Grace and peace in the Lord, honoured and good friend !
I have received the present of the Bible which you sent by your manager, and But seeingit is the work of your preachers, with whom neither
Church of God can have any communion, I am sorry that their labour should be in vain.
They have been sufficiently warned to quit their errors and not take the poor peopleto hell with them.
But admonition is useless,therefore they must go their own way, but never againsend me any of their work.
I shall be no partakerof their damnation or damnable doctrines,but pray and teach againstthem to my end.
God convert them and help the poor churches to get rid of such false,seductive preachers.Amen.
Although at present they laugh at all this, one day they shall weep when they find themselves sharers of Zwingli'sfate, whom they follow.
God preserve you and all blameless hearts from their spirit.Amen.
Luther requests his friend to prosecute his Biblical work.
Magister Rorer, who has the mastery over me, ordered me to write to you, my dear Perhaps I might have paid no attention to my master's command, beingrather incensed againsthim, had he not used all his eloquence to convince me that it was necessary to spur you on to continue your labours on my first book of Perhaps I might have resisted him with a flow of rhetoric,had
I not at length been mollified by the dialecticcommonplaces :