Barth argues (see below) that Calvin's basing the authority of Scripture in the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit is a way of ensuring and realising that God must reveal himself. Calvin does list what might be termed evidences for Scripture's inspiration (sorry for the lack of references) but these are not conclusive.
I'm sure there must be a wealth of literature on this subject, but I have a hunch even trying to ask the question 'what is this testimony' will only leave us going round in circles, attempting to securely pin down something which floats through our hands.
If this is the case then the multiplicity of Reformed confessions is inevitable and necessary because we have no way to arrive at a public and universal statement (as Barth argues the Augsburg confession was). Even our canon is arrived at by faith. The Church lives by faith all the way down ...
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