Alexander Beith, D.D., Free North Church, Stirling, Christ Our Life; or, Expository Discourses on the Gospel by John (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1856), "The Eternity of the Word," pp. 3–4

Let us never forget that there is no standard of truth, and no authority in divine things, but the Word of God given by inspiration of his Spirit. There we have a "sure word," and nowhere else,—addressed as God's message…