4. But these teachers of a new Christ, who deny to Him all that is His, preach another Lord Christ as well as another God the Father. The One is not the Begetter but the Creator, the Other not begotten, but created. Christ is therefore not very God, because He is not God by birth, and faith cannot recognise a Father in God, because there is no generation to constitute Him Father. They glorify God the Father indeed, as is His right and due, when they predicate of Him a nature unapproachable, invisible, inviolable, ineffable, and infinite, endued with omniscience and omnipotence, instinct with love, moving in all and permeating all, immanent and transcendent, sentient in all sentient existence. But when they proceed to ascribe to Him the unique glory of being alone good, alone omnipotent, alone immortal, who does not feel that this pious praise aims to exclude the Lord Jesus Christ from the blessedness, which by the reservation ‘alone’ is restricted to the glory of God? Does it not leave Christ in sinfulness and weakness and death, while the Father reigns in solitary perfection? Does it not deny in Christ a natural origin from God the Father, in the fear lest He should be thought to inherit by a birth, which bestows upon the Begotten the same virtue of nature as the Begetter, a blessedness natural to God the Father alone?

4. Ariani alium Christum, ut alium Patrem praedicant. Patrem subdole extollunt, quo Filium dejiciant. 0401C ---Sed nunc hi novi Christi praedicatores, cuncta negando quae Christi sunt, alium Dominum Christum sicuti alium Deum patrem praedicant: quia neque hic genuerit, sed creaverit; neque ille natus sit, sed creatus sit, et per id extra veritatem Deus Christus sit, cui non sit ex nativitate quod Deus est; et extra fidei conscientiam Deus pater sit, cui non 0402A sit in generatione quod pater est. Laudantes quidem merito ita, ut dignum est, Deum patrem, naturae scilicet eum esse inaccessae, inconspicabilis, inviolabilis, inenarrabilis, infinitae, providae, potentis, benignae, mobilis, transcurrentis, manentis intra extraque, et omnia in omnibus sentientis: sed cum adjiciunt ad supereminentiam laudis, solum bonum, solum potentem, solum immortalem, quis non hanc religionem laudationis intelligat eo tendere, ut Dominus Jesus Christus extra hanc beatitudinem, quae soli Deo per exceptionem solius defertur ad honorem, manens ipse et mortalis et infirmus et malus sit, dum in his Pater solus est? Et ei idcirco naturalis 377 ex Deo patre nativitas abnegatur, ne per generationem ea in eo quae naturalis Deo patri 0402B beatitudo est maneat; quia nativitas in naturae ejus sit virtute, quae genuit.