Writings of Luther.

Follow-up to the previous volumes.

I. Johann Aurifaber's stories about what happened to Luther from year to year.

1. Johann Aurifaber's report on what happened to Luther in 1518, to which Luther's own account of what happened to him at the Diet of Augsburg in 1518 is appended.

This account is found in the Eisleben edition, vol. I, p. 1; in the Altenburg edition, vol. I, p. 149; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XVII, p. 200 and in Walch, vol. XXI, Nachlese, Col. 4*. Luther's narrative, as it happened over tables, is already found in his table speeches, namely in the XXII volume of this collection, Col. 1370; but because this is even more detailed, it has nevertheless been brought here.

I. After in 1517 Doctor Martinus Luther rvider the papal indulgence at Wittenberg in vigilia omnium sanoctorum positiones posted and disputiret, also preached publicly against it, as then the same sermons have gone out in print, so that he attacked and overthrew the Pabst's hucksterism, fair and drudgery, On the other hand, the leader of the indulgences, Johann Tezel, a preacher-monk, had articles written and printed by Conradum Wimpina, a papal doctor at Frankfurt on the Oder, in which he brazenly defended the indulgences, and with his followers preached against Doctor Luther everywhere, and also exclaimed and condemned him as a heretic; In addition, Silvester Prierias in Rome wrote publicly against D. M. Luther. M. Luther, to which he replied violently, and thus the indulgence became a great scandal: then Pope Leo X was here, and incited the Emperor Maximilian against D. Luther, also sued him vehemently before Duke Frederick, the Elector of Saxony, thus hoped to destroy D. Luther and his teachings. Luther and his teachings. Thereby D. Luther was moved and caused to act more expansively and to eliminate indulgences and other articles of Christian doctrine, and also to discover the Pabst's erroneous and seductive teachings.

2 When the game was about to break down, Pope Leo sent a letter to Duke Frederick, Elector,

Anno 1518 on the 23rd day of August written, and D. Luther to the apostolic see in Rome, requesting that His Electoral Grace place him in Rome and hand him over to the authority of the Roman see, and gave further orders to his legate, Thomas of Cajeta, Cardinal, who was then at the Imperial Diet in Augsburg.

3 But Duke Frederick, Elector, in addition to the University of Wittenberg, strove most fiercely to have D. Luther dismissed from the citation and appearance in Rome as most dangerous to him. Luther be released from the citation and appearance in Rome, as it was most dangerous to him, and instead be required to appear before the Cardinal of Cajeta at the Imperial Diet in Augsburg, and there give an answer, cause and account of his faith, doctrine, writings and confession.

4 His Electoral Grace finally received this, and on Friday after Francisci of the 1518th year, Luther arrived in Augsburg on foot and miserably, with food and several intercessions from the Elector of Saxony to the council and other good-hearted people there.

But what happened between him and Cardinal Cajetano can be heard in this following history told by him, the man of God, at Eisleben in 1546 over tables.

D. Mart. Luther's Narrative.

I must tell you how I fared at the Diet of Augsburg. Tezel, who led indulgences around the German country, said that he had greater authority than St. Peter and St. Paul. He said that if someone had committed the greatest sins, he could forgive them. I opposed these lies of his and argued against them. Then the whole world was aroused, the pope and all the priests wanted to become mad; they pressed Maximilianum, the emperor, into scheduling an imperial diet at Augsburg, and Cajetanus, the cardinal, also came there. But they had negotiated with Duke Frederick, the old Elector (of blessed memory), that if the Diet broke up, he should send me out to the Cardinal; which happened.

But Emperor Maximilian read my positiones at Augsburg and said to Pfeffinger, Duke Frederick's councillor: What is your monk doing? Truly, his positiones are not to be despised, he will start a game with the priests!

When I left by order of Duke Frederick, I was very poor and did not have a penny; in addition, D. Wenceslaus Lincus gave me his cap, went on foot to three miles to Augsburg; there I sat on a wagon and drove into the Augustinian monastery for lodging. Duke Frederick had prescribed to the council there that they should have good regard for me, so that nothing would happen to me; they did so faithfully. But I had gone to Augsburg without an escort, I should, I think, have arrived properly; but Langemantel said that because the Elector had written to them, I should also be obedient to them, and do what they told me, and not go soon to the Cardinal; they wanted to do with me what they knew.

4th Now the emperor was not at Augsburg, but had gone hunting, and all his councilors were lying there, among whom was Pavisius, the bishop of Trent. When the Cardinal heard that I had arrived, he sent his orator to me, with two servants, to come to the Cardinal; I said, yes, I would come. But because the emperor was away, the councilors said I should not go to him, I had no escort; one should not believe the whales. And especially Doctor Aurbach of Leipzig refused that I should not go, and he also helped me to make the appeal. Then the Cardinal sent to me another time: I should come to him, he was waiting for me. But I said, yes, I wanted to come; but I did not come either. In the meantime, the Augsburg councillors obtained an escort for me from the emperor's council, which lasted for three days; but every day the cardinal's servants came and said: "The cardinal has offered you all grace, why are you afraid? Est mansuetissimus pater [He is a very gentle father]. But another said to me in my ear: Non credas [Do not believe it], he does not hold faith.

5 On the third day they came again: Quare non venis ad Cardinalem? [Why do you come

not to the Cardinal?] it would only be about 6 letters, REVOCA [revocations],

there would have been no need; but there would have been precious letters, and it would not have come to that: Revoca, sed: OCCIDE [Revocations, but: Death]; and I told the Orator freely: it would be forbidden me that I should not go to the Cardinal. Finally, as I did not want to come, the Legatus stopped: Ecquid tu faceres, si ita in manu Cardinalem haberes, ut ipse te habet? Respondi: Omnem reverentiam et omnia bona [What would you do if you had the Cardinal in your hand as he has you? I answered: All reverence and all good]. Then he laughed and said, Ha, ha, nihil est [it is nothing], and said, Putas, quod prin- ceps Fridericus propter te suas terras perdet? Respondi: Nolo. Inquit ille: Ubi igitur ma- nebis? Respondi: Sub coelo [Do you think that Prince Frederick will spoil his lands for your sake? I answered: I do not want that. He said: Where do you want to stay? I answered: Under heaven]. Then he got angry and rode away from me.

When the Cardinal asked me to come to him, and the council also obtained the Emperor's secretary, the Count of Schamburg, to escort me, I went to him. But they had instructed me finely how I should behave. First of all, I was to lie down on my face before him. When I did so, the Cardinal ordered me to stand up; but I still knelt before him, after which I stood. Then the Cardinal spoke to me very kindly and said: "You have aroused the whole of Germany with your disputation on indulgences. Therefore, if you want to be a member of the church and have a gracious pope, recant everything; then nothing shall happen to you. For I hear that thou art a doctor, and very learned in the Scriptures, and hast much disciple; and wouldst badly that I should recant what I had written. But I said, I could not do it; but I offered to do so, I wanted to be silent for the time being and write nothing more, my adversaries should also only be silent. He would not do that. Then I said that I could not do that either, and so I left him.

(7) The emperor's councilors, through the bishop of Trento, told the cardinal that I had the emperor's escort, and that they should go against the emperor.

Nachlese, No. I, 1. 2.

W. XXI, 9*-12*.

I did not undertake anything; then the Rhine was even inflamed. When I came to him again afterwards, he wanted me to recant badly. Then I became very rude, called him without any title: Vos [You], said: I cannot recant, unless someone teaches me something better; I cannot depart from the Scriptures. As he could not take me anywhere with his Revoca, he cried out in Welsh: O frater, frater, heri fuisti valde bonus, hodie es plane pervorsus [O brother, brother, yesterday you were very good, today you are all wrong], put before me Clementinam 6. But I said that the pope was leading the Scripture falsely, and disputed against the pope. Then Cajetamis became very angry and said: Revoca, aut non revertere [Revoke, or do not come back]. I took the word to heart, non revertere [do not come back], stayed a few more days in Augsburg, wrote two letters to the Cardinal, in which I informed him of my opinion. Since he gave me no answer, D. Staupitz got me a horse, and the council gave me an old rider who knew the ways, and Langemantel helped me out of the city at night through a small gate. There I rode without pants, boots, spurs and sword, and came as far as Wittenberg. The first day I rode eight miles, and when I arrived at the inn in the evening, I was so tired, got down in the stable, could not stand, and fell straight into the litter.

8) Afterwards at Gräfenthal 1) Count Albrecht of Mansfeld caught me, he laughed at my retirement, and there I had to be his guest. So I was not longer than 8 days in Augsburg. The Cardinal would have liked to get me and send me to Rome. It annoyed him very much that I ran away. He thought he had me in his clutches; so he has the eel by the tail. He thought he could not have me more surely than at Augsburg; if he got me, the pope should give him another cardinalate. But isn't it a shame that they hold me so dear? They would give many thousands of florins to have me, since our Lord Christ was hardly sold for thirty pieces of silver.

1) "Gräfenthal" in Saxony-Meiningen-Hildburghausen, in the Principality of Saatfeld.

(9) They themselves are a cause that the trade has come so far. They wanted to suppress my teachings by force, but God could not stand the Pope's tyranny any longer, especially the one he practiced against John Hus, since he had the ashes and the earth dug up three cubits deep and poured into the Rhine, where dear John Hus was burned. An unkind trade, since the pagans spare the dead. But God, who is the Lord of the dead and the living, is now avenging the innocent blood of John Hus on the priest, which blood will still strangle them.

10 The priests were immediately afraid of the same position, and Raphael, the Cardinal, wrote to Duke Frederick, the Elector, very kindly, and among other things he indicated: I hear that Ew. churfürstl. Grace has a monk who wants to weaken the power of the Christian Church; he would have liked Duke Frederick to have burned me. But the good prince smelled that the priests were wicked.

2. Georg Spalatin's account of Luther's plot with Cardinal Cajetan.

This is connected with Aurifaber's previous story. It is found in the Jena edition (1564), vol. I, p. 108b; in the Wittenberg edition (1569), vol. IX, p. 36; in the Altenburg edition, vol. I, p. 121 and in the Leipzig edition, vol. XVII, p. 178. A part of it is already in the 15th volume of our edition, Col. 557, No. 194; Col. 561, No. 196 and Col. 564, No. 197. The continuation, however, of Spalatin's narrative is as follows:

D. Martinus made such an answer and brought it to the legate on the following Friday. The legate opposed it in a completely strange way and threw away the answer as if he did not respect it at all. And again he fell back on the previous opinion that he should make a retraction, and finally he said to him: "Go away and do not come back, because you want to make a contradiction.

In the afternoon, the legate sent to D. Staupitz, and wanted to persuade him with sweetness to be able to contradict Doctor Martinum.

Doctor Staupitz said that he was not able to do it, because D. Martinus had taught him too much in the Holy Scriptures; thus he had always offered, as he still does, to submit to the Christian Church if he had erred etc.

Finally, the legate has agreed to hand over D. Martin's article,

what he should revoke and hold. But D. Martin has not been entrusted with any of these articles. For it is well to worry that the legate has no well-founded articles and right cause of which he need not be ashamed.

When the legate D. Martin did not send the articles, nor did he send anything else, Doctor Martin sent to the legate D. Wenceslaum, and asked the legate to lay the matter again graciously and fatherly.

Then the legate offered himself again in a friendly manner, and said among other things: he no longer considered D. Martin a heretic, he did not want to banish him this time either, because he had received further orders from Rome, because he had sent D. Martin's answer to the pope by his own mail.

Item: If D. Martinus wanted to revoke only the article concerning indulgences, the matter would be quite bad. For the other article, concerning faith in sacraments, could well suffer interpretation and direction. From which it seems clear that Rome seeks money more than holy faith and blessedness.

When D. Staupitz heard this, he said that it would be worth something that D. Wenceslaus would have had a notary and a witness. Wenceslaus would have had a notary and witness at the first reported dangerous word, spoken of faith; because it would bring the Romans a noticeable disadvantage and break, if such a proceeding would come further.

Many distinguished, sensible people have advised and decided that D. Staupitz and D. Wenceslaus should leave again and not trust the whales in any way. For it would be likely that the legate would cause a misfortune by the aforementioned mail, that they would all be caught and put to use.

So Doctor Staupitz and Doctor Wenceslaus traveled to Nuremberg on one day, each on a special road.

After that, on Sunday, D. Martinus sent the prior of Pomesaw 1) to the legate and asked in writing to resolve the matter paternally and graciously, and also to forgive him graciously, if he had thought of papal holiness with less reverence than was proper. Then the legate offered himself again in the Welsh manner etc.

But the legate has thereafter D. Martinum sit Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and never let require or remind.

Therefore, several highly competent, favorable friends of Doctor Martin have filed an appeal to the

1) Löscher, Ref.-Acta, vol. II, p.479, calls him "Prior Von Pomezau or Pomesan".

Pabst, and D. Martins advised him to leave as well and to leave the appeal behind him.

So D. Martinus insinuated the appeal to the notary in the presence of several witnesses, and received apostolos 2) reverentiales.

After that, Doctor Martinus rode to Nuremberg early on Wednesday morning and, with the advice of good, understanding friends, left the prior of Pomesaw behind him, so that two days after his departure his appeal would be posted on a gate at the cathedral in Augsburg in the presence of the notary and witnesses. For sensible, good gentlemen and friends have considered this sufficient, and do not want to advise that the appeal be made to the legate himself.

Doctor Martinus has left Doctor Staupitz at Nuremberg, for he is now visiting there and will then visit the monastery at Königsberg.

The legate offered Doctor Martin several times to give him an escort to Rome. But Doctor Martinus thought of him. For some have said that the legate himself would need an escort.

If D. Martinus had had the copy of the strict, sharp, unkind, and perhaps fictitious breve at Augsburg, the whales would have been considerably displeased by it; for the whales became quite unpleasant at Augsburg.

The legate never verbally commemorated the indulgence with a few words against D. Martin, only through other persons, and with hidden words.

It is considered, and thus talked about, that the Romans begin to be noticeably afraid of the German scholars.

When Doctor Martinus came before the legate, the prior to the preachers 3) sat with the legate in Augsburg, but never said a word about the matter.

It has been said that the legate should have admonished the named prior to dispute with D. Martin about indulgences; but the prior answered that he did not want to dispute with him in the same matter. Et fecit sapienter Prior, quia non credo, quod vicisset D. Martinum [And

2) We repeat here the remark we already made in the 15th volume, Col. 595: The term apostolos is a legal one, and denotes in the Pandects: Report; here it is so much as a letter in which permission is given to bring the matter before a higher authority.

3) "Preachers" - preaching monks, Dominicans.

the prior did wisely, because I do not believe that he would have overcome D. Martin].

D. Peutinger has said that since His Imperial Majesty learned that the Legate and the Prior named were in agreement about D. Martin. Majesty had learned that the legate and the named prior were in agreement about D. Martin, he is said to have said: Look, this is what the boys do, they have always wanted to have me in their cause; if I would have joined them, they would have become one.

Doctor Martinus was asked many times in Augsburg to preach, but he always refused with glee, worried that the legate might have thought he was doing it to mock and annoy him.

Much good has happened to Doctor Martins in Augsburg, especially and before from his host, the Prior of Our Lady's Brethren, item, from Hans Schenken, from D. Peutinger, from Mr. Christoph Langenmantel, from D. Auer, from both Adelmannen, brethren, canons of Augsburg, from D. Ambrosio and Ulrich Jung, brethren, who have shown D. Martins a great deal of friendship and have kept him good company.

Mr. Erasmus Roterodamus gives the Doctori Martins a great coincidence, likewise almost the whole University of Louvain, and many excellent people in many countries.

The pope is said to have seated seven of the most learned in Rome over D. Martinus' Positiones, which after diligent inspection are said to have said: It is true that D. Martinus writes, but it is annoying, glossa, quae tangit pecuniam [a gloss that concerns money].

A preacher monk disputed positiones at Rome, against D. Martini's opinion; then a Hispanus came, decided the preacher monk in such a way that he could not have raised an arrow anymore.

The legate also told D. Martins said that the bishop of Brandenburg had given him some of his materials.

Finally, D. Martinus has returned to Wittenberg, where he will wait to see what the eternal, merciful God will have done with him according to His divine will and pleasure. For where his opponents will let the matter rest, as it is considered by many, he will wait with diligence for his lesson.

If, however, he were to be burdened with papal excommunication, he has decided, with the advice of knowledgeable friends, to appeal to the future council and to leave Wittenberg from that time onward to the end, where he hopes to expect the following relief without any worries. For he has placed his will entirely in God's will with it.

and thinks that if he had four hundred heads, he would lose them all before he wanted to revoke the article, which is a violation of the holy faith.

He also does not want to do anything about the unkind papal breve in honor of my most gracious lord and submissive obedience. But otherwise he wanted to explain the Romans' treachery in such a way that they should have recognized it manfully.

But his answer to the two articles and the appeal has been advised to be printed. But, as I hope, my suggestion will also stand still with it, for the sake of the matter.

To my most gracious lord he most humbly commands himself, and thanks his C. F. G. with all subservience of so many and manifold graces and gracious prescription.

And now asks nothing more than, if it would be easy for his C. F. G. to prescribe him again against papal holiness, that she wants to command this matter from here in Germany.

For D. Martinus considers it that the preacher monks deal with it, that they want to force him from Wittenberg; after that they will not leave even those, so D. Martin's will not be left unchallenged, and they will refrain from giving Wittenberg an evil name, since God is in favor of it.

The Rector of Wittenberg asks me in writing with all diligence to make every effort so that we do not lose D. Martinum from Wittenberg. For if he were to leave, the university would not overcome this damage in human memory, and would lose a great many students and good people.

It is said that there was a discussion before the legate on how to deal with D. Martinus. One of them said that he should be urged to contradict himself. Another said that he should be imprisoned. The third said that he should be killed. The fourth said that he should be quieted with kindness and mercy.

Some think that the legate was not comfortable with this matter. For after he had so badly handled his message about the tithe, and had obtained neither Decimas nor anything else, he would have liked to have handled this matter well.

What further happened after D. The prior of Our Lady's Brethren in Augsburg will, if God wills it, inform everyone on his arrival in Wittenberg what has happened after Martin's departure and how the legate has opposed the appeal.

The nuncius apostolicus did not speak a word with D. Martins.

Stabius is ill at Augsburg and therefore could not come to D. Martins could not come.

D. Johann Eck has come to Augsburg for the love of D. Martinus, has stood in friendly opposition to him, and has also offered to come in and carry out his cause with D. Carlstadt in a disputation at Leipzig; the people of Wittenberg are happy and willing to do so.

