Tertullian

“ But although Hermogenes finds it amongst his own colourable pretences [1] (for it was not in his power to discover it in the Scriptures of God) , it is enough for us, both that it is certain that all things were made by God, and that there is no certainty whatever that they were made out of Matter. And even if Matter had previously existed, we must have believed that it had been really made by God, since we maintained (no less) when we held the rule of faith to be, [2] that nothing except God was uncreated. ”