Heresy is self-will, while faith is submission of our will to the divine authority. When one succeeded in finding definite truth, when he believes, heretical wits are always offering many things for vain discussion. Heretics not to be allowed to debate out of the Scripture. The Scriptures, in fact, do not belong to them. Apostolic sanction to this exclusion of heretics from the use of the Scriptures, heretics, according to the apostle, are not to be disputed with, but to be admonished. Heretics do not use, but only abuse the Scripture. There are no common ground between.
CHRIST first delivered the faith. The apostles spread it they founded churches as the depositories thereof. That faith, therefore, is apostolic, which descended from the apostles, through Apostolic churches. In order that the truth may be adjudged to belong to us, 'as many as walk according to the rule,' which the church has handed down from the apostles, the apostles from CHRIST, and CHRIST from GOD. The reason that heretics ought not to be allowed to challenge an appeal to the Scriptures, since we, without the Scriptures, prove they they have nothing to do with the Scriptures. For as they are heretics, they cannot be true Christians, because it is not from CHRIST.
Great evil ensues to the weak in faith, from any discussion out of the Scriptures. Conviction never comes to the heretic from such a process.
A proper seeking after knowledge, which will never be out of place or excessive, is always within the rule of faith. Let our 'seeking,' therefore be in that which is our own, and from those who are our own.