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

seem to defer the highest honor to them, but they do this primarily to subject them to their own wit. For what other cause is there for attacking the orthodox doctrine concerning the most holy Trinity than that it is absurd to them, and they cannot comprehend by reason how one is three and three is one? They cannot deny that the scriptures everywhere openly proclaim one God, and in turn, teach that the Father is true God, and Jesus Christ the Son of God is true God, and also that the Holy Spirit is true God; and that worship and honor due to God are attributed to these simultaneously, both in Baptism and in the public and private prayers of the pious. And although this simple conclusion is made from this, namely, that the Father, Son, and Spirit are that one true and eternal God, the maker and governor of the whole world, they by no means want to admit it because human reason cannot grasp it. Therefore, to evade the simple sense and interpretation of the words of scripture, they claim all divinity only for the Father, excluding the Son and the Holy Spirit. They leave Christ the name of God, but without the substance and nature of deity, and they make a mere man of him whom the scripture proclaims and all the pious believe to be true God and man. And they rend the holy doctrine, consistent with the scriptures, concerning Christ's eternal deity with atrocious insults, the mere memory of which makes the soul shudder. Aristotle, the highest of the philosophers, writes that some questions are not worthy of a response and dispute, but of a punishment to restrain the petulance of those