Assertio orthodoxae doctrinae de duabus naturis Christi, servatoris nostri, opposita blasphemiis & sophismatibus Simonis Budnaei nuper ab ipso in Lituania evulgatis

that which he defends in this little book. For thus he
has better provided for your honor, which he had
somehow polluted by the inscription of an impious
book. I also, who had heard from friends that your
Magnificence's piety in embracing and propagating the
true faith was proclaimed, have attempted to wipe away
with a public writing this stain and blot, which Budny
had sprinkled upon you by the patronage of his
blasphemy attributed to you. And I have done this the
more willingly, because I heard that the illustrious
and magnificent Lord, Lord Johannes Crotozinius,
Palatine of Wladislaw, is connected to your Magnificence
by some affinity; for it has long been clear to me
what an ardent and sincere zeal that hero has for
defending sound and orthodox doctrine. And since he
has shown his benevolence toward me, which he has
bestowed upon me for the same zeal, by many
testimonies toward me, I do not doubt that this duty
of mine will also not be ungrateful to him. Indeed,
Budny seems to adorn your Magnificence with ample
praises, but in reality, he affects you with the
greatest insult. For if he judges you to be of the
number of those who approve their dogmas, he cannot
inflict greater ignominy upon you before all good men
than by having introduced this foul suspicion into
the minds of men, that you are delighted by these
blasphemies which deny Christ to be God. But if your
Magnificence truly embraces a sentiment far different,
see, I ask, what judgment Budny himself has of you:
he considers you, namely, to be of the number of those
who err in the foundation of faith, who promote false
doctrine, and attack the divinely revealed truth, who
foster a most pestilent dogma, and who go to destruction.
For he bestows these praises in his very Preface