Two Reformation Principles – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Scriptures, published in 1885. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/

The Reformation is based upon the two principles— Christ only, Christ above all; and the Scriptures only, the Bible above all human authority. Luther found peace for his troubled conscience in Jesus as the Righteousness of God. And because Jesus had become all in all to him, he laid such stress on the Bible, where he had found Jesus. It was Jesus who riveted his heart, and it was Jesus on whose account and in whom he felt, as he expressed it, wedded to the Bible.