 | 394 pages
...instruction of manners." But Article XX hegins with a statement that seems to affirm the Catholic position: "The Church hath power to decree Rites or ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith." In an attempt to halance these two, Article XX continues to say: And yet it is not lawful for the Church... | |
 | Leo F. Solt - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...Elizabeth had inserted in the twentieth article immediately after the Convocation of 1563, declared, "The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and Authority in controversies of Faith." The Commons petition stated that the statute of 1571 "did confirm the Articles that were set out in... | |
 | S. M. Waddams - History - 1992 - 400 pages
...scriptures. Article XX, 'Of the Authority of The Church', is similarly not very helpful. It reads: The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies,...and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture,... | |
 | Donald K. McKim, David F. Wright - Religion - 1992 - 452 pages
...but only subject to the condition "that nothing be ordained against God's Word" (art. 34). Likewise, "the Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith," but "it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written" (art.... | |
 | Frederick Houk Borsch - Religion - 1999 - 228 pages
...believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. Article 2O: Of the Authority of the Church. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - History - 1994 - 314 pages
...salvation', and article xx that although the church has 'authority in Controversies of Faith . . . 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 be repugnant to another'.... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Religion - 2010 - 422 pages
...the Holy Spirit. Although the new Articles retained most of the old declaration of Article II that "The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies and authority in Controversies of Faith," that affirmation was effectively voided by the wording of the new Article XXIII, "Of the Authority... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - Church and state - 1995 - 534 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 Act made in the seventeenth Year of... | |
 | Richard Mocket - History - 1995 - 456 pages
...nihil credendum de necessitate salutis débet obstrudere. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith; and yet it is not lawfull for the Church to ordeine anie thinge that is contrarie to godes word written, neither may... | |
 | Robert Hannaford - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 172 pages
...1978), pp. 90-91. 47. Newman, Via Media of the Anglican Church, op. cit., p. 266. 48. Article XX reads: 'The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies,...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 be repugnant to another.... | |
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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 it... 