The Augustinian cardinal is legate in Hispania, like the preacher in Germany.

The Augustinians have little good to say about their new general, who was previously procurator of the order, and is said to be almost unsuitable for the Germans; therefore, ours must take care.

The legate is now to let D. Martini transfer the German sermon on indulgences into Latin; what he wants to get out of it will perhaps also be known.

3. The story preceding Carl von Miltitz's plot with Luther at Altenburg.

In the year after the birth of Christ 1519 he Carol von Miltitz, one of the nobility in Meissen, was dispatched by Pope Leone X in Germany to the most noble prince, Mr. Friedrich, Duke of Saxony, Elector etc., who brought a golden rose (as they call it) from Pope Leone X, which was shown to the people on the fourth Sunday in Lent in Rome, as was customary there etc. For although Duke Frederick did not pretend to be the one who wanted to defend what Doctor Martinus had let go out against the indulgence, nevertheless he did not want to be the judge of it, nor did he want to suppress Luther by force, because the matter was still unrecognized at that time, and no final judgment of the church had been passed on it.

Therefore, Pope Leo tried, as he could, all kinds of means, sent more than once Ern Carol and other messages to Duke Frederick, to move him against D. Martin, and to take a displeasure, that he intended greater seriousness, and to take the matter against Luther with the sharpness. When he presented Carol von Miltitz with the golden rose, he indicated and recounted Pabst's grave complaint and serious order.

Leonis, also lamented with sadness the beginning of the division and discord in the church, and publicly blamed D. M. Luther. M. Luther, and secretly with concealed words on Duke Frederick of Saxony, desiring with highest request and pleading that D. M. Luther be suppressed. M. Luther be suppressed. He often brought this up to Carol von Miltitz at court when he returned over a period of time and diligently pursued it.

But since it was discussed what kind of answer should be given to Carol von Miltitz, the venerable Mr. D. M. Luther repeated these five following articles (which Carol von Miltitz had often lamented at court before) at Altenburg, in Mr. Georgen Spalatini's house.

This is followed by the articles themselves, which have already been reported in our edition, Vol. X V, 691 f., No. 276.

4. Johann Aurifaber's history of the disputation held in Leipzig in 1519.

Sich" St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 1189, no. 389.

5. Johann Aurifaber's report on what happened to Martin Luther's teachings in particular.

has in the years from 1520 to 1529.

Anno 1520.

Printed in the Altenburg edition, Vol. I, p. 549; in the Leipzig edition, Vol. XVII, p. 289 and in Walch, Vol. XXI, 20*.

In the year after the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in 1520, Martin Luther wrote a very serious letter from Wittenberg on the 15th day of January to the Roman Emperor, Carol the Fifth, 1) and requested that his Imperial Majesty not condemn him unheard, but accept his matters, if he is right, and until the final decision. Majesty will not condemn him unheard, but will take care of his affairs, if he is right, and until the final decision. He also publicly protests and testifies that he is willing and ready to follow in all ways where he is taught and instructed something better from the Holy Scriptures. For until now, violence had been done to him, because he had been condemned outright, before he had been convinced with truth and the reason of some error.

2 On the 24th day of Januarii, the Bishop of Meissen issued a prohibition against a sermon by D. Mart. Luther, in which he advised that the sacrament of the altar should be administered to the laity in both forms. Luther responded to this with all

1) This letter is not dated January 15, but August 30, 1520. See St. Louis ed. vol. XV, 1378.

He answered again with modesty, and indicated that he did not want to introduce such a thing for himself, by his own authority, but to give it to a common Christian council for consideration.

On the 4th day of Februari, Martin Luther wrote to the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht, Cardinal, complaining about his detractors and adversaries, and earnestly asking that H. C. F. Gn. would help him in his cause. He also wrote the same day to Bishop Adolph of Merseburg. But he was promised little comfort and help in both their answers.

4. on the 6th day of April 1) Martin Luther sent a very humble letter to Pope Leo, the tenth of that name, and sent him the booklet on Christian freedom, so that it could be seen that he sought nothing else, but only to bring the truth of the holy divine Scripture to light, and to teach and instruct the erring consciences.

In this year, the Romanists made a rude remark against the Elector of Saxony, Duke Frederick, about how detestable his Elector was in Rome. Gn., on account of Luther, was in Rome. That also therefore S. churfürstl. Gn. has had to apologize in particular for this. How then from S. churfürstl. Gn. Responsibility, and the Pope's counter-answer, which was printed from it, can be understood sufficiently.

On the 8th day of July 2) Pope Leo issued a special bull against D. Mart. Luthern, in which his inhumane tyranny, as well as his terrible hatred and envy against the truth of the divine word, is exposed. The same bull was expracticed by D. Eck in Rome and brought against Leipzig, and he supposed to dampen D. Mart. Luther with it. Therefore D. Luther was caused to respond. He revealed the abomination of the Pope and publicly defended his doctrine on the basis of the Holy Scriptures.

7 And the same bull, and such senseless raving and tyrannical raging of his opponents, the papists, gave Luther cause to write all the more vehemently and with more angry words than he had done before against the papacy, as the kingdom of Antichrist.

8 In the month of November, an Imperial Diet was held in Cologne, to which the Pope sent two envoys, named Marinus Caracciola and Hieronymus Aleander, who were summoned by Emperor Carol.

1) Rather, soon after October 13, 1520. See St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 783.

2) Rather, on June 15, 1520. See St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 1425, no. 444.

and Duke Frederick, Elector, diligently solicited and urged him to burn Luther's books and either punish Luther himself with imprisonment or hand him over to the Pope in Rome.

9 Now that D. Luther is being pressed to the utmost by his enemies everywhere, and is being diminished with various mandates, this year he has also sent out a public appeal and a completely Christian offer of inheritance against everyone in print.

10 And while the two high schools, Louvain and Cologne, had previously ignominiously burned D. Martin Luther's books as heretical, D. Martin Luther, in this 1520th year, as the 10th day of Christ, also burned Luther's books. Luther's books as heretical, D. Martin Luther in this 1520th year, when on the 10th day of the Christian month, also the Pope's Decret, Decretal, Sext,. Clementine, Extravagant. Together with the bull of Leonis X, which recently went out against him, item, the Summa Angelica, also Eccii, Emseri, and other books of Pope's disciples, burned at Wittenberg in front of the Elsterthor, behind the hospital, and let the causes of such fire go out in print.

In this year also Emser, D. Hieronymus Ochsenfart and D. Murner wrote vehemently against Martin Luther in Leipzig.

Anno 1521.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. I, p. 43; in the Altenburger, vol. I, p. 929; in the Leipziger, vol. XVII, p. 561 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 23*.

In this 1521st year, Hieronymus Emser in Leipzig wrote vehemently against M. Luther in German, and this out of incitement of Duke Georgen of Saxony, who was deeply annoyed that D. Luther had written publicly against the Bishop of Meissen. Luther had written publicly against the Bishop of Meissen; item, that he attacked the Pope so violently in the book to the Christian nobility, and for the sake of D. Carlstadt's book about the images?)

Murner also wrote similar things against him. But Luther despised the same scribe and enemy, and did not answer him much about his three books.

The Bishop of Meissen and Merseburg bought up many of Martin Luther's books and had them burned.

4 Ambrosius Catharinus in Italy, a Thomist, also wrote a book against Luther and protected the Pope's primacy and sovereignty, to which Luther replied.

3) Meant is Carlstadt's Bach wider Eck, in which two Fnhrwagen were depicted. See St. Louis edition, Vol. XV, 807 s., No. 355 ff.

5 And after Duke Frederick, Elector, had dealt a lot with M. Luther before the Diet of Worms, for the sake of some articles, which he was supposed to revoke, he did not want to do it, as then his reasons in a letter to Elector Frederick, in the first Jenische Tomo sub 1) an. 1521

and offered to appear willingly before the Estates of the Empire at the Imperial Diet in Worms and to give an answer and account of his doctrine. Which then Prince Frederick finally worked out with Emperor Carln that his imperial majesty granted to take the matters to her majesty's hands and to publicly hear them there. Majesty's hands and to interrogate them publicly there.

6 And thereupon D. Martin Luthern was sent the escort letters of the imperial majesty, Elector Frederick and Duke John, also Duke George of Saxony, and likewise of the Landgrave of Hesse against Wittenberg, by Caspar Sturm, Ehrenhold.

On Tuesday after Misericordias Domini Luther arrived in Worms, and the historia of the whole action can be found in the first German Jenische Tomo. Also D. M. Luther left Worms with Nicolao von Amsdorf on the Friday after Jubilate and wrote letters from Friedberg to the emperor and to all imperial states.2)

On the eighth day of May, Emperor Carl issued a terrible and serious mandate or edict against Martin Luther and his teachings, books and writings, and all those who took up his person and adhered to his teachings, and with such a serious mandate against Luther, he obtained so much thanks from the Pope in Rome that the Pope broke away from the French and entered into an alliance with Her Majesty.

9th Since such a mandate was publicly proclaimed and publicized, Duke Frederick of Saxony, Elector, arranged for D. Martin Luther to be captured by some confidants of the nobility not far from Waltershausen on his journey from Worms to Wittenberg, and to be secretly led to Wartburg Castle, 3) situated above Eisenach, and there almost

1) sub added by us, because the first volume of the Jena edition did not appear until 1555. - The letter, however, does not belong to the year 1521, but is to be assigned to January 1519. See St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 1726, no. 536. - This letter has nothing to do with the Diet of Worms. It was not until January 25, 1521 that Luther offered to go to Worms against the Elector. See Vol. XV, 1887, No. 575.

2) See St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 1893 ff, no. 580 and 581.

3) Aurifaber: "Wardberg".

was kept hidden for a whole year, so that his adversaries' ravings would be somewhat alleviated.

In this Patmo, or wasteland, he wrote many beautiful books, such as Confession, whether the pope has the power to command it, the monastic vows, the corner mass, praying the 119th Psalm for the exaltation of the divine word against the great enemy of the same, the pope, and all human doctrine; item, the interpretation of the 37th Psalm with beautiful consolation. Psalm for the exaltation of the divine word, against the great enemy of the same, the pope, and all human doctrine; item, the interpretation of the 37th Psalm with a beautiful consolation and pampering to the poor little group of Christ at Wittenberg; item, a postill about the Evangelia and Epistles of the whole year there begun to write.

In the meantime, the theologians of the high school of Paris have set themselves up as judges over Luther's books, and have condemned them in a public print on the 15th day of April in this 1521st year by listing several articles that were supposed to be wrong.

(12) To which writing not only D. Luther replied quite sharply and scornfully, but also Philip Melanchthon extensively, and indicated at length what the reason and foundation of Luther's teaching primarily consisted of.

Also in this year Latomus wrote against D. Mart. Luthern, to whom Luther also replied.

14. this year also D. Mart. Luther sent a sharp but Christian letter to the Cardinal and Archbishop of Mainz on the Sunday after Catharine, concerning indulgences and the marriage of priests.

In the end of this year, the Imperial Majesty sent an earnest letter, dated Worms, November 25, to the University of Vienna in Austria, in which he earnestly declared that they wanted to burn Luther's writings and books with fire according to the usual order.

Anno 1522.

See St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 1946 ff.

Anno 1523.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, Vol. I, p. 180; in the Altenburg edition, Vol. II, p. 491; in the Leipzig edition, Vol. XVIII, p. 473 and in Walch, Vol. XXI, 26*. The piece, which is found in the St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 2192, no. 726, is reprinted here.

1. in the year 1523, the imperial. Maj. envoys, together with other imperial estates, assembled at the Nuremberg Diet, resolved, and

The king had an edict issued publicly, in which a council was appointed for the following year, and all authorities were commanded to prevent all innovation and change of religion here, according to the content and expulsion of all articles, which are listed and understood in the same edict; as this edict is printed in the following.

2) On the basis of such an edict, because it was not interpreted in the same way, M. Luther had his declaration to the assembled imperial estates printed.

In this year, D. Martinus Luther, with much reading and constant preaching, vigorously pursued his doctrine and spread it far and wide.

4 So also the priest marriage in this year has come again in Schwang. For the provost of Kemberg, M. Bartholomäus Feldkirch, who was the first to take a wife, followed D. Andreas Carlstadt, canon of Wittenberg, and held a matrimonial wedding in Wittenberg. Item, the pastor of Cranach, He Johann Grau, also held marriage in Wittenberg, who soon after became pastor of Weimar.

5 Thus also to the German orders, that they should enter into matrimony, D. Mart. Luther sent out a special admonition in print this year.

6 The canons of the monastery in Wittenberg have also changed their ungodly ceremonies in response to D. Luther. Luther's manifold letter, instruction and admonition and exhortation, the canons in the monastery of Lutherberg changed and dropped their ungodly ceremonies with the mass, saint service, vigils and other things, and instead arranged Christian useful ceremonies with sermons, Christian lectionaries and useful hymns and other things.

Doctor Johann Faber and Emser at Leipzig wrote vehemently against Martin Luther. When in this 1523th year Pope Adrianus, the sixth of this name, died in Rome in the autumn month, and Clemens VII was elected Pope, he and his cardinals sent a legate, as Campejum, to Nuremberg in Germany. But when the legate did not find the Elector of Saxony there, to whom he had especially advertised, the Pope reminded the Elector of Saxony in writing for the second time that he wanted to arrive at Nuremberg in person, and to be helpful to his legate, so that the disputed religious matter would be settled, and common peace and unity would be maintained in the Church of the German land.

8 In the meantime, some have also thought of means by which the division of religion between D. Mart. Luther, and also his opponent, might be overcome, as in worldly terms.

In matters of religion, as if they were matters of the world, people always try to make a comparison, to put Christ and the devil together in one bed.

9 And this was the proposal: one should appoint a place 1) as Zerbst or Naumburg, since approximately around Michaelmas the Cardinal and Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, and the Bishop of Merseburg, also D. Martinus Luther should arrive. Martinus Luther should arrive and appear. There, each party was to draw four or five persons to and next to them for such an action, and to speak and act in the smoothest way possible about D. Martini's doctrine, matters and articles, to hear his answer and instruction, and to try whether one would like to unite and compare the same articles, all or in part, according to reasons and indications from the Holy Scriptures introduced by both sides.

(10) For such an amicable action, two secular princes, if they were able, should be called in to hear how this action would proceed. Thus Duke John and Duke George of Saxony were proposed for this purpose. And since they are not able to do so, other secular princes, or at least two counts, should be used.

In the meantime, however, Martin Luther should refrain from harsh writing, especially harsh writing against the authorities. Also, Martin Luther should be provided with sufficient escort to and from such a trading day. And what was then acted upon on this day, and not decided by the two ecclesiastical princes and princes, together with the two secular princes or counts, was to be disclosed, so that it remained undisclosed and was kept secret.

12) Thereupon D. Martin Luther also submitted his answer, at the request of Elector Frederick of Saxony, 2) and excused his harsh letter, also complained about D. Johann Fabri, the bishop's vicar at Costnitz, and Emser's blasphemy books, which had gone out against him, and indicated "that he was not afraid of his things, nor ashamed of them, but wanted to preserve them against all devils". But nothing came of this trading day.

Otherwise, Martin Luther had many useful, good little books printed in this 1523rd year, such as, to the council of Prague, how one should choose church servants, item, avoid human doctrine.

1) "Malstatt" set by us instead of: "Wahlstadt".

2) This is incorrect. See the note in the St. Louis edition, vol. XV, 2193. Luther's answer of May 29, 1523, refers to the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg.

Also how to hold Christian mass, item, of godly ceremonies. He also wrote a magnificent book against the canon or private mass, saying that it is a terrible abomination.

Anno 1524.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. I, p. 197; in the Altenburger, vol. II, p. 864; in the Leipziger, vol. XIX, p. 301 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 30*.

1 In this 1524th year, a new imperial edict was issued against D. Mart. Edict against D. Mart. Luther's teachings and person, dated April 18 at Nuremberg. Such edict let D. Mart. Luther himself printed this edict, next to the mandate that had gone out against him at Worms in 1521, made a preface to it, and indicated in it that these two imperial mandates were in disagreement and against each other. He is unflinching and consistent in his teaching, and admonishes the princes and sovereigns that they should not offend him and his teaching.

2 The University of Ingolstadt also condemned D. Martin Luther's teachings, against which he wrote; just as the papal bulls and others of his opponents attacked him severely with writings in this year. But he resisted, and against the elevation of Bishop Benno of Meissen, 1) item, against the Romanist in Leipzig, the like against the whole Pabbacy and abomination of the still mass or the Canon fiercely wrote.

In addition, he also sent out comforting writings for the acceptors and confessors of the Gospel, such as to the Christians of Augsburg, to the people of Miltenberg, to those of Riga in Latvia; item, admonition to the German princes and cities to establish and order schools for the youth.

He also sent out a warning letter to Duke Frederick of Saxony, Elector, and to Duke John, his brother. Item, to the city of Mühlhausen, against the rebellious spirit of Thomas Münzer, as a testimony that his heart was not inclined to any outrage, unrest "or rebellion.

5 And after having heard above in the 22nd year how D. Andreas Carlstadt (when D. Luther was in his patronage) had caused change and innovation in the church at Wittenberg out of ambition, against which Doctor Luther had been busy with reading, preaching and

1) This refers to the writing against the new idol and old devil, who is to be exalted in Meissen. See St. Louis edition, Vol. XV, 2323, No. 750.

The devil aroused great enmity in D. Carlstadt against D. Luther. Carlstadt against D. Luther, about which he became deadly hostile to his person and doctrine, and left his preaching and lecturing at Wittenberg, to which he was appointed as an archidiacon by electoral foundation. In 1523, he moved to a village called Segren 2) to lead a private or peasant life there; he even drove the horses at the plow, no longer wanted to be called Doctor Andreas Carlstadt, but Brother Andres.

6 Although D. Luther made every effort to bring him back on the right track through instruction, pleading and admonition, it was in vain. The University of Wittenberg also punished him for it, and Philippus Melanchthon, D. Jonas and Mr. Dieterich von Biela acted in the matter, but all in vain; for even though he offered to remain silent, he still secretly practiced against it.

7. finally, he made it clear that everyone should be a layman, condemned master and doctor degrees, which were common in universities, and discouraged many people from studying who went into the trades. Nevertheless, he pretended great holiness and heavenly revelation, and taught how to listen in the corner to the heavenly revelation and voice, and be assured of the Spirit, and led people away from oral words, through which God alone deals with us.

