824 - 484 pages
...living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith. Art. 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 : neither... | |
 | Thomas Robbins - 1824 - 494 pages
...living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith. Art. 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 : neither... | |
 | William Hawkins - Criminal procedure - 1824 - 838 pages
...c. 2. " Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and autho" rity in controversies of faith/ shall be liable to any of the pains " or penalties mentioned in an act made in the 1 7 Car. 2. c. 2. " nor the 22 Car. 2. c. 1. for or by reason of such persons " preaching... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1824 - 342 pages
...of faith. ART. XX. OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH.* Any church hath power, among its own members, te 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... | |
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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... 
