The Debrecen Synod (1567) stated that “all marks and
organs of idolatry and the Mass are totally forbidden
in the second commandment— indeed, everywhere
in the New Testament,” and with several proofs from
Scripture prove that “idols and the marks and purposes
of idolatry are to be avoided.” Indeed, “the defilements
of the Antichrist (the Mass, the wafer, the idols, and
every tradition of the doctrine of the Antichrist) are
condemned because they are fornication, the tokens
of idolatry, pretences, sins, scandals, offenses, darkness,
dung, deceptions, tohu bohu (i.e. keni apati, that
is ‘vain deceptions’), skeletons, basilisks’ eggs, spider’s
webs, scorpions, frogs, toads, poisonous things (Isa. 59;
Rev. 8–9, 16–17).”
“The Debrecen Synod (1567) ,” in Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation, edited by James T. Dennison, Jr. (RHB, 2012), 3.12, 14–15.
organs of idolatry and the Mass are totally forbidden
in the second commandment— indeed, everywhere
in the New Testament,” and with several proofs from
Scripture prove that “idols and the marks and purposes
of idolatry are to be avoided.” Indeed, “the defilements
of the Antichrist (the Mass, the wafer, the idols, and
every tradition of the doctrine of the Antichrist) are
condemned because they are fornication, the tokens
of idolatry, pretences, sins, scandals, offenses, darkness,
dung, deceptions, tohu bohu (i.e. keni apati, that
is ‘vain deceptions’), skeletons, basilisks’ eggs, spider’s
webs, scorpions, frogs, toads, poisonous things (Isa. 59;
Rev. 8–9, 16–17).”
“The Debrecen Synod (1567) ,” in Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation, edited by James T. Dennison, Jr. (RHB, 2012), 3.12, 14–15.
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