Disputationis contra Ebionitas, Iesu Christi Domini nostri deitatem negantes & philou anthrōpou eum esse fingentes sōmatopoiēsis

TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS AND TRULY NOBLE,
flourishing in the praise of Orthodox Religion, virtues, and lineage, the Lords Counts, Lord JOHANN and Lord NICHOLAS, Counts of Ostrorog, brothers german. Greetings.

A decorative initial V contains a small circular emblem of a sun or star.Although, illustrious Lords Counts, you have hitherto exhibited such specimens of virtue in faith and constancy in true Religion, following the footsteps of your most praiseworthy Parents, that we all are persuaded in the Lord that God the Best and Greatest will perfect the egregious work which He began in your noble Ancestors and committed and gave to you as a lamp to be carried and pursued in your course we think to His glory and the benefit of the Church and Republic. Nevertheless, for this reason, you are to be reverently exhorted that you may strenuously, just as not indeed? you have begun, proceed to walk with an unoffending foot in the way of Christ. For there is no doubt to us that it will happen that, through his emissaries, the Jesuits, Ebionites, and other fanatical Sophists, that Tempter will attempt to winnow and shake you like wheat, by leading you away from the holy study of true Religion. Therefore, so that you may be able to resist, sober, vigilant, and firm in faith, and that you may never allow the love of truth to be snatched from your hearts, the profession from your mouths, and the banner from your hands, we pray with our whole heart to the Son of God our Lord Jesus Christ, the combatant and arbiter? of that religious knighthood of yours.

Furthermore, since it is very much in your interest to have at hand firm Demonstrations by which, as with an adamantine defense, the leaden weapons of the Heretics can be broken and repelled, it has seemed good to me to show you a specimen of this in this Disputation against the Ebionites (whom I hear are also causing great disturbances to the reformed Churches in the most ample and now most flourishing Kingdom of POLAND). It will be of your excellent virtue and humanity to receive this Disputation with the same benevolence with which you have followed me in previous years, according to your heroic kindness. Fare well, illustrious Lords Counts, may Jesus Christ the Lord of lords be at your right hand, and may He rule and protect you. Amen. From the Academy of Basel. 1583.

Most loving and observant of your name,
JOHANN JAKOB
Grynaeus.