 | John Parker Lawson - Great Britain - 1829 - 638 pages
...generally those which are ill-digested. The 20th Article, then, contains three propositions : — " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith. And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's... | |
 | 1830 - 590 pages
...True it is, that the Church of England, in that unhappy relic of Popery, the XXth Article, maintains, that the Church ' hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, ' and authority in matters of faith.' But it will scarcely be contended, that the Sabbath falls under this power, as ranking... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - Dissenters, Religious - 1829 - 534 pages
...that which he does not really believe, (we may here take for instance that one celebrated article, " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith,")* his submission is, unwarrantable, and he may separate without being a schismatic.... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith - Theology, Doctrinal - 1830 - 540 pages
...those whose faith shall or shall not save them. SECT. II.—ART. XX. OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH. The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of Faith. And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordai any thing that is contrary to God's... | |
 | William Turner - Unitarianism - 1832 - 168 pages
...from in the Church of England. In the twentieth of her well known Thirty-nine Articles, it is declared that "the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith." Who gave the church this authority ? Not Christ or his apostles, but the Parliament... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - Church polity - 1833 - 458 pages
...authorised expressions of the social compact; and nothing is to be apprehended from those, who hold, "That the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Were we to hold this, in opposition to the natural right of freedom from 'physical... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1833 - 980 pages
...navy, the courtg of justice, or the boards of customs and excise. 2. That, she professes and asserts that the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith. 3. That she has a multiplicity of offices and dignities which are utterly at variance... | |
 | 1833 - 984 pages
...of great ingenuity, was written by Mr. Collins to prove that the passsge in the twentieth article, " The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," was not to be found in any copy of the Latin articles, till it was introduced... | |
 | James Abbott - Episcopacy - 1833 - 398 pages
...that Act of Parliament which ratified the thirty-nine articles of their faith, one of which affirms, " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." This clause is said by them to mean, that the " governors of the church have... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...Church collective and a Church abstractive; and the question arises, Of whom is the latter composed ? ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ' ceremonies and authority in matters of faith.' Does this mean that such a power is vested in, or derived from, all those persons... | |
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