The Church of Rome could attest the Epistle to them, and the Gospels of Mark and Luke written there.

The Church of Ephesus could attest the Epistle to them, and the Gospel, and Letters, and Revelation of John written there.

And so on of all the other churches; and these veritable autographs were long preserved.

Says Tertullian, who was ordained A.D.

192: "Well, if you be willing to exercise your curiosity profitably in the business of your salvation, visit the apostolical churches in which the very chairs of the apostles still preside--in which their authentic letters themselves are recited (apud quae _ipsae authenticae literae_ eorum recitantur), sounding forth the voice and representing the countenance of each one of them.