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This was the Reformation, where Protestants believed and taught what came to be known as 'sola scriptura', or 'scripture alone.' In "The Creeds of Christendom" Philip Schaff says:-

The Reformation was eminently practical in its motive and aim. It started from a question of conscience: 'How shall a sinner be justified before God?' And ... 'What shall I do to be saved?' The answer given by the Reformers ... was: 'By faith in the all-sufficient merits of Christ, as exhibited in the holy Scriptures.' And by faith they understood not a mere intellectual assent to the truth, or a blind submission to the outward authority of the Church, but a free obedience, a motion of the will, a trust of the heart, a personal attachment and unconditional surrender of the whole soul to Christ, as the only Saviour from sin and death [and] The absolute supremacy and sufficiency of Christ and his Gospel in doctrine and life, in faith and practice, is the animating principle [of] the Reformation, and the essential unity of Protestantism ...

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The Reformers were baptized, confirmed, and educated, most of them also ordained, in the Catholic Church, and had at first no intention to leave it, but simply to purify it by the Word of God. They shrank from the idea of schism...When the Pope refused to satisfy the reasonable demand for a reformation of abuses, and hurled his anathemas on the reformers, they were driven to the necessity of organizing new churches and setting forth new confessions of faith, but they were careful to maintain and express in them their consensus with the old Catholic faith as laid down in the Apostles' Creed.

(From Volume 1, Chapter 2, 'The Apostles Creed', in the book " THE CREEDS OF CHRISTENDOM with A HISTORY AND CRITICAL NOTES"

BY

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, N.Y.

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOLUME I.

THE HISTORY OF THE CREEDS

Bibliotecha Symbolica Ecclesiæ Universalis

SIXTH EDITION-REVISED AND ENLARGED

Harper and Row, Publishers

Copyright, 1905, 1919 by David S. Schaff)
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