(Regest.)
Capito fears that the letters he wrote to Luther earlier, since his departure from Wittenberg, are lost, so he tells again what happened in the Concordia matter. Of the reluctance of Abbot Volsius and the futile attempts to induce him to change his mind, in which the machinations of Schwenkfeld and comrades must have been at play. Of the reasons for the delay of the signature. The Swabian cities, with the exception of Ulm, have declared themselves in favor. He sends a letter from Basel, where there will be a convention before Michaelmas. To Augsburg, where the papists boast that jurisdiction has been restored to them, a request has been made to avoid urging the magistrate to abolish the mass immediately, and Capito has been asked by a member of the Augsburg magistrate's office to ask Luther not to announce anything about the question of jurisdiction there. His opinion on this 2c.
The concept is in the archive of the Thomasstift in Strasbourg. Printed by Kolde, Analecta, p. 249.
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