Luther recommends a petitioner and reports news.
From Aurifaber's unprinted collection, p. 166, in Schütze, vol. II, p. 281 and in De Wette, vol. IV, p. 432, who also compared Cod. Helmst. 94 Bibl. Guelph. compared.
Grace and peace in Christ! This Johann Busmann reports that he was assured by some of your citizens, my dear Amsdorf, that if I applied to you on his behalf, your common chest (gazophylacium) would support him without difficulty with some gift to undertake his studies here in Wittenberg. Whether this is true, success will teach. I would like him to be helped, but I do not know where this will come from. We are not only overwhelmed but also oppressed by poverty, both tangible and imagined, both relative and in and of itself, 1) and according to all kinds of categories. You help if you can comfortably do something, because I don't want you to be weighed down in any way or to do anything reluctantly.
There is no news, at least not news that is new to you, since you live in that part of the world. The blasphemous better, Johann Kos of Leipzig, has been silenced by the Lord. It is said that the pope prepared poison for the emperor; namely, because he could do nothing by force and cunning, he turned to his arts. For it is said that he also got rid of four Cardinals by poison in order to put his Florentines in their place, namely he is anxious to bequeath the papacy to his Mediceans. And it is said that no man
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