...to State and Church respectively, in Arts. xx., xxxvii., and Declaration. It is "the CHURCH" which " hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of Faith." "The Crown hath only that prerogative which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in...

...of the Articles, the following Table may help to make things clearer : — L TTu Cloxa of the S0<* Article— "The Church hath power to decree rites...ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith"— is NOT rouxii ix 1. Convocation copy of 15&J (I<at.) (Parker MSB.) 2. Knsrlish edition of IMS. The...

...published ' Priestcraft in Perfection, or a detection of the fraud of inserting and continuing the clause (the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith) in the 20th article.' His other works are ' A Vindication of the Divine Attributes,' and ' A Discourse...

...ordination was never even contemplated. With the same aim, certain words of the twentieth Article, viz. " The Church hath 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...

...Priestcraft in Perfection: or, a Detection of the fraud of inserting and continuing that clause — " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith" — ¿и the Twentieth Article (1709); A Vindication of the Divine Attribute» (1710) ; ,-/ Discouru...

...alterations, most of which Convocation accepted : the Queen herself is said to have added the famous clause, "The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," in the Twentieth Article. This clause does not appear in the original document to which the bishops...

...English Church. It will be said that the determination of such matters lies with the Church, that " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Certainly : and this is the vital principle uttered in that very age in which the Prayer-book was composed...

...Article had in view. ARTICLE XX. ©f rfje autfjoritg of tfrc The Chureh hath ponver to deeree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Chureh to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place...

...thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth, and the words of the twentieth Article, affirming that " the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith," are exempted from the pains and penalties of the Five Mile Act, and from the fine of fioo inflicted...

...derived their binding force. The twentieth Article the Artie cs. now contamed 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...