And since he could not accomplish anything in Saxony and Wittenberg, he found himself in this 1524th year around Michaelmas in Thuringia towards Orlamünda; because there around the Saale many celestial prophets behaved and transcribed, and bit out the priest Magister Conradum 3) there, and also caused the iconoclasm there.

9 Now V. Martin Luther, out of the command of the Prince of Saxony, went to Carlstadt against Jena and Orlamünda, and acted to set him right; but his hopeful spirit did not let him come to any humility, improvement, nor revocation. And Martin Luther in Orlamünda was almost thrown out with stones and mud and chased out.

When, after a long, varied, cultivated action, which extended into the third year, no change was seen at Carlstadten, he was finally ordered by a princely edict to leave the country; he was very angry about this, and turned himself in.

2) Aurifaber: "Pergwitz". See St. Louis edition, Vol. XX, Eint., p. 18 d. Cf. also Fröschel's report in Jäger, "Carlstadt", p. 301. - In July 1526 (see No. 1010 in this volume), Luther wrote to Hausmann that Carlstadt was farming in "Bergwitz".

3) Conrad Glitzsch.

Nachlese, No. I, 5.

in Friesland and then in Switzerland, became and remained a public enemy of Luther's teachings.

(11) And denies the abominable error of Berengarii concerning the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as that there only bread and wine, and not the true body and blood of Christ, are served and received, which error has grown longer and longer, and has done great harm, even to this day it has not been put to rest.

In this year, on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, Doctor Martin Luther first took off his monk's cap and began to wear a black preacher's skirt, for which skirt Duke Frederick, Elector, had previously given him the cloth, with these words: he should make him a preacher's skirt, or monk's cap, or if he liked, a Hispanic cap, so that the Elector of the monks secretly mocked.

Erasmus Roterodamus also opposed Martin Luther in this year and had the book about the free will of man in his conversion printed; King Henry of England (to whom Pope Clement had sent the Golden Rose of Rome in England in this year) provoked and pushed him to do so, as Erasmus himself testifies in an epistle ad Cardinalem Eboracensem. But in the following 25th year, Martin Luther refuted the same book tremendously.

Anno 1525.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. I, p. 277; in the Altenburg edition, vol. III, p. 303; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XIX, p. 302 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 33". The beginning of this report is already printed in the St. Louis edition, vol. XVI, 158, no. 792.

In this twenty-fifth year a new fire has been lit and a great noise has arisen, which the devil has aroused against Luther's teachings, namely the peasants' revolt. For in Alsace and Swabia, also in Franconia and Thuringia, the peasants have risen up, stormed the monasteries, burned and destroyed the castles and residences of many noblemen, wanted to withdraw obedience from princes, counts and other authorities, and even proposed to abolish them and put them to death. And especially in Thuringia there was such rebellion and game beginner and Nädleinsführer Thomas Münzer, pastor of Allstädt, who camped with the peasants to Frankenhausen.

2 Against this murderous spirit lay down with serious writings Dort. Martin Luther and warned the

He wrote to the city of Mühlhausen before the mint, and also to other estates to beware of outrages and riots. In the same way, Philippus Melanchthon had several splendid writings printed to extinguish this fire. But God, as a founder and protector of supremacy, soon controlled this murderous spirit. For on the Rhine River, many thousands of the rebellious peasants were slain by Duke Anthoni of Lorraine at Alsace-Zabern; but the Swabian peasants were put down by the Swabian League. Thus, Prince John, Duke George of Saxony, Landgrave Philip of Hesse, and Duke Henry of Brunswick also defeated the rebellious peasants at Frankenhausen, and had Thomas Muenzer captured and beheaded in front of Mulhouse together with one of his companions, called Pfeiffer.

On Easter Day, when Luther had preached early in Wittenberg, he left after noon for Mansfeld, and visited Eisleben, Stolberg, Nordhausen, Erfurt, Weimar, Orlamünde, Kahla and Jena, there to control the uprising with preaching and exhortations; but in his absence Duke Frederick, Elector, died in Lochau, and was buried in Wittenberg on Wednesday after Jubilate. Therefore M. Luther hurriedly returned to Wittenberg on the Saturday after Misericordias Domini and preached there on the Sunday Jubilate.

On the Sunday of Cantata, M. Luther re-established the ordination of preachers in the apostolic manner, after the early sermon in Wittenberg, and M. Georg Rörer was the first ordainer.

5 In this year D. M. Luther entered into matrimony, and on the Tuesday after St. John the Baptist's Day he married Catharina von Bore, a noblewoman who had been a convent virgin, at Wittenberg, whose matrimony he had previously praised and defended to the highest degree from God's Word with sermons and several beautiful writings, and also advised and helped many people in the spiritual and secular classes.

When Carlstadt was hostile to M. Luther and his teachings, and the Sacramentarian error renewed, that is why the principality of Saxony forbade him (which made Carlstadt very angry and put all the blame for his exile on D. Luthern; but D. Luthern was not the only one who had to pay for his exile). Luthern; but D. Luther excused himself sufficiently. Luther apologized sufficiently and indicated that there were other reasons why the princes of Saxony did not want him to suffer in their principality), and Carlstadt saw that the peasants' revolt was subdued, he also feared that he would be in danger of his life, limb and goods.

He therefore wrote an apology that he had had no part nor fellowship with the rebels, that he wanted to purging himself sufficiently.

7 He also sent out a booklet in which he confessed that he had not given his doctrine of the Lord's Supper definiiendi, sed disputundi causa, and did not want to be a sacramentarian. He wrote to Luther and asked him to write prefaces for these two books of his, so that he would get out of people's suspicion and suspicion.

Luther, who would have liked to win Carlstadt and bring him back to rights, had both books printed with his prefaces at Wittenberg, as they are found in the 3rd Tomo Jenensi. But Doct. Luther was deceived by Carlstadt, and Carlstadt remained a sacramentarian afterward as before. For heretics and red spirits are seldom converted or brought to rights again.

Around this time Ulrichus Zwinglius, preacher at Zurich, together with Johanne Oecolampadio, preacher at Basel, who until then 1) in [Switzerland] stood firm with Luther's teaching, brought the erroneous doctrine of the Lord's Supper back on track, as if the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper were only a mere sign and meaning of the body and blood of Christ; they defended and protected their opinion through many writings and books. Luther opposed this with great earnestness, and protected and preserved the doctrine of the presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper from God's Word, which gave rise to a great dispute and struggle in the church. And the devil once again aroused a great disturbance, so that those who were otherwise at one with each other in all articles of Christian doctrine should fall into each other's hair in this matter of the Lord's Supper.

In this year, Doctor Martin Luther also wrote humble and gentle Christian letters to King Henry of England and to Duke George of Saxony, trying to win them both over through kindness, as he was persuaded to do by some of his lords and good friends; but he ran into trouble in both places, and received horrible blasphemies in response. Thus, worldly wise people who want to regulate matters of faith according to worldly wisdom and reason must often be lacking.

On the twentieth Sunday after Trinity of this year, the German Mass was held in Wittenberg for the very first time.

1) "so far" put by us instead of: "both".

Anno 1526.

See St. Louis edition, vol. XVI, 190 ff.

Anno 1527.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. 1, p. 415; in the Altenburger, vol. III, p. 810; in the Leipziger, vol. XIX, p. 560 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 37".

After Martin Luther wrote a Christian and humble letter to King Henry of England in 1526, out of concern and advice of the exiled King of Denmark, Christian! (who for a time stayed in exile at the castle in Wittenberg, was a lover of Luther's teachings, and listened diligently to his sermons), King Henry of England wrote a poisonous blasphemy book against Luther, and interpreted his letter to him in the worst possible way. Erasmus Roterodamus is said to have been the writer and master of the same book. But Luther had another booklet published, whose name is: "Auf des Königs von Engelland Lästerschrift Titel, Antwort Doctor Martini Luthers", as it can be found in the XIX. 2) part of this collection.

The city of Halle in Saxony had a Christian, learned preacher, Mr. Georg Winkler of Bischofwerde, who began to preach the Gospel and to serve the Lord's Supper in both forms. Since this fire wanted to rise in the Magdeburg monastery, and Archbishop Albrecht, Cardinal, had just stopped in the Mainz monastery, this Georg Winkler was demanded by episcopal letters from Hall to Aschaffenburg 3), and when he was let go from there and sent off to ride to Halle because of an assassin-like attack, his horse was taken from him, his journeyman who had traveled with him before was also taken away, and he was put on the archbishop's fool's (who was called pastor) horse, and another beireuter was assigned to him, so that he would be led in the woods to a stop where shrub murderers were waiting for him.

3) When he came from Aschaffenbürg 3) two miles away, reapers attacked him in the woods and stabbed him to death. So Georg Winkler became a martyr for the sake of the teaching of the divine word. And Doctor Martin Luther sent out in print a letter of consolation to the Christians of Halle about the death of their preacher,

2) In Walch, probably by misprint: "XXI". See St. Louis edition, vol. XIX, 410.

3) Aurifaber: "Aschenburg".

which is found below in the X. 1) For this man's death stroke, this portentum happened in Magdeburg, that in the high monastery, on the day of Cirvumcisionis Domini, all lights went out and went out, except for the few lights that hung in front of the Sacramenthäuslein (as one used to call it). This may have been caused by a wind, but it certainly meant that the light of the Gospel, which Georg Winkler had begun to teach, should go out again, as it did after his death.

In this year, Emperor Carl's warband, whose leader was Duke Carl of Barbon, went to the Kingdom of Neapolis and on the way attacked the city of Rome, besieged it, and on the 6th day conquered and plundered Maji. Then Pope Clement with the Cardinals was chased into the Engelburg, and besieged until the seven months inside, and a serious visitation, so God had passed over the Pope and his clergy.

On the Saturday after the Visitationis Mariae, Doctor Martin Luther fell into a great weakness of body and illness in Wittenberg. In addition, he was afflicted with great spiritual temptations, and the spirit of sadness plagued him badly; such weakness of body and spirit tortured and mortified him so much, 2) that he could not regain his strength in three months.

In this 27th year there was another glorious confessor of the Gospel and martyr, Mr. Leonhard Kaiser, who was imprisoned by the bishop of Passau because he had taught that there were only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper of Christ. Item, that the mass is not a sacrifice, item, the monastic vows and purgatory are nothing, and that man has no free will in matters of God. For these articles he was condemned as a heretic by the bishop and Doctor Ecken, who sat in court with him, and burned by Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria on the 16th day of August. Duke John, Elector of Saxony, wrote an intercession for this man to the Bishop of Passau, but it did not help. However, Doctor Martin Luther sent him a beautiful letter of comfort in his prison.

7 Erasmus Roterodamus also wrote vehemently against Luther in this year; but Luther did not answer it, therefore that

1) St. Louis edition, vol. X, 1960.

2) "mortared" will probably be as much as: emaciated.

his book of the Servo Arbitrio remained unrefuted and unbitten by Erasmum.

8 Against the sacramentarians, as the Zwinglium and Oecolampadium (who were also joined by Urbanus Regius and Martinus Bucerus, who two later abandoned such error), D. Martin Luther wrote in this year the witty book, whose title is: "That the words of Christ, that is my loan, still stand firm". By which book many people were strengthened in the pure doctrine of the Lord's Supper. But the sacramentarians began to become quite nonsensical and furious, especially Zwinglius, who answered vehemently against it. However, this anger hurt Luther so much that the devil caused such strife and quarrels among those who all professed the doctrine of the gospel, and Luther had to engage and fight with these false brothers.

After the devil had stormed against Luther and his teachings in all kinds of ways, with tyranny and persecution, also by false teachings and red spirits, but had not received anything from God's grace, he thought about how he destroyed and devastated the university and high school in Wittenberg (from which great damage and destruction happened to him and his kingdom). Therefore, by God's decree, he awakened a pestilence there, in which few people were strong; thus a horror, fear and terror arose in Wittenberg, that the students suddenly left, and the university had to be moved to Jena in Thuringia.

10 Philip Melanchthon traveled there with all the doctors and professors, and Luther and Pommer remained alone in Wittenberg. There came also the pestilence in D. Luther's house, that some persons from it lay ill; however, none of them died, and IX Luther did not leave his house, because he feared nothing at all for this plague. Later, he sent out a paper in print, "Whether one may flee from dying." On the tenth day of December a daughter, called Elisabeth, was born to Doctor Martin Luthern.

Anno 1528.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. I, p. 427; in the Altenburger, vol. I V, p. 462; in the Leipziger, vol. XIX, p. 599 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 41X

I. At the beginning of this year, the university, which had been moved from Wittenberg to Jena 3) for the sake of the dying, returned to Wittenberg, and the pestilence stopped there.

3) In Walch: "them", read from "Ihenen".

Nachlese, No. I, 5.

W. XXI, 41'--44*.

2. Luther also attacked the Sacramentarians anew and harshly, and had his great confession of the Lord's Supper printed, to shut the mouths of the blasphemers and contradictors, according to St. Paul's teaching and command, and to defend and protect the truth of the divine word through such his struggle and dispute with the Sacramentarians.

(3) From this, those would like to take an example of how one should seriously stand up against the red spirits and false teachers, who otherwise not only no longer want to argue or write against them, but also do not want to suffer that the journeymen are remembered.

He also sent out a serious warning to beware of the doctrine of the Sacramentans, and in that year Urbanus Regius fell away from the Sacramentans.

In this year the devil lit a new fire with mobs and souls, so that the Anabaptists first appeared 1) and came on the scene; against them M. Luther had a magnificent letter printed (in which their error was exposed), and thus the holy man closed and fenced all the gaps that the devil otherwise tore open with false teachings to harm the church of God.

The city of Brunswick also accepted the teaching of the Gospel and wrote to Wittenberg for preachers; Johann Bugenhagen, otherwise called Pomeranian, was sent there, and he established the church there with teaching and ceremonies. Which Christian example was subsequently followed in the month of October by the city of Hamburg and also Goslar, which revealed itself to the teachings of the Gospel through D. Martin Luther. Martin Luther, and the people of Hamburg have also required Pomerania to join them, and have had their churches reformed and made Christian. Thus, Luther's teachings have also come to the seaside towns.

In this year, Martin Luther also began to translate the Bible and to begin with the translation of the prophets, which was an arduous and difficult task for him. But such work took several years, for the sake of his great business, until it was completely finished.

8) The armament of Prince John of Saxony and of Landgrave Philip of Hesse against the allies of the Mainz, as revealed by Otto Pack, as King Ferdinand, the Prince of Brandenburg, Duke George of Saxony, the Dukes of Bavaria, and the Bishops of Saxony.

1) to witness == to show oneself, to come before one's eyes.

Mainz, Würzburg and Bamberg, and by negotiation of Archbishop Richard of Trier and Count Palatine Ludwig, both Electors, this discord has been settled, as reported above in the 26th year.

9 In this year also the disagreement of Duke George of Saxony with D. Martin Luther arose, which has risen because of this Mainzian alliance, of which D. Martin Luther wrote to Wenceslaum Linken, which letter Duke George received and D. Martin Luther attacked in public print. Martin Luther has attacked in public print, in an onerous manner, as can actually be seen from his letter below. Therefore, several books and writings subsequently went out in reply from D. Martin Luther.

In the month of March, Mrs. Elisabeth, née Queen of Denmark, Elector Joachim's wife in Brandenburg, the first of that name, became attached to the doctrine of the Gospel, and received the Lord's Supper of Christ in both forms, whereupon she came into great danger with her lord, the Elector. But their brother, King Christian of Denmark, has secretly helped their Elector from the Mark. G. secretly out of the Mark and brought her to Duke Johannsen, Elector of Saxony. G. remained there until the year 1546, and was a Christian princess and lover of Luther's teachings, so that her Electorate was often in Germany. G. often visited D. Mart. Luther's dwelling for a quarter of a year and longer, but otherwise stayed at Lichtenberg's house.

In the month of July, a nobleman by the name of Nicket von Minkwitz fell in the land of the Elector of Brandenburg, as in the city of Fürstenwalde, under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Lebus, with several hunters, and the priests in the cathedral, as well as the citizens of the same place, plundered, and went away with the loot.

In the month of August, on the 5th day, Luther's daughter Elisabeth, born to him a year ago, died.

This year, too, in the month of September, the antinomy began, albeit secretly, that one should preach the knowledge of sin from the Gospel and point the law to the town hall. Which error beginner M. Johannes Agricola, at that time schoolmaster at Eisleben, was. But this fire has been extinguished by D. M. Luther's letter and an act, held at Torgau before Prince John, was dampened and extinguished, until Anno 1538 such fire of the Antinomians, again made smoldering and burning by M. Agricola, went out to door and windows. But through D. Martin Luther's several

Disputations and a number of letters to the editor have once again dampened and depressed it, and M. Agricola has had to recognize, revoke, and deny his error.

In this 28th year, Elector John of Saxony also had the churches of his principality visited.

Miss Ursula, Duchess of Münsterberg, secretly escaped with two nuns from the convent at Freiberg, and came to Wittenberg, and then printed her apology as to why her princely family left this spiritual life. G. left this spiritual life.

Margrave George of Brandenburg and the city of Nuremberg also reformed their churches this year and planted the teachings of the Gospel in them.

Anno 1529.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. I, p. 567; in the Altenburger, vol. IV, p. 800; in the Leipziger, vol. XXII, p. 1 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 45*.

In the beginning of this 1529th year, the papal mass in Strasbourg was abolished by the council, against which the clergy and also the bishop of Strasbourg were vehemently opposed, and Emperor Carl had his envoys act seriously with the council to avert it; but he was unable to obtain anything.

2 In the month of January, Luther first published the German Catechismum, in which the main points of Christian doctrine with their interpretations are usefully compiled and summarized for young people and the common man.

After this year's concern about the Turkish invasion of Austria and Germany, D. M. Luther had a booklet about the war against the Turks printed in public in the month of March. M. Luther had a booklet about the war against the Turks printed in public in the month of March.

4 At Speier, around Easter of the same year, the Imperial Diet began, where, instead of Emperor Carl, the King of Bohemia and Hungary, Ferdinandus etc., with Prince John of Saxony, Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Margrave George of Brandenburg, Duke Franzen of Lüneburg and Prince Wolfgang of Anhalt, and the imperial cities that professed the Gospel, all kinds of serious actions were taken for the sake of religion; and accordingly, great pains were taken to establish separation between the Protestant princes and imperial cities.

