the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Daniel 11:33
"Wessel Harmensz Gansfort (1419 – October 4, 1489) Called “a reformer before the Reformation,” Gansfort was a Dutch theologian and early humanist whose works would inspire Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli.
Gansfort has been called one of the reformers before the Reformation.
He protested against
---paganizing of the papacy,
---superstitious and magical uses of the sacraments,
---the authority of ecclesiastical tradition,
---and the tendency in later scholastic theology to lay greater stress, in a doctrine of justification, upon the instrumentality of the human will than on the work of Christ for man's salvation.
Thomas à Kempis encouraged Wessel on several occasions to turn to Mary for assistance. Wessel reacted by saying: “Why do you not lead me to Christ.."
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