The Rule of Faith and Life

"Whatever is not drawn from the Scriptures, whatever is not built upon them, whatever does not exactly accord with them--however much it may recommend itself by assuming the guise of superior wisdom or be upheld by ancient tradition, by the consent of the learned, or by dint of plausible arguments--is vain, futile, in short, a mere falsehood."


(Herman Witsius, On the Character of a True Theologian, p. 31)