Desiderius Erasmus on the Reformation Bible’s Hebrew/Greek Scriptures

“The highest use of the revival of philosophy will be to discover in the Bible the simple and pure Christianity.  I am fully resolved to die in the study of the Scripture.  In that is my joy and my peace.  The sum of all Christian philosophy is reduced to this:—to place all our hope in God, who, without our deserts, by grace, gives us all things by Jesus Christ; to know that we are redeemed by the death of his Son; to die to the lusts of the world; and to walk conformably to his doctrine and example; not merely without doing wrong to any, but doing good to all; to bear with patience our trial in the hope of a future recompence; and finally to ascribe no honour to ourselves on the score of our virtues, but to render praise to God for all our strength and works.  And it is with this that man must be imbued until it becomes to him a second nature.”

d’Aubigne, J. H. Merle, History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, &c., (New York: Robert Carter, 58 Canal Street, 1844) Vol. I of IV, pp. 101-102.