The council asks Luthern to help that D. Caspar Cruciger to go to Lüneburg as superintendent.
The original concept is at Lüneburg in the city archives. Printed in Erl. Briefw., Vol. X, p. 233.
Our 2c. Respectable, erudite, generous gentleman and friend! Because the respectable and
1) That is, to give birth to an error, for one cannot hold the eel by the tail, which occurs several times in Luther, e.g., St. Louis Edition, Vol. V, 854, § 134.
The highly learned Doctor Urbanus Rhegius 2) has returned to our gracious lord and sovereign from us, we have ordered such officium to be kept for a time by another learned man, who nevertheless has a weak life, until we can get hold of a skilled man; it is therefore necessary for us to have another superintendent, so that Christian instruction of the people and uniform church order may be kept here. Now we are told how a well learned man, who lives an honest and good life, by the name of Doctor Casparus Creutziger, is to abstain from preaching and teaching the Word of God with all diligence. According to the same, we want to have asked with special diligence in a friendly and official manner, [that] your A. W. want to kindly urge and move the aforementioned Doctor to promote the teaching of the Gospel, [that] his A. W. want to let himself be used for obedient service with us to the glory of God, and want to grant our diligent request, as we do not doubt that your A. W. will show himself to be good-willed and friendly to this, [that] we are for your A. W., which we blessedly entrust to the Almighty, we are quite willing to earn again with unsaved diligence. On Sunday after Matthew [September 26] anno ut 8.
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