(Regest.)
Bucer reports in detail about the negotiations concerning the acceptance of the Concordia. In response to an invitation to Basel to sign, they sent Grynäus and Carlstadt to Strasbourg to obtain further information; they then continued to negotiate with Zurich and Bern. Contrary to expectations, a new meeting of the Swiss was announced from Basel for Sept. 24. On hearing that Augsburg had independently sent in its signature, Strasbourg had exhorted the allied cities to speed up matters, but had not yet received a reply. Schwenkfeld seems to be partly to blame for the delay. Urgent request to Luther to withhold the decision on the jurisdiction of the magistrates in Reformation matters, since the papists, who had received word of it, were triumphant because they thought they could thereby reestablish their idolatries. About the book of Vadian, whose letter he sends along. He hopes to be able to send the signatures soon.
No. 2286a.