Final reasons for perfection: Scripture's end, God's counsel, the canon's close, and orthodox antiquity
Tenth, from the end of the New Testament, and from the use of all Scripture for the man of God (2 Timothy 3:16; Luke 16:29).
Eleventh, from the sufficient exposition of God's counsel concerning our salvation (Acts 20:27; 26:22; Romans 15:4).
Twelfth, from the closing clause of the whole Christian canon (Revelation 22:18–19), which John Scotus — not the least of the schoolmen, whom Scaliger calls the file of truth — rightly understood not of the Apocalypse alone but of all Scripture.
Thirteenth, from the consent of orthodox antiquity, from which Irenaeus truly and reverently says: The Gospel which they first preached they afterward, by God's will, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the pillar and foundation of our faith. And Tertullian: When we believe, he says, this we first believe — that there is nothing beyond which we ought to believe. I omit others. Those who do not hold and defend this strictly and tooth-and-nail, but decide and so propound their dogmas by the authority of whatever church, and finally resolve them into it — they fall from the first line of the Reformation and stand as near as can be to the old leaven of the papists, which they wish to appear to oppose and spit out.
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10. A fine novi testamenti, & usu totius Scripturae ad hominem Dei, 2. Tim. 3.16. Luc. 16.28.29. 11. A sufficienti consilii Dei de salute nostra expositione, Act. 20.27. & 26.22. Rom. 15.4. 12. A clausula totius canonis Christiani, Apoc. 22.18.19. quam non de sola Apocalypsi, sed de tota Scriptura recte intellexit Johannes Scotus, scholasticorum non postremus, quem Scaliger limam veritatis vocat. 13. A consensu orthodoxae antiquitatis, ex qua vere ac verecunde Irenaeus: Evangelium, inquit, quod tum praeconiaverunt, postea per Dei voluntatem in Scripturis nobis tradiderunt, columnam ac fundamentum fidei nostrae futurum. Et Tertullianus: cum credimus, inquit, hoc primum credimus, nihil esse quod ultra credere debeamus. Omitto alios. Qui stricte ac mordicus id non tenent ac tuentur, sed ecclesiae cujuscunque tandem auctoritate dogmata sua sancjunt atque ita propugnant, ut in hanc illa ultimo resolvant: ii a primaeva reformationis linea excidunt & quam proxime absunt a veteri pontificiorum fermento, quod videri volunt aversari & respuere.