Epistle to a Good Friend in Italy

...mindful to take such a matter into account and to consider it seriously. What happened, because I was not present at the council, is unknown to me, yet I know that it annoyed many among the protestors that such an ungodly man should live. That one should keep and increase such a plague in the body, and no one requested to write against it, which angered the universities the most. Vorstius's tongue and pen are free. Not long ago, he let a rebuttal go out with the prefixed title: "Christian and Moral Answer to several articles sent from England." He dedicated such a book to the Lords of the States. The zealots took this amiss. For that reason, an examen examination of the Vorstian Answer was immediately prepared by a learned man. From Friesland comes a masterpiece and testimony of the Vorstian conscience and sincerity, which was published by the pastors of the Leeuwarden church. After this, Matthæus Sladus Anglo-Britannus, the Rector of the Amsterdam school, presented to the Lords of the States two disputationes disputations with this title: "Of Blasphemies, Heresies, and Godlessnesses, which were found and rejected by His Royal Majesty in England in Conrad Vorstius's treatise on God and [his] rebuttal."

XXVI.

In the first part, the true Catholic faith of the true immensity, infinity, [and] Trinity of the one God is set against the foreign opinion of Vorstius, who holds that God is finite, and dwells in a dwelling place that is not His own; and it is demonstrated that His aforementioned Royal Majesty, for the most important reasons, condemned the doctrine of Vorstius and his self-contradictory fantasies regarding finitude and habitation, of apparent corporeality and composition...