5. but the imperial cities, as Strasbourg, Nuremberg, Ulm, Costnitz, Reutlingen, Winsheim, Mem.

mingen, Lindau, Heilbrunn, and others, came before the princes. And at the same imperial diet against King Ferdinandi and the other papal princes and chieftains, ecclesiastical and secular, cunningly and earnestly acting, seeking and requesting, a magnificent protestation was handed over by the Protestant princes and chieftains, also imperial cities. Therefore, these Protestant estates have been called the protesting estates throughout the world.

6. on the 5th day of May a daughter, called Magdalena, was born to D. M. Luther.

In the month of September, Solimannus, the Turkish emperor, fell in Austria with a large war force, besieged the city of Vienna, fired on it, broke down a large section of the wall, and stormed the city in the same open place. But God helped with mercy that the Turks did not succeed with the storm. Therefore, the Turkish emperor hurriedly left and departed from the siege to Hungary. So that God granted His Christian Church in the German land still some time of air and peace from the cruel enemy, the Turk, so that the doctrine of the Gospel might run all the further and spread; for the devil would have liked to strike a blow at the Gospel through the Turk.

Around this time, D. M. Luther also printed a sermon against the Turk to comfort the Christians who were in great terror, fear and trembling before the Turk.

9 At the same time, a new swift disease appeared in the German country, called the English addiction or sweating sickness, because people began to sweat, and in 24 hours they were alive and 1) dead, with many thousands of people everywhere.

In Cologne on the Rhine in this year two were burned for the sake of the teaching of the Gospel, Peter Flistedius and Adolphus von Clarenbach.

On the third day of October, the colloquium at Marburg in Hesse began. For after Huldericus Zwinglius and Oecolampadius had raised an erroneous doctrine and opinion about the Lord's Supper of Christ, and M. Luther had violently opposed it, and on both sides many books and fierce pamphlets had gone out against each other, as if the noble, highborn prince and lord, Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, etc., would have gladly settled such a dispute (which brought great annoyance and damage to the church of Christ) in a Christian manner; therefore he negotiated with the Elector of Saxony and the other protesting states.

1) "and" put by us instead of: "or".

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W. XXI, 47-k-50*.

The same was done with the Swiss, who sent their theologians to Marburg to talk and discuss with each other in a friendly and amicable manner, so that a Christian unity and settlement could finally be reached, and the written bitterness would remain.

So Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Justus Jonas, Justus Menius and Fridericus Myconius arrived from Wittenberg. From Switzerland Huldericus Zwinglius and Johannes Oecolampadius have appeared. The city of Strasbourg sent Martinum Bucerum and Caspar Hedio. The city of Nuremberg sent Osiandrum, the city of Augsburg Stephanum Agricolam; then Johannes Brentius, and the landgrave also required his theologians, as D. Erhard Schnepf, Dionysium N. 1) etc.

As Luther and Zwinglio and Philip Melanchthon and Oecolampadio colloquized two days after each other, they compared themselves in the main points of Christian doctrine. However, Zwingli and Oecolampadius did not want to be shown that the true body and blood of the Lord Christ was in the Lord's Supper; they also did not allow themselves to be shown the truth in front of their churches, where they planted the error of Berengarii, and thus denied the truth out of fear of man and did not want to confess it.

14 Thus the colloquium dissolved and the theologians amicably parted with the offering of hands. But the theologians at Wittenberg did not want to take the Swiss theologians for their brothers and accept them, lest they be regarded as approving their false doctrine. And Luther's steadfastness is especially to be praised, who did not pretend, collude, or lie in cahoots with the sects and the sectarians (as many of them did at that time). In this year, M. Luther and Duke George of Saxony came into conflict due to public pressure; D. Luther had the booklet of the stolen letters published against him.

At the end of the month of November, the protesting estates had a day in Schmalkalden, and wanted to consult on an alliance and resistance, whether it would be true that they would be covered with paintings for the sake of religion. And the occasion of this meeting was that their legates, whom they had sent to Italy to the Emperor Caroln for their protestation

1) Perhaps: Dionysius Melander. Cf. no. 2681 in this volume.

half, handed over at the Imperial Diet at Speier, were sent by the Imperial Majesty. Majesty 2).

Finally, D. Martinus Luther has a beautiful confession of his faith, in which he desires and intends to remain steadfastly, against all sects, mobs and tyrants, printed in 1529.

Anno 1530.

See St. Louis edition, vol. XVI, 1736, no. 1161.

Georg Spalatin's account of what happened at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530.

Printed in the Wittenberg edition (1569), vol. IX, p. 413; in the Jena edition (1566), vol. V, p. 33; in the Altenburg edition, vol. V, p. 156; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XX, p. 206 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 49". Some pieces of this narrative are already found in our edition, vol. XVI, 878 ff, no. 963, col. 887, no. 967 and col. 888, no. 968.

1st Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria, when he heard the confession of my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, and of the other princes of his electoral grace, adhering to the 3) Gospel, he addressed my most gracious lord in a friendly manner, and when he came home, he was said to have said: he had not been told about this matter and doctrine before.

On the Sunday after St. John the Baptist, the princes and lords of the other part met to discuss the confession.

On the 3rd Monday after St. John the Baptist, the mayor, the city council, and the common city of Augsburg paid homage to the Roman imperial majesty on the square in front of the city hall. Roman imperial majesty stood in the oriel on top of the town hall, and next to his imperial majesty the three princes of Mainz, Cologne and Brandenburg, also the marshal of Pappenheim with the bare sword, and Caspar Sturm, herald. And the homage was paid, with fingers extended, between ten and eleven o'clock at noon; there were several thousand men.

The same morning, the princes, archbishops, princes and bishops who were not attached to the Gospel were together and talked about the Gospel.

2) "stricken" - a vow has been taken from them not to move from the place.

3) "dem" put by us instead of: "im".

5 Afterwards, the same day, Imperial Majesty rode to Wellenburg Castle of the Cardinal of Salzburg. Majesty rode to Wellenburg Castle, of the Cardinal of Salzburg, which Emperor Maximilian, in praiseworthy memory, had given him.

Now thirty-five years, as our host here in Augsburg, Wilhelm Arzt, has told us, the people of Augsburg have also paid homage to Emperor Maximilian.

Erasmus Roterdam is said to be still alive, but almost ill; His Imperial Majesty has written to him. It is thought that she would like to have him here at the Reichstag, but it is not known whether he can or will come.

8 The Queen of Hungary and Behem, Mary, sister of the Roman Emperor and King Ferdinandus, has so far not wanted to deny her her sermon, but the Imperial Majesty has said and warned her to be careful not to be deceived by the priests as her husband King Louis and her brother King Ferdinandus were deceived by them. Majesty should have told and warned her to be careful, so that she would not be deceived by the priests, as her husband King Louis and her brother King Ferdinandus were deceived by them.

9 Our confession has been brought by the imperial majesty of her secretaries, one, Alexander Schweiß, in French; another secretary has brought it in Welsh. They say that the clergy give both wine and other things in great quantity to Cardinal Campegius. Many people want to have the same confession, and they strive for it diligently. So it is a thing that he who is not Lutheran cannot spoil it, he may do what he will. Again, whoever is Lutheran, even if he were one of the most pious, has completely ruined it.

10 Recently a prince is said to have said before several other princes and lords: The Lutherans have handed over a document written in ink; if I were emperor, I would give them another document with rubrics, that is, written in red ink. To this another prince is said to have replied: the emperor must nevertheless pay attention if he wants to write with rubrics, as you, sir, say, so that the presilges do not 1) spill under his eyes.

Duke George of Saxony is sometimes very friendly to my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, but in the matter concerning God's word, he is still to be very hard and fast.

(12) This is a great defect in the imperial court, that even some of its highly learned servants say that there is not one man who understands the things of the gospel; so much so that they do not know the things of the gospel.

1) "not" is missing in Walch.

she has nothing of these things, and yet has many priests and monks around her.

(13) Some bishops are much better, kinder and more lenient in the Lutheran cause than some secular princes; therefore, let us pray to God that He may ward off the devil, amen.

14 The Cardinal Campegius should have our confession translated into French and sent to the pope, since the pope does not understand Latin very well. The same cardinal shall also have orders from the pope to stop some abuses.

The imperial cities are very divided, for the fewest are righteous; the others are either Zwinglian or papist.

16. Thursday after Petri and Pauli, my gracious lords, Margrave George of Brandenburg and Duke John Frederick of Saxony, have been with the two queens 2) of Hungern and Behem after noon for several hours, and the queens have both behaved almost honestly, chastely and milderly towards their princely graces.

On the Thursday after St. Peter's and St. Paul's, the Imperial Majesty graciously requested that my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, come to his Imperial Majesty on the following Friday. Majesty etc.

18 The Queen Mary Preacher is said to have many good things to say about her, especially that she is well versed in Latin and always has a Latin Bible with her, even when hunting; and if a preacher does not like the Scriptures, she looks for them and talks about them. She also does not listen to the great crier and barefoot Medardus, the king's preacher, so she has to do it.

19. the Queen Preacher, an honest, friendly man, has sent us the following list of twenty Doctores etc. who are against the Lutherans here in Augsburg.

First, the title: Die christlichen Doctores auf dem Reichstag zu Augsburg (The Christian Doctors at the Diet of Augsburg), as if the others were original.

Doctor Johann Eck.

Doctor Johann Schmid or Faber, at Ofen Probst, Coadjutor.

Doctor Augustin Marius, Bishop of Salon, or Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg.

Doctor Conrad Wimpina.

Doctor Johann Cocleus.

Doctor Paul Haug, Preacher Order Provincial.

2) Jenaer and Walch: "kings"; Wittenberger: "queens" [== queens]; namely in the case of Mary, Queen of Hungary, and in the case of the wife of Ferdinand, King of Bohemia.

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Doctor Andres Stoß, Unser lieben Frauen Brüder-Ordens Provincial.

Doctor Conrad Colli, Prior of the Preacher's Monastery at Cologne, who wrote against Doctor Martinus Ehestand.

Doctor Conrad Tho[man], 1) preacher at Regensburg.

Doctor Bartholomew Using.

Doctor Johann Mensing.

Doctor Johann Dietenberger, 2) Prior, preacher at Coblenz.

Doctor Johann Burckhard, Predig erordensVicari.

Doctor Petms Speiser, the Bishop of Costentz Vicari.

Doctor Arnold von Wesel.

Medardus, King Ferdinandus Preacher, Order of the Barefoot.

Augustine of Cottelin of Bremen.

Doctor Wolfgang Redörfer, provost at Stendal. 3) Doctor Hieronymus Montinus, Vicar of the Bishop of Passau.

Doctor Matthias Kretz, preacher at Augsburg.

20. Friday, the evening of 4) Our Lady's Visitation, my gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, is at the gracious request of the Emperor. Majesty.

Our counterpart, the scholars, have become much more silent and conscientious about the confession than they were before.

22. Majesty has a monk of the Order of the Barefoot for a confessor, a Spaniard, who is said to be almost sympathetic to our cause, kind and inclined, and probably also preaches; King Ferdinand's preacher, also of the Order of the Barefoot, Medardum, the great screamer, who was also at Speier, cannot stand around him.

There are always other things going on besides the Gospel.

24 Some cardinals themselves confess that our cause and doctrine is right, but it should not have been done without the help of more than one; they do not see how they can be compared, they do not want to have acted wrongly in any way.

25 Saturday Visitationis of Mary, the pure virgins.

Yesterday, the Emperor's Majesty met with the Landgrave of Hesse. Majesty met with the Landgrave of Hesse, next to the Bishop of Hildesheim.

1) Added by us according to Spalatin's Annals.

2) This name is inadvertently omitted in Spalatin's annals, hence his list has; only nineteen combatants of the Lutherans.

3) Walch offers "Rödörfer" and "Stands!".

4) That is: in vigilia, therefore on July 1. With Walch wrongly interpungirt: "of the evening,". The Visitation of the Virgin Mary fell on Saturday.

home, acted, by reason of the gospel, on a back passage.

The people of Strasbourg have traded with many imperial cities. However, neither Costnitz, nor Ulm, nor Heilbrunn, nor Memmingen, nor Frankfurt, nor others have signed their confession and adhered to their doctrine; therefore, Strasbourg stands alone with its doctrine and confession.

On the day of the Visitation, my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, visited the Emperor before noon. Majesty before noon and asked for the fiefs.

29 Imperial Majesty and yours confess that we are not mistaken in articles of faith; but could suffer that in external things, before in some, we compared and united with the others up to a concilium.

30. Majesty's confessor said to Magister Philippo Melanchthon: "I am surprised that in German lands some scholars dispute this speech that one becomes justified and pious by faith, because I have long believed it to be so and have also talked about it with many scholars.

(31) Some princes are very much opposed to the Gospel, but their counsels are very kind and inclined. Some councils have also told their lords in plain sight, among other warnings, that if war should come, God would be for it, that they would not have the consequence of their own people.

On the 32nd Sunday after the Visitation of Our Lady, the Imperial Majesty had with him my most gracious Lord, the Elector of Saxony, Margrave George of Brandenburg and the Landgrave of Hesse.

There is further talk that Imperial Majesty does not have a single person at her court who understands Protestant matters. Majesty did not have a single person at her court who understood the Protestant teachings. Majesty sent our confession to the University of Louvain, even though it was eighty miles away.

34 It is said that the bishops cannot unite in this matter of the Gospel.

The people of Frankfurt have also publicly stated that they want to remain with the confession of my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony.

Our confession has been requested to be rewritten for the King of England, for the King of Portugal, for the Duke of Jülich, for the Duke of Lorraine, and for other great princes. We want to bring it, if God wills, in Latin and German.

37. on the Sunday after the Visitation of Our Lady, here in Augsburg, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, an exceedingly cruel

Nachlese, No. I, 6.

W. XXI, 86*-58".

The weather came, hailing, thundering, lightning and raining one after the other, almost frighteningly, and made such a pond several rooms 1) wide and long on the corn market, almost in the middle of the city, that the people had to wade in the water up to their knees, but I hope it went off without damage.

Our landlord, Wilhelm Arzt, tells us that a year ago hail destroyed so many windows that three thousand guilders were glazed here in Augsburg. And that on his way through the house he was covered in hailstones up to his knees.

It has outside, as I hear, often weather three days in a row. It can't be any different even in such great heat. Under the weather I often thought of you in Altenburg.

40. imperial. Majesty. confessor has allowed himself to be heard in such a Christian manner against Ecken, Faber, Wimpina, Cocleo and other opponents of the Gospel that they have thrown him out of their synagogue, and no longer draw or use him in their council.

Similarly, Doctor Mensing, the preacher-monk of Margrave Joachim, also went with them; for he returned with his son, probably half with the margrave's displeasure. And Doctor Mensing is said to have said to the other doctors: If you do not want to do otherwise, it is the same for me, I will also soon throw off my cap; for there is no one who is against Doctor Martinus and God's teachings.

The archbishop of Cologne is said to have said last year: I am a bishop and should govern my church and preach; now I cannot; but I only want to leave my diocese, that this matter may be judged to good peace.

43 Faber and Cocleus are especially maliciously rumored before others, that they lie and deceive quickly, and speak and act differently before the man than behind him.

44 It is said again, even by some Bavarians themselves, that Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria said to Doctor Ecken: I have been told much differently about Luther's teaching than I have heard in their confession. You have also put me off, that their doctrine is too embarrassing. Then Doctor Eck spoke: With the fathers I would dare to embarrass them, but not with the Scriptures. Then Duke Wilhelm turned away from him.

45 A Spanish captain was lying with the emperor's confessor, and a Spaniard said to Melanchthon, "Will Luther come?

1) "Stuben" == Ruthen (Walch).

He was a monk and had taken a nun, so they would beget the Antichrist with each other. Then the Spanish captain said in Latin: Keep quiet, because Luther is not such an evil man as he is made out to be; I have read Eck's four hundred final speeches, but I do not think that he wrote that, as Eck blames him.

On the Sunday after the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, the emperor informed the princes that he wanted to hear mass at St. Ulrich's on Monday, St. Ulrich's Day; whoever had the opportunity, would ride there with him.

On Monday, St. Ulrich's Day, he rode to St. Ulrich's for mass, and almost all the princes with him, except my most gracious lord, his fellow princes, and the Hessian, who stayed at home.

48 Johann Pommer has written to us here that the gospel in Lübeck and Lüneburg is rising quickly.

49. Item, that Christ has almost taken over the whole sea and lake. May God continue to have mercy, amen. So it goes in the world, the pope and bishops and princes want to drive out God's word in the Roman Empire, and in foreign kingdoms they accept it with joy. O let us ever pray that God's word may remain with us.

(50) The people of Augsburg are almost evil with the Word of God and their preachers, for the noble seed cannot come up among the thorns; they fear very much that they will lose all their best and purest preachers because of this, for some princes are already seeking after some of them.

The Queen Mary Preacher is forbidden to preach even now, although the pious Queen has faithfully asked for it.

Tuesday after the Visitation of Our Lady, the bishops and princes, our retinue, were all together in the town hall.

On the same day, the imperial cities informed the imperial majesty in a written supplement of the reasons why they did not sign the imperial edict against the Lutheran doctrine at the last imperial diet at Speier, and in it they all confessed, along with those of Strasbourg, that they were dependent on our next confession; it is only to be taken for granted that those of Strasbourg appended two articles in which they do not agree with us, perhaps concerning the sacrament.

(54) The bishops and princes, depending on them, have had such unseemly and unfriendly attacks from and against the gospel that two bishops, some of them want to believe it to be so, have

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The two cities of Mainz and Augsburg have said: if they do not want to do it differently, then they also want to do away with them and no longer be part of it.

The King of Poland's message here, Dantiscus, bishop of Culm, is well versed in the Gospel, and is very fond of our people.

(56) Where the bishops and princes find out about a prince, whom they condemn and respect for being Lutheran, they do not draw him to their attacks.

For this reason, when they have spoken of the Gospel, they have on several occasions excluded Duke Henry of Mechelburg, brother-in-law of my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony. Summa, the world is blind, mad and foolish.

58 On Wednesday, St. Margaret's Day, our counterparts, doctors, priests and monks, have handed over to Imperial Majesty their transfer with these titles and piles of books, as follows. Majesty their transfer, with these titles and heaps of books, as follows, so that they, the insolent people, may plague and embitter Her Imperial Majesty. Majesty and embitter them.

1) Anno a Christo nato 1530. die 13. Mensis Iulii Sacratissimae & Catholicae Majestati, Imperatori, oblati sunt Libri per aliquot Catholicos Doctores in imperialibus comitiis Augustae habitis sub sequentibus Titulis:

Catholica & quasi extemporanea Responsio super nonnullis Articulis catholicae Caesareae Majestati hisce diebus in dieta Imperiali Augusten. per Illustrissimum Electorem Saxoniae, & alios quosdam Principes, & duas Civitates oblatis.

