Divine testimony from Scripture's implanted efficacy and the Spirit's inward work; against Miletus on Aesop

This divine testimony is both from the efficacy so divinely implanted in Scripture that its authority does not of itself depend on proofs sought elsewhere, and from the Holy Spirit's inward operation in the reader's heart. That operation, though it cannot alone convince others, vehemently confirms the one who already reads and believes — called the earnest and seal given to believers, the spirit of judgment and of burning (Isaiah 4:4), and fire (Matthew 3:11).

Those who by Aph. VII's monitory and motive arguments have already acknowledged the Christian religion as more probable cannot but admit this testimony's divinity. Therefore Vitus Miletus of Gmünd, a papal man, acts the atheist, not the Christian who knows Scripture's force, when he says: take away the Church's authority and Sacred Scripture will not even be worth Aesop's fables — take away the Church's infallible authority and tradition, and Scripture will have no certainty among humans.