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

Ebion, Artemon, Paul of Samosata, and Photinus: but they could never establish any churches, unless one counts those few Jews who followed Ebion. Otherwise, all pious men most vehemently detested their dogmas as impious and blasphemous. Indeed, the most pious and learned bishops of that time gathered together and condemned Samosatenus, and with the help of Aurelian Caesar, although he was a stranger to the Christian religion, they cast him out of the church of Antioch. As for Photinus, even the Arians, although they themselves denied that Christ was coessential and coeternal with the Father, could not tolerate him; rather, they condemned his impiety through public writings, sermons, and the council gathered at Sirmium. And so, by the public and common consent of all pious men from the age of the Apostles to our own, this dogma, which is now being revived, has been condemned as impiety and blasphemy. But perhaps they are moved by the authority and holiness of those who first spread these dogmas in our times, and they think these men alone oppose the kingdom of the Antichrist and are building a new and holy church for the Lord. But let them tell us what evidence they have for these things, or by what signs they have gathered and learned them? They praise their teachers: Laelius, Blandrata, Franciscus Davidis, Gregorius Paulus, and others. I do not inquire into their morals, and we shall discuss their dogmas elsewhere. This alone I say and constantly affirm: they have had nothing certain in religion. While he lived, Laelius was familiarly known to me, and he was a friend, as he was to many other good men. He lived for a very long time in Zurich, and