(Fragment.)
Luther is pleased about the prince's love for God's word and the good arts, and that he shows himself to be mild in the education of learned people. He recommends Georg Sabinus to him.
This fragment is printed in Heffter, Erinnerung an Georg Sabinus, in Zeitschrift für historische Theologie 1844, Heft 2, p. 147, without indication of the source, and in Erl. Briefw., vol. IX, p. 284.
I am almost pleased that Your Princely Grace not only enjoys the Word of God (which is the highest grace), but also has a princely inclination for other arts, which you have so graciously demonstrated and amply displayed (as he reports to me) in your country child Georgio Sabino; for otherwise, unfortunately, the poor arts and scribes have little good pleasure with other princes, lords, nobles, citizens and peasants, yet next to God's word, which is the noblest princely virtue, educate learned people and preserve wisdom, so that vain swine (as the rabble would like) do not grow up in the land. God, the Master and Giver of all arts and wisdom, keep and strengthen the heart of your princely graces in His grace begun. Amen. - Command
me and first of all mentioned Georgem Sabinum in your princely grace patrocinium.
No. 1966b.
April 5, 1533.