Scripture bears intrinsic divinity notes a well-disposed mind perceives, as critics scent an author

But besides those arguments by which Scripture's divinity can be asserted against a denier, Scripture has in itself very illustrious notes and indications of truth and divinity, by which it proves and commends itself to a mind well affected, whose eye is not blinded by prejudices and perverse affections — although means suited for disputing cannot be taken from them, or certainly not means so valid and efficacious. For just as there inhere in some excellent work of art — for example a Virgilian poem, or a painting of Apelles — certain things by which it betrays its author and claims itself for him; and these are recognized openly, certainly, and clearly, although the unskilled does not attend to them, nor can arguments easily be drawn from them against a denier: so deeply impressed on sacred Scripture are the footprints of the divine Spirit, and the marks of heavenly origin, which those discern whose mind is not darkened, and who are skilled in divine things, and who thereby become certain of its divinity — although ignorant and profane men make light of those things, or do not notice them at all. And certainly, if any are learned in humane letters, when they unroll some human book they easily note in it a certain genius and character by which they are led into knowledge of its author. By that reason critics assert genuine writings to their authors — to Aristotle, for example, or to Cicero — but expunge spurious and supposititious writings, although often what sagacious critics note and recognize they can scarcely explain and demonstrate to another who is not versed in these things. Shall we doubt that the Prophetic and Apostolic writings savor of the divine Spirit, and that there inheres in them a something which a pious and learned man perceives, and by which he distinguishes them from human and Apocryphal writings — although that could not be demonstrated against a disputant who resists?