In the Innocent News 1708, p. 721 and again 1715, p. 406; in the preface to Kindervater's Nordhusa iilustr., at Strobel-Ranner, p. 307 and at De Wette, vol. V, p. 511 f. German in Walch, vol. XXI, 1321 f.
To the worthy man, Doctor Johann Forster, provost of St. Lawrence in Nuremberg, Christ's envoy in Regensburg, his extremely dear brother, who is to be highly honored in the Lord.
Grace and peace! I have written about Nopus to your council, what we have done and what he has promised. He made trouble, as you write, but we persuaded him to come in person at the beginning of the fast, to make inquiries and to be reconnoitered. In the meantime, take care and let it be your concern that the preachers do not suffer any lack in this extremely difficult time. For the hands of the givers are cold everywhere, indeed, they are turning to ice, and against this
1) Förster had been called from Nuremberg to Regensburg to introduce Protestant worship there (De Wette).
the hands of those who steal and scant where there should be giving, are glowing.
About your Lndwig with his letters:
A. G. V. H. S. D. 2) this is my opinion, that they are words of a despairing: "All happiness vnd salvation are gone." So they are worth it, others something else. For they care for nothing, neither what is God's nor what is man's, but care only for their belly and what is in their belly. Those whom the Lord calls come, the others may go. Fare well and pray for me. November 27, 1542.
No. 2967.