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 Christ is with us, and your prayers and those of all the saints, and holy angels, invisible but mighty. Christ's grace be with you. Amen. Martin Luther.

7J2. LUTHER TO ELSA VON CANITZ.* DcWette, iii, 170. German.' Wittenberg, August 22, 1527.

Grace and peace in Christ Jesus. I have written to your aunt, Hanna von Plausig, asking her to send you to me for a time. I had intended to use you as a teacher for young girls, and thus by your means to set others an example in under- taking this work. You would live and board at my home and thus would run no risks and have no worries; therefore I now ask that you will not decline my invitation. I hear, too, that the evil one tempts you to melancholy. O my dear wo- man, do not let him terrify you, for whoever suffers from the devil here, will not suffer from him yonder; it is a good sign. Christ also suffered all this, and so did many holy proph- ets and apostles, as the Psalter shows. Therefore be of good cheer, and willingly endure this your Father's rod; He will relieve you of it in His own good time. If you come we shall talk further of this matter. God have you in His keeping. Amen.

773. LUTHER TO SPALATIN. Enders, vi, 88. WrrreNBERG, September 13, 1527.

Grace and peace. I am sending you herewith two copies,* one for you and one for Eberhard,* that you may see that our visitators have not received proper thanks from those who so slander them to you. I have purposely refrained from cor- recting some things, lest the work may appear to be my own fabrication.' If our opponents glory in these statutes* their glorying is not good and will not last long. Nay, for this very reason we are willing that they shall comfort them-

1 Elsa von Canitz was one of the nuns who came to Luther in 1523 along with Catharine von Bora. At the time of this letter she was living, probably with relatives, in the neighborhood of Leipsic. Cj, tupra, p. 180, n. a.

•With mistaken date, "May 2." Cf, Enders, vi, 80, n. 4.


 * I.e., of the Visitation Articles.


 * Brisgcr.

•C/. supra, no. 770.
 * Cf. infra, no. 776.

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