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To the Elector Johann Friedrich.

Volume 21b from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

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Volume 21b

To the Elector Johann Friedrich.

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The following postscript is to be added to this number, which we overlooked in De Wette-Seidemann, because vol. VI, p. 443 concludes the letter, but p. 444 begins the postscript:

Augsburg, Ulm, Esslingen, both city councils and preachers, also the

2) For the implementation of the Reformation in Lüneburg, which took place under heavy fights between the Catholic council and the Protestant citizenry as well as Duke Ernst of Braünschweig-Lüneburg, Rhegius had already come from Celle to Lüneburg in the summer of 1531 and repeatedly from Easter 1532 to autumn 1533, the second time as superintendent. After his departure, Heinrich Radbrock, the former abbot of the Scharnebeck monastery, who had already been his successor after Rhegius' first departure, now became his successor again, but was little equal to the position. Cruciger's appointment came to nothing, and negotiations with Hermann Bonnus in Lübeck were equally futile. Only in 1537, when the council sent its own deputation to Schmalkalden to see Luther, it succeeded in winning Paulus von Rhode from Stettin, even if only for a short time. (Erl. Briefw.)

Addendum to the letters from 1531 to 1536.

Preacher at Strasbourg, and give's wundergut before to the right unity, as E. C. F. G. will read, first I can manufacture and send the letters. 1)

No. 2181a .