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Luther's concerns about a religious peace.

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Volume 21b

Luther's concerns about a religious peace.

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The concern we reported in No. 1950a does not belong to the year 1532, as we assumed according to Seidemann, but it is to be placed in the above-mentioned time, which the Erl. Briefwechsel, vol. XI, p. 131 f. has convincingly demonstrated. The pieces marked P. M. are not proposals of Philipp Melanchthon,1) but points of the peace draft, which Elector Albrecht of Mainz worked out with the Palatine plenipotentiary Wilhelm von Habern in the fall of 1531. On December 27, a discussion took place in Bitterfeld between the chancellor of Magdeburg, D. Türk, and the chancellor Brück. For this discussion, Luther briefly gives his opinion on the above points of the Mainz proposal.

No. 1860.