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 yoxi, Dr. Martin, Dr. Jonas and Master Philip Melanchthon, that you will arrange your affairs at home and also make pro- vision in our university at Wittenberg, so far as that is pos- sible, for the holding of lectures in your absence, so that on a day which we shall name you will be with us again at Torgau and travel with us, along with Masters Spalatin and Agricola, as far as Coburg. Meanwhile we shall endeavor to get further information, God willing, concerning what is to be done at the diet at Augsburg about the presentation of the opinion and judgment of both sides. If the estates will be allowed, as necessity demands, to bring their preachers and scholars to Augsburg tmder safe conduct, we shall then have you brought to us from Coburg; but if the preachers and estates shall not be permitted to do this and safe conduct is not given, then you, and especially you. Dr. Martin, will remain at Coburg until our further orders. . ..

872. GEORGE RORER TO STEPHEN ROTH AT ZWICKAU. Buchwald, IVittenberger Brief e, 79. (WrrrsNBEKG, March 19, 1530.)

. . . All of us, and especially those of us who have a real interest in religion, are disturbed beyond measure, for not only is Dr. Martin unwilling to preach any more in public/ but Philip Melanchthon and some others are going with our prince to the diet To be sure that is not yet settled, but it is certain that they will leave with him, though where they will go and when they will return they themselves do not know as yet. In short, Satan is diligently plotting against their life and will not rest until he accomplishes the thing he is trying with all his might to do. . ..

873. VEIT DIETRICH TO LAZARUS SPENGLER AT NUREM-

BERG.

Weimar, xxxi,* i, p. 184 (Wittenberg, latter half of March, 1530-)

On March 17, 1530, Spengler, the town clerk of Nuremberg, wrote to ask Dietrich to find out from Luther what they ought to do with heretics, saying that dissenters in Nuremberg appealed to Luther's (supra, no. 631), to show that the magistrate ought not to interfere

^C/. snpra, now R66.

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