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A BRIEF ADMONITION

of John Calvin to the Polish Brethren.

I have recently inspected with no small amount of bitter grief a table published in Poland, which makes Christ and the Holy Spirit into gods other than the Father. For a long time, this concern has not without reason kept me anxious, lest the impertinence of Stancaro Francesco Stancaro, an Italian theologian who held that only the Father is the one true God, and that Christ is Mediator only according to his human nature carry away brethren who are less practiced in the Scripture, so that for the sake of avoiding one absurdity, they might fall into another, fouler one. Therefore, that which I feared has happened, and it has been shown by a sad example how harmful a plague contention is, where the intent is more to defeat an adversary than to defend a good cause simply. The crude madness of Stancaro was deservedly repudiated by the Polish brethren. But while they were guarding themselves against one piece of devilish cunning, another impostor, Blandrata Giorgio Blandrata, a physician and Antitrinitarian agitator, crept in—worse than Stancaro—and abused this occasion to spread an error no less detestable. Thus, indeed, Satan has been deceitful from the beginning, and now too he transforms himself in various ways, and