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John Calvin Quotes: How Modern Calvinists Worship Like Papists (Roman Catholics)

• Musical instruments were among the legal ceremonies which Christ at His coming abolished. - John Calvin, Lecture on Exodus 15:20

• Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting up of lamps, and the restoration of the other shadows of the law. The papists, therefore, have foolishly borrowed this, as well as many other things, from the Jews. Men who are fond of outward pomp may delight in that noise; but the simplicity which God recommends to us by the apostle is far more pleasing to Him. - John Calvin, Commentary on Psalms 33 and on I Samuel 18: 1-9

• Musical instruments in worship were not used in the early church and the best Reformers called the use of musical instruments in worship "the badge of Popery". This is because musical instruments in worship were part of the ceremonial law (shadows) that were abrogated with the coming of Christ (The Light). This is simply classic Apostolic and Reformed teaching, whereas the Papal Antichrist is the one who brought musical instruments into the church much later in history. For verification please read John Girardeau's classic book on this topic, INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH (On the Puritan Hard Drive; 5 Free SWRB MP3s, Free Online Text; Searchable and Enhanced SWRB PDF; Free Video Readings.)

• The church, although lapsing more and more into deflection from the truth and into a corrupting of apostolic practice, had not instrumental music for 1200 years (that is, it was not in general use before this time); The Calvinistic Reform Church ejected it from its service as an element of popery, even the church of England having come very nigh its extrusion from her worship. It is heresy in the sphere of worship. - John Giradeau, Presbyterian professor in Columbia Theological Seminary, Instrumental Music, p. 179, cited in The History of Instrumental Music in the Church

• Musical organs pertain to the Jewish ceremonies and agree no more to us than circumcision. - Peter Martyr Vermigli, quoted in William Ames, A Fresh Suit Against Human Ceremonies in God’s Worship, p. 405

• "Whatsoever is not commanded is forbidden." This, the Scriptural law of worship, is the acropolis of the Church’s liberties, the palladium of her purity, and her God-given moorage. Let the Protestant Church, in creed or conduct, in profession or practice, depart from this divine principle, and she has weighed her sheet-anchor only to find its flukes sundered and herself adrift on the high seas, a craft without compass or chart or polestar, in the midnight darkness of rationalism and ritualism, with her prow pointing to ‘Rome’ as her probable landing-place. - William S. McClure, from The Scriptural Law of Worship, Ch 4 of The Psalms in Worship, ed. by John McNaugher, 1907