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 me here. But I have protested I shall not on that account be satisfied, or that I shall throw it away soon. What should I do with so much money? I have given half to my prior, and made him happy with it. . . ."

Dr. Martin informs that he is writing to your Grace, so I hope your Grace has received his letter. He writes that he is horrified that his Imperial Majesty has written against him, and he says: "What hope is there when people think and write like that?"

He will not answer Mumar. He writes that Meissen and Merseburg have decided to publish the bull. When the Bishop of Brandenburg was with the elector at Wittenberg, the cry was raised that he would post the bull there. But note if it had happened thus nothing good would have come from it. But it didn't happen.

Dr. Martin has written to Hutten, that he does not want men to fight for the gospel with force and murder. For the world is overcome by God's Word. By the Word was the Christian Church upheld and sanctified, and will by the same means be renewed and raised up. Yes, even as Antichrist had begun to act without force, he would be overcome by the Word. . ..

389. LUTHER TO HAUGOLD VON EINSIEDEL.

Enders, iii. 79. De Wette, i, 546, German.

(Wittenberg, end of January or beginning of February, 1521.)

This was the dedication to Luther's answer to Emser, entitled: Auf des Bocks su Leipzig Antwort D. M. Luther, Weimar, vii. 266ff.

Honored Sir and Friend! I have received Eraser's pam- phlet Against the Bull of Wittenberg, together with your letter. And although many people advised me not to answer him as a public liar and libeller, yet I could not omit pointing out his lies to him, lest the sow's belly grow too big. He is thick- headed, for when he writes nothing reasonable, but mere lies, he thinks he has the right and has won. So it did not become me to keep silence while all his lies are directed against my doctrine. This I would not conceal from you. God bless you.

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