Ad omnes Germaniae ecclesias reformatas, piorum, qui sub Zvingliani et Calviniani nominis invidia, vim & iniuriam patiuntur, apologia

We reject heresies condemned long ago.

On the contrary, we reject and detest with our whole heart the heresies condemned by the Church and by Orthodox Councils and Fathers. This applies primarily to those who once thought otherwise about God and his essence, and about the distinction of persons in the holy Trinity, than is taught in the Scriptures, such as Praxeas, Sabellius, and Photinus; and likewise those who denied the eternal Deity of the Son of God, JESUS CHRIST, such as Arius and those who either preceded him or followed him in later times. It also applies to those who attacked the true and eternal divinity of the Holy Spirit, which Macedonius and his followers once did. Furthermore, we condemn all those who either rend his person because of the diversity of natures in Christ, such as Nestorius, who prattled that the λόγον the Word or God the Word was present with Christ the man only by assistance, just as he was present with Elijah and other saints, but was not united by a personal union; or those who confuse the natures because of the unity of the person, such as Eutyches, who imagined that the human nature was converted into the divine and absorbed by it, and who, to protect his error, overturned and abolished all doctrine concerning the communicatio idiomatum communication of properties.

And lest anyone think we are feigning something here, the matter itself speaks for us. Indeed, in defending the doctrine of truth, our Churches have always been joined with the German ones. Likewise, no heresies have arisen