 | John Bainbridge Smith - 1830 - 540 pagina’s
...those whose faith shall or shall not save them. SECT. II.—ART. XX. OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH. The Church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of Faith. And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordai any thing that is contrary to God's... | |
 | William Turner - 1832 - 168 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - 1833 - 428 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | James Abbott - 1833 - 398 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1833 - 984 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1833 - 980 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - 1834 - 640 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Kempthorne - 1835 - 230 pagina’s
..." 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,... | |
 | Richard Parkinson (D.D.) - 1835 - 448 pagina’s
...same unmutilated condition as she received it from her fathers. "She has power," says the Article, "to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : and yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing which is contrary to God's word written : neither... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1835 - 878 pagina’s
...the church is infallible. The 20th article " of the authority of the church," declaring tbit she " hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith ;" but confines that authority to the decreeing of such things only as are consonant with the Scriptures.... | |
| |
The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith... 
