77 G.    PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS ON THE FULL HUMANITY OF ALL CONCEIVED "To avoid sexual immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband. The husband must give the wife the sexual intercourse he owes her. Likewise, the wife must give the husband the sexual  intercourse  she  owes  him....  Do  not  defraud  one  another....  Come  together  sexually....  For  [even]  an unbelieving husband is sanctified by his [believing] wife.  And an unbelieving  wife is  sanctified  by her  [believing] husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now, they are holy." - First Corinthians 7:2,3,5,14. 422. In one sense, Protestantism - or that form of Christianity which seeks to abide by the written teachings solely of the Holy Bible - started in the times of the New Testament with the preaching of Jesus and His Apostles also vis-a-vis all manmade traditions. Matthew 5:17- 20f & 15:1-9 & 23:2-35f and Acts 4:1f & 23:6f. As such, by and large, that 'Proto- Protestantism' was continued by the Early Church Fathers of the pre-mediaeval Church. 423. Yet in another sense, Protestantism was rediscovered and developed further - only later. We mean by the post-mediaeval Church, and then again precisely after the invention of printing and the resultant serious study and widespread witness of the writtendown (and henceforth even printed-up) Sacred Scriptures. In this chapter, however, we shall trace only the period from the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation onward. 424. We shall defer to a later chapter below the consideration of the whole question of abortion - whether from a Biblical, from a Patristic, from a Romish, or from a Protestant viewpoint. For the present, we shall confine our attention only to the value of (especially prenatal) tiny human life, as propounded by: Luther; Calvin; the Reformed Confessions of Faith; Ursinus; Keckermann; Wollebius; Owen; Turretini; Riissen; Edwards; Hopkins; the Hodges; Shedd; Delitzsch; Kuyper; Bavinck; Geesink; Machen; Buswell; and Honig. Luther on the value of prenatal human life 425. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther (1483-1546), the great Protestant Reformer, clearly believed that humans who attained adulthood had existed as persons also prior to their birth. Quoting Psalm 139:15 with approval, Luther remarked: "What does the psalmist intend by such words - but to show us by this marvellous illustration [anent tiny human life before birth] how God has always been caring for us without our help. 426. "For who can boast that he contributed any part - to his [own] formation in the womb? Who gave to our mother that loving care with which she fed and fondled and caressed us and performed all those duties of motherhood, when we had as yet no consciousness of our life, and when we should neither know nor remember these things - but that, seeing the same things done to others, we believe that they were done to us also? For they were performed on us as though we had been asleep...or rather not yet born, so far as our knowledge of them is concerned."¹ 427. Elsewhere, Luther discusses Genesis 5:1-8. There,² he rightly observes that the image of Adam in which Seth was begotten or conceived, "included original sin. And the penalty of eternal death [was] inflicted - because of the sin of Adam." Calvin: the teaching on the origin of human life (Adam and Eve) 428.     Professor Dr. John Calvin (1509-1564) was the greatest Protestant and indeed also the                                                      1. M. Luther: The Fourteenth of Consolation, cf. 3 (in Works, Philadelphia: Holman, 1915, I pp. 153f). 2. Luth.: Commentary on Genesis (ch. 5), in Works, St. Louis: Concordia, 1958, I p. 98.