Welchman on Article XXI: Of the Authority of General Councils

Edward Welchman, 1790

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Article XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils
General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)

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May not be, &c.] Since it is not lawful for Bishops to leave their own Country, and go into other Domimons, without the Leave of their own Princes, it follows, that they cannot without the Will of Princes assemble at Ge- neral Councils, There were indeed many Provincial Councils, but no General one, before Canstantine, by whose Authority the first, that is, the Nicene Council, was aslembled, as also the following ones were by the Autho- rity of the following Emperors, See Rom. xiii. 1. Let

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See also Andrews’s Sermon of Calling Assemblies. Jerbel’s Apol. Def. Part. VI. Ch. 12. Div. 2, &. Hooker’s Eccl. Pol. B. VIII. Field of the Church, B. V. Ch. 52.

May err] Since Bishops are still but Men, as well when they are in a Council, as when they are out of it, and still liable to the Weaknesses and Impeif ctions of Human Na- ture, it is no Wonder that what is Human should err, and it is manifest that even They have actually erred.

See Bilson of Christian Subjection, Part Ii. p. 369. Pri- deaux’s Fasc. Contr. Ch. 4. Q. 4. Fewe’s Apol. Def. Part IV. Ch. 22. Div. 3, 4. Fiell or the Church, B. V. Ch. 51. Epist. ad Wherefore Things ordained, &c.] See Ignatius. Stop

e your Ears, if any Man speak to you without Jesus „ Christ,” See also Article VI.

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