William McLellin recalls Joseph Smith calling the creeds a "black deformity."
William E. McLellin, Journal, December 14, 1834, 22–23, MS 13538, Church History Library
Sunday 14 President Smith preached three hours in Kirt during which he exposed the Methodist Dicipline in its black deformity and called upon the Elders in the power of the spirit of God to expose the creeds & confessions of men—His discourse was animated and Pointed, against all Creeds of men—