“The Church of Rome under the credit of apostolical tradition had smuggled into her communion the most shocking errors, and brought the word of God almost entirely into oblivion, had repeatedly prohibited it to the laity indeed in express terms.”23 Thus, sola Scriptura brought both a renewed contact between the Bible and laity as well as the possibility of ongoing accountability and reform in the church according to the Word of God.
Was it the Reformation or the printing press? They are highly correlates and that does not mean causation.
