...and consciences of men; and both assert and put in execution the assertion, that " the Church bath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Now, this is an assumption, we conceive, which cannot be allowed, without a total abandonment of our...

...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...

...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 constraint and restraint,...

...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 power to determine what...

...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 by Laud.J We cannot enter...

...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...

...explain what is meant by falling from grace. So again, whereas it is said in the twentieth Article, the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ; ministers may not enquire what is meant by the Church, whether the Church Catholic, or Church of...

...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...

...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...

..." it is unlawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written ;" yet " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Indeed, to speak of a Society without its consultations, of a Christian Society without its Synod,...