Our adversaries have no references and no command from Scripture for defending the use of the ceremony for freeing the souls of the dead. Yet they receive unlimited revenue from this. Certainly it is not light sin to establish such services in the Church without God's command and without the example of Scripture and to apply the Lord's Supper to the dead. (It was set up for commemoration and preaching among the living.) This violates the Second Commandment by abusing God's name.
Apology of the Augsburg Confession XXIV (XII). 89 The Mass
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