Persecution’s long arm continued to search out and oppress the growing number who had the temerity to express their deep conviction that human philosophy and tradition, rather than Bible truth, still prevailed generally in Protestant circles in this vital matter of the nature and destiny of man. There was widespread searching of the Word as the foundation of all faith, and a call sounded for completing the Reformation, which was obviously arrested in this area of doctrine. Note three typical examples in the middle portion of the seventeenth century. CFF2 163.1