...the first sentence in the twentieth Article, entituled De Ecclesiw Authoritate, where it is said that "the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of the faith." Which being charged upon the bishops as a late addition, the better to support their power...

...matters of religion ; they would bow down to human authority in divine things. They would confess that 'the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;' and by its adoption of creeds and articles as the standards of faith, it may deny the sufficiency of the...

...Thirty-nine Articles, except the XXXIVth, XXXVth, and the XXXVIth, and except also those words of the XXth article "The church hath power to decree rites and...ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." No objection was allowed to the XXXVIIth Article, concerning the civil magistrate, including the doctrine...

...other things as I am accused of, because the Church tells me to do so, and I believe that she has ' power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;' * and that, therefore, I am bound to obey her. Scripture texts I might adduce, which would prove that I am...

...man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying."1 In fine, she declares that " the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith."' Now it is evident that these principles are calculated altogether to prevent disturbance and schism....

...Church in the time of Elizabeth, under the influence of Archbishop Parker, the clause was inserted, " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." The Reformers did appeal to the Bible for the truth of the principles of the Reformation, and were...

...ccereinonias (") statuendi jus, et in fidei controversiis auctoritatem ; quamvis' Ecclesiae non licet, &c. ' The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies,...faith ; and yet ' it is not lawful for the church, &c. The testimonies concerning the authenticity of this clause are as follows : It is not found, 1....

...independent of any congregation of believers. Article XX. teaches that, with expressed qualifications, " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies i ,f faith." I believe not in the Church's possession of this power and authority, even within the...

...of the true Christian faith, and the doctrine of the sacraments :" in the same spirit, a portion of the twentieth Article— (" The Church hath power...ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith")*— was omitted in a new edition of the Thirty-nine Articles prepared by Bishop Jewel, but probably not...

...the word '• authority " did occur in the Articles. There was a clause in the twentieth which said, "The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." The clause was taken from the Lutheran Confession of Wurtemberg, so that there is no doubt of what...