The "legal History" of Canon Stubbs: Being the Basis of the New Scheme of Ecclesiastical Courts Proposed by the Royal Commissioners of 1881-3

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E. Stanford, 1884 - 100 páginas
 

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Página 61 - I have heard of old Parliament men that the banishment of the Pope and Popery and the restoring of true religion had their beginning from this House, and not from the bishops; and I have heard that few laws for religion had their foundation from them. And I do surely think, before God I speak it, that the bishops were the cause of that doleful message.
Página 82 - The function of such lay judges as may be appointed by the Crown to determine appeals is not in any sense to determine what is the doctrine or ritual of the Church, but to decide whether the impugned opinions or practices are in conflict with the authoritative formularies of the Church in such a sense as to require correction or punishment.
Página 24 - God but only your grace, hath been and is free from subjection to any man's laws, but only to such as have been devised, made, and ordained -within this realm, for the wealth of the same; or to such other as, by sufferance of your grace and your progenitors, the people of this your realm have taken at their free liberty, by their own consent...
Página 25 - Laws being made amongst us, are not by any of us so taken or interpreted, as if they did receive their force from Power which the Prince doth communicate unto the Parliament, or unto any other Court under him, but from Power which the whole Body of the Realm being naturally possessed with, hath by free and deliberate assent derived unto him that ruleth over them, so far forth as hath been declared. So that our Laws made concerning Religion, do take originally their essence from the Power of the whole...
Página 39 - So albeit the kings of England derived their ecclesiastical laws from others, yet so many as were proved, approved, and allowed here, by and with a general consent, are aptly and rightly called, The King's Ecclesiastical Laws of England.
Página 24 - ... them; and have bound themselves by long use and custom to the observance of the same; not as to the observance of the laws of any foreign prince, potentate, or prelate; but as to the customed and ancient laws of this realm, originally established as laws of the same, by the said sufferance, consents, and custom; and none otherwise.
Página 61 - I, because we were so occupied in other matters, that we had no time to examine them how they agreed with the word of God: What, said he, surely you mistook the matter, you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein? No, by the faith I bear to God...
Página 82 - Court to be minute and rigid in applying proceedings of this nature, and that if any article is really a subject of dubious interpretation it would be highly improper that this Court should fix on one meaning, and prosecute all those who hold a contrary opinion regarding its interpretation.
Página 38 - That such canons, constitutions, ordinances, and synodals provincial, being already made, which be not contrariant or repugnant to the laws, statutes, and customs of this realm, nor to the damage or hurt of the king's prerogative royal, shall now still be used and executed as they were afore the making of this act...
Página 62 - The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith...

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