Luther recommends his tutor to him. He suggests a worthy increase of the 15 articles. About his health.
Manuscript in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 326. From the Schmid collection in Helmstädt in Schütze, vol. I, p. 143 and in De Wette, vol. V, p. 350.
Grace and peace! The teacher of my children, M. Franz, is coming, 2) who wants to go back to his fatherland and to his parents, but before that he wants to have a look at the upper Germany. That is why he also wanted to see this Reichstag. To the second letter of Caspar Cruciger, dated April 22, I answered, 3) and wished that among the 15 articles they would also treat these greatest sacraments of the papists, namely the holy censer, the holy sprinkling [with holy water] and the holy wooden cross. But, "what is the point?" "God will mock the mockers," as Solomon says [Proverbs 3:34]. Now I am concerned that you let Franz be your command. Other things at another time by others. I have begun to lose my deafness a little, only I see that I am a cold and useless corpse, for whom only the grave is left, which Christ will grant me soon and in grace, amen. Greetings to all of us. April 29, 1541.
Martin Luther.
No. 2780.