a sensation,should be reissued among you.
For we all hungerand thirst after love.
Luther complainsof his opponents ragingagainsthim.
Indulgencesare thunderingat me from the pulpit, so that their stock of insultingepithets is exhausted.
They tell the peoplethat I shall be burned in fourteen days " another makes it a month.
They are also issuingcounter-propositions, so that I fear ere long they will burst with fury. I am advised not to go to Heidelberg,so that they may not accomplishthrough deceit and wiles what they are unable to achieve through force.
I shall render obedience,and come on foot, and, if God will,pass throughErfurt ; but do not wait for me, for I shall scarcelybe able to start tillthe Wednesday after Quasimodo.
Prince, who devotes much time to the study of this theology,and loves it, is a warm protector of Carlstadt and me, and will not permit me to be lured to They know this,and are furious at it.
So that you may not have an exaggeratedaccount of the burningof Tetzel's theses,I shall tell you the facts.
The students, who are heartily sick of sophistical teachingand longing for the sacred Scriptures, are most favourable to me.
Tetzel, the originator of them, had sent a man from Halle,theyimmediatelywent and asked how he dared bringsuch thingshere.
Some bought a few, while others robbed him of several,and burned the rest " about eighthundred copies " after proclaimingthat the burning and funeral of Tetzel's answer to them would take place at the Market at two o'clock.
And all this was done without the knowledge of the Council,or any of us.
We all think it very bad of our peopletreatingthe man so.
It has caused much talk,especially among Tetzel's followers,who are naturallyvery angry.
I do not know how it will all end, only it has placedme in a more perilousposition.
Staupitz, his Superiorand Father in Christ Jesus.
Although overwhelmed by business, I feel constrained briefly to address my father in the To beginwith,I am quitewilling to admit that my name is in bad odour with very many.
For these good folks assert that I despisepsalters and other forms of prayer, nay, even good works themselves.
St. Paul himself was often treated in the same way, some accusinghim of saying, Let us do evil,that good may come."
Tauler's theologyand that other treatise which you had printedthrough our I teach that man must trust solelyin " neither in prayer, merit, nor works, but hope for blessedness only throughGod's mercy.
It is from this that these people extract poisonand disseminate it everywhere,as you see.
Only as it was neither good nor bad report which made me act so, therefore I take no notice of all this, althoughit is those thingswhich bringdown the hatred of the schoolmen about my neck.
I preferthe mysticalwritingsand the Bible to them, their wrath and jealousy are unbounded.
I do not read the scholastics blindfolded,as they do, but ponder them.
The apostletold us to prove all things, and hold to that which is good.
I do not despiseall theirs,neither consider it all good.
But these creatures generallykindle a fire out of a spark,and make an