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Luke 4.
But in truth, in order to feign some excuse for his insults, he complains about me first, claiming that I have insulted him. This I ought not to acknowledge in the least. For one should not think it a crime of insult if I call his most vile crimes by their own names in the most righteous defense of our position. That this was done by me only when I was refuting certain false crimes of his against our Society, the reader will judge entirely if he compares my annotation with his admonition.
On how Schmidelin's curses and hatred toward the Society of JESUS pertain. Pages 4 especially.
Nor, indeed, do I see why it should be counted as a fault in me if I were to say plainly even now that it is a lie for him to deny that his purpose in his Admonition was to prove (though sneakily, as I had shown) that the Jesuits are not Calvinists. "My purpose," he says, "was in no way ever, nor is it now, to prove that the Jesuits do not agree with the Calvinists, but rather the opposite." Yet certainly, either he is not telling the truth now, or the title of his Admonition itself—that is, the author himself—lied before. For he inscribed the booklet thus: "A brief admonition on the crime of falsity and Stellionatus fraud/cheating of the Calvinists, by which he tries to snatch the Jesuits (having corrupted and mutilated their Theses) into HIS Society, by Author Jakob Andrea." If one argues that Calvinists are guilty of the crime of falsity because they try to snatch the Jesuits into their society, is that not proving that the Jesuits are not Calvinists?
Page 4.
Schmidelin is refuted by the very title of his booklet.
Page 4.
"But," he says, "the Jesuits and Calvinists are in agreement on the doctrine concerning the person of Christ." I believe it. Calvinists do not dissent from the Catholic Church on every article concerning Christ. Nor, indeed, do they...