Short news from the Worms convent. About the hostile appearance of two monks in Florence against the pope, but not for doctrine, but for money.
From a copy in Cod. Lips, ep. 68, communicated by Luntzius in the Ephemerid. litt. Lips. ann. 1809. intelligence sheet, no. 29, and in the Corp. ref., vol. III, 1187. - Luther's reply took place on 7 Dec.
To Martin Luther.
The Convention has not yet given us a subject worth talking about, although Granvella is here, who in a long speech 1) exhorted us to unity. Everyone answered him in a common speech, which was held by the Doctor of Cologne 2) who wrote the so-called Cologne Reformation. After that, they began to discuss the order of the disputation. And if my dreams do not deceive me, we may have some quarrels today. In the Belgians an exceedingly frightening edict has been published, in which even the reading of Eoban's writings is forbidden, and they would have forbidden all writings of Erasmus, if Granvella had not advised against it. Meanwhile, our great ones think that the authors of such edicts will grant us much. I entrust us and the common cause to God and to your prayers. In Florence two Augustinian monks are preaching against the tyranny of the pope. But the dispute is over money, not doctrine. We commend our families to you. Be well and live happily. December 2.
I wish your honored wife and lovely children well.
Phil. Mel.
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