writings since they boast that the Spirit came upon them without the testimony of the Scriptures?9 There is no time to dispute further about these matters. After all, we have treated them sufficiently elsewhere.1 7 Even those who have come to faith before they were baptized and those who came to faith in Baptism came to their faith through the external Word which preceded. Adults who have attained the age of reason must first have heard, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:16),