Concerning Gertrude von I am delightedand approve highlyof your intention to marry God gives her to you.
You have my best wishes for your success.
I preferher in many ways to her companions.
I comply with your request to write her mother.
Lord give His blessing.
Melanchthon's salary.
Grace and peace in Christ !
In the reorganisation of the Melanchthon should have gulden a year as salary. Now the man {Mensch) objectsto accept so much when he cannot undertake with a clear conscience to expound the Scriptures daily. It is useless my speakingto him, for he declares your
Grace expects him to lecture regularly.Therefore I humbly beg you to let him know that you will be satisfied if he help with the theologicallectures and disputations as before, even should it be only once a week.
Grace present him with this salaryfor a year or two, he is well worthy of it.
Scriptureswith great success for about two years without any salary,and perhapsto his injury.
I am most anxious to have the Bible spread abroad here, for it is being eagerlyinquiredafter from all directions.
I herewith commend you to Oswald your viceburghermaster is alwaystravelling back and forward to you, dear Frederick, I wished to send you my love.
I am full of joy when I hear of your well-being, and that the God is takingeffect among you.
I commend myselfto your prayers that Christ may not suffer us to be overcome of temptation.
Satan is at present raging among the Catholic priests, and we hear the godless bishopsare conspiringtogether, and Jena they are threatening me with war.
Therefore,exhort the people to be steadfast in the faith,and pray earnestly to One, so that peace may be maintained.
I see plainly that it is necessary to be constantlyin prayer, for Satan is up to some mischief.
Therefore,pray call the people's attention to this very weightymatter to convince them that they are in the greatest danger; being suspended between unsheathed swords and the furyof Satan.
May you be sustained throughthe grace and power of To my brother in the Lord, John Grickel,in Eisleben.
I send you this crystalgoblet mounted with tin before it gets another owner, for my Kathie has a great fancyfor it.
I am pleasedwith your estimate of Erasmus, and stillmore with that of the head of your educational establishment.
Thus, even in those tryingtimes one hears somethingcheering.
Wenall, the schoolmaster,will soon start from I have written him enclosingyour letter.
Invite him to your house, for you know he merits this.
Elizabeth,if she does not alreadyknow it, that Dr.
Drache is now married,and that Syrushas come here with similar intentions.
May you keep well,and pray for me.
Petition for retired pastor.
High-born Prince, Most The bearer of this letter, Bigand, gave up the livingof Waltershausen to the Council, as the result of an arrangement with your
Grace that he should receive thirtyflorins yearlyfrom the church funds.
Now, it seems he does not get this money ; probablybecause the Council cannot get it out of the living. But your Grace will learn the true reason.
Meantime, the poor old man must run to and fro for his maintenance.
So, as he is my schoolmaster, it is my duty to render him all honour, therefore I humbly pleadthat you will not permit him to lie out of the money, but will graciously helphim to get it,to prevent him going abeggingin his old age.
I herewith commit you to Grace's obedient servant, Grace and peace in the Lord The maiden, Hanna, who was here has returned to her people, so the school is vacant.
Perhaps she did not feel equalto the duties,so left.
But at present we know of no one so well educated and fit for the post.
Philipwould have brought the Prophet Habbakuk with him, but it will not be readyfor eightdays.
There is nothingnew at present except that our town is being