Luther's interview with the PapallegateVergerius.
I thank you for the hare and the birds,my dearest Jonas.
I had much to write about,but I am very tired,and the topicsare too numerous even to touch upon with my arrears of work.
Papal legate once more appeared among us in Wittenberg. He is now with the Margrave.
One would fancythe man flies rather than rides.
Bugenhagen and me to breakfast,because the day before I had forbidden the sacrament (Nachtmahl)in the bath.
I ate with him in the castle, but as to the conversation, no human soul could repeat it.
All through the repast . Luther, but represented the EnglishmanBarnes,whom he also invited, but such languageas he used towards you
But more by word of mouth.
Frankfort peoplewrite me complainingthat the Mayence purposes forcingmass and the other Papal rites upon them.
How necessary is it for me to have you all here I must act alone,decide everything, and all because of the plague,at which the devil laughsheartily, beingdelighted that he has succeeded in scattering us all solely because of a few deaths.
God will defend and uphold His word.
I herewith send you the letter of Colditz,from which you can catch a glimpseof this very fine Epicureansect, but can also perceivethat God knows how to revenge contempt of You need have no doubt that our
Prince has arrived safe in Prague.
Melanchthon has written thrice that Dr.
Perhaps it is Bleikardt who accompanied the Prince,and it is onlya mistake in the name.
Brack had been ill,Bleikardt went instead of him on this journey. My Kathie greets you and yours.
She is going on steadily Bible reading. But all the disturbance with that woman robbed her of eightdays'time.
Concerningyour proposedtransaction about the linen, she says you can easilyguess what she would do in such a critical case, especially when she was so anxious to go on with her reading,and yet so afraid of losingthis chance.
My greetings to all your family. St. Martin's evening.
EnglishEmbassy sent by Henry VIII.
Bticer,Capito,Myconius,etc., also arrived,and the disputesconcerning the sacrament were happily arranged,preachersof the one communion being acceptedby the other,and both partiespartook of the Bull summoning a council for the following year, for the furtherance of peace, by extirpatingheresy.
Schmalkalden to gain over the Protestants, but he did not succeed.
Congratulations upon his marriage.
We rejoicegreatly, my Dietrich,over the welcome news of your marriage,and wish you much happiness. And yet not too much, so that should your blissexceed the ordinarylot of husbands, you may not turn
St. Paul into a liar,who snarls at us happy and complacentmarried men, and taunts us with the words, Such shall have trouble in the flesh."
If this should happen,and you find St. Paul has been nearer the truth than you desire,then show yourself to be a man who can bear with the faults of a wife,givinghonour unto the wife,as Rather keep the littlequeen in a good humour than be always looking for righteous cause of anger against her.
Still,you must not let yourself be treated any way.