The reasons why we should consider none of these writings [i.e., Apocrypha] sacred are: In the first place, that they were not produced by the Spirit of prophecy, since they were written after the time of Artaxerxes, in which no succession of prophets was found (Rom 16:26), Josephus, Against Appian, 2). Second, because they were not placed in the ark, as the tables of the Law were, or beside the ark, as the books of Moses were (Deut 31, Epiphanius, On Measures and Weights). Third, because they were not written or preserved in the Hebrew language, nor did the Jewish church, to whom the divine oracles had been entrusted, ever acknowledge them as such (Josephus, Against Appian, 4). Fourth, because neither Christ, nor the apostles, nor the early Church acknowledges them as such, but they considered them not genuine (Amphilochius and Gregory of Nazianzus, both in Balsamon), and were admitted by the later Church with considerable variance and dispute, and then only as ecclesiastical (Synod of Carthage, 3; Augustine, On Christian Doctrine; Rufinus, On the Creeds, 5). Fifth, and finally, because they contain nonsensical, mainly fictitious things, and things that are not in harmony with the sacred writings — which it would take too long to review here.

Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Disputation 3 Paragraph 38.