you, and to my graciouslord,Prince Magdeburg, to atone for my seemingneglect.
I wish you much joy on your restoration to health.
Christ maintain you in good health,so that you may pray for me.
WOrlitz is printed,and I fancy you have all my latest books, for ^ zeal in such matters.
Christ has stricken the shrieker in Leipsicin the pulpitamid his blasphemy. A canon in Hamburg who opposedthe gospelcommitted suicide,and a Sacramentarian plunged into a well,and while they tried to rescue him he laydown on his back in the shallow water, and was drowned.
His last words resembled those of Judas, I have led many astray,therefore I have no hope." Thus, Lord, must thine enemies perish!
Give my respects to your good and uprightPrince,to whom, when I shall write a friendly letter.
Kathie greets you respectfully, and hopes you will pray for her.
Luther asks him to be sponsor for his son.
Most excellent honoured sir and co-sponsor I entreat you for the sake of our JesusChrist that you would humble yourselffor God's sake and for that of my young son, whom
God has bestowed upon me to-nighthrough my dear Kathie,and come to my help,so that he may be translated from the old Adam to the new birth in Christ
Jesus,through the holy sacrament of baptism,and thus become a member of the Christian Church, so that perhaps God may in him raise a fresh enemy of the I wish him christened about vesper time,^so that he may not remain a heathen any longer,setting my mind at ease.
Excellence will agree to this,and helpto In Leipsic.He was a lawyer. perfect the offering to the praiseof God.
I shall ever be readyto requite the obligation.I commit you and yours to Luther exhorts the Prince to cleave to the gospel,despitethe efforts of great Princes to detach him from it.
Grace and peace in Christ,Most Nicolas Hausmann, has told me of your heartfelt leaningstowards the gospel, and how hard it is for you to be faithful to it,not only from longhabit,but on account of several powerfulPrinces writingto try and detach you from it.
It is no doubt true that two such thingsas these,old habits and the persuasion of great people,have influenced more deeply-rooted
Christians than your graciousHighness is yet ; but we must learn throughtime, if we cannot do so at once, that Christ is above all these,and that Him honoured over all.
A council or pope may have the Holy Ghost, and throughit achieve much, but Grace this one thing,that Word are higher, greater,and more to be relied upon than a hundred thousand fathers,councils, and popes, for the Bible classes them all under the name of sinners and lost sheep. Therefore be bold,and not fear earth's potentates, for Christ is greater than all devils,and more to be feared than
Grace's obedient servant, Herzog George of Saxonywas incensed at a letter of Luther's to his Leipsicadherents,and he asked the Burghermasterto inquireif he acknowledgedit.
To the highlyrespectedBurghermasterof Leipsic, u