Thanks for the expert opinion of October 8 together with a devotion of one hundred Joachimsthalers.
Mr. Martin Luther and Mr. Justo Jonä, provost, both doctors, Johanni Bugenhagen, called Pommer (Bomer), Philippo Melanchthoni and Caspar Creuciger, theologians at Wittenberg, together and in particular.
Worthy and highly learned 2c.! Our city messenger, which we in the floating dichotomies, the
1) "from" [von, aus] put by us instead of "whether".
2) "habet" put by us instead of: "have".
3) Luther's answer came on October 29.
Letters from 1533. no. 2011. 2012. 2013.
We are grateful to your dignities altogether, especially in diligence, and will also faithfully ask your W. to be the one who, before his Christian clergy, has sent us letters, advice and instruction on such matters, which we read with joy as Christian and in accordance with God's Word, and from which we have heard your Christian, honorable and peaceful attitude toward us, our churches and the common people of our city. We are grateful for your dignities in general and especially in diligence, and we also want to faithfully ask the Almighty to graciously preserve your W., as those whom he has ordained as teachers and leaders in his divine word before others, for the benefit of all of us with long-lasting health. And because E. W. not only in these, but also in other emergencies hitherto remote from our churches 1) have shown themselves quite willingly with their writings and advice and as faithful Christian intercessors: so that E. W. on the other hand may feel our owed gratitude and gratitude in deed, we have given our council friend Siegmunden Fuerer the order to honor E. W. with a hundred Joachimsthalers on our account. We kindly ask you to accept your W. from us with good will, and to provide us and our churches with Christian teaching and instruction, and also to be more diligent in your intercession against God in faithful command 2) as we know you all to be especially inclined without that. That 3) we want to earn for your sake quite willingly, also in this dichotomy according to E. W.'s mind, if God wills, so modestly and in such a way that your dignities and only men from it shall feel our inclination to Christian unity and welfare of our churches without doubt with the work. Date Monday 20 Octobris Anno 1533.
No. 202.