and handles the Gospel well, which is a cause of offence to the saints and the wise men.
Yours, Martin Luther,
��552. FELIX ULSCENIUS TO CAPITO. Kolde, Analecta, 37. WrrTEHBEitG, July 20, 1522.
I congratulate you, my honored teacher, that your Prince * has at last, contrary to what everybody has expected, begun to fix his hope on Christ Melanchthon is glad that your ef- forts have not been thrown away, and so are all good men. To speak with the prophet, may God confirm that which He has b^;un in him; to Him alone be the glory. I got the two gulden which you sent me from Nuremberg by Master Sebald.* I am thankful for them and hope to return them. Martin has issued a marvelous attack upon the King of Eng- land,' and does not spare Charles,* even in the pulpit. We have heard that he [Charles] takes this Luther-matter ill. It is of great importance to Christ's people that Martin is prov- ing himself a vigorous evangelist, and our magistrates are dealing most severely with those offenders who are a cause of scandal to the Gospel. Yesterday they drove three women out of the city because of their loose life, and a young man because he was guilty of lying in wait at the house-doors. His friends made many prayers to Melanchthon on his behalf, but he would not listen to them. Martin and Melanchthon wish to have all adulterers and blasphemers put to death. . . . Melanchthon is trying to secure more honor for classical studies here, a thing which is necessary, as you know. He has
> Albert of Mayenee.
' Sebald Munsterer of Nuremberg studied first at Leipzig, came to Wittenberg in 1520, was made doctor of laws and professor there in 1527. He and his wife boCii died of the plague in October, 1539. Luther had his four children for awhile with him. Enders. xii, 27 if.
- On Henry's work against Luther, the Assertio Septem Socramentorum, cf.
smprm, nos. 487, 504, 509, 510. It was printed in London, July, 15^1, and often re- printed. See Gordon Duff, in Tht Library, New Series, vol. ix, no. 33 (January, 1908), pp. i*i6. Luther received a copy in May, 1522, according to a letter from P. Qncnspiess to G. Reumer, dated Wittenberg, May ;i8, 1522, Archiv. f. Reformationj- 0gschichte, iv (1907), p. 411. He answered at once, his reply appearing in July, iS^a, onder the title Contra Henricum Angliae Regem, Weimar, x, part ii, i75fF. C/. Smith, pp. i9aff. and English Historical Review, October, 19 10.
^The Emperor.
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