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 the greatest and only occasion for him who does God's woric to fear. . . • Martin Eleutherius.

P. S. — I do not think it worth while to answer Prierias, for we are agreed that one of the Obscure Men^ has impersonated him, mocking the man by putting folly in his mouth to tempt me to answer him.

na RECTOR* AND DOCTORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

LEIPSIC TO DUKE GEORGE.

Gcss, i. 55. Leipsic, January 15, IS^^

We would have your Grace know that Dr. John Eck Ix^ asked for a convenient time and place to hold his debate wi"^ Dr. Carlstadt. . . . Wherefore we forward his prayer to yo Grace and ask that you will write us what you think on tit^ matter. We will labor diligently in this for the pro^^ of the university, not considering the earnest and writter:^ protest of Lord Adolph, Bishop of Merseburg. . ..

119. GEORGE, DUKE OF SAXONY, TO DIETRICH VON WER- - THERN, FOR REPRESENTATION TO ADOLPH, BISHOP OF MERSEBURG.

Gcss, 1. 58. (Before January 17, 1519).

A letter from Duke George to Adolph, much to the same purpose as this, dated January 17, is given in translation in B. J. Kidd: Documents of the Continental Reformation, p. 46. (Wrongly dated there June 17; cf. ibid., p. viii.)

Dietrich von Werthern ( 1468-September 4, 1536) studied at Erfurt 1479, and at Bologna i486, where he got his doctorate in law in 1495. In 1498 he went to Prussia, where he became Chancellor of the Teutonic Order. Later he entered the service of Duke George, whose trusted councillor he was until his death. He was a strong Catholic and particularly bitter against Luther. Allgemeine deutsche Biographic,

Dr. Eck has desired of us that he might debate after the scholastic manner before the theological faculty of Leipsic with Dr. Carlstadt, and has prayed that we should arrange with the said faculty for a time and place, and that we should

Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum,
 * /. e., one of the authors of that great satire against the theologiana, the

>The Rector for the winter semester was John Lange of Lowenbnrg. G. Erler: Die Matriket der Universitat Leipsic, 1895.

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