...treatise Collins shows that the clause in the twentieth Article of the Church of England, declaring that " the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith " is not contained in the Articles as sanctioned by law, and was fraudulently foisted in afterwards....

...manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's word. And by the 2oth of those Articles it is declared, That "the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." What is there meant by the word Church, will appear from the i9th of those Articles, which declares,...

...articles on this subject is expressed as follows : In Article 20 — " Of the Authority of the Church. " 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 anything that is contrary to God's " Word written,...

...Bishops' Courts, moreover, granted all kinds of dispensations, from which considerable fees were received. power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," were somehow omitted in a new edition of these Articles which Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury, had prepared...

...j|TRYPE also says, That on January 12, 1563, Queen ELIZABETH'S First Protestant Convocation met. 3 which agreed on the Thirty-nine Articles. But the beginning of the Twentieth Article being this, Thai the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,...

...by Convocation in 1571, and changes and additions made, notably the famous clause in Article XX., ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,' the insertion of which was afterwards quite falsely attributed to Archbishop Laud, and made a charge...

...the Thirty-sixth, on the Consecration of Bishops and Ministers ; with the words in the Twentieth, ' the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ' ; also, in the case of the Baptists, that part of the Twenty-seventh which relates to Infant Baptism....

...fbisteedeupon derived their binding force. The twentieth Article the Articles. now contained a clause asserting that "The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Such a clause might easily be quoted in support of the pretensions of Convocation. It had been absent...

...is, all of the articles except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and these words of the 2Oth article, viz., ' The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith, and yet — ' ' In 1779 an Act was passed for the relief of the Dissenters which substituted a general...

...than another ? The Church, instead of being under the control of apostolic law, " hath " not only " power to decree rites and ceremonies," and " authority in controversies of Faith," but freedom to determine from time to time all questions relating to its own organization. It may change...