| Paul F. M. Zahl - Religion - 1998 - 128 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 - 180 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 - History - 2002 - 628 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 - 502 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 - 268 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 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 84 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... | |
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