I send my Offer and Protest^ printed, and letters to Francis von Sickingen and the Emperor Charles. Very little of my work On the Captivity of the Church* is printed, but we shall sec Farewell in the Lord.
Martin Luther, Augustinian.
Agricola's wedding day is set for the Tuesday after the Nativity of Mary.* Do what you promised.
291. ULRICH VON HUTTEN TO ALL GERMANS. Bdcking, i. 430. (Ebcrnburg^ August ?, 1520.)*
Behold, men of Germany, the bull of Leo X. by which he tries to suppress the rising truth of Christianity, which he opposes to our liberty, lest, after her long bondage she should again grow strong and revive. Shall we not resist him in this attempt, and take public counsel lest he should go farther and before we know it accomplish something for his insatiable cupidity and impudence? . . . Luther is not touched in this, but all of us; nor is the sword drawn against one only, but we are all threatened. They will never complain of his tyranny, never uncover his fraud, never lay bare his guile nor resist his fury nor impede his robbery. . . . Remember to act like Germans. ... I have published this bull that when you read it you may learn all from this one.* Farewell.
292. FREDERIC, ELECTOR OF SAXONY, TO VALENTINE VON TEUTLEBEN, HIS AGENT AT ROME.
Luther opera varii argutnenti, v. 7. Torgau, (September i?), 1520.
This letter is dated loc. cit, "Kalend. April," but this must be wrong as the reference to Luther's Oblatio sive Protestatio shows. Weimar, vi. 474-
You write, perhaps correctly, that this and other business
^Supra, no. 237.
^he Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Weimar, vi. 497. Smith, p. 88ff.
'September 8; the wedding day, September 10.
^Thia ia Hutten'a preface to his edition of the bull Exsurge Domine, which he printed thinking it would do more harm to the Church than to Luther. The bull waa signed by the Pope, June 15, 1520, and officially published in Germany by Eck and Aleander towards the end of September. Smith, op. cit., p. 98. Hutten's edition is placed by Bocking in November or December, but I believe it to be earlier. The next letter of Erasmus shows that the bull had been published before September 9, and the following epistle by Hutten shows that he knew it before September 11.
B Virgil: Aeneid, ii. 65-6.
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