He was chiefly noted for his skill in the occult arts, but wrote a work De Vanitate Scientium, showing an enlightened skepticism. At this time (1519)1 he sympathized strongly with Luther (Prost, op, cit., ^' 393) f l^ter became an Erasmian. Life by Prost.
Agrippa, in a letter from Metz, apparently written early in May (Opera, p. 744), had asked for Luther's works.
. . . Believe me, dear Agrippa, I have scoured the whole of Basle without jBnding Luther's works, as they were all sold long ago. They say they will soon be printed again at Strassburg. Neither could I find the legal work you asked for. But I am giving you Erasmus' Method of Theology, a work, unless, Henry, I mistake, likely to please you. I also send Luther's and Eck's Theses to be debated this year, and some trifles about the Emperor.
154. LUTHER TO MARTIN GLASER. AUGUSTINIAN PRIOR
AT RAMSAU.
Enders, ii. 62. (Wittenberg), May 30, 1519.
Martin Glaser, of Nuremberg, matriculated at Wittenberg 1506. Then he became prior of the Augustinian Convent at Ramsau in the Bishopric of Freisingen, near Munich. Later he joined the Augustinian cloister at Nuremberg, but at its dissolution in 1524, he became evangelical pastor at Kraftshof, nearby, and married. In 1530 he was transferred to Hilpoltstein. Enders, vii. 145, viii. 273. Cf, supra, 81a.
Venerable Father, you are quite rightly surprised and even indig^nant that I have hitherto written you nothing. Though I have plenty of excuses, yet I prefer to confess my fault. I hope you will be indulgent to a poor man like me in the affair of your horse,* on account of the intercession of the Vener- able Father Staupitz. Doubtless you gave it to God, not to me. I hope we may see you here again, as I am glad to learn from Staupitz is likely to be the case. I believe that you know about my coming debate at Leipsic and all my other doings. I am lecturing on the Psalter again, and the students are enthusiastic. The town is full of students. Rome bums to destroy me, but I coolly laugh at her. I am told that a paper Luther was publicly burned and cursed on the Campo
- TtThmp9 a hone borrowed by Luther on leaTing Augsburg for Manheim,
October ao, 15x8.
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