 | William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin - Church - 1916 - 400 pages
...saints. "The Church," they said, "as the witness and keeper of Holy Writ, ought not to decree anything against the same, so, besides the same, ought it not to enforce anything to be believed for necessity of salvation." Many teachings and practices current among us... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Creeds - 1919 - 950 pages
...scripture, that it be repugnaunt to another. Wherefore, although the Churche be a witnesse and a keper of holy writ: yet, as it ought not to decree any thing agaynst the same, so besides the same, ought it not to enforce any thing to be beleued for necessitie... | |
 | Christianity - 1955 - 512 pages
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 | William Lang Paige Cox - Anglican Communion - 1923 - 360 pages
..." although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree anything against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce anything to be believed for necessity of salvation." The two authorities, the Bible and the Church,... | |
 | Henry Dewsbury Alves Major - History - 1927 - 292 pages
...our Article VIII states, they are secondary to and dependent on Scripture. So that, on the one hand, "although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree anything against the same, so, besides the same, ought it not to enforce anything to be believed for... | |
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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 may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although... 
