Assertio vera de Trinitate, contra quorundam deliramenta quae ex Serveti aliorumque phanaticorum hominum opinionibus nunc primum in quibusdam Hungariae partibus exorta ac publicata sunt

our faith conceives three Persons in one essence, and that from this the efficacy and fruit of Baptism flow, because God the Father adopts us in His Son, and through the Spirit, cleansed from the filth of our flesh, reforms us unto justice. Augustine, in Sermon 189 on the Trinity, explaining this passage, says: Let it suffice for us to know concerning the Trinity what the Lord has deigned to explain. Therefore, what He says to the Apostles, Go, baptize all nations in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: I hear three names and one name of God. For He did not say, in the names, but in the name. He says three names, and how are they one? In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, it is one: but the Trinity is the name that is spoken, In the name of the Father of God, of the Son of God, and in the name of the Holy Spirit of God. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one name of Divinity. But you ask of me, how are three called by one name? I do not know, and I willingly profess my ignorance. What Christ wished to indicate, this alone I know, because in this I am a Christian, because I confess one God in the Trinity. See Galatians 4, 1 Corinthians 12, 2 Corinthians 13.

2. From the perfect number of witnesses. For Christ, John 8, says that He and the Father are two witnesses. John adds a third, namely the Spirit, 1 John 5, and says that these witnesses are one. Even though