Tertullian, Prescription against Heretics 19

Therefore we must not appeal to the Scriptures, nor set the contest in them, where the outcome is either no victory, an uncertain one, or a tie that is equally uncertain. Even if a comparison of the Scriptures did not end up leveling both sides, the logical order demanded that the primary question be raised first—the only question now at issue: To whom does the faith itself belong? Whose are the Scriptures? From whom, through whom, when, and to whom was the discipline that makes Christians handed down? For wherever the truth of Christian discipline and faith appears, there will be the truth of the Scriptures, of their interpretations, and of all Christian traditions.