Pope, who first tried by threats to ruin our cause, and now by artifice.
You have resisted force and withstood the Emperor's imposingentry into Augsburg !
And now you must put up with the tricks of those cowled monks which the Speyer,and their arrival is closelyassociated with this talk of unityof doctrine.
This is the whole secret.
He who enabled you to withstand violent measures will strengthen you to overcome feebler.
Be valiant and concede nothingwhich cannot be proved from Luther dedicates the new edition of the 117th Psalm to the caretaker at Coburg Castle.
Grace and peace in Christ our Most excellent and honourable sir and friend I latelybrought out a littlebook on the 117th Psalm, but did it hastily and issued it with no dedication,^ so I have againplaced it in the oven to have it better fired,that it might bring forth more fruit.
Scripturesare well worthy of being adorned and made the best of, so that they may win as many admirers as they have enemies.
I wish it to go out under your name, so that it may receive more consideration from certain parties, who know that there are many excellent peopleamong the nobility.
For the majorityof the upper classes are actingso disgracefully that they are a stone of stumblingto the common man, making him fancy that all the nobility is corrupt.
And it is most disastrous that the masses should despiseand lightly esteem those who bear rule in the