in those dear times, and grant the petition we are compelled to present, viz. that permissionmay be grantedto Rochau to export the corn he has purchased.
God will surely reward this accordingto And we shall earnestlybeseech God to prosper and bless your Electoral Grace's obedient
Topics to be discussed at Schmalkalden sent to the Elector.
Grace and peace in Christ,and my poor paternoster !
We herewith send your Grace our opinions,by which we shall abide.
For things have come to a desperatepass with the Papists, even as with their god, the devil.
They sin knowingly againstthe truth, viz.
Ghost, so one can neither hope nor pray for them.
Eisenach with our people on their way to I would be of any use.
It would only cause fruitless trouble and expense I am ready to do what your Grace wishes, although it would matter little if I closed my eyes once for all and never again beheld the world in its blasphemous fury.
God be praised,surely Philip and Jonas are quitecapable of dealing with these things. I did not think it necessary to call the members of the league (Schmalkaldischen)togetheragain,for matters might have been satisfactorily arrangedotherwise.
Hoping my advice will meet with your I herewith commit you to the dear JuSTUS JONAS, PoMMER, This is the second letter I have written you, and did
I not hope that your answer was on its way hither,I would be very angry at your longsilence,for it seems as if you had been long enough away to be back again. We hear the Diet has been postponed,therefore some of your folks have been expectingyou for two days.
God be praised, all are well here,only your daughter,my Philip, gave us a fright, as she seemed very ill for some hours.
Fama, this sorceress, grows as it spreads.We had two days'sunshine,and then the bad weather returned, but the Elbe is gettingsmaller.
I did not accompany you, for I got no sleeplast nightfrom painin the muscles of the arm between the shoulder and the elbow.
I do not know what it can be,for it does not painme even if I strike it.
I fancyit is the tooth of the serpent, which will not let me bend the arm.
Reinecke, who, before his death, complained of numbness in the arm.
Nevertheless,if wanted, I shall appear among you, for otherwise I feel pretty well, and my Kathie's appetite is returning, and she is creeping round the tables and chairs with her hands.
May you prosper in the The great indiiFerence to the good cause at Grace and peace in Christ Anton, the astoundingindifference which prevails at the Court of Dresden to the cause of God and man.
Pride and greed seem to reignthere.
The old Prince can do little, and the