XV. Of Traditions.
WE charge them with making some unwritten Traditions of equal authority with the Scrip∣ture, and believing them with a Divine Faith. This we say, derogates from the perfection of the Scrip∣ture, or the written Word of God. For if our Rule be partly the written, partly the unwritten Word; then the Scripture (or written Word) is but part of the Rule; and part of a Rule cannot be a whole and perfect Rule. And we say, That these unwritten Traditions are but humane Ordinations, and Traditi∣ons of men: but we do not say a Papist believes them to be Humane, but Divine, though unwritten, Tra∣ditions: and therefore, though we affirm, that they give equal authority to such Traditions as are in truth no better than humane Ordinations, as to the Scriptures themselves; yet we do not say, that they admit what they believe to be only humane Traditi∣ons, to supply the defects of Scripture, allowing equal authority to them, as to the Scriptures them∣selves; which is the only Misrepresentation in this Character, all the rest being owned by the Represen∣ter himself, who then had very little cause to com∣plain of Misrepresenting.