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

himself, and Matthaeus Gribaldus, and a certain Valentinus named Gentilis. Two were not ashamed to profess openly what I said, that there are more gods in number. But under whatever veils he hides himself, their impudence is caught, because if the Son is the same God as the Father, it follows that he was always the God of Israel, from which rank of honor they openly exclude him. Furthermore, because he is called God from God in the Nicene Creed, although the phrasing is harsh, it still aims at nothing else but that the distinction between the Persons is no obstacle to the existence of one essence. Therefore, the statement must be resolved thus: although he is from God, he is nevertheless God, and indeed true God. Indeed, it is likely that when the holy Fathers feared fraud, they deliberately took care to add that, “True God from true God.” Certainly, that this was the mind of the Council is gathered from the Creed of Athanasius, who presided there and moderated the entire action. And I am greatly astonished that those who boast of the Creed reject its certain and suitable interpreter with disdain. I do not now examine the opinions they allege from other ancient Fathers, because