Antilogiarum, hoc est, Contradictionum M. Lutheri babyIonica, ex ejusdem Apostatae libris, per Doctorem Johannem Fabri excerpta.

Haereses & errores ex diversis M. Lutheri libris in unum collecti.

Haereses in sacris Conciliis antea damnatae per Lutheranos iterum ab inferis reductae.

Haereses & errores Martini Lutheri per Leonem Pontificem ante decennium damnati.

Haereses & errores M. Lutheri ante septennium per Universitatem Parisiensem condemnati.

Condemnatio facultatis Theologicae Lovania,

Epitomae aliquot haeresium & errorum M. Lutheri.

Monstra sectarum ex Luthero & Lutheranis enata.

Lutherani Evangelii abominabiles & perniciosi & damnatissimi fructus.

1) The German translation of this Latin piece is found below in § 81.

Wednesday after Visitationis.

It is said that the papist princes and bishops cannot make up their minds and agree to any answer, and that four princes have left their chambers, because they were so displeased with their conduct: for they wanted to make it dull and bad, and to bring about an eight, to cool their little mill.

60 Doctor Urbanus Regius, the most learned and best preacher here in Augsburg, comes to Duke Ernsten of Lüneburg and Brunswick, Duke Franzen's brother.

61 Some of the princes' chancellors and councilors have let themselves be heard in such a Christian manner that they can no longer suffer their lords in this matter in the council, for they have quickly complied with their prince. 2)

62 Thursday after Visitationis, the Emperor went hunting. Majesty rode on the hunt, shortly thereafter, when a number of imperial cities handed over their documents, in which they signed the confession and fell to it, although at the request of my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony 2c), as has been partly said. Some say that it was done by all imperial cities, except Strasbourg, which should have a note with them, perhaps to indicate their faith in the sacrament. Some say otherwise, so it turns on each other.

The papists here have become two sects at this Diet, for some good ones could suffer peace, but some seek only war and bloodshed; God forbid them, amen.

64. Thursday after Our Lady's Visitation, our counterpart, the Papal Princes, Bishops and Doctors, have delivered their answer to our confession, apology, and reverence to Imperial Majesty at nine o'clock in the afternoon. Majesty at nine o'clock at noon. Thereupon the Emperor. Majesty let herself be heard: she wants to take it into consideration. Some had advised that it should be reported to the Emperor. Majesty by impartial doctors. But some high potentates, who are crepuscular and hostile in all matters, have prevented it.

In two days a Spaniard was beheaded here because he had stabbed another Spaniard the night before. When he knelt down, he asked them to say the Lord's Prayer to comfort him, and whoever wanted to do so should lift a finger. All the servants who were present would have done this. After that, he also asked that several masses be said for him,

2) "Kept" will be as much as: Stopped.

3) Walch: "to please":

No one wanted to lift a finger, but some said aloud: "Measurement is no longer valid.

66 Our counterpart also undertook to let the embassy of the Duke of Jülich, a count, out of their council, but he found himself. Mainz sometimes did not want to be present, because they had thus arranged it through each other, as one stately says.

On Friday, St. Kilian's Day, my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, visited King Ferdinand before noon, and helped to request the fiefs for Margrave Georgen of Brandenburg.

68 The legend is that Imperial Majesty also required the Swiss. Majesty also required the Swiss, and it says that Zwinge, Oecolampad, Capito, Hedio, Butzer are also hereditary.

I cannot write how stiff-necked, mad and foolish the Sacrament enthusiasts are, both man and woman, young and old, and everything that is only tainted with this poison. Yesterday, Friday after the Visitationis Mariä, a rich citizen here in Augsburg told me in private that more than half the city, indeed three parts of rich and poor, men and women, maids and servants, are attached to Master Michel, 1) that is, to the Zwinglian doctrine, and where something should happen to him or the doctrine, that nothing good will come of it.

70. on friday Kiliani, here in Augsburg, this following opinion was written in Latin in our inn, in the evening. The twenty doctors, reported above, have today decided their answer and say: that the Lutheran princes in the twenty-one articles hold almost all Christian, but their doctors have taught differently, as they presented to imperial majesty. The above-mentioned doctors do not contest both forms much; the priests' marriage and the mass more vehemently. One does not write it all on a whole book of paper. Tomorrow they will begin to rewrite it, because it has been compiled by many. They almost boast that they want to preserve the Roman See and the Church very well. Kais. Majesty has requested that they no longer delay Her Imperial Majesty. Majesty with it any longer and hand it over; which they promised they would do in three days.

A pious, well-known man wrote this to our inn. If this is the case, our counterpart has not yet submitted his articles; therefore, the Emperor's Majesty has not yet been able to give us an answer. Majesty has not yet been able to give us an answer. So it leaks from one house to the other. Therefore, it is no wonder that these matters are talked about unequally and strangely among you and everywhere.

1) Michael Keller.

One of them asked the Legate and Cardinal Campegium to help the cause of the Gospel to peace, when he answered: because the Pope's power was suspicious of us, the matter was in the will of the Emperor and the German princes; what they would do, it would turn out.

On Saturday after St. Kilian's Day, the ninth of July, 2) early before noon, at the City Hall, Duke Frederick of Bavaria, in addition to Count Hoyer of Mansfeld and Count von Helfenstein, on behalf of Imperial Majesty, 3) requested my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, and the other princes, who are attached to the Gospel, to indicate whether they wanted to leave it at the articles presented, or bring in more articles, so that, where one will take up the matter, there will be no hindrance. As a backtrack is requested, in view of the fact that the cities, pending to them, were not present, as namely, Nuremberg and Reutlingen.

The answer, given to it, was Christian, and thus put (praise to God) that one did not give anything to the cause, presented in writings on Sundays after Kiliani, with diligent request to promote the things; God grant the prosperity to it, amen.

His Imperial Majesty had his Spanish masters discuss how his Majesty should oppose the Lutheran doctrine. To this they have given Emperor Maj. Maj. in the French language with this reply: Where His Imperial Majesty finds such pieces in it. Majesty finds such pieces in it that are contrary to the articles of faith, then his Majesty shall use all her power to exterminate the same souls. If, however, the disputed articles concern only the removal of certain ceremonies and external matters, His Majesty shall not oppose them vehemently. But to learn this, His Majesty shall submit the matters to some less pious people who are not related to any part. This is a fine, prudent, wise council, the like of which we would certainly have found hard to find in all German lands.

Cardinal Campegius said to one of them: "I have often thought that the innumerable multitude of monks will one day cause great misfortune to the Church.

77 Doctor Paulus Ricener, King Ferdinand's physician, speaks most honestly and best of our cause, concerning God's word, and can't be

2) Walch wrong: "Junii".

3) "to" added by us. The opinion is: they have made the request to my most gracious lord etc. that they should indicate etc.

The fact that the other side of the coin is so tough is not surprising enough.

Count Felix von Werdenberg, such a great adversary of Doctor Martin Luther that he is said to have let himself be heard: if it came to war against the Lutherans, that he would let himself be used for it in vain, panketted with the Abbot of Weingarten on Monday after St. Kilian's Day, and went away drunk, and was found dead in bed, and buried on Tuesday after St. Kilian's Day. God forgive him his sin. In this way, one after the other passes away. We still act as if we wanted to push Christ out of heaven.

79 Tuesday after Kiliani, the twelfth of the month of hay, our adversary answered their answer to our faith and doctrine confession of imperial majesty. 1) The monks wanted to kiss the feet of the emperor; he did not want that. Now we want to know and hear, if God wills, how it will sound; God grant everywhere with grace, amen. Let us only pray and ask faithfully, and stand in the fear of God and faith, amen.

How highly the Gegengentheil embittered the matter appears in part from these Germanized articles:

In the year after Christ's birth, fifteen hundred and thirty, on the thirteenth of July, the Emperor's Majesty delivered up some Christian doctors. Majesty, at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg, several Christian doctors delivered books, as their titles subsequently read:

A Christian and urgent response to the articles submitted [at this Imperial Diet in Augsburg] by the Elector of Saxony and several other princes and two cities.

The repugnant articles in which the apostate Luther writes against himself in his Babylonica, extracted by Doctor Johann Faber.

The heresy and error drawn together from various Luther's books.

The heresy in the sacred concilia was condemned before, but again aroused by the Lutherans.

The heresy and error of Luther, condemned by Pope Leo the Tenth ten years ago.

The heresy and error of Luther, condemned seven years ago by the University of Paris.

The Faculty of the Holy Scriptures at Louvain Condemnation.

An excerpt of some of Martin Luther's heresies and errors.

1) "answered" == answered over:

2) Completed by us according to your Latin in §58.

Some much incorrect sects grew out of Luther and the Lutherans.

The abominable, corrupt and most damnable fruits of the Lutheran gospel.

Summa.

Some calculate it to 260 sheets.

It is said that when Count Felix von Werdenberg was carried to his grave, an honest citizen here in Augsburg stood before a prince's council, and when he saw the corpse, with more pomp than usual, he asked: who the dead man was? When he heard that it was Count Felix, he was terrified and said: "God is a strange judge; yesterday I heard from his mouth that he had spoken with dire words: he did not want to live, he wanted to put his life and property into eradicating the Lutheran doctrine; then he went away so shortly. Now it is said that he was not drunk either.

Another count experienced this, who also opposed God's word so much, even with such defiance, that he was also said to be so frightened that he became ill from it.

The suffragan bishop of Würzburg, Marius, often said in a collation: he wanted to stay with the mother, he meant the papal church. Brentius, as a pious, learned man, once said: "Dear Lord, you must not forget the Father, the dear God, in addition; then the suffragan bishop wanted to fly off the handle.

85. praise god, we have daily much good company of highly respected, pious, learned people, from all lands almost.

The committee of this Diet are Duke George of Saxony, Duke William of Bavaria, Duke Albrecht of Mechelburg, Chancellor of the Margrave of Baden, Doctor Vehus, the Bishop of Würzburg, Augsburg, Speier.

Here, they had expelled some preacher monks, who were in charge of Mainz, from the churches, because they were suspicious of God's word; but they had to allow it again. They make a mess of the dear Lord Christ and his tender gospel.

On Thursday after Margaret the Emperor's Majesty asked the princes, princes and estates of the empire what they thought about how the matters concerning God's word should be carried out and dealt with, and the estates let themselves be heard honestly, praise God.

89. praise god, the things can be seen in part by the grace of god, that some big

Lords show themselves lighter than a woman. Therefore, let us only continue to ask and pray, and not let up, for God can certainly still make children of Abraham out of vain stony hearts.

90) The same Thursday I also had, among other writings, an almost Christian letter from the von Stauffen 1) who writes among other things thus: Fear not, the cause is God's, who has begun it in us, without us, who knows and will well protect us; he does not sleep, who guards Israel; the cause is his, will well quiet the dispute, and lead it out etc.

Today, Friday after Margaret, the princes and bishops of our counterpart are to meet again at seven o'clock before noon, for the sake of God's word. God grant them a good mind and heart, amen.

92) On the other hand, doctors are completely poisoned and pretend to be clumsy; God forbid them, amen.

On the other hand, doctors, priests and monks delivered to the Emperor last Wednesday after Ciliar a whole heap of books against Doctor Martinus, with almost shameful names, all in the opinion of embittering the kind heart of the pious Emperor and causing misfortune, so that a great gentleman of the nobility is said to have said: These boys will not have rest until we lie in a heap; they make the emperor quite mad, who is otherwise kind and pious; God forbid the devil, amen.

94 They say that our counterpart, the doctors, have made their transfer to our confession so dubious, violent and ugly that the Emperor himself said it was too ugly and ordered them to make their transfer more gentle. Majesty himself said it was too ugly and ordered them to make their transfer more mild.

95. on Saturday, the day of the division of the apostles. Majesty with my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony etc., who was Duke Frederick of Bavaria, Count Palatine, Count Henry of Nassau etc., with several notices.

96 Similarly, a number of lords, also from Imperial Majesty, have previously been to Margrave Georgen of Brandenburg, to the Landgrave of Hesse. Majesty, have been to Margrave George of Brandenburg, to the Landgrave of Hesse etc., to which the same princes have again given a Christian answer.

97 Yesterday Magist. Philippus had a letter from Erasmo Roterodam, given at Freiburg in Breisgau on the seventh day of this month, in which he writes that he is now ill in the fourth month, but he does not come here, because he writes among other things that he does not dare to do any good in it,

1) Argula von Staufen.

because as soon as someone says something like that, he is accused of being Lutheran etc.

It is said that there were six of the Grasen and Lords who conspired together to eradicate the Lutheran doctrine, of which Count Felix von Werdenberg has so graciously passed away; so one of these counts now lies, even hardly; stand on it that he also does not arise. God help them to notice it.

Tomorrow, Saturday after the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, it will be four whole weeks since my most gracious lord and the other princes, lords and cities, pending before him, have delivered their confession to the imperial majesty: yet the countermove has neither been read nor handed over to them. Many, however, believe that when this matter comes to action, it will be dealt with shortly, amen.

On St. Magdalene's Eve, my most gracious lord, the Elector of Saxony, once again delivered to Imperial Majesty a Christian honest writing in French, German, and Latin; may well be called a Christian, gloriously free confession of faith and Christian doctrine, for his electoral grace keep, praise God, firm and well by God's word.

On Friday, St. Magdalene's Day, the forty final Latin speeches of Doctor Martin Luther, on the power of the Church of God, are printed; likewise his letter to the Cardinal of Mainz, to help make Fried.

Doctor Faber and Eck deal with things so immodestly that their own people on their side blatantly call them knaves.

There are no princes, bishops, or lords of the court here, how much they oppose Luther; he has some among his officials, nobility, chaplains, and other servants who are well acquainted with Doctor Martinu's teachings, even with the Gospel, and their lords know this well. I have heard this myself from several credible people, some of whom speak freely, well and Christianly of it.

104 I have heard that Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote to the Emperor. Among other things, he wrote to His Majesty that the cause of the Gospel should not be hurried, but that much time should be allowed for it, and that he considered it impossible to establish a reformation, but that it should first be started with the pope himself.

One hears more of evil than of good. For yesterday the schoolmaster of Friedberg, a small town of the Bavarians, a mile from here, wanted to go home again with his wife, when an imperial tragedy brought him back.

Nachlese, No. I, 6. 7.

W. XXI, 71'!'-74-.

The schoolmaster did not want to suffer this, they disagreed about it, so hard that they hit each other, so that the schoolmaster was beaten to death under it; and when the Trabant was very wounded, he turned back to Augsburg. The schoolmaster's wife followed him and made such a fuss that the boy was taken to prison and will not be there long, of course; this boy is supposed to be a nobleman.

Recently, some papists, great princes, learned advisors, previously great enemies of the Gospel, have become so lenient that they have begun to speak honestly and well of the marriage of priests.

107. Maj. deals with the cause of the Gospel slowly and with great counsel and caution, and keeps her opinion very quiet and secret.

108. margrave George of Brandenburg writes this rhyme:

God's word would not be difficult, if only self-interest were not.

7. Joh. Aurifaber's report on what happened to Luther and his teachings, Anno 1531

Until 1545.

Anno 1531.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. II, p. 316; in the Altenburger, vol. V, p. 805; in the Leipziger, vol. XX, p. 297 and in Walch, vol. XXI, p. 72*.

On the fifth day of January, all the princes of the empire, except Saxony, elected Ferdinandum, King of Bohemia and Hungary, at Cologne and proclaimed him King of Rome. And Emperor Carl, together with their Imperial Maj. Maj. brother, King Ferdinand, and all princes and rulers departed from Cologne and went to Aach; there, on the 11th day of January, King Ferdinand was elected Roman king. King Ferdinandus was crowned Roman King, and their royal dignity, election and coronation by Emperor Caroln was published and announced in writing to all states of the Empire.

In the month of March, on the 29th day, a day is again scheduled at Schmalkalden, where the protesting estates will meet to consult with each other about the opposition and protection if they should be overrun by the papists for the sake of the doctrine of the Gospel.

In this year, Martin Luther printed a gloss on the imperial edict issued after the Imperial Diet in Augsburg in 1530. Item, a beautiful, Christian warning to his dear Germans, set on the

This is the case when the enemies of the divine word and the church wanted to overrun the Protestant states by war; with which two books the papists are very enraged.

In the month of June, the protesting estates held a day at Frankfurt am Main; on the same day, Prince Palatine Ludwig and the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht, Cardinal, offered to take a peaceful action between the Imperial Majesty and the Catholic or papist estates, and thereafter also the protesting estates, and to be mediators so that no part of 1) the other does anything violent. On the same day, the Elector Palatine Ludwig and Albrecht Cardinal of Main offered to carry out a peaceful act between the Imperial Majesty and the Catholic or papist estates, and then also the protesting estates, and to act as mediator so that no part should have to do anything wrong to the other, and the act was carried out on a special day in Schmalkalden last August, but little fruitful was achieved and obtained.

In the month of March, the Elector of Trier, Richard Bärnklau, a wise and peaceful prince, died to the sorrow of many.

After there had long been great disagreement between the thirteen nations in Switzerland over religion, a war broke out in the month of October in Switzerland, so that the five papist places, Lucerne, Uri and others, declared themselves hostile to those of Bern and Zurich. Because the Protestant places did not want to give them salt or grain, they immediately went into battle against them and on the 11th day of October attacked and assaulted the Zurichers, also putting them to flight at a monastery called Capell [Kappel] and strangling them in the 1500s. In this skirmish or battle, Huldricus Zwinglius, chief preacher at Zurich, perished in the 44th year of his age, since he had gone out with the Zurichers as their field preacher and was found in the attack. After this defeat of the Zurichers, they again armed themselves and sought help from the city of Bern, and brought together about thirty thousand men, divided their warband into two groups, and marched the Zurichers on Zug, but the Berners on Lucerne; since the Confederates attacked the Berners with a force of eighteen thousand men, and on the 18th day of October drove them back again, and cut off a thousand and two hundred men, and drowned a thousand men in water.

(7) When the people of Zurich and Bern were again gathered together and received more help than from Basel and Schafhausen, they attacked their enemies once again on October 24 and were again defeated and lost six thousand men.

1) "of" put by us instead of: "for".

After these defeats, peace was made by many imperial cities, as Strasbourg, Basel and other envoys, and the war was suspended and settled on November 16.

