For as they [the Papists] endeavor studiously to weaken the authority of Scripture in order the more easily to establish their unwritten (agraphous) traditions and the supreme tribunal of the pope himself; so, for the same reason, they are accustomed in many ways to impair its necessity in order to prove it useful indeed to the church, but not necessary (as Bellarmine shows, VD 4.4, pp. 119'22). Yea Cardinal Hosius does not hesitate blasphemously to say, 'Better would it be for the interests of the church had no Scripture ever existed'; and Valentia, 'It would be better had it not been written.
Francis Turretin — Institutes of Elenctic Theology
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