Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... But as it is no small fault to ordain new worshippings of God: the Scripture warneth us hereof, and this one sentence sufficiently sheweth the same: In vain do they worship me with commandments of man. Matth. 15. It is a grievous sin against the first commandment, to ordain or allow worshippings not commanded by God. For the first precept, seeing of forbiddeth there should be any strange Gods, doth also forbid strange worshippings. ...
For more, see Philip Melanchthon on the regulative principle of worship in opposition to human inventions.
For more, see Philip Melanchthon on the regulative principle of worship in opposition to human inventions.