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Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica; Or the Doctrine of the Church of England
Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica Or the Doctrine of the Church of England Author:William Beveridge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: University Press Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gener... more »al Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ARTICLE XX. OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH. The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith. AFTER the nature of the church described, here we have the authority of the church asserted; which authority extendeth itself to two things, to the decreeing of ceremonies, arid to the determining of controversies. And truly this Article is very fitly inserted amongst the rest; for had not the church this power, this convocation in particular which composed these Articles would have had no power or authority to have composed them, there being several rites decreed, and many controversies decided in them. And therefore was it a great act of prudence in their determining of controversies, to determine this controversy in particular, that they had power to determine controversies; that this controversy being determined, that they had power to determine controversies, all the other controversies determined by them, might be the better relished and received by them for whose sakes they were determined. But this by the bye. What they here determine concerning the authority of the church (spoken of in the foregoing Article) is, that " the church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." First, it hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, so that it is lawful for the church to decree and appoint what rites or ceremonies shall be used in the public worship of the great God; not as parts of that worship3, for...« less