9. Johannes Oecolampadius, the most distinguished preacher of the church in Basel, also died in this year.

10 In this year also D. M. Luther's mother blessedly passed away in Christ, as the dear man of God wrote a wonderful letter of comfort to her shortly before her departure, which is also printed in the fifth German Jenische Theile.

(11) Thus Margaret, Emperor Carolus' sister, regent of the Netherlands, died and the queen of Hungary, Mary, widow, took over the government of the Netherlands in her place. First of all, this queen was very fond of the teachings of the Gospel, so that even D. Martin Luther wrote four psalms of consolation to her; but afterwards she became papist again in the Netherlands.

Anno 1532.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. II, p. 317; in the Altenburger, vol. V, p. 1281; in the Leipziger, vol. XX, p. 353 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 75*.

In the month of April, the protesting estates have been scheduled for a trading day at Schweinfurt by the Archbishop of Mainz and the Elector Palatine on the imperial mandate. Both princes have personally ordered it, and Duke Johann Friedrich of Saxony has also been dispatched there by his father, Prince Hansen, together with Duke Franzen of Lüneburg and Prince Wölfen of Anhalt, as well as other princes and imperial city envoys and councillors, and a peace has been concluded there.

In this year Michael Servetus, a Hispanic, had several books printed in which error against the Holy Trinity in the Godhead was taught; which Servetus was burned in Switzerland after several years.

The same error was taught by Johannes Campamus, born in Jülich, against the Holy Trinity.

In this year, Georgius Wicelius von Fach, pastor of Niemeck near Wittenberg (who had been devoted to the teachings of the Gospel, preached them himself and made them known), fell away from them again and became a pope, and stayed for a while in Fach, then in Eisleben with Count Hoyer of Mansfeld, and with many writings and books

The apostate has challenged the recognized doctrine of the Gospel and has become the worst enemy of the Lutheran Gospel, sicuti omnis Apostata est persecutor sui ordinis [as every apostate is a persecutor of his order].

After the two Electors of Mainz and Palatinate were unable to come to a complete agreement on the peace treaty with the protesting envoys at the meeting in Schweinfurt, another meeting was scheduled and held in Nuremberg, where several articles were agreed upon that had been presented to Emperor Carln at the Imperial Diet in Regensburg and accepted by Her Imperial Majesty. Maj.

Emperor Carl also held an Imperial Diet in Regensburg this year to quell the division, schism and disunity among the imperial estates, which had risen up on account of religion, and also to undertake a war campaign against the Turks. King Ferdinand, the Archbishop of Mainz, the Count Palatine, the Elector, Margrave Joachim of Brandenburg, the Elector, the Princes of Bavaria, Duke George of Saxony, and other princes, as well as many bishops, appeared in person. And there, a peaceful order in matters of faith and religion was established and publicized in the empire by imperial mandate; thereupon, the protesting estates sent their Turkish aid to Austria.

During this Imperial Diet, Solimannus, the Turkish emperor, arrived in Hungary in August with a large army force, and took his march on Austria toward Vienna, also sending out several roving troops that came as far as Linz and Grätz in Styria, and did great damage everywhere. As Imperial Maj. As the imperial majesty has hurriedly demanded the help of the Turks, which was granted at the imperial diet in Augsburg in 1530, and has gathered a large army from the German lands and Italy, has also raised an excellent army of travelers from the Netherlands, and has sent an excellent, powerful army to Austria to fight against the Turks, and her imperial majesty herself has followed in her own person. Maj. himself followed in his own person. When the Turkish emperor realized this, he left the siege of the city of Gunz [Güns], 9 miles from Vienna (which he stormed thirteen times but could not win) and fled to Hungary. However, twelve thousand Turks had lingered on the spoils and in the strip in Austria; all of them were killed and slain by the imperial army. Margrave Joachim, now Elector of Brandenburg, was present in this Turkish campaign as a commander of the Lower Saxon district.

King Christian of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, who had been driven out of his kingdoms by his own subjects and had wandered in misery until his tenth year, brought together in this year a war party and mighty shipping, and wanted to retake his kingdoms; but he lay down on the shipping, and was captured by his cousin, King Frederick, and kept in prison in the castle of Sonderburg in Denmark for several and twenty years until his death. In the same year, King Christian of Denmark's son, who was educated at Emperor Carl's court as his cousin, died at Regensburg during the Imperial Diet and was buried there in the cathedral.

In the month of August, the noble, Christian and pious prince, Duke Johannes, Elector of Saxony, died and was buried in Wittenberg, as two funeral sermons by D. Mart. Luther's two funeral sermons were printed, and his son, Duke John Frederick, became Elector in his place in the 28th year of his age.

After the Turkish invasion, Emperor Carl went to Italy and made an alliance with the Pope Elements at Bononia [Bologna], and negotiated how a concilium would be held, so that unity, peace and tranquility could be established in the German Nation, and Emperor Carl then sailed from Italy in Hispania.

In the month of September a comet stood in the sky for several weeks towards the morning, as one has seen then in the same form in the 1531st year also a comet on the 6th day Augusti up to the 3rd day Septembris.

In October, King Francis of France and King Henry of England met at Cales [Calais] and Bolonien [Boulogne], and established and made alliance with each other.

Anno 1533.

Printed in the Eisleben edition, vol. II, p. 927; in the Altenburger, vol. VI, p. 160; in the Leipziger, vol. XXI, p. 1 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 78*.

1 In this 1533rd year the great quarrel and discord arose between Duke Georgen of Saxony and D. Mart. Luther. And the occasion of it was: Because the city of Leipzig was deprived of the preaching of the Gospel, and in a village near Leipzig, named Holzhausen, the Elector of Saxony had jurisdiction,

When the Lutheran sermon was preached, the citizens of Leipzig ran out to the sermon every Sunday and received the Lord's Supper in both forms. When Duke George of Saxony learned of this, he issued a serious edict forbidding his subjects to go to the Lutheran sermon in Holzhausen, but everyone was to take the Lord's Supper in one form in Leipzig on Easter Day. Then some citizens wrote to D. Mart. Luthern and asked him for advice whether they should obediently follow the princely mandate or not. When D. Mart. Luther wrote again to the citizens and recanted, the same letter was circulated among the citizens until the council received a copy of it and sent it to Duke Georgen of Saxony in Dresden. And because D. Luther called Duke Georgen an apostle of the devil, His Sult. Gn. wrote to the Elector of Saxony, Duke John Frederick, and complained very much about Luther's such iniquities, indicating that he was inciting and strengthening his subjects to rebellion, and requested that the Elector control and defend him. When the Elector of Saxony wrote to Luther that he should apologize for the complaint that had been filed, and Duke George of Saxony had expelled and driven out of Leipzig 70 citizens who had not received the Lord's Supper of Christ in the same form at Easter, M. Luther wrote a letter of responsibility for the charges that had been filed. M. Luther wrote a responsibility of the rebellion of Duke George, and let it go out in public print, together with a letter of consolation to the Christians, innocently chased out of Leipzig by His Grace.

2 After that, when Johannes Cochläus wanted to defend his prince, Duke Georgen, and had a book printed in Dresden against D. Mart. Luther, a book was printed in Dresden, by D. Benedictum Pauli, a lawyer in Wittenberg, who had just been in Dresden, six sheets of the same copy of Cochlaeus' book were obtained from the printer, and brought to D. M. Luther. M. Luthern, who immediately wrote another booklet against it and had it printed, with this title: "Auf Herzog Georgen nähestes Buch D. M. Luthers kleine Antwort. M. Luther's Little Answer.

When Duke George drove some of the citizens out of the city of Oschatz for the sake of the Gospel, D. M. Luther wrote a beautiful letter of comfort to them. M. Luther wrote a beautiful letter of consolation to them.

4 A great disagreement arose between the Elector of Saxony and Duke George about this. But councils on both sides have met and resolved this disagreement, and D. Luther and Cochläo have been commanded to

that they should not mix the names of the princes in their books and writings.

In this 1533rd year, Emperor Carol's and Pope Clement's message was also sent to Germany to the Elector of Saxony and the protesting estates for the sake of the Concilii. For after the Turk fled from Austria in the thirty-second year, Emperor Carol went to Italy against the winter, and held deliberations with Pope Clement at Bononia on how a concilium should be held in the German land, and how the division of religion should be abolished thereby. Thereupon the same legates departed, met the Elector of Saxony, Duke John Frederick, at Weimar, and announced the concilium of His Lordship there, which was to be held perhaps at Placenza, Bononia, or Mantua.

The Elector then described the protesting estates to Schmalkalden at the end of the fallow month and discussed with them an answer to be given to the legates.

7. in this year king Henry of England has pushed away his wife, queen Catharina, emperor Carol's wife, and has taken another queen, called Anna Boleyn?) who in this 1533. year has born him a daughter in the month of September, who has been called Elizabeth.

8. so one has seen also from the month Julio to the August moons, at 11 days, a comet.

Anno 1534 to 1537.

The narratives for these four years can be found in the locations indicated immediately before.

Anno 1534.

1) In this year 2) King Henry of England has pushed away his wife Catharina, King Ferdinand's daughter in Hispania, who had previously married his brother, King Arthurum, and Pope Julius has dispensed with this, that King Henry may have his deceased brother's wife in marriage. Since she now had only one daughter, called Mary, the king wanted to have another free one, called Anna Boleyn, and for this he sought Pope Clement's permission and consent.

1) Walch: "Bolonia".

2) In contradiction with § 7 of the previous section. In 1533, Henry VIII was married to Anna Boleyn when she was already pregnant by him, but without being divorced from his first wife Catharina.

He was not badly inclined to the other marriage at first, but for the sake of Emperor Carl he became changeable again and condemned King Henry's other marriage altogether. Then the king sent to all the universities in France, Italy and German lands, and had the learned people bring Judicia and Censuras in this marriage matter. The English legates, a bishop and Doctor Antonius Barns, were also in Wittenberg with Doctor Martin Luther, Philippo Melanchthon and the other theologians.

Because King Henry of England was hostile to Pope Clementi for this reason, he deprived the pope of his annual income, the St. Peter's penny, because every house in the kingdom of England had to give the pope a silver penny. This year the pope was deprived of several tons of gold, and his regiment was driven out of Engelland. And the king let himself be called the head of the church in England and did not want to let the pope be the head of the churches on earth anymore.

In this year, Martin Luther also printed a booklet about the Mass of the Holy Angles, which greatly angered the papists.

4 So also in this year between D. M. Luthero and Erasmo Roterodamo a new noise arose about the doctrine of free will; which caused a letter Lutheri wrote to Nie. Amsdorf, which went out in print; on it Erasmus again had a hard booklet printed.

5. landgrave Philip of Hesse has gone in this year in great war armor and [has] gone to the Würtemberger land, and Duke Ulrich of Würtemberg (who was chased out of the Swabian League, and at 11 years in exile) by money help of King Francisci of France reinstated in his country, and the King Ferdinand! King Ferdinand's army, which was 12,000 strong, was put to flight, and this army's commander, 3) Count Palatine Philip, had a heel (Fersche) on his leg shot off in the battle.

6th And when a great noise was about to be made in German lands, the Archbishop of Mainz, Elector, and Duke George of Saxony, the Landgrave's brother-in-law, entered into negotiations between King Ferdinand and the Landgrave, and agreed on this war on the day of Caden in Bohemia.

3) "Obersten" put by us instead of: "ob er ein" in Walch.

Nachlese, No. I, 7.

W. XXI, 83*-86*.

7 The Anabaptists also did great harm with their false teachings in the Netherlands, especially in Westphalia, and especially took the city of Münster, where a tailor named John of Leyden proclaimed himself king. When the king of Leyden stopped in the city and sent twelve prophets to seduce other cities in the vicinity, and there was great violence with much womanizing, rioting, plundering, and chasing away of pious people, the bishop of Münster besieged the very strong and rich city and built blockhouses in front of it. But when he could not bear this heavy cost of war for a long time, he appealed to the estates of the Roman Empire for help, which came together at Worms and granted the help, and besieged the city for longer than a whole year, and finally entered it by treachery, and strangled all that was male and able to defend it. The king and two of his most prominent princes, called Krechting and Knipperdolling, were imprisoned and in the following 36th year torn apart with fiery pincers and hanged in three iron pawns at the top of the gate, and thus hung in eternal memory of all rebels.

8 In this 1534th year Pope Clement died in September, and Paul III became Pope, and although he was very old when he became Pope, yet he reigned 15 years.

In this year King Frederick also died in Denmark, and Christianus, his eldest son, became king in his father's place and won the kingdom with the sword, and for this reason waged a great war with the imperial city of Lübeck.

10th Also, Andreas Criti has become this year Duke of Venice.

(11) The Turk also took great damage this year from Sophi in Persia, called Thamas; for he struck him twice hard, and laid down fifteen thousand on horseback, thirty thousand on foot, and in the eighteen thousand camels.

Anno 1535.

In this 1535th year Peter Paul Vergerius was sent by Pope Paul III to the German country for the sake of the Concilium, to announce a general, free Concilium, which was to be held in Mantua; for this reason he first came to the court of the Roman king Ferdinandi, and because Landgrave Philip of Hesse was there in the Würtemberg matter, the papal legate reported his advertisement to the Landgrave of Hesse at that time.

2nd And after Duke John Frederick, Elector of Saxony, traveled to Vienna in Austria to the Roman King Ferdinand, and there received the fiefs, and performed other things more, and on the return trip to his Electorate of Saxony, he was able to visit Ferdinand. Gn. In Prague, in Bohemia, Peter Paulus Vergerius came to his electoral grace. Grace, and by his Elector's Grace he received his advertisement and order of the Concord. He then sent this Petrine to his electoral grace in Prague in Bohemia. And afterwards this Petrus Paulus Vergerius also traveled to Wittenberg, and was located at the castle, and D. Martinum Luthern and Philippum Melanchthonem himself.

The protesting estates then arranged a meeting at Schmalkalden, where all the churals and princes, as well as imperial cities, of the same unity, met in the month of December and discussed and acted for the sake of the council. On this Schmalkaldic Day, King Francis of France also sent his legate, as Guilielmum Bellajum Langäum, to the protesting estates. This legate conversed a great deal with the theologians of the protesting estates about the most important articles and main points of Christian doctrine, and indicated what his king's opinion and that of many of his followers in France would be, as they would also like to know how to control even the Pope's assumed great power and many abuses; and that the king of France desired nothing better than that the protesting estates send some of their followers in France, who conferred and conversed with his theologians about doctrine. In particular, the king wrote to Philipp Melanchthon that he should come to him in France. But the Elector of Saxony, Duke John Frederick, would not allow him to do so. In addition, the King of France sought and desired that the protesting estates would not consent to any place where a concilium might be held without the King of France's and the King of England's prior knowledge. And it may well have been sought there that the protesting estates should include the King of France in their union of kinship; but this was refused to the legate.

On this Schmalkaldic Day, King Henry VIII of England also sent his legates and informed the Estates how he had eradicated the Antichrist, the Pope's, regiment from his kingdom and was well disposed toward the Christian doctrine of the Gospel, and warned them against the Pope's practices of the Conciliar, and offered to stand beside the protesting Estates in the Conciliar.

Nachlese, No. I, 7.

W. XXI, 86*-89*.

On this Schmalkaldic Day, the princes of Pomerania, Duke Ulrich of Würtemberg, Count Palatine Ruprecht, the city of Augsburg, Frankfurt, Compodunum [Kempten], Hamburg and Hanover entered into the protesting agreement; item, Count Wilhelm of Nassau was also accepted into the agreement.

6 And after there had been great division in Augsburg over the doctrine of the Lord's Supper for some time, this was settled, and the council of Augsburg sent a legate to D. Mart. Luthern against Wittenberg a legate, as D. Gereon, 1) and requested in writing that they have Urbanum Regium again as their preacher. But D. Luther did not obtain him from Duke Ernsten of Lüneburg (over whose principality he was a superintendent).

In this 1535th year, in the month of June, Emperor Carol departed from Hispania with a mighty armor from Barchinon 2) to Africa, and won the kingdom of Tunis, in which the old famous city of Carthage was located. And this kingdom was taken by force from the Turkish emperor Solimanno, and the king Altzachens 3) (whom the Turk had driven out and expelled) was reinstated in the kingdom of Tunis by Emperor Carln; was again shipped from Africa into Italy, and was introduced to Rome with great triumph.

In this year Christianus, King of Denmark, ruled after the death of his father, King Frederick, and waged a fierce war against the imperial city of Lübeck. In this year, after the death of his father, King Frederick, Christianus reigned, and against the imperial city of Lübeck, which had waged a fierce war over this kingdom, he conquered the kingdom with the sword and won the city of Copenhagen by force, which Duke Albrecht of Mecklenburg had held. After his coronation, King Christian began to plant the Christian religion of the Augsburg Confession throughout his kingdom.

At the end of this 35th year, the last Duke of Milan, Franciscus Sfortia, died without heirs, who had Miss Christierna, King Christierna of Denmark's daughter, in marriage, who was subsequently married to Duke Francisco of Lorraine. The King of France wanted to inherit this principality, over which great wars arose between Emperor Carol and King Francisco of France.

1) Gereon Seiler.

2) That is: Barcinio == Barcelona.

3) Perhaps: "Muley Hassan", Bey of Tunis, whom Carl V reinstated.

10th Duke Carl of Sophoy [Savoy] is also overrun by the King of France, and the city of Bern in Switzerland, and taken from him by force the Piedmont and almost all his lands.

(11) So also the dolphin [Dauphin] in France, Franciscus, died, and as it is thought, fo was forgiven him with poison.

This whole year the Anabaptists have been besieged in the city of Münster, and also won and captured.

Anno 1536.

In the month of January, the Queen of England Catharina, who had repudiated King Henry, died. So in the month of May, the other new queen, Anna Bolena, was beheaded with other her friends, who were distinguished English lords. And in a few days after that, King Henry married the third wife, Jane Seymour. 4) After that a war of the subjects against the king followed in England, that the Englishmen rose to 50,000 strong, did not want to tolerate the great assessment and other troubles any longer, but by deceit and a sham treaty this rebellion was quenched, and many great lords, who had been in the subjects' camp, were beheaded afterwards by the king.

In the month of February, the Bishop of Münster came to the city of Münster with the Elector of Cologne and the Duke of Jülich, and had the King of Münster and his two princes judged. The king converted to the Lord Christ, and when he was torn apart with fiery tongs, he died a Christian death. But the other two princes, Knipperdolling and Krechting, remained obdurate and were hanged in three iron baskets outside the gate.

