Denying the Need for Revelation

From the book, Orson Pratt's Works, pages 114 to 115 we read:

 In their zeal to oppose everything under the name of new revelation, some of the more ignorant have assumed that when Christ was lifted upon the cross, and cried, "It is finished," it put an end to all further revelation. If this assumption be correct, then all the books of the New Testament, written years after, must be false. If Christ finished the work of revelation, when He exclaimed, "It is finished," then the apostles must have been base impostors for pretending to receive revelation scores of years after this exclamation. All, therefore, who reject new revelation upon these grounds, are required by their own application of this saying, to reject all the writings of the New Testament: thus, in their heated zeal to oppose new revelation, they not infrequently destroy the very books which they profess to believe.

 A saying of Paul to Timothy is sometimes referred to by the enemies of new revelation, and applied in the most deceptive manner, in order to strengthen the world in the fatal delusion that God will no more speak with man: it reads as follows: "From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation." (II Timothy 3:15.) The objector to new revelation argues, from this passage, that the scriptures, with which Timothy was acquainted in his childhood, were abundantly sufficient to make him wise unto salvation, and consequently there was no need of any more. If this conclusion be correct, it would do away with all the scriptures of the New Testament; for Timothy when a child was only acquainted with the scriptures of the Old Testament, the scriptures of the New Testament not being yet written. Thus, again, the enemy of new revelation in his fanatical zeal to close up the volume of inspiration, has done away the very scriptures which he pretends so firmly to believe.