That the use of both species in Holy Communion is not to be omitted for any reason.

To Dr. Johann Rühel. March 2, 1528.

Grace and peace in the Lord. Respectable, erudite, dear doctor and brother-in-law! tell the good journeyman that it will not be possible to patch it up like this before God and in conscience. For since he knows that Christ has established both forms, he will not be helped by the long and old custom of keeping them against each other, as he himself can doubtless see that custom and custom do not apply equally.

But that the apostles baptized in Christ's name is right and not against the form: In nomine In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti (In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit), Apost. 2, 38. 10, 48. 19, 5.; for neither is forbidden, nor ever opposed by God, but both right and still

this day. So we also know that it is not the will or appointment of Christianity to use one figure, but tyrants and false Christians have instigated it; as you can well indicate to him in my comfort booklet to the people of Halle.

Also the apostles, Apost. 15, 29, forbid suffocatum and sacrifice to idols, and yet abolished it in time, I have answered abundantly in the two sermons on the 15th and 16th chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. But the summa is, God did not command it nor establish it, but the apostles and Christians became one among themselves, as still now some would like to become one about one thing and united.

to do something in God's name for moving causes, which then in time itself ceased to exist. Et fuit lex vel ordinatio charitatis, non fidei, pro moribus, non pro verbo (And it was a law or order of love, not of faith, for morals, not for the word), which are always changeable, Isa. 40, 8. sed verbum Domini manet in aeternum (but the word of the

HErrn bleibet in Ewigkeit), he wandle es denn selbst etc.

Therefore, the good journeyman is no longer to yield to the will of his Lord. You can see how such despisers are doing now, because God has woken up. Hereby God commands, and greets me your dear rib together with all disciples. At Wittenberg, Monday after Invocavit 1528.