I am ready to obligeyou in any way, dear sir.
I have received your letter,and understand its object,and in replyto your petitionI present a counterinterrogation. Who bade you write such a letter to me
Was it the clerical gentleman at Cologne,or the assassin at Dresden, or your junker, Herzog When you tell me this you shall receive an answer, printed and full of matter, if God will. am ready to serve you.
J5rgerwas the first ladywho gave Luther for bursaries for poor students.
Honoured, virtuous lady!
Your letter concerningthe gulden,which should have reached Leipsicat Easter, came too late.
I have sent your petitionto Seldener to Ntlrnberg through Lazarus Spengler,begging him to promote the matter through a written document and send it to NUrnberg, although I should have preferred, as I wrote you, that you had done this yourself, which would have been your safest plan ; for I saw from your letter that you wished such alms to be given direct to poor students rather than have it invested,and I hope you will continue in this mind.
Never mind because a preacher is making you anxious about your son, as Michael tells me, threateninghim with law.
Let them go to law if they will.
It is no concern of yours.
The law will decide between them, so do not burden your conscience with it.
I herewith commit you and yours to Brisgeragain returns to you.
God that we had been able to entertain him as he deserved in Wittenberg,but as he is poor, he will have sympathywith us.
There is nothingnew here, for you must have seen my littlebook againstHerzog Hausmann*s health and a pamphlet.
Your illness,dear brother,is a great griefto me.
Christ stand by you, and not only restore you to health,but enable you to bear your illness patiently.For He loves you because you are suffering for Him and proclaimHis word.
Be strong, and despisehim who hates you and hates Him whom you preach,JesusChrist.
By God's help,I am so occupiedthat I could not send you a line by Aurelius this morning. Herzog George has issued a pamphlet which certainly does honour to his talents and character.
God be thanked, who therebylets every one get a glimpse of his foolish heart,and trulyhe has merited this throughhis constant persecution of the Word.
He has now become his own accuser and judge,proclaiming himself to the world as a liar and traducer of the For our own sakes,not for his,we shall answer him in a dignified manner.
Kathie,who holds you in affectionate remembrance, greets you.
You must give my respectful greetings to your noble and highly-esteemed Princes,whose reputation, through the grace of God, is dailyincreasing,being a sweet savour to all.
Weller is conductingthe music duringsupper.
Dissensions still continue among the Niirnberg clergy, especially between I read your former epistle, and also that to the Narnberg magistrate, my excellent brother in Christ, as well as the letters and pamphletsof the other party, and Christ knows what a martyrdom these divisions and scandals are to me.
I can gatherfrom these writings, it seems as if no one would yield. And why ?
If no one will admit being convinced by the other party, will you quarrel through all eternity, to the griefof all pioussouls ?
But if it be a matter of conscience with you, then you merit forgiveness.
Still,if the other side also cannot violate their convictions,then they too must be treated with forbearance.
So let there be mutual forgiveness, and each bear the other's burden, accordingto the law of Christ,and thus the misunderstanding will be cleared away, and the questioncease to be publiclydiscussed,and so, through time, it will die a natural death.
Meantime, cleave to your own opinions,and do not be disturbed by the continuance of publicabsolution in your congregation.Let the others also keep to their own opinionsabout absolution till time softens the feelings and the former unityis re-established, and then a decision can be arrived at without bitterness.
At present, with the strong feeling,nothinggood can be achieved,and these dissensions might easily cause a beam to be made out of the mote, and a great disturbance ensue, which