Burden of proof for Apocrypha and unwritten traditions lies on their defenders
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Scripture's perfection is not hurt if it cannot demonstrate that this or that book, falsely presumed canonical, is really apocryphal.
Even if unwritten traditions were granted for the sake of argument, it should be enough for rejecting them that their authority cannot be shown by fit arguments as divine Scripture's can.
It is not our job to prove they are not divine.Those who press and defend them must prove that they are.
Latin
XXII. Ac proinde Scripturae perfectioni nihil obest, si demonstrari per eam non possit hunc aut illum librum, qui falso Canonicus praesumitur, revera Apocryphum esse. Imo, etiamsi omnino steteret de non scriptis traditionibus, ad illas rejiciendas sufficere deberet, quod idoneis argumentis eorum authoritas suaderi & probari non potest sicuti Scripturae divinae. Neque nostrum est probare illas non esse divinas, sed eis qui illas urgent atque tuentur, probandum incumbit illas divinas esse.