Luther shares some news with him.
Manuscript at Wolfenbüttel in Cod. HeImst. 107 and in Aurifaber, vol. III. Printed in Schütze, vol. II, p. 147 and in De Wette, vol. I V, p. 623.
To Mr. Jakob Probst, Prepositus at Bremen.
Grace and peace in Christ! Since this John of ours, a very good man and exceedingly dear brother, went down to you in those lower parts of the earth, I did not want to dismiss him without letters, although there was nothing I could have written except a greeting. For everything else is either known to you or you can hear it from this John in the most abundant and reliable way. A concord is sought between us and the Sacramentarians, at least with great hope and desire. Christ accomplish it as a sincere one, and graciously take away this great trouble, so that it may not be necessary for it to be taken away by force, as it was taken away at Münster. 3) God crowns the emperor with great victories at sea against the allies of the Turks in Africa. I am getting very old, not in years but in strength, and have become almost completely unfit for work in the morning. You pray for me a blessed departure from this exceedingly bad world and be well with all the
3) The Anabaptist mischief was put to an end by the capture of the city of Münster on June 25.
Yours. Greetings from my Käthe and Margarethchen, your godmother. Wittenberg, on the day before Bartholomew [Aug. 23] Anno 1535.
Your Martin Luther.
The plague reigns here, or rather it rages. For there have never been fewer funerals here in a whole year than now, although there has never been a greater outcry about the plague. But this is how Satan ridicules us.
No. 2159.