dissension as has existed between us cannot be healed all at once without leavingrents and scars behind it.
For with you, as well as with us, there must be some who are suspiciousof such But if we are in earnest on both sides,and make up our minds to adhere to it,the dear
His grace, so that others may through time give way, and the troubled waters will againbe at rest.
Therefore, I beseech you, set limits to those among you who are raising a hue and cry againstthe Concord^ and see to it that competent people are appointedto teach the people the significance of this matter, so that it may not be hindered.
Even as we here,both in our writingsand sermons, avoid doing anything to inflame the people againstyou in case of doing injuryto the Concord^ which we are most anxious to see become an accomplishedfact, and have vowed to God to make an end of the fighting and disputing, of which we have had more than enough without any good results beingachieved.
I would once more humbly plead,as before,that you would believe that I say, and shall do my uttermost for the furtherance of the bond.
God is my witness that For these dissensions have helped neither me nor any one else,but have done much harm.
Excuse the short answer I must make to your letter, for my head is dailyburdened with business,not to speak of thoughts,so I cannot write and discuss matters with every one as if I had nothing else to do.
I herewith commit you, with all belongingto you, to the Father of mercies and allconsolation.
He grant to both parties of us Holy Spirit, so that our hearts may dissolve in Christian love,and all the scum and rust of devilish human wickedness and suspicionmay be swept away, to the praise and honour of His holy name, and to the salvation of many souls and the destruction of the devil and the Pope, with their followers.
Luther encloses this letter to the Swiss,and tellsof Bugenhagen'swork in Copenhagen,where he acquireda warm friend in Herzog Albrecht of Prussia.
Bucer, I have answered the letter of the Swiss which you gave me at Excuse the delayto them as best you can, for you know, besides the sloth of age, how the care of our
Church rests upon me, as well as many hateful matters.
I send you a copy of the letter, so that you may have the rudder to steer the ship. I have referred everything to you and Capito,else I would have had no reason for writingso lovingly as ; for you two have made it difficultfor me to do so, as you told me my letter mightreach the hands of some who were opposed to the But you will settleeverythingaccordingto the giftthat has been given you.
I have at least written openlyand honestly.
I do not approve so highlyof the Latin Confession of the Swiss as of the German one of the towns, especially in the article of the sacrament of the altar.
The other is well enough as the times go.
Dr. Capitofrom me, and all your people. Pommer isstill in Denmark, and by the blessing of God is progressing favourably with his undertaking.He has crowned the King and Queen like a real bishop. He has also established a school,etc.
Farewell in the Lord.
Protestants' zeal,thought it time for the Princes to act, so he managed to get Albrecht of Mayence,the Brunswick,Herzog George of Emperor and his brother, to sign a treatyat
NUrnberg to protect one another.
Protestants received the