Intercede for a man who had complained to Luther.
From Aurifaber's unprinted collection, p. 207 in Schütze, vol. II, p. 316 and in De Wette, vol. IV, p. 539 f.
To Mr. Friedrich Myconius, pastor of the church in Gotha.
Mercy and peace! I ask, I beg, I implore you, my dear Frederick, that you let this man, Valten Körner, 3) be ordered to you, because he has driven me to it by his complaints in his cause, which is of course unknown to me (which you easily believe). If it is as he says, I do not want violence to be done to him. Again, since I know that you are men there who have so far proven yourselves by faithfulness and virtue, I cannot believe that any wrong will knowingly be done by you to anyone. Therefore, as I have begun to ask, so I still ask that if his cause has not yet been heard, you help as much as you can that it may still be investigated. Now, if the matter is out of your hands, and the trade is carried on in the hands of the mighty (Centaurorum), see to it that this is brought to my notice, and I will try what I can with the prince. Daily these doubtful and strange things plague me. I must not let the people go away sad, "and yet they are blind matters" which have either been decided in their place or should have been decided. Farewell, my dear Myconius, and be also in this matter a peaceable and a peaceful one (Fridsamus). The Lord be with you, Amen. June 10, 1534.
No. 2062.