Grace and peace in Christ,my dear I hope, by God's grace, we shall be with you in fourteen days, althoughI fear our cause will not remain un condemned.
Efforts are beingmade towards this end.
They will have difficulty in forcingthe monks and nuns to return to the cloister.
; he hopes all will end peacefully in Augsburg when they disperse.It would be a mercy if God grantedthis,for the Turk is determined to be at us.
I herewith commit you to Elector adieu at Augsburg the Emperor said :
I did not expect this of you And it was most courageous to oppose Charles V., whom twenty kingdoms obeyed.
To the High-born Elector Grace and peace, most graciousLord I am delighted that your Highness is emerging from the Augsburg hell, and althoughthe eye of man may be displeased with this,still we hope that God may finish the work
He has begun in us, and strengthenus more and more.
You are in God's hands, even as we are, and our enemies cannot hurt a hair of our heads except I have committed the matter to the Lord, who has begun it,and will complete it,I fullybelieve.
It is beyond man's power to bestow such a gospel I shall watch to see who dare defy God in these things, for ** bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days." They may threaten, but to carry out is not in their own power.
Electoral Grace be strong in the spirit of joy and steadfastness.