Luther recommends Christoph Albrecht von Kunheim to the duke. News of the Turkish War; that the Emperor was raging against the Gospel in the Netherlands, but that Count Palatine Frederick, Elector, together with his wife, had accepted the Gospel.
From Faber's collection of letters, p. 61, in De Wette, vol. V, p. 732 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 56, p. 133.
G. and F. in the Lord. Sublime, highborn, gracious Lord! The present Christoph Albert von Kunheim 1) has asked me for
1) His youngest brother, Georg von Kunheim, married Luther's daughter Margaretha in Wittenberg in 1555, who went with him to Prussia. She died after bearing him nine children and is buried in the church village of Mühlhausen, which belonged to his inheritance (three miles from Königsberg), along with five of her children.
this writing to all E. F. G. requested and admonished. Although I did not have to write particularly, I let this matter be sufficient for me that he desires to be ordered by me to E. F. G. and may bring my testimony, to which I know that E. F. G. may well suffer my writing with gracious patience. We know nothing new. One says the Turk is coming; the other says he will stay outside. But it is certain that neither emperor, nor king, nor princes are preparing. The emperor is beginning to fiercely persecute the Gospel in the Low Countries. God turn it, amen. The Bishop of Cöllen still stands firm by God's grace. Thus Count Palatine Frederick, Elector, accepted the Gospel, with his Electress, this Easter took the Sacrament of both forms publicly and confessed it. To God be praise and glory, and strengthen them, Amen. The Roman abomination is still mimicking the Emperor and the Empire with his Concilio, which he has postponed from Mid-Lent until Michaelmas, and has also let himself be heard in Ferrar that it is still far away; this is certainly the true word that comes out of the lying mouth; for they cannot suffer a Concilium for eternity. Hiemit dem lieben GOtte befohlen, Amen. Command also E. F. G. this Kunheim, for he, a fine fellow, has kept himself very well here. Secunda Magi 1545.
E. F.G.
Martinus Luther, D.
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