May 13, 1543.
The devil, through our faith's adversaries and special enemies, has sent some whores here to corrupt the poor youth; against this is my, as an old faithful preacher, my fatherly request to you, dear children, that you certainly believe that the evil spirit sends such whores here, who are nasty, shabby, nasty, smelly and French; as is unfortunately found daily in experience. That one good fellow should warn another; for such a French whore can corrupt ten, twenty, thirty, a hundred good people's children, and is therefore to be counted as a murderess, much worse than a poisoness. In such poisonous affairs, help one another with faithful counsel and warning, as you would have done for yourself.
But if you will despise such fatherly admonition from me, then we have, praise God! such a praiseworthy sovereign, who is chaste and honorable, hostile to all fornication and immorality, in addition has a heavy hand armed with the sword, that he will know well how to purify his speck and fishery, in addition the whole city, in honor of the word of God, which His Electoral Grace has accepted with earnestness, until therefore with great danger and expense has remained with it.
Therefore I advise you, Specktstudenten, that you troll yourselves by and by, before the sovereign learns what you are doing with whores; for His Electoral Grace did not want to suffer it in the camp at Wolfenbüttel, much less will he suffer it in his wood, city and country. Trollet, I advise you, the sooner the better.
Whoever does not want to live without whores, may go home and wherever he wants; here is a Christian church and school, where one should learn God's word, virtue and discipline. Whoever wants to be a whoremonger can do it elsewhere; our gracious Lord did not establish this university for whore hunters and whore houses, so know how to judge yourselves.
And I must speak foolishly; if I were a judge, I would have such a French poisonous whore beaten and veined; for it is not to be calculated what damage such a foul whore does to the young blood that so miserably corrupts itself on her before he has become a real man and corrupts himself in the flower.
The young fools think they do not have to suffer anything; as soon as they feel a heat, a whore should be there. The old fathers call it impatientiam libidinis, secret suffering. Not everything that one desires must be atoned for so soon; it is said: resist; post concupiscentias tuas non eas (i.e. "do not follow your evil desires"), Sirach 18, 30. Surely it cannot be the same in the marital state.
Summa, beware of whores and ask God, who created you, to give you a pious child; it will have enough trouble, Dixi (I said it). As you wish. Stat sententia Dei, non fornicemur, sicut quidam ex ipsis fornicati sunt, et ceciderunt una die viginti tria millia, (i.e.: The saying of God stands firm: "Let us not commit fornication, as some of those committed fornication and fell in one day twenty-three thousand"), 1 Cor. 10, 8. 4 Mos. 25, 9.
See also I. Part, 1. B. Mos., 6. Cap., § 24-28.