3 Thus a great war arose between Emperor Carolo and King Francisco of France, and the Emperor attacked the French hard in Gallia Narbonensi and in Picardia, but did little.

4 King Henry of England also sent his embassy, as a bishop and Doctor Antonium Barns, to Wittenberg, and with the theologians there, as, D. Martin Luther, Philippo Melanchthon and others, had them discuss and act on the main points of Christian doctrine, and especially on the mass, priestly marriage and the Lord's Supper, and the monks' vows, and they remained there for several months. They have also heard about the divorcio [divorce] of the first queen with

4) Walch: "Sanam Semeriam".

Nachlese, No. I, 7.

W. XXI, 89*-92*.

He also took great pains with the Elector of Saxony, Duke John Frederick, to have their king admitted to the Schmalkaldic League.

5th Thereupon the protesting estates announced a day on the 24th day of April at Frankfurt on the Main, where they dealt with the relatives of these English matters. On this day Duke Ulrich of Würtemberg, Duke Barnim and Duke Philipp of Pomerania, Prince Georg and Joachim of Anhalt, brothers, the city of Augsburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Hanover were accepted into the Schmalkaldic League.

On the 11th day of June, Pope Paul III sent a letter to Emperor Charles and all the imperial states, announcing the concilium to be held in Mantua on the 3rd day of May in the 37th year.

The Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann, a Count of Wied, 1) began in this year to advise how the idolatry and ungodly ceremonies in the Abbey of Cologne might be abolished; as then in the following years their Electoral Grace took much and great action for this reason, and adopted the Augsburg Confession, and also brought about a Reformation; but in the end was deprived of the Archbishopric.

In the month of July, the highly respected man, Erasmus Roterodamus, died in Basel.

9 In this 1536th year, on the 21st day of May, some of the preachers of the cities of Upper Austria came to Luther in Wittenberg as Martinus Bucerus, Wolfgangus Capito, Martinus Frecht, and others. M. Luther to Wittenberg, as Martinus Bucerus, Wolfgangus Capito, Martinus Frecht, and others, and in the doctrine of the Holy Communion hurriedly established concordia and comparison, and of other articles of doctrine also conversed and compared, and in the doctrine of the Holy Communion united the church at Strasbourg, Ulm, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Memmingen, and Reutlingen with the Wittenberg church.

Anno 1537.

S? 2 to 5 of this section have already been included in our edition, Vol. XVI, 1970.

1. in 1537 the daughter of King Francisci of France, Magdalena, was married to the King of Scotland, Jacobs V., and this king died in the month of May in this 1537th year.

2. on the 15th day of Februarii, a day has been set aside in Schmalkalden, to which the protesting

1) Walch: "Widz".

All the states have been described for the sake of the Concilii and the sovereigns and princes, also the cities, have brought their most distinguished theologians with them, as D. Mart. Luthern, Philippum Melanchthonem, D. Pomeranum, Martinum Bucerum, Andream Osiandrum, and others in large numbers. On this day, Emperor Carln sent Matthias Held, Vice-Chancellor, to the protesting Estates, who, on account of the Imperial Majesty, took great action with the Estates; the Pope also sent his legation there for the sake of the Concilii.

3. on this day were in own person: Duke John Frederick, Elector, Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Duke Ernst and Francis, Princes of Lüneburg, Duke Ulrich of Würtemberg, Duke Philip of Pomerania, Prince Wolf, George and Joachim of Anhalt, Count Gebhard and Count Albrecht of Mansfeld, and the envoys of the imperial cities in large numbers, and on the 6th day of March the electors and princes, as well as the envoys of the imperial cities, departed from this day.

The theologians also discussed on this day with the utmost seriousness and diligence what they finally wanted to base and maintain in the Concilio, and several articles, as a summary of Christian doctrine, were written by D. Martin Luther, and approved by all the theologians assembled there, and signed with their own hand; which booklet then went out in public print in the 38th year, and was called the Schmalkaldic Articles.

5 The theologians were also ordered by the sovereigns and princes on this day to read through the Augsburg Confession and Apology (delivered by Emperor Carln at the Imperial Diet in Augsburg in 1530) again with diligence, and if anything was found in it that was not in accordance with the holy divine Scriptures, or if they did not teach such things in their churches, to change it, and they, the theologians, signed the Confession and Apology again with their own hand. This signature was done on the 24th day of Februarii. And especially Martinus Bucerus signed the Augsburg Confession and Apology on behalf of the preaching ministry and churches in Strasbourg.

6 On this day D. Mart. Luther was deathly ill at the stone in Schmalkalden, and so he was taken sick from there to Gotha; and as he was brought to the Thuringian Forest in the village of Tambach, the urine (to speak with breeding) left him again, which he otherwise could not let go in many days,

and immediately got better with his physical weakness. This caused great joy on the day in Schmalkalden; otherwise, all the princes and sovereigns, as well as the cities' envoys and theologians, would have been in great distress and grief over Luther's weakness. All the lords and princes visited him in person and comforted him, because they were very worried that he would die there.

7 There was also a recusantation against the concilium in Mantua, in which causes were raised by the princes and chieftains as to why they could not attend the concilium. And after Duke Frederick of Mantua occupied the city with troops, the pope wrote to the imperial estates and postponed the concilium until the month of November; the king of England also had a document printed against the concilium and apologized why he did not want to send his envoys to the concilium in Mantua.

8 This year another great war has begun between the Emperor and the King of France; and although the Imperial Maj. Maj. remained in Hispania all this year, his warlords, Count Henry of Nassau, the Lord of Boer, and others, attacked the King of France in Picardia, also won the city and castle of St. Paul, and there finally obtained peace and peace for 10 months. But the war in Piedmont continued with all force, and the King of France dispatched his eldest son Henricum with a great army of the end, and relieved and saved the city of Morin from the imperial siege, also won Susa (Zuza) and Moncallir [Moncalieri], and prevented that in this year Emperor Carl's army in Piedmont accomplished little. It is also Antoni de Leva, the Imperial Maj. Maj.'s chief of war, died in this campaign.

The city of Augsburg also abolished the mass and other papal abominations and idolatries this year, and planted the doctrine of the Gospel in its churches. A dispute arose in the city, and many of the nobility and families left Augsburg and sued the city council before the Emperor and King Ferdinand.

(10) The Turkish Emperor Solimanns also sent a war party into Croatia this year and besieged a city there; on the other hand, the Roman King Ferdinand raised a war party of Austrians, Bohemians, Meisseners, Saxons, Franks and other countries and sent them to the besieged city to relieve it. But the same German warriors are badly led.

and by their colonel, the Catianus (Catzianer), who rode away, left, and in large numbers slain and captured sent to Constantinople, along with 60 pieces of rifles, field gun; this Catianus (Catzianer) was subsequently stabbed to death by the Count of Serin.

In the month of October, the Queen of England, Jane Seymour, gave birth to a young gentleman named Edward, who died the 12th day after.

12 Thus also Pope Paul III at Rome had the Cardinals advise on a reformation of the Roman court, which subsequently went out in public print, and D. Martyrs' Day. Mart. Luther made a preface to it in the 1538th year, and scholiiret this reformation. And on the same booklet was printed this figure and picture: that the pope sits on a chair, and the cardinals had made besem of fox tails, with which they sweep the cobwebs out of the church.

In this 1537th year, King Christian of Denmark wrote to Wittenberg, requesting V. Johann Bugenhagen, Pomeranian, to be sent to Denmark to plant the teaching of the divine word there and to reform the churches. With the permission of the Elector of Saxony, Duke John Frederick, Pomeranus departed in the month of June and remained in Denmark until his thirty-ninth year. Luther preached in his place at Wittenberg on Sundays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. On Wednesdays he interpreted several chapters of Matthew, from the eighteenth to the twenty-fourth, and on Saturdays he preached the Gospel of John, beginning with the first chapter and ending with the fourth chapter.

Anno 1538.

In that year, a book arrived in Germany from Italy about the reformation that the pope wanted to carry out in the church. Before it, Luther made a preface and sketched the contents of the book with a painting. For there were several cardinals around the pope, who sat on a high throne, sweeping everything above and below with fox tails tied to long poles as with brooms.

In Brunswick, the protesters held a meeting, and there the king was arrested.

Denmark, which in. Person also came there, excluded into the covenant. This king Christianus, Friderici's son, accepted the evangelical doctrine, and received from Wittenberg D. Johannem Bugenhagen Pomeranum, who traveled in Denmark, established churches and schools there, and also consecrated the king for government.

In France they continued to persecute the evangelicals, as in Paris a noble youth from Tolosa [Toulouse], a student, was burned for eating meat, after first being suffocated with a rope.

The school at Strasbourg increased greatly, as many Germans and foreigners went there, and Sturmius gave instructions on how to arrange the lectures. The persecuted from France and the Netherlands settled there, and the city council gave them a church there, and Johannes Calvinus was the exiled preacher for a while.

There also arose the sect of the lawbreakers who did not want to admit that repentance should be taught from the Ten Commandments. Their most distinguished originator was Johannes Agricola, Islebius, who recognized his error upon Luther's reminder.

Thus the Archbishops of Mainz and Salzburg, the Dukes of Bavaria, Wilhelm and Ludwig, Duke George of Saxony, the Dukes of Brunswick, Erich and Heinrich, made a covenant at Nuremberg, which they called the holy covenant, to protect and defend the old religion, as they said. Lutherus continued in explanation of the first book of Moses, and wrote to good friends, as his letters in Tomo III Epistol. Lutheri 1) in this year.

Anno 1539.

This report, as well as the stories that belong to the following years until your death of Luther, has made Joh. Christfried Sagittarius, the editor of the Alteuburg edition of the works of Luther. Printed in the Altenburg edition, vol. VII, p. 401; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XXI, p.44I and in Walch, vol. XXI, 97".

In February of this year, a meeting was held at Frankfurt, and among other things, a colloquium was held among scholars on the subject of the religious dispute. The Elector of Saxony was there in person, and had with him Philippum Melanchthonem, as his letter from Frankfurt to Lutherum and D. Justum Jonam,

1) This is the unprinted collection of Luther's letters by Aurifaber, which can be found as Cod. Helmst. 108 in the library at Wolfenbüttel.

which is described in Tom. III. Epistol. Lutheri. Finally, a peace or standstill was made, and it was stipulated that for the sake of religion no state should be overreached or denied justice in the courts. On April 24, Duke George of Saxony, a very zealous advocate of the papal doctrine and Luther's worst enemy, died. He made a will and appointed as heirs his brother Heinricum and his sons Mauricium and Augustum; but with this condition, that in the lands they would receive, they should not change anything in religion; and as far as they would do so, the Emperor Carolus and Ferdinandus, the Roman king, should have the lands until the brother, his sons, or a close relative liked such a condition. He presented this will to the knighthood and the estates, and requested that they take an oath that they would not cede it. They, on the other hand, asked their princely grace to allow a legation to be sent to their brother, hoping that their princely grace would agree that nothing should be changed in the old religion. When the envoys arrived, they presented many reasons to their princely graces. Especially that there was a lot of cash, a lot of supplies, and a lot of silver. All this would come to their princely graces if they would only accept the money. Grace, if only they would be willing to help their lord brother. Whereupon their Princely Grace Without taking some time to think about it, Duke Henry immediately said: "Truly, your legation is doing to me exactly what we read about in the Holy Scriptures, when Satan promised Christ kingdoms to the whole world if he would only fall down and worship him. Do you think that I should esteem some wealth and fortune so highly that I would for the sake of it renounce the recognized truth and pure religion? In this you are far wrong. Now that the sent ones went away again without having achieved anything, Duke George died before they came home again. But Duke Henry immediately had Dresden and the other cities pay homage to him. And so Duke George had an heir, against his will; and Luther, whom Duke George fiercely opposed, was summoned to Leipzig by Duke Henry, who preached there, and made a start in the Reformation. The sermon is in this Hallische Sammlung in the XII. Th., p. 1832. 2) In this year Luthe

2) In the St. Louis edition, vol. XII, 1408.

rus continued in explanation of the first book of Moses, wrote the magnificent book of the Conciliis and churches, also against the bishop of Magdeburg, Albrechten, Cardinalen, a serious writing. The favorable reader will find in the historical report of the following 1540th year how also Philippus Melanchthon was deathly ill from great grief and sorrow at Weimar, and was again requested by God through Luther.

Anno 1540.

In this year, Prince John Frederick required Philippus Melanchthon from Wittenberg to Weimar because of the above-mentioned Colloquii at Hagenau. This Philippus had agreed, at someone's request, that a well-known prince from the protesting estates of that time may have two wives at once. Afterwards, Melanchthon was very angry about this, and because he noted that he would fall into a serious and fatal illness, he made a will in Wittenberg before his departure, which can be found in the Consiliis Philippi compiled by D. Christophorus Pezelius. When Philippus now traveled to Weimar, he fell into a great illness there out of shear courage. I want to tell this, how in the written Lebeuslaufe Lutheri, which is held in his Serene Highness, Duke Ernst of Gotha, my most gracious prince and lord, Bibliotheca, and for Spalatini hand, it is distinguished. It was by the Elector of Saxony Anno 1539 (videtur esse error in anno, apud Pezelium vero in consiliis Philippi patet, fuisse annum 1540, in quem quoque refert Mathesius conc. XII. de Luthero, pag. m. 167 [it seems to be an error in the year, but from Pezel in the "Bedenken Melanchthons" it is obvious that it was the year 1540, where Mathesius also puts it in the 12. 1) sermon about Luther, p. in. 167]) called Philippus to Weimar in matters of the theological Colloqqui, which should be set up at Hagenau. There Philippus was very dangerously and almost fatally laid low, and this happened out of the greatest distress of the mind, because of the marriage state of L. to N. 2) doubled at once, which Philippus, persuaded by someone, should have approved, and him

1) It is the 13th sermon. See Mathesius, "Dr. Martin Luther's Life," St. Louis edition, p. 235.

2) Landgraves of Hesse.

have regretted it beyond measure after that. Then the Elector sent for Luther from Wittenberg as soon as possible. When he arrived, he found the matter as it had been told, and found Philippum in his final throes. His eyes were broken, his mind gone, his speech lost, his hearing gone, his face and temples sunken, and he knew no one and ate and drank nothing. At this sight, Lutherus was violently frightened, turned to the companions of his journey, and said: "God forbid, how the devil has desecrated this organon for me. He turned to the window, turned his back to the others, and called upon God very devoutly. There, Luther said afterwards, our Lord God had to serve me. For I threw the sack at his door and rubbed his ears with all the promises of prayer that should be answered, which I knew to be told in the Holy Scriptures, that he should hear me, where I should otherwise trust his promises. After this he took Philippe by the hand (for he knew well about the sorrow of his heart and conscience) and said: "Be of good cheer, Philippe, you will not die. Even though God has cause to die, he does not want the sinner to die, but to be converted and to live. He desires life and not death. Because God called and accepted into His grace the greatest sinners who ever lived on earth, namely Adam and Evam, much less does He want to reject you, Philip, or admit that you perish in your sin and melancholy. Therefore do not give place to the spirit of sorrow, and do not become your own murderer, but rely on the Lord, who is able to kill and to make alive. When Luther spoke this, Philip came back to life, as it were, and began to draw breath, regained his strength, and regained his former health.

This illness of his, and what he encounters in it, is commemorated by Philip himself in a letter to Joachimum Camerarium. The Latin words are to be read in the Consiliis Philippi, published by D. Pezelius, which in German read approximately thus: I cannot express it, what terrible afflictions I felt, which sometimes find themselves again. I noticed that Doctor Luther was also very anxious about it; but he did not let his grief be noticed so that it would not increase mine. He made an effort to lift me up with great sincerity of mind, not only by comforting me,

3) Corp. Ref, vol. III, 1077.

but also often severely punished. If he had not come to me, I would have died. In a letter to Burcardum Mithobium 1) Philip writes about this: "I received your letters, which you sent this summer: the first in Schmalkalden; the other in Thuringia, since I was afflicted with a terrible illness, which only originated from a sorrow and grief, which a foreign trade had brought to me, about which you also complain. I would have died if I had not been snatched from the midst of death by Luther's arrival.

Mr. Mathesius writes about this: 2) This summer, Mr. Melanchthon went to Weimar, where he falls into a great illness, that everyone despairs of his life. Thereupon our doctor is hurriedly summoned, who comforts him and raises him up, as he says afterwards: "I have begged our Philippum, and my Käthe, and the Ern Myconium from death. Which Mecum also finally asked the doctor to stop crying for him. 3)

In March a meeting was held at Schmalkalden, where Granvellanus sent the two counts Dietrichen von Manderscheid 4) and Wilhelmen de Nova Aquila [of Neuenaar] as negotiators. The talk was very much inclined to peace and unity, however, they thought besides, kaiserl. Majesty Carolus V. was in these thoughts, as if the protesters had no desire for unity, and were only concerned with how they could take possession of the spiritual goods. But the protesters replied to this in a special document. What else happened, Philip reported to Luther. He replied: one must take recourse to prayer, which alone, as he writes, would be omnipotens imperatrix [the almighty empress].

On June 25, the convention at Hagenau began, where the theologians Justus Menius, Urbanus Regius, Brentius, Osiander, Snepfius, and many others came. Philip was kept away because of his illness. Ferdinandus, the Roman king, called another meeting at Worms because of the absence of the Elector of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hesse, so nothing special happened at Hagenau. The protesters stuck to the Confession, presented at Augsburg in 1530, and its Apologia.

1) Corp. Ref., Vol. III, 1081, No. 1999.

2) In the St. Louis edition of "Mathesius, Luthers Leben," p. 235.

3) Walch: "write" instead of: "shout".

4) Walch: "Manderschilt".

5) Walch: "already".

In October, the convention in Worms began, and finally, on January 13, 1541, it was decided that each part should select a learned man who could publicly discuss the disputed articles in the Augsburg Confession with the other. The protesters chose Philippum. The opponents proposed D. Ecken. On the part of the protesters, D. Caspar Cruciger and Wolfgangus Musculus were appointed notaries and scribes, who were to record everything faithfully and diligently at the colloquium. In several letters, Philippus attributed to Luther what happened in Worms that year, to which Luther also replied. This is memorable, that at Worms the protesting theologians divided the old church teachers among themselves and read through them, so that they could confront the papists in all ways. Luther meanwhile continued with the explanation of the first book of Moses, and had the Jobum, Psalter, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon, Esaiam and Jeremiam printed in German, as he commemorates in a letter to Philippum in Worms: Speramus te et Caeparum (Crucigerum) percurrisse Novum Testamentum. Nos sine vobis ausi sumus Iob, Psalterium, Proverbia, Ecclesiasten, Cantica, Esaiam, Ieremiam tradere typis [I hope that you and Caspar (Cruciger) have read through the New Testament. We have dared to put into print without you the Job, the Psalter, the Proverbs, the Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Isaiah and the Jeremiah].

