About a letter of recommendation.
Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 276. Printed in Schütze, vol. III, p. 123 and in De Wette, vol. V, p. 252.
To Justus Jonas, Doctor and Visitator in
Saxony.
No. 2614.
Without date 1539.
Written in someone's memory.
From the J. Gottfr. Olearius Scrinium autiquarium etc. reprinted in De Wette-Seidemann, vol. VI, p. 244 f.
Ps. 27, 14. (Ds. 26.)
"Wait upon the LORD, be of good courage, and wait upon the LORD."
A wonderful saying. It is commanded that one should wait for God, who is everywhere the most present, as if he were absolutely nowhere present (nusquamtissimus); but thus a godly heart feels in
1) Edenberger.
of temptation, while the wicked imagine that he is very near to them, in the greatest certainty and presumption, as Jeremiah says: You are far from their hearts.
No. 2615.