I commend to you this Englishman, Amsdorf, for he passes your way on his journeyto You can hear of us from him.
I do not know in what nest to placethis bird,for you gentlemenof the Treasury have endowed his numerous familyscantily.But Luther has a broad back,and will bear this burden also.
Thanks for supplyingthe wants of the others you sent back here.
Lord be with you, and pray for me.
Luther invites his afflicted friend to visit him.
Grace and peace in Christ,who dwells above all the Yes, my excellent friend,the reason I have not written sooner to comfort you is as much due to the difficulty of sendingletters as to the multiplicity of my concerns.
I am sorry that you will not return to me, as I like so much to have you with me.
I pleadwith you to return.
You would be no burden to me, but a true source of consolation and help.
I shall have a room preparedfor you and arrange everything.What distresses me most is the ingratitude of the Zwickau people in withholdingfrom you what is your due after you have exhausted your means and strengthin their service,which devotion they rewarded by givingyou less and less every year.
Christ will deliver you from them, and requitethem as they deserve.
Lord, our hope and crown, our life and peace, will encourage and rejoice your heart,and enable you to despisetheir poisonousbackbiting.
It is an honour to be hated of the godless.The grace of God and the anointing of the Holy Spiritbe with you.
Grace and peace, dearest friend !
The other day I againwrote beggingyou to come to me, but as you have not repliedI fear you have not got the letter.
I once more pleadwith you to come at once.
An empty room is waitingfor you.
Have no hesitation in coming, for you will be a comfort to me, and would to God you could spendyour whole lifewith me.
It would be easy to entertain you, and a good opportunity of refusing those ungrateful peopletheir request, which otherwise could not be denied them.
BUchholz will tell you what ; but come speedily.Do not trouble about money.
We expect your return as soon as your wife's health will permit. We have served the Lubeck peoplesufficiently, especially through you, whose absence is now becoming unbearable to us.
I am oppressedwith work and often sick,and the Church's money matters suffer, as I cannot attend to them.
Do you know that the devil has justsent a wolf,a Zwinglian, to your peoplein Brunswick And now that Campanus is enteringthe fold of this wolf,I know not whether
God is punishing our town's ingratitude or tryingour patience to the utmost.
You can write them on the subject, or speakof it to the magistrate on your way home.