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Modern Protestants who fanboy over Calvin: “Yes, Traditions have something to do with the doctrine of faith and discipline.” Actual Calvin : “In regards to **Traditions** , I am aware that not infrequent mention of them is made by ancient writers, though not with the intention of carrying our faith beyond the Scriptures, to which they always confine it. They only say that certain customs were received from the Apostles. Some of them appear to have that origin, but others are unworthy of it. These touch only upon a few points, and such as might be tolerated. But now we are called to believe, that whatever the Romanists are pleased to obtrude upon us, flowed by tradition from the Apostles; and so shameless are they, that without observing any distinction, they bring into this class things which crept in not long ago, during the darkness of ignorance. Therefore, though we grant that the Apostles of the Lord handed down to posterity some customs which they never committed to writing [i.e. ...

***COUNCIL OF QUIERSY AD 853 “Omnipotent God created man noble without sin with a free will, and he whom He wished to remain in the sanctity of justice, He placed in Paradise. Man using his free will badly sinned and fell, and became the “mass of perdition” of the entire human race. The just and good God, however, chose from this same mass of perdition according to His foreknowledge those whom through grace He predestined to life [Rom. 8:29 ff.; Eph. 1:11 ], and He predestined for these eternal life; the others, whom by the judgment of justice he ** left in the mass of perdition ** [predestination to punishment] , 5 however, He knew would perish, but He ** did not predestine ** that they would perish, because He is just; ** however **, ** He predestined eternal punishment ** for them. And on account of this we speak of ** only one predestination ** of God, which pertains either to the gift of grace or to the retribution of justice .” = especially the last paragraph, we se...