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Article 21. Of the aucthoritie of generall Counselles

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Article 21. Of the aucthoritie of generall Counselles

Generall Counsels may not he gathered together without the commaundement and wyll of princes. And when they be gathered together (forasmuche as they be an assemblie of men, whereof all be not gouerned with the spirite and word of God) they may erre, and sometyme haue erred, euen in thinges parteynyng

vnto God. Wherfore, thinges ordayned by them as necessary to saluation, haue neyther strength nor aucthoritie, vnlesse it may it declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.