69a LUTHER TO JOHN RttHEL, JOHN THttR AND CASPAR
MULLER* AT MANSFELD.
DeWette, ill, i. German. Witteivbekg^ June 15, 1525.
Grace and peace in Qirist. What an outcry of Harrow, my dear sirs, has been caused by my pamphlet against the peasants!' All is now forgotten that God has done for the world through me. Now lords, parsons and peasants are all against me and threaten my death.
Well, since they are so silly and foolish, I shall take care that at my end I shall be found in the state for which God created me with nothing of my previous papal life about me. I shall do my part even if they act still more foolishly up to the last farewell.
So now, according to the wish of my dear father, I have married. I did it quickly lest those praters should stop it. Tuesday week, June 2y, it is my intention to have a little celebration and house warming, to which I b^ that you will come and give your blessings. The land is in such a state that I hardly dare ask you to undertake the journey; how- ever, if you can do so, pray come, along with my dear father and mother, for it would be a special pleasure to me. Bring any friends. If possible let me know beforehand, though I do not ask this if inconvenient.
I should have written my gracious lords Counts Gebhard and Albert of Mansfeld,' but .did not risk it, knowing that their Graces have other things to attend to. Please let me know if you think I ought to invite them. God bless you. Amen.
Martin Luther.
691. LUTHER TO SPALATIN. Eoders, v, 197. • WnrENBEKc^ June x6, 152s
Grace and peace. Dear Spalatin, I have stopped the mouths of my caltunniators with Catharine von Bora. If we have a
tTkfir and MfiHer were both ofiBcials of the Countt of Mtnsfdd.
^WidtT dU mdrderischtn und r&ub^risektn Rotten der Bauem (Wdmsr, xTfii,
357).
- 0n Albert of Mansfeld, see VoL I, p. 97* He died zs6o. He met Lotber as
be wu netuming from Angsburg, 15x8, and was a dote friend of bia erer after. ADB.
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