First Helvetic Confession · 1536

Chapter 3: Of Mannes Tradicions

Of Mannes Tradicions

As to other thynges, of tradicions of men howe bewtifull & how moch receyued soeuer they be, what so euer tradicions withdraweth vs & stoppeth vs fro the scripture, of such do we answere the sayenges of the lord as of thynges hurt full and vnprofytable, they worshyppe me in vayne teachyng the doctrynes of man. Math i. xv.