...Christ, the only lawgiver of the Christian church : or, whether the church, as by law estab-lished, has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." " The con-troversy may easily be brought to a plain and short issue. It turns upon the single point...

...under queen Maryf . It is probable that the controverted clause of the twentieth article, " the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," was not among the articles of 1562, as has been shewn under that year ; though it might be (according...

...doctrines, and it is affirmed the Church has power over the one, but not over the other; " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Again, in the Canon of 1571, the rule of deciding these controversies is given : " Preachers shall...

...believed, for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture." She claimed to the Church " power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," but always with the provision that her " ordinances be not contrary to God's word written," and that...

...is taught, and false worship performed. False doctrine is taught; namely, — That the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith. (Article 20.) That the sacraments are not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession ; but...

...writings of her most learned divines, from her present established terms of communion, (The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, Art. XX. inter. 39.) and from her repeated practice in holding synods at home, and in sending representatives...

...for her head, and lays claim to some of the highest powers and prerogatives asserted by the other : ' power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.' Here is a foundation laid, broad enough to support almost any superstructure, though as enormous an...

...Elizabeth,t except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the 20th article, viz : " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith, and yet," shall be liable to any of the pains and penalties mentioned in an act made the seventeenth...

...its first clause ? You must allow me to remedy this defect. The Article runs thus ; ' 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 ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written.'...

...lines in the twentieth Article, concerning the power of the Church ; in these words, " The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith;" which words are left out in divers printed copies of the Articles, and are not in the one and twentieth...