Brevis admonitio Joannis Calvini ad fratres Polonos, ne triplicem in Deo essentiam pro tribus personis imaginando, tres sibi Deos fabricent

as if he were warring with himself, he cunningly insinuates himself so that he may ensnare the wretched with diverse errors. The madness of Stancaro has already been soundly and clearly refuted by us. Now I will ask and exhort our brethren, who have been deceived by the craftiness of a few men, at least that they do not disdain to attend to my admonition with a composed mind. But if they are docile toward repentance, it will not be difficult for me, as I hope, to bring about that they abhor the impious invention which they have embraced too lightly and inconsiderately.

A false principle is that which is placed in the table, that Scripture always speaks distinctly of the Father, Son, and Spirit: since it is clear from very many places that the mention of God is made now comparatively, now without distinction. If I obtain that there is a double mode of speaking, all that empty speculation—that the Father of our Lord is the one and true God—will soon vanish. I confess, certainly, that where mention is made of the Father and the Son together, the Son is distinguished from the Father: but lest the artisan of the table please himself, I deny that the distinction is perpetual, as he ignorantly boasts.