Assertio vera de Trinitate, contra quorundam deliramenta quae ex Serveti aliorumque phanaticorum hominum opinionibus nunc primum in quibusdam Hungariae partibus exorta ac publicata sunt

...the fact that it was barely permitted to touch the threshold of our house because of the contagion, I was oppressed by infinite cares. The following year was, for the most part, given to the French churches, to which, when it seemed that peace or at least some respite had been granted, there occurred that horrible slaughter, than which it is established that nothing more perfidious or savage has ever happened, even among the most ferocious peoples. That event, indeed, mindful of my promises and rereading what I had collected about that matter over several years, so disturbed me that even now my spirit cannot sufficiently settle. This is not at all because I am unaware, or have not long since reflected, that this is the condition of the pious, but because not to be most vehemently moved in such a great and unexpected calamity would have been the mark of a stunned rather than a strong and constant mind. Added to this was the fact that, shortly before, our Crispin had died, and no one sufficiently suitable was found who could attain the incredible παρερμηνείαν misinterpretation of our Master Melius, which was divine rather than from a writer, and I had returned the books he sent to me to our Master Laficius very reluctantly, which otherwise I had long ago hoped and wished to publish (and certainly not without great fruit for the Church, as I suppose). Therefore, what was I to do, being prohibited for so long from satisfying your desire, and seeing that I could in no way sustain my own plans to fulfill my promise? Necessity compelled me to enter upon a new method, taking from you creditors what I would pay back to you yourselves, namely through this very book which I inscribe to you, its author. And indeed, why should you, being so rich at home, beg for what you have inside from elsewhere? But it also happened very conveniently that, besides that most learned book of Petrus Carolinus, pastor of the Varad church, Master Hieronymus Zanchus, professor of Sacred Letters at the University of Heidelberg, a man endowed with singular learning and piety, treated this entire argument so accurately that, for me, the matter now seems to need no other explanation. But you will say that they will persist regardless. Let them persist, indeed, until the Lord Himself restrains them in His own time. However, let individual pastors be vigilant, and let them bravely use these weapons now prepared against those hungry...