:::...that are scornfully dismissed and sometimes vilified by the Reformed when they write contrary to the doctrines of Calvin.
These people aren’t “scornfully dismissed” or “vilified”. :::
Irenaeus was scornfully dismissed. His treatise on heresies was dismissed. And therefore anything that he had to say on the subject.
Not by me. I happen to like Irenaeus. I especially like his comment:
For that there is nothing whatever openly, expressly, and without controversy said in any part of Scripture respecting the Father conceived of by those who hold a contrary opinion, they themselves testify, when they maintain that the Saviour privately taught these same things not to all, but to certain only of His disciples who could comprehend them, and who understood what was intended by Him through means of arguments, enigmas, and parables.
Iraeneous-Against Heresy, Book II