branches,not the brushwood, but the thicker stems which belongto the officials, and these she would gladlypurchase from the treasurer.
She wishes them for the fireplaces in her new property of Zulsdorf.
But you know far more of these matters than I, therefore you will faithfully discharge this commission.
We shall pay what is requisite, so that the new proprietress may have her kingdom suitablyequipped.
I enclose the new pamphlet against the Brunswick people. There is nothingnew here, not even any news from Once more may you and yours prosper
Protestant delegates which discussed Church union at Worms was as barren of results as that of Hagenau had been.
Calvin was present there also.
My wife had left for her new possessionbefore your letter came, so Anton, instead for the cheese.
I am not greatly enamoured of that kind of cheese,beingpleasedwith our own simple cheese,made of the commonest material,so you need not take so much trouble on our behalf.
It is sufficient that we enjoyyour goodwill, of which we can take advantagewhen necessary, and do so perhaps too often.
We have heard no more from Worms, except that a great number of learned people from Germany have met, and Philipwrites that for no other
Papal council have such extensive preparationsbeen made.
What may further take place God knows.
If the Emperor means honestly, as we presume he does, this gathering,without beingdignified by the name of Council, may turn out to be a true provincial
Council, under the appellation of a specialConference,so that the Pope may not feel insulted at the name of Council failing.He has meanwhile appointedthe
Campegius)as his legate, whom our people will neither acknowledgeas judge nor as president, even were the Pope himself present,for theyhave been forbidden so to do.
For it appears as if a great crisiswere imminent.
May all go well with you and yours.
Written in great haste,and overwhelmed with work.
Luther had littlehope of a happy termination to the Worms He was busy revisingthe Bible,but was often interruptedby illness, from which he suffered duringthis winter.
Philip, to hear you had not received my letters.
But you are not ignorantof the Court and its ways, nor yet of Satan.
I fullybelieved that you had altogether four letters written with my own hand since you went to Worms, only,on account of my indolence and my advancingyears, theywere all addressed to you to save trouble.
Your last letter came to hand yesterday, which contained an account of Granvelle's speech,also of the articles you were asked to supply, which seem most
Christian,and not difficultto accede to ; and, last of all,our answer.
I had great delight over the follyof the devil,or rather in Christ's mighty power, which forced these peopleto undertake so foolish a cause.
If I ever indulgedany hope as to the result of this conference,for which such vast preparations were made, such hopes have now completely vanished.
Everythingthat those who seem possessedof the devil do, assuming to themselves a majesty " nay, seeking to surround themselves with an almost angelicglitter
" will only precipitate their fall.