 | Robert Hannaford - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 155 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.... | |
 | Paul F. M. Zahl - Religion - 1998 - 112 pages
...Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith. XX. Of the Authority of the Church. The Church hath power...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.... | |
 | Gillian Rosemary Evans - Ecclesiastical law - 1998 - 163 pages
...is in keeping with the Thirty-Nine Articles (Article 20): The Church hath power to decree Rites of 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. The Scriptural warrant, as the Commission insists,... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 608 pages
...necessity are requisite to the same . . . 20. Of the authority of the Church The Church hath jiower to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies...and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's word writren, neither may it so expound one place of Scripmre that... | |
 | William Cathcart - Religion - 2001 - 496 pages
...reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the 20th article ("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... | |
 | Donald K. McKim - Religion - 2001 - 243 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.... | |
 | John W. Keddie - Bible - 2003 - 74 pages
...expressed, for example, in Article XX of the 39 Articles of the Church of England (1571), which states that: The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies,...the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written. In other words, anything may be admitted provided it is not prohibited. It will... | |
 | Robert Newton Flew - Religion - 2002 - 156 pages
...Catholics, Article VI ("Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation . . .") and Article XX ("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 . . .") were accepted as exactly Old Catholic teaching.... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - History - 2004 - 675 pages
...erred, not only in their living (and manner of ceremonies), but also in matters of their faith. 21. (20) 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... | |
 | Zondervan, - Religion - 2009 - 320 pages
...The Church of Christ, 1:339. The twentieth of the Church of England's Thirty-Nine Articles states: "The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies and authority in the controversies of the Faith. And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything contrary... | |
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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... 
