Scripture holds the substance — not every rite left to church prudence
We say Scripture contains the former kind — the substance — not those accidental appendages of church faith, morals, and discipline.
Many circumstances of worship and church polity are not set out item by item in Scripture; they are left to the prudence of church overseers under the general rule that all things be done decently and in order in God’s Church.
So Rome’s doctors waste their shot when they press old Jewish or Christian rites, statutes, and ceremonies — still kept among us in worship and polity — as if their absence from a Scripture catalogue refuted us.
Latin
VII. Res prioris generis asserimus sacra Scriptura contineri, non item alias istas, quae sunt ad Ecclesiae fidem, mores & disciplinam veluti accidentariae. Multa enim quae pertinent ad varias divini cultus & Ecclesiasticae politiae circumstantias, fatemur non esse sigillatim in Scriptura tradita, sed relicta prudentiae praepositorum Ecclesiae, sub hoc generali praecepto, ut omnia fiant ordine & decenter in Ecclesia Dei. Unde patet ab Ecclesiae Romanae Doctoribus frustra contra nos in hac controversia, varias instantias peti a ritibus, statutis & caeremoniis quibusdam, quae in Ecclesia antiqua, sive judaica sive Christiana, olim observata sunt, & etiamnum apud nos servantur tam in divino cultu, quam in politia Ecclesiastica, etiamsi nihil de iis in Scriptura constitutum sit.