Anno 1541.

In the same locations as the previous section.

The colloquium held last year at Worms finally began on January 13, and before January 2 the papal authorities proposed new and unusual conditions, namely that only two theologians should be chosen from all of them to discuss religious matters with each other; the notaries should write it down and hand it over to the presidents; the lesser part should not be required to accept the greater or greater part's opinion unless the emperor and the estates decided that it should be done. Not all speeches of the collocutorum should be written out by the notaries, but only the mere opinions; they should be settled or remain in dispute. What was decided at Augsburg and elsewhere should not apply. The protesters, however, objected: Because on both sides to the Colloquio twoand

twenty named, then all and each would also open their thoughts; and asked that not the mere opinions, but also at the same time the reasons and rationes with their explanations be written out. They also proved that it would be unreasonable to follow a man's opinion in this most holy matter, and not rather to follow what is prescribed in God's words, or even to force someone to teach and preach otherwise. The theologians present, Melanchthon, Capito, Bucerus, Osiander, Brentius, Calvinus, Alesius, Scotus, Simon Grynäus, and others, implored that the colloquium be begun. Then, on January 13, Johannes Eccius was appointed to the discussion on the side of the papists, and Philippus Melanchthon on the side of the protesters. The beginning was made by the original sin, and these two spoke alternately in public assembly. Mr. Granvellanus is said to have said, as Mathesius relates: The protesters have a scribe, Doctor Creutzigern, he said, who is more learned than all the papists, for he reaches all the words in the postscript that Philip speaks, and reminds him what is still to be refuted by the corner objection. Mathesius also reports at the above-mentioned place how D. Martinus Luther once thought: Eck would have come on the track with a pointed argument, and when Philippus thought about it and said: Tomorrow I will answer, Eck then said: It would not be praiseworthy if one could not answer soon and extempore. Doctor, Philip answered again: I do not seek honor in this trade, but the truth. Tomorrow, God willing, you shall hear me. But on the third day of this colloquy, letters came from the Emperor to Granvellanum and the other envoys, postponing the whole deal until the Diet of Regensburg, asking the protesters to come there, and demanding that Granvellanus come. When this was publicly read out on January 15, the protesters said that it was a great pity to them that the colloquium had been started so late, and that they were not allowed to continue with it, but because it was thus ordered by the Imperial Majesty, they had to be allowed to come. Majesty commands, they must follow. Thus, this colloquium has been knowingly delayed by the opposite party, and subsequently completely prevented.

Around this time, Mauritius, son of the Duke of Saxony, camped with Miss Agnesen, daughter of the Landgrave of Hesse.

In the month of March, many potentates and estates came to Regensburg, and the Imperial Diet began on April 5. The Elector of Saxony sent

Envoys there, as well as Philippum Melanchthonem. Martin Luther's book against Duke Henry of Brunswick was also brought to this Diet, the title of which is: "Wider Hans Wurst. Among other things, the emperor ordered that the estates think of ways to unite in matters of faith and religion. He also received a request from the estates that His Imperial Majesty himself appoint certain persons to the office. This was done on April 13, when Julius Pflug, Johannes Eccius, Johannes Gropperus, Philippus Melanchthon, Martinus Bucerus and Johannes Pistorius were appointed by Count Palatine Frederick to hear the disputed doctrines. On April 22, they were summoned before the Emperor's Majesty. Majesty, and before the same in their own person they were movably admonished not to look at affects in this trade, but only at God's honor. All of them have humbly apologized and asked to choose other men more skilled for this, except Eccius, who said he would be ready and willing for this. But since Imperial Majesty Majesty graciously persisted, they took it upon themselves and asked that several presidents, as well as witnesses and listeners, be granted to them, since Frederick, Elector in the Palatinate, and Granvellanus, as presidents; Dietrich, Count of Manderscheid, Eberhard Rudenus, Heinrich Hasa, Franciscus Burkhard, Johannes Figius and Jacobus Sturmius were granted to them as witnesses. When on April 27 they assembled, the Count Palatine admonished them to attack the matter with seriousness, and to converse amicably. Granvellanus presented them with a written book, which, according to his claim, had been sent to the emperor by some pious and learned people, which would serve for the intended conciliation. And this book is the reason for the one that was subsequently called the Interim. The protesters also prescribed their supposed co-religionists in France, and asked the king in France not to let them be so miserably persecuted because of religion. But the Zwinglians deceived the so-called Lutherans with ambiguous speeches, so that they thought they were in complete agreement with them. They did the same in the year of Christ 1557 at Worms; but when they were afterwards confronted that they had spoken another thing and meant another, they said: Opus sibi fuisse bono dolo ad liberandos Fratres, they would have needed a good deception to get rid of their brothers, as can be read of this in the Historik Conf. August, fol. 389. et seqq.

The Council of Princes, consisting mostly of bishops, rejected the book given by Granvellano and the whole action of the Colloquii. The protesters handed over a document to the Emperor, declaring that they would stick to the Augsburg Confession and reminding him of the extent to which the state of the Church could be destroyed again. The emperor consulted with Contareno, the pope's envoy, who suggested that because the protesters were leaving the church in some doctrines, and there was still hope that they would consider another, he thought it advisable to stand and bring the whole matter to the pope, who would then observe by a public concilium or in some other way what would be useful to the whole church, especially to Germany. The papal princes also agreed to this proposal, and thus the religious settlement was postponed until a general or national council in Germany.

In this year Capito died in Strasbourg and Simon Grynäus in Basel.

On December 13, King Ferdinand held a meeting at Prague, where the Austrian nobility, ten cities, including Vienna, and the neighboring cities in Styria and Carinthia, humbly requested that His Royal Majesty grant them the free exercise of religion. They have, however, been ordered to be patient until the above-mentioned concilio.

Lutherus also wrote to Fridericum Myconium, pastor and superintendent at Gotha, who was fatally ill with consumption, as Myconius had informed Luther: decumbere se quidem, non autem letaliter, sed vitaliter aegrotare (Dominica post Epiphanias) [he was lying down, but he was not sick to death, but to life (on Sunday after Epiphaniä)], among other things these thoughtful words: Vale, mi Friderice, et Dominus non sinat me audire tuum transitum, me vivo. Te superstitem faciat mihi hoc peto, hoc volo, et fiat mea voluntas, Arnen. Quia haec voluntas gloriam nominis Dei, certe non meam voluptatem, nec gloriam, quaerit. Which words are questionable, thus translated: The Lord will not let me hear, as long as I live, that you have died, but create that you survive me. This I ask earnestly, and it shall be granted, and so it shall be, and my will shall be done in this, amen. For this my will seeks the honor of the divine name, not my honor or pleasure. When Myconius read this letter of Luther, he felt as if he were hearing the voice of Christ.

heard: "Lazare, come out." He has also come to his health, as he widely remembers in two letters to M. Georgium Rorarium, then Diaconum at Wittenberg. God also heard Luther's prayer, for he died on February 18, Myconius on April 7, 1546, and thus the latter 7 weeks later.

Anno 1542.

In January of this year, an Imperial Diet was held at Speier by Ferdinandum, the Roman king, who had been commissioned by Emperor Carolus V to hold it. In this Diet, the war against the Turks was the main topic of discussion, which the French envoys, Franciscus Oliverius and the Chancellor Alenconius, did not entirely oppose, but considered it necessary that the estates of the Roman Empire meet in good confidence beforehand. However, since the war against the Turks had been decided, and the envoys realized that they were not very agreeable, they left in displeasure before the end of the Diet. The papal envoy, Johannes Moronus, argued that the pope, because of his age, could not hold the council in Germany, where he wanted and needed to be in person, and suggested the cities of Mantua, Ferrara, Bonomen, Placentiam, or, if none of them were acceptable, Trent. The Romanists finally liked this place, but the protesters rejected it completely. The Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave Joachim, was appointed general or field commander with the unanimous advice of the estates, including Imperial will. Maj. will, he was appointed general or commander for the forthcoming Turkish war. Such a move in Hungary was announced by Elector Luthero, who then informed His Electorate in a beautiful letter. Durchl. in a beautiful letter, which had never been printed before. wished him luck. Because of this move, the Turkish tax has also been raised, and every local authority throughout Germany has been permitted to impose a tax on its subjects. When some Protestants also wanted to burden the church servants with the Turkish tax, Luther wrote a serious letter to a court preacher about it, which can be found below. The king in France announced war to Emperor Carln; prescribed a sharp form for his clergy, according to which those suspected in the Roman Catholic religion would have to be questioned. That summer, an exceedingly large number of locusts of unusual size passed through Germany and Italy.

The size of the animals, which, where they settled, devoured the field and the arable land.

When Mauritius, Duke of Saxony, a gentleman of about 21 years of age, went to Hungary at his own expense against the Turks, rode out of the camp with only one servant before the city of Pesth, and encountered several Turks, who had made a skirmish with him and pierced his horse, so that he had to fall down in the cuirass, his servant, one of the nobility, Hans Neidisch, otherwise called Schnauber, fell with his whole body on the gentleman, and thus covered him and caught the stabs and blows with his body and limbs, fell with his whole body on the lord, and thus covered him, and absorbed the stabs and blows with his body and limbs, until Melchior von Wangenheim, a Thuringian of nobility, came along with his stout-hearted servant, Andrea Kochen, otherwise called Kappus, who was also soon followed by other ruffians, and drove off the Turks, who were very fond of the duke's head. The servant, who had received many wounds, was brought to the camp, but soon died. When this story was first mentioned to Emperor Ferdinand I, His Imperial Majesty said eagerly: "I am not going to tell you any more about this story. When this story was mentioned to Emperor Ferdinand I, His Imperial Majesty eagerly said: "Oh, it is a noble and precious treasure for a loyal servant and subject who jumps to his master's aid in times of need and risks life and limb for him.

In this year Lic. Nicolaus von Amsdorf became bishop of Naumburg, and Luther himself consecrated him at Zeitz, as can be seen from the printed sermon. Pflug, who was proposed as bishop, had to stand back at that time, but was subsequently elevated to these honors when the battle before Mühlberg was lost in 1547, and von Amsdorf went to Jena, attended the inauguration of the Gymnasii in 1548, and was commissioned by the dukes of Saxony, along with M. Georgio Rorario, who was required from Denmark, to compile the writings of Luther, from which the Jenische Tomi have their origin.

Luther also translated the refutation of Alköran, which was written around the year 1300 by a brother named Nichardus of the Order of Preachers. He also wrote a warning to beware of the horrible teachings of Mahomet or the Turks, and that not Mahomet but the pope was the Antichrist.

Also in this year, between Elector John Frederick and Duke Moritz, a flat war, as Mathesius calls it, was going on because of spices. Because of this disagreement, Luther wrote to both commanders and the same estates a serious and thoughtful exhortation to peace.

Anno 1544.

In this year, an Imperial Diet is held at Speier, to which the Emperor Carolus V, King Ferdinand, and all the princes of the empire are present, which rarely happens, and also almost all the princes of the empire. The emperor told the audience how careful he was about the Turks and complained about the king in France, that he had a secret understanding with the Turks. Ferdinandus told how the Turks had invaded Hungary and asked for help. The Elector of Saxony, the Landgrave of Hesse and other confederates did not want to tolerate Duke Henry of Brunswick in the Imperial Assembly, nor did they want to recognize him as a member of the Empire. The duke, on the other hand, did not want to recognize them for it either. When the princes sat down, it happened that the Landgrave came to sit close to the Duke of Brunswick. In order that no further ill will might arise between them, John the Count Palatine stood up, stipulated that it should not be detrimental to them and his house, and sat down between them. The king of France also sent a distinguished delegation to this Diet. When the envoys to Nanci lay quietly and dispatched a herald to Speier to bring a safe escort, the herald had to remain in the house and was diligently guarded so that no one could speak with him. He should go and tell his king this, and neither he nor anyone else should come back. The king's letters to the emperor would not and could not be accepted by Imperial Maj. Maj. would not and could not accept them in this state. Therefore, they were left to the herald, and he had to take them back with him. All this, however, took place without the prior knowledge of the imperial estates.

The Elector of Saxony, the Landgrave of Hesse, and the other confederates publicly and in the sitting Imperial Council strongly accused Duke Henry of Brunswick of the damage he had caused to the cities of Brunswick and Goslar; how shamefully he had written of Emperor Carolo V that Granvellanus was only passing around the Emperor's name for show and fright, as the birdcasters sometimes used to show a dead hawk to frighten the birds with it; as he had accused the

The Emperor admonished Duke Georgen of Saxony to take the land from his brothers, Duke Heinrich, because he had adopted the Protestant religion. They also reported how much he thought of the papal religion, whose protector he wanted to be respected, was evident from his dealings with Even von der Trotte, with whom he had become involved in unseemly love, who had to pretend that she wanted to travel to her parents, and had left at one of his castles, since she had fallen ill, and afterwards it was claimed that she had died of the plague. He had her publicly buried in the chapel of the same castle and described the neighboring priests to the funeral procession; As he also ordered a funeral in Wolfenbüttel, to which his wife, Frau Maria, Duke Ulrich's sister in Würtemberg, attended in her own person with her maid with mourning clothes, to which many priests were called, and a funeral meal was given to them, and the Franciscans were publicly requested for the deceased for a whole year, and he persuaded the pious wife to make the death of Trott known to her close relatives. However, Eva would be fresh and healthy at Stauffenburg Castle, since she visited Duke Heinrich from time to time and fathered seven children with her.

3 The Emperor Carolus V also made peace with the King of France in this year, against all expectations.

4 Pope Paul III also wrote two letters to the emperor, complaining that he wanted to interfere in spiritual matters. He compared the emperor to the high priest Eli, who also gave in too much to his sons. Luther responded to these letters with the tract: "Against the papacy at Rome, founded by the devil." Luther also issued the "Brief Confession of Holy Communion" against the Sacramentarians, because they were spreading their poison further and further, and claimed that Luther would have agreed with them and would have established a concordiam and unity with them. As he writes about this in his confession: It is true that it has often been suggested to me before that the enthusiasts should boast that I am one with them; which I did not want to believe, because no one wanted to write it publicly about himself. But in this way, faith should come into my hands before I miss it.

The clergy at Cologne also continued to hinder the reformation begun by Archbishop Hermann and to ask him to abolish Bucerum and other preachers. They also met at Cologne, and appealed to the pope at

Rome, and to the emperor, as the patron of the church. To this the archbishop replied that he had nothing to do with Luther and Bucero, but that he considered their doctrine, which was in accordance with the Holy Scriptures, to be quite apostolic, and such a doctrine as would be well worth accepting by all men. But when the clergy saw that they would not achieve much in this way, they called the other religious together again in Cologne in November and asked them to sign the appeal; those who refused, however, they stripped of their honors and sued the archbishop most vehemently before the emperor and the pope.

6 The letters that Lutherus wrote to private individuals are listed in Tom. III. epistolar. Lutheri in this year, since they can be read at will.

Anno 1545.

The theologians at Paris had let some conclusions go out from religion. These were followed by the theologians at Louvain, who wrote mere theses, numbering XXXII, but did not prove them by Scripture. Luther opposed them with others, teaching that they were heretics and bloodhounds who prescribed doctrines without Scripture, and incited the authorities to persecute with fire and sword those who would not subscribe to them. In France, the Waldenses, who did not recognize the pope for their head, and who had come to more knowledge through Luther's teachings, were persecuted bitterly and miserably, strangled without mercy, their cities, towns and villages burned, their women and virgins violated, and their little children rebaptized, as can be read in Sleidano with more. Cardinal Farnesius came from Rome to the Diet of Worms to provoke a war against the Lutherans, and the pope promised twelve thousand on foot and five hundred on horseback against them. So also at Worms, on the next Pentecost, a Franciscan monk, an Italian, preached a sermon in the presence of the emperor, Ferdinandi the Roman king, Farnesii the bishop of Augsburg, Granvellani, and others, and finally addressed the emperor thus: It is time, most great emperor, that you finally do your office. Truly, one has delayed long enough. The trade should have been completed long ago. God has blessed your Imperial Majesty with great benefits. Majesty with exceedingly great favors, and set her up as the

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patron of the churches. For this reason, His Imperial Majesty is exerting all his powers. Maj. put his forces to work and exterminate the disgraceful people, the Lutherans. For it is a great sin that they should look longer at heaven, who thus defile and confuse everything. Let not Ew. kais. Maj. not say: We still want to do it. For it should be done now and now and now, I say, and no delay should intervene. How many thousands of people do Ew. kais. Maj. to be in danger of their eternal bliss every day because of the Lutherans' folly? God will demand all of these from Your Imperial Maj. Maj. if she does not remedy the matter. Granvellanus is said to have become very unwilling because of this incitement, either because he outwardly presented himself in this way, or because he realized that this would be a good warning to the protesters.

At this time, Luther's book "Against the Papacy at Rome, Founded by the Devil" was published, in which he first responded to Pope Paul III's letter to Carolum V, in which he admonishes the Emperor from the care of religion, which belongs to him, the Pope. He then refutes the bogus reasons that are usually brought forward to support the Pope's sovereignty or primacy. How Duke Henry of Brunswick, a fierce enemy of the Lutherans, started a war against the Emperor's prohibition, and the Emperor took his land from him, but despite this, he, with the King's encouragement in France, recruited peoples again, and thus did great harm in the Bremen, Lüneburg, and Brunswick lands, and finally had to surrender to the Landgrave of Hesse, Philippo, not far from Calfeld with his son, Carolo Victore, can be read in Sleidano. Duke Mauritius, along with others, asked for the release of this captured prince, but Lutherus revoked this in a special letter to the Elector John Frederick and the Landgrave of Hesse, Philippum.

3 Because it also happened in Wittenberg that Luther could not like it, he decided to stay with the pious and learned prince of Anhalt, Mr. Georgio, provost of the cathedral in Merseburg, and not to come to Wittenberg again. However, he was requested by the Elector of Saxony's envoy and the University of Wittenberg, turned back there, and concluded his last work in Genesin, on which he had worked for ten years with the utmost diligence, on November 17 of this year with the following words: I can no longer, I am weak, orale vsniri pro ine, pray God for me that he may grant me a good blessed hour. The letters he wrote also in this year to learned people are in Tom. III. epistolar. Luth.