Reformed protestant quotes

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. traditions]; still, first, **this has NOTHING to do with the doctrine of faith**, (as to it we cannot extract one iota from them,) but **only with external rites subservient to decency or discipline**” (Antidote to the Council of Trent, 1547, in *Tracts Relating to the Reformation*, vol. 3, trans. H. Beveridge, Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1851, 69).

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