March 28, 1532.
To the Most Serene, Highborn Prince and Lord, Lord John, Duke of Saxony, Archmarshall and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen, my most gracious Lord, grace and peace in Christ.
Most Serene, Highborn Prince, Gracious Lord. I have received E. C. F. G. cheerful writing with great joy and thank God, who does not despise our prayer and does not reject E. C. F. G.'s illness so graciously. And of course it is well to believe
as E. C. F. G. write, and all too highly experienced that strange cases have occurred in such illness. But the God, who is a God of life, a God of consolation, a God of health and joy, will continue and finish what he has begun, so that the adversary god, that is, the devil, a god of death, sorrow, sickness, etc., may leave his work, amen.
We ask with all diligence with all our heart for E. C. F. G. and hope it shall have no lack, neither here nor there, although E. C. F. G. has to have a little wormwood
eat and bite into a sour apple. E. C. F. G. graciously accept my so short and clumsy writing; for my head is still a little subjected to the enemy of all good and health, who sometimes does me a ride through my brain, that I neither
can write nor read. Christ, our comfort and joy, be with E. C. F. G. eternal Amen. Maundy Thursday 1532.
E. C. F. G. subservient
Martinus Luther.