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 who deserve punishment. Thus your Grace will, without doubt, receive God's grace and the praise of men here on earth, and salvation hereafter. . ..

��541. ALBERT BURER TO BEATUS RHENANUS AT SCHLETT-

STADT OR BASLE.

ARC., vi (i909)> 4l^S. Wittenberg, March 27, 1522.

- . . On March 6 Martin Luther returned to Wittenberg in equestrian habit, accompanied by several horsemen.* He came to settle the trouble stirred up by the extremely violent sermons of Carlstadt and Zwilling. For they had no regard for weak consciences, whom Luther, no less than Paul, would feed on milk until they grew strong.* He preaches daily on the Ten Commandments.* As far as one can tell from his face the man is kind, gentle and cheerful. His voice is sweet and sonorous, so that I wonder at the sweet speaking of the man. Whatever he does, teaches and says is most pious, even though his impious enemies say the opposite. Everyone, even though not Saxon, who hears him once, desires to hear him again and again, such tenacious hooks does he fix in the minds of his auditors. In short there is nothing lacking in that man which makes for the most perfect Qiristian piety, even though all mortals and the gates of hell may say the contrary.

On March 12 Fabritius Capito came to Wittenberg to be reconciled to Luther, whom he somewhat offended by his letters,* so that, it is said, he was called a poisonous beast by Luther. Now, I hear, they are entirely at one. What dis- pleased Capito has begun to please him. He heard Luther preaching in the Wittenberg parish church, in which he saw him by chance. . ..

542. LUTHER TO JOHN LANG AT ERFURT. Enders, iii, 323. Wittenberg, March 28, 1522.

Greeting. I believe you had reason for leaving the mon-

��>Or. "dressed as a knight, and accompanied by several knights.

'I Cor. ill. a.

'These sermons printed Weimar, x*.

^I«iither did not like Capito's letter of December 20-21, 1521.

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