Internal over External

The confession also maintains the Reformers’ emphasis on the internal testimony of the Spirit over the external or empirical evidences of the divinity of Scripture.

 

Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 89.