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 that through me He may help the sons of many others. You ought not only to endure this willingly, but you ought to re- joice with exceeding joy, and this I am sure is what you will do. What if the Pope slay me or condemn me to the depths of hell I After he has slain me he will not raise me up again to slay me a second and a third time, and now that I have been condemned I have no desire to be absolved. I trust that the day is at hand when that kingdom of abomination and per- dition will be destroyed. Would that we were worthy to be burned or slain by him before that time, so that our blood might cry out against him all the more and hasten the day of his judgment! But if we are not worthy to bear testimony with our blood, then let us at least pray and implore mercy that we may testify with our life and with our voice that Jesus Christ alone is the Lord our God, who is blessed forever. Amen.

The Lord bless you, my dear father, with my mother, your Margaret, and our whole family. Farewell in Christ.

��514. FELIX ULSCENIUS » TO WOLFGANG CAPITO AT

MAYENCE.

ARG., vi (1909), 266fF. WrrrENBERC, November 30, 1521.

Greeting. I have received your letters, revered teacher. When I had read them to Melanchthon he said that he had once begged you to confer with him in case any of Luther's writings were repugnant to the Gospel. He had recently expected that you would do this, but you had written him that it was superfluous. He will soon write you on the same matter. for he is persuaded that you dissent from some of Luther's doctrines. I replied that you, like several others, missed mod- eration in Luther. He said that he failed to see wherein Luther was immoderate, since he calls the adversaries of Christ by their right name, and that now for a long time he had been hot against no one, but had rather taught, as in his German Church Postil. . ..

ulated at Wittenberg, April 29, 1521, as "Felix Beyer Tigurinus Constan. dice." ARC, Ti, 172. One of his letters is translated supra. Vol. I, p. 439£. He came from Zurich, as indicated by his matriculation.
 * tJlsceniu8 was known to Capito since his stay at Basle, 1513-20. He matric-

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