if you might,with a good conscience,have preachingin your house (as your pastor has no objections), solelyfor your own people,and no outsiders belongingto the church.
If your pastor permitit,then you may have it tillit is forbidden you, for you are not expectedto pleaseevery one, althougheventuallyyou may be compelled to give way to the powers that be.
Each one in thingslike these takes the responsibility upon himself.
And do not mind althoughthe preachermay not have been consecrated by a bishop,for it is not to the office of preacherhe is set apart, but rather to the practice of privatemass, and such priests are
Whoever is called is consecrated,and may preach to those who have called him Lord's consecration and ordination,and is a righthonourable one.
My housewife sends her kind regardsto you all.
Luther wrote seven letters on this day,althoughvery weak at this time.
Grace and peace in Christ Your letter,my excellent Doctor, was a great joy to me, not only for itself, but because so many dear travellersaccompaniedit,whom
I received as emissaries of good tidingsof peace and salvation with every respect and delight.Christ, who laid the foundation of this unanimity,will perfectHis work.
I communicate to all the brethren,with every expressionof esteem, my heartfelt satisfaction at the renewed eiForts for union.
You can discuss my proposalfor meeting togetherwith your party, and communicate your decision to me, so that Prince and all our peopleknow.
Melanchthon has, for many weighty reasons, givenup his proposedjourneyto been informed of the faithlessness of the French from many distinguished men.
I am sorry for this people who groan under so hard a yoke.
I could givethem the helpfor which theyplead. Perhapsif they fled theymightfind a home elsewhere.
Christ have mercy on them, and deliver them, and afflictthose who oppress them.
I commend myself to you, my most esteemed I pray, may guide and maintain you and yours to all eternity.
Christian Baume departedthis life.
Philipwrites that he caughtfever on a journey,and the phlegm descended from the head to the chest.
Brtick is not in Prague,Philipdeclares.
As yet we hear nothingof the Austrian journey. Last Sabbath the plague carried away Schadewald, the best citizen in the town, but since that all is quiet. I have catarrh, at times accompaniedby a cough. Many students have returned.
I have no other news.
I should like to know where the Pope'sAmbassador is,for there seems to be a mystery in regardto the whole council.
Greet your flesh and blood from me, and pray for me.
I am at present occupied with Simon and Judas,and the preparation of the thesis against secret mass Cor. chap.13, and also with some other passages where the doctrine of justification is to be found.
Kathie,who rides, drives,sows her fields,buyscattle, and turns them out on the meadows, and brews, sends you her kind regards.
Over and above,she has a bet of fifty florins that she will read the whole So she is in earnest.
She has begun the fifthBook of Moses.