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The 39 Articles of Religion

The 39 Articles of Religion. Part eighteen: Church tradition & discipline. Article XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests.

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The 39 Articles of Religion

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  1. The 39 Articles of Religion Part eighteen: Church tradition & discipline

  2. Article XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

  3. A blessing with trials for all Christians • Paul instructed the Corinthians that they could marry or remain celibate according to their circumstances and spiritual needs • This applies to ministers, who are not a separate class of Christian A. L Grace, Dutiful Husband; Dutiful Wife, 1900

  4. Article XXXIII. Of excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.

  5. Discipline and reconciliation • Excommunication is a tool for protecting the church from heresy, and also for reconciling sinful Christians to God and one another Samuel Seeberger, Penance of King Henry II at the Tomb of Thomas Becket, early 20th C

  6. Article XXXIV. Traditions of the Church It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one, or utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversity of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word. Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly (that others may fear to do the like) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren. Every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, Ceremonies or Rites of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying.

  7. Tradition subject to biblical authority • The articles chart a middle course on church tradition between Roman counter-Reformation authoritarianism and radical low church radical reformers Bishop James Pilkington of Durham’s family at prayer, unknown artist, late 16th C

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