Vita clarissimi viri D. Iosiae Simleri Tigurini, S. Theologiae in Schola Tigurina Professoris fidelissimi

he has stirred up from the underworld the ancient errors original: "antiquos errores ex inferis rursus excitauit", with which he attempts to remove this very Christ from the minds of men, and consequently to block for them the way of salvation, which is Christ alone. For since Christ, our Lord and unique Savior, consists of two natures united by a most tight and indissoluble bond through the ὑπόστασιν hypostasis/personhood, in such a way that each nature nonetheless retains its properties safe and sound, that crafty and cunning serpent easily saw that if either both of these natures, or at least one of them, were removed from the minds of men or called into doubt, no hope of salvation would remain. And so, through other idle men, he attacks and calls into doubt the divinity of Christ; through others, his humanity. Simler refuted these two errors—which are wrapped in subtle and thorny Sophismata sophistries/specious arguments, paving the way toward Islam or rather Epicureanism, and which are clearly abhorrent to sacred and canonical writings, to the works of the ancient Orthodox fathers, to the decrees of the most ancient Councils, and finally to reason and truth itself—by the authority and testimonies of both canonical writings and the fathers and councils of the primitive church, so solidly and clearly that it seems nothing more plain or solid can be said against them. And against those who attack the Deity of Christ, the Arians and Samosatenians of our century, these writings of his exist, most worthy of reading: Three books on the eternal Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, against the new Arians and Tritheists, to which are joined two books against the same regarding the Holy Spirit. These books pleased Theodore Beza, the most learned and acute theologian of our century, and many other learned men, and rightly so, since nothing firmer or plainer can be said against those attackers of Christ’s divinity. Finally, to these was added the assertion of orthodox doctrine concerning the two Natures of Christ our Savior, opposed to the blasphemies and sophistries of Simon Budny, who most manifestly attacks the Deity of Christ. Against the others, however, who diminish and call into doubt the humanity of Christ, such as the Anabaptists, Schwenkfeldians, and Ubiquitarians, these were written by him, which follow: A narrative of ancient controversies concerning the one person and two natures of Christ the Savior, together with a collation of the controversies of our time, published with the Latin writings of the ancients regarding the same controversy, which have been revised by him, illustrated with summaries and annotations, and joined into one volume. Also an Apology (of which he himself is the author) of the ministers of the Zurich church to con