of church service,even as it was impossible to do so in the Papacy.
For althoughwe arrange this or that here, others will not be led by us.
Even the Apostlesthemselves found it equallydifficult with their rites, so had to leave each free as to eating,dressing, and behavinghimself.
But more of this when I have considered the matter.
I beg you sometimes to pleadwith may have a tranquildeparture. I am quiteoverworked and exhausted,and the head is useless.
I crave grace and mercy, and these I have received,and shall receive increasingl Luther justifies himself.
Venetians complainof sacramental disputes, and Luther blames the Zwinglians.
You complain,dear one, that I do not answer your letters,and said you had not enclosed your annotations on Moses because we scholars looked down on such crude work.
It is not very good taste to flingsuch an accusation in any man's face.
I have less leisure than you.
I,feeble, wornout old man, am without such things, overburdened with letter-writing, and am longingfor my last hour in order to rest from work.
I can see no other end of this everlasting writingand tempestuous life.
And how could you fancyI despisedyour work when I accompanied my remarks with a laborious preface} I have not thanked you, proceedsmerely from weariness of writing, which may be pardoned in an old exhausted man overwhelmed with work.
I now send you my lectures on the first forty-one chaptersof Genesis,throughMr. George Rorer,who also has his hands full,and is himself the servant of the printer's servants.
He is not to blame if they pleaseyou as little as they do me.
They have too many words for my taste, and more stress might have been laid on such an important subject.I have nearlyfinished the first book of Moses, beingat chapter45th.
May the Lord enable me to finish the work, or take me away from this transient, sinful life!
Join me in prayingfor this.
I had a glimpseof the Pope's letter to the Emperor, and of the Bull of the Council of Trent, which opens on Christ once more defeat those godlessscoffers !
I am much pleasedwith Osiander's pamphlet againstthe Zwinglianrasgals. Spalatinstill lives,but is so weak that he often cannot taste food.
He is an excellent man.
Kathie thanks you for the quinsyjuice,and I for the poetess you sent, and for your kind offer to serve me, which you best can do by prayingthat I may have a happy exit out of this world.
I am worn out and fitfor nothing.
May you and yours prosper in the I have had such severe headaches, dear Jonas,that I could neither read nor write,so I have not yet read your translation.
I can easilybelieve that your recent loss is dailybecomingharder to bear ; and now that you are recovering from your prostration the longing for communion with the best of women is revivingwithin you.
But the unalterable must be overcome through patience.God Himself, the great Healer,will heal this wound also.
Our only news is that the Brandenburgis in very bad odour because of the war he is waging in Hungary.
Ferdinand himself is not much better spoken of.
From all I hear the most disgraceful treacheryis at the root of the whole enterprise Himself prevent worse evils.
Oh, the mad rage of the devil !
The messenger is in haste,so More again. I commit you to