(Regest.)
Einsiedel asked Luther for an answer or an expert opinion on the enclosed questions about the frons, about which he had already negotiated with Luther during Spalatin's lifetime.
Printed in Kappens kleiner Nachlese, Vol. I, p. 350. Above regest in Burkhardt, p. 466.
No. 3203.
To King Christian of Denmark.
Luther says thanks for the prescription (cf. No. 3178), gives news and recommends M. Torbert, who returns from Wittenberg to Denmark.
From Schumann's Scholarly Men Letters to the Kings of Denmark, 3rd thl, p. 265, in De Wette, vol. V, p. 726 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 56, p. 130.
Letters from the year 1545. No. 3203. 3204.
G. u. F. in the Lord and my poor Pater noster. Almighty, most noble, highborn, most gracious Lord King! I thank you very humbly for your gracious prescription, for I do not deserve it. Our dear Lord God grant His Holy Spirit abundantly to King M., to govern blessedly, and to do His divine good will, Amen. The Diet is starting slowly, the Concilium is acting as if it wants to go on the crab walk, Emperor M. is to be hard-pressed in the Low Countries. M. is said to be hard up in the Low Countries with arthritis [gout], and the sophists are raging confidently against God. What the Turk is doing, we do not know. May God Almighty help that it will be well, which cannot well happen, for the last day will come soon, amen. M. Torbertus, who has been my table companion and boarder for some time, is now coming home again to H.K.M., whom I humbly respect to H.K.M. He is a fine, learned man. I hope that God will create much fruit and good through him, which I also ask for and wish from the bottom of my heart. Hiemit dem lieben GOtt befehlt, Amen. April 14, 1545.
E. K. M. subordinate
Martinus Luther, D.
No. 3204.