...Churchmen. While we reject all claims to ecclesiastical infallibility, we still concede to our Church " the power to decree rites and ceremo-nies, and authority in controversies of faith." * Without this authority, no religious society can preserve unity and discipline among its members....

...rites and 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...

...doctrinef. It has been warmly disputed, whether the first clause of ihe twentieth article, " The church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," was a part of the article which passed the synod, and was afterwards confirmed by parliament in the...

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

...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...

...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...

...where false doctrine 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...

...catholics, from the 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...

...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...

...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...