Reply: tradition is as silent — lost-tradition retorsion mirrors the lost-books attack
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If the silence proves Scripture incomplete, it equally proves Scripture-plus-tradition incomplete — tradition is silent too.
Let Rome name the Old-Testament remedy for women and for boys who died before day eight from her unwritten word.
If she says the tradition perished, her own lost-books attack against the Canon rebounds on her.
One could as easily stash the missing remedy in the prophetic books she claims are gone.
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XVII. Respondeo illo argumento, si aliquid virium habet, posse probari non tantum Scripturam non continere omnia scitu necessaria, sed totam fidei doctrinam non posse sufficienter hauriri ex Scriptura sacra & traditione non scripta simul sumptis. Etenim hic non minus tacet traditio & verbum non scriptum quam Scriptura sacra. Alioqui depromant nobis Pontificii ex traditione sua quodnam fuerit illud remedium peccati originalis sub Veteri Testamento in foeminis & masculis morientibus ante octavum diem. Quod si dicant traditionem illam intercidisse, retorquebitur in illos argumentum istud quo probare nituntur Scripturam sacram non esse sufficientem fidei regulam, quoniam, ut putant, quidam Scripturae libri perierunt. Et pari facilitate poterit dici hoc fuisse contentum in quodam ex istis libris propheticis quos interiisse contendunt.