The man accuses his wife of wicked desertion,declaring he can prove he is blameless.
But he has not done so as yet, so one must act accordingto Matt, xviii., as the man has hitherto been too modest to prove his wife's guiltin her presence, or bringforward the testimonyof the whole town that she left her husband without cause.
For it is not rightto condemn her unheard,or without havingconvicted her of guilt.
Erfurt only heard part of the matter, and then gave his opinion,which is even more contrary to the gospelthan to law.
In the next place, best of men, pray submit the following to your Prince at my request.
Carlstadt has set up a printing-pressat Jena in order to printwhat he pleases, desiring to indulge his weakness for teachingwhere he is not wanted, and maintaining a persistentsilence where he has a call to act.
Althoughthis cannot do much injuryto our ministerium,stillit is apt to bringdishonour upon our University, as both have promisedthat nothingshould be publishedwithout censorshipby proper parties.
Seeingthe Prince and we have kept the bargain, Carlstadt and his adherents cannot be allowed in the Prince's land to emancipatethemselves from allauthority.Would the Prince,therefore,order him to send any work to any censor he pleases, or suppress his undertaking, so that we may not come into bad odour through breakingour promise
Farewell in the Lord, and givemy respects to the The firstevangelical hymn-bookappearedthisspringin Wittenberg, containingeighthymns
" Aus tieferNoth schrei ich zu 1 30) was in this collection.
I write,dear Spalatin, onlybecause I wished to write you.
For you are sitting at Nurnberg as still as if you were in Rome, so that we do not know whether you may not all be sound asleep, somewhere.
I got a letter from you long ago, but now all is so quietthat we do not know whether to expect a Pope or a But by Easter we expect that the princeswill be so stirred up by their priestsand father confessors that as a worthy way of celebrating the sacrament of the Lord
Jesus they will begina fresh persecution of the gospel.
I am waitingto hear if you have put some of the I suggested.Everythinggoes well here.
The translation of Job givesus immense trouble on account of its exalted language, which seems to suffer even more, under our attempts to translate it,than
Job did under the consolations of his friends,and seems to prefer to lie among the ashes.
Evidentlythe author never wished it to be translated.
Meanwhile this hinders the printingof the third part of the Do write and let us know what is goingon in the world.
May all go well with you, and pray for me.
Melanchthon to be set apart to expound the Holy Grace and peace in Christ !
Grace knows that by the grace of God we have many promisingyouths among us, from distant lands,all thirsting for the Word of God, while enduringmany hardships, some livingmerely on bread and water.
Philipto lecture on the Holy Scriptures, because he is so much better qualified to do so than For althoughI would gladly do it,it would necessitate my givingup the translation of the But whenever we pleadwith him to do so " the whole Universitydesiring it
" he defends himself thus,that he was appointedand is paid by your