"wondrous thingsChrist had done in Dantzic" in Grace and peace throughChrist our ! Honoured dear sirs and friends.
In accordance with your request I have done my best to send you an able preacher. But it was not to be that you were to have
Johann Pomeranus, for whom you asked, and whom I would have gladlysent to you.
But our congregation here would not part with him, wishingto retain such as he to train others who may do good service in other towns.
Hanlein, an excellent and learned man, whose equalI do not know, and hope that you will cherish him, and like him the better the longer you know him.
I commend him to your tender care and wisdom, seeingthat he leaves us to go into a strange land.
I hope you will attend to his bodilycomforts in a St. Paul so often inculcate, " They which minister about holythingslive of the thingsof the temple,"and " They which preach the gospelshould live of the gospel."
I beseech you also,my dear sirs and friends,do and suffer everything in order to preserve peace among yourselves, and to prevent fanatics gettingin among you, who, alas,have done much mischief among us in North
Excellencies may perhapshave heard.
If there be anything to alter or destroy,such as pictures, or whatever it may be, see that it take place throughan order from the Council,and do not let the mob attack them, which has happened elsewhere,and which has led to the magistracybeingheld in contempt, whom
God commands to be feared and honoured.
But in particular, see that you are not taught to bear rule according to the law of Moses, and stillless according to the gospel, which is a spiritual law,and must be kept entirely apart from a worldlygovernment, and proclaimed throughthe mouths of the preachers.
And no one must be coerced in spiritual matters, each exercising his own free will as to what he shall believe ; for,it is not the sword which must bear rule here,but the spiritof
I have discussed all these matters with your pastor, Herr Michael, who will instruct you, and whom you must obey.
I commend you to God, who will strengthenand prosper you, to His praiseand honour.
Letter of consolation on the death of his uncle,Frederick the I must try to console your Grace when the Almighty has so tried us
; for we have not onlylost peace in the land, but also our head, of whom we stand greatlyin need at present.
God is wonderful in His working,sendingat once misfortune,and then removingit,so that we may strengthenourselves in I am desolate and afflicted.'* But we must remain steadfast.
It is impossible the old Adam should not suffer through all this,beingtoo weak to bear the trial,but the inner man finds comfort in God's words that He is nighunto those that are of a broken heart.
There can be no other consolation than Word, which bids us trust and call upon Him in all our affliction :
*' Call upon me in the day of trouble,and I will deliver thee," etc.
*' I will be with him in trouble I will deliver and honour him," and such like sweet lovingwords, of which the Prince's death has nothingmournful in it in itself, for it seems as if God had taken him away, like King Josiah,from the evil in the world, because he ruled in a peaceable,quiet way, deserving his name
And one rejoices when such peace-loving souls are not forced to live on amid such confusion,which would grieve us more than to see his last days passedamid war.