...under Queen Mary.^ It is probable that the controverted clause of the 20th 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 jt might be (according...

...the doctrine.f It has been warmly disputed, whether the first clause of the 20th art. 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...

...thought requisite or necessary to salvation." — Eighth Article. And again in the Twentieth Article: ' 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 written v,(,rd; neither...

...all things," and then " hold fast that which is good." Your twentieth article says, that, though " the church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,* — yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written,"...

...that it expressly and strenuously renounces such admission. The 20th article indeed asserts, that ' the church hath power to ' decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in con* troversies of faith ;' that is, that its conclusions have weight cozteris paribus, which is no...

...man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying." In fine, she declares that " the church has power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." Now it is evident that these principles are calculated altogether to prevent disturbance and schism....

...will heartily join in it. It turns upon the single point of the XXth Article of your Church, w'z. That the Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith. For, if the Church hath really this authority and power, then all objections of the...

...except the 34th, 35th, and 36th, and the words of the 20th [" The Church hath power to decree Rites or " Ceremonies, and authority in controversies of Faith, and yet''—] shall be liable to the penalties of 17 Car. 2. ch. 2—22 Car. 2 ch. 1, as to preaching—or to the penalty of lOO2. by...

...of Holy Writ," enthrones the Book of God amid her assembled councilors, and declares that, having " power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith," she yet may not "ordain anything that is 497 contrary to God's Word written, neither so expound one...

...and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith. ARTICLE XX, 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 any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither...