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XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils.

[The Twenty-first of the former Articles is omitted; because it is partly of a local and civil nature, and is provided for, as to the remaining parts of it, in other Articles.]

The original 1571, 1662 text of this Article, omitted in the version of 1801, reads as follows: "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."

Wait a minute. So, this means there are how many articles, 39? 38?

What's that? You don't care?

This is part of 39 Articles of Religion in the 40 Days of Lent, Sinden.org's Lenten devotion.

Previously: I've covered all the articles to this point, including Articles I, VI, XI, XVI & XX