article of religion

He cited the Book of Common Prayer, Henry VIII, “Elizabeth” and “the 37th article of religion.”

How early this “article of religion” was obeyed, one or two quotations will show.

There's a universal Out-cry against the latter, and even the Emperor sometimes seems to be disturb'd at it, yet 'tis observ'd as strictly as if it was an Article of Religion, and nothing cou'd set it aside but an Oecumenical Council.

I was not of an age to judge of higher things, and I never missed the article of religion, of which, I believe, he had none.

In the fifth Article of Religion in the Methodist Discipline it says: "In the name of the Holy Scriptures we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testaments of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church."