The Westminster Assembly Its History And Standards Being the Baird Lecture Fo
The Westminster Assembly Its History And Standards Being the Baird Lecture Fo
Alexander Ferrier Mitchell
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" That of 1563 still asserted that '* The Queen's Majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England and other her dominions, unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesi- astical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not nor ought to be subject to any foreign juris- diction. " Had the words in italics been left out, as they are in the Queen's injunctions, ^ the article would almost have satisfied the more advanced Puritans, as being simply a ...denial of the jurisdiction claimed by the Pope. But, as it was, they desired to see more excluded from the sweep of the su- premacy than " the administration of the word and sacraments, " expressly mentioned in the Ar- ticles of 1563, as not claimed for the sovereign. The first step toward this may be said to have been taken by Ussher in the Irish Articles, in which the words " or the power of the keys " were added to those already mentioned, though the old statement regarding the supremacy was still re- ^ Sparrow's Collfition, pp.
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