Luther used the two works of the Frenchman as the texts for his early lectures.

From them he drew very heavily; indeed it was doubtless Lefevre who first suggested to him the formula of his famous "sola fide." The religious renaissance in England was led by a disciple of Pico della Mirandola, John Colet, [Sidenote: Colet, d.

1519] a man of remarkably pure life, and Dean of St.Paul's.

He wrote, though he did not publish, some commentaries on the Pauline epistles and on the Mosaic account of creation.

Though he knew no Greek, and was not an easy or elegant writer of Latin, he was allied to the humanists by his desire to return to the real sources of Christianity, and by his search for the historical sense of his texts.