Amsdorf is not satisfiedwith his post.
Although you have not complained to me, my Amsdorf, I hear how littleyou have benefited from the promotion you have received from the Lord will make an end of the trouble.
Court is the devil's seat.
If thingsdo not improve I shall support you by word and deed, so that you may leave Zwickau, and shake its dust from off your feet
Paul's affairs; meantime put up with all,showing yourselvesmen among those troublesome people.
I searched everywhere,and found nothing.Perhaps he will pass your way and visit you.
Christ for me, a poor sinner.
Kathie sends friendlygreeting.
On the death of Melanchthon's son.
Grace and peace in Christ !
Lord took away from our Philipone of his children,called George ; so you can imaginehow much we have to do in tryingto comfort this tender-hearted and emotional man.
He is grievingtoo much over the loss,not beingused to such trials. Pray that the Lord may comfort him, and then, in your best rhetoric,write him a letter of consolation.
You know how importantit is for us that he should be spared in health.
We are all sick and sad in his sickness and sadness.
I can think of nothingbut him, except the most intimate concerns of my dailylife.
But the God of the humble and afflictedwill not allow him to be vanquished,althoughhe is stillvery weak.
I shall write of other thingswhen the griefis a little assuaged.
Lord, and greet your fellow-bishops respectfully in the Lord.
Luther sends thanks for present of garments.
Grace and peace in Christ !
I have delayedlong in returningthanks for the garments your Grace has so kindlysent me.
I humbly beg you not to believe peoplewho try to make your I have, alas,more than I can reconcile it with my conscience, especially from your
Electoral Highness,to accept.
And as a preacherit isnot seemlyfor me to have superfluity.
I sometimes tremble because of your Grace's generosity towards me, in case I may be found in this life among those to whom
: for you have your reward here."
But to use common language,I have no desire to be burdensome to your Grace, for you have so much to give away that I know you have littleover, and the purse may be rent asunder if so many demands be made upon it.
It was superfluoussendingthe leather-coloured cloth, but I feel much indebted to your I shall wear the black coat in honour of your munificence, althoughtoo costlyfor me
; and were it not your Grace's giftI would never appear in such a garment.
Grace to wait till I myself complain and beg,so that your kindness may not make me shy of asking favours for others who are much more worthy of your bounty.
Grace loads me with too many benefits.