First contradiction: papists equate unwritten tradition with Scripture; kinds of tradition

IX. To the perfection of sacred Scripture that we have explained, the papists first contradict, who equate tradition — or the unwritten word — with the written, and decree that the whole mass of their traditions must be received and believed with equal affection of piety together with the undoubted Word of God. See the Council of Trent, session 4, chapter 1; Bellarmine, On Justification 3.3. When James, bishop of Cloches, had called that decree hard, he was ordered by the pontiff to go to Rome to obtain pardon, as Paolo Vergerio reports in a letter to the king of Poland. By unwritten traditions, says Adam Tanner in the Ratisbon Colloquy, we understand certain precepts or constitutions pertaining to faith or religion which, the infallible authority of the Church set aside, are neither openly expressed in Scripture nor evidently deduced from it.

Note here the cover they stretch: (1) faith-dogmas; (2) moral institution; (3) observation of rites. Hence of traditions we can call some dogmatic, some ethical, and others hieratic or ritual. Dogmatic and ethical ones outside Scripture we receive none. For though not every particular of the Apostles was written — because we have neither knowledge nor number of the particulars — yet their common foundation, reason, and proof is contained in the Scriptures, in which the Church of Christ finds and recognizes the genera of particulars, even if not every particular of the genera. For singular narratives of the sayings and deeds of Christ and the Apostles that are read among the ancients, and that can be called historical traditions, must be judged from Scripture and held as human writings. But ritual traditions are either universal or particular. The former have a general foundation in Scripture (1 Corinthians 14:40), and so are called unwritten traditions only by catachresis — and these we necessarily and gladly receive. But the particular ones, as the name itself shows, could and should vary according to the variety of times, places, and persons, and therefore we judge that they do not oblige the universal Church of Christ.