“The truth of the holy Scriptures doth depend upon the truth of God, who is the author of them. He that doubteth the truth of them, either he doth not believe that they were uttered by the instinct of the Holy Spirit, or else if he doubteth not of that, he doth not believe that God cannot lie. Or if he do believe that also, he taketh him to be mutable as man, so that the same which he would have today tomorrow changing his mind, he would none of it. All which opinions be far from them that be of the number of true believers. For they do doubt nothing at all, but that the holy Scriptures be of God, and that God can neither lie, neither be changed. They do say with the Apostle: Let God rather be true, and every man a liar. And with the prophet: The word of God is tried by fire, cleansed seven times.”
Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563), Common Places of Christian Religion, Fol. 163 (Hathi page 345), 1563 (translated from Latin into English by John Man)
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