Historical and polity traditions admitted — none for faith dogmas or morals
We do not wholly despise or reject unwritten traditions about historical matters and the Churches' rites, order, and polity.
But we admit none for the dogmas of faith, or for what belongs to morals. What the Spirit did not judge needful to put in writing through his amanuenses the Apostles and Evangelists cannot be known by us with equal certainty, or hold equal authority in the Church, as what he willed to be written, which carries the force of an eternal law
Latin
XXXVIII. Itaque non omnino quidem contemnimus, & rejicimus traditiones non scriptas circa res historicas, & Ecclesiarum ritus, ordinem, atque politiam: sed tamen nullas admittimus circa fidei dogmata, & ea quae ad mores pertinent. Neque putamus illa quae Spiritus non judicavit opus esse scripto mandari per suos amanuenses Apostolos & Evangelistas, tanta certitudine a nobis sciri posse, aut eandem authoritatem in Ecclesia habere, ac illa quae scriptis voluit consignari, ut aeternae legis vim in Ecclesia haberent.