so intimate with our worst enemies. You will see this news at the fair, and will hear at the same time what he intends to do with our Prince. I beg that you and your church will pray against that raging murderer and bloody robber, as against one who is possessed by more than one devil, and does nothing but breathe out slaughter and threatenings, that Christ may either save him, as He saved Paul, or else remove him. Why should this dangerous and restless tool of Satan tear heaven and earth to pieces? There is no news here, except that the violent winds continue; what that forbodes I know not. Farewell in the Lord. Martin Luther.
815. DR. PHILIP FABER (SMITH) TO WOLSEY.
Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, iv, no. 5094.
(After December, 1528.)*
Thanks the cardinal for absolving him from his errors at the intercession of Cardinal Campeggio. He had confessed to Campeggio the holding of heretical communications with one Dynamus,* who had come to Calais two or three years ago. Dynamus having asked him to what studies he was mos devoted, he replied, "To the Scriptures"; and being again asked what interpreter he chiefly followed, he said, "Johannes Lyranus,* because he is esteemed (habetur) in the booksellers' shops above all the books of the Old and New Testaments." To which Dynamus facetiously replied, "Dimitte delirum ilium Lyram, and take this new preacher of the (jospel," giving him Luther's treatises, De Abroganda Missa, Expositio super Visionem Danielis, In octavum Danielis;*' — ^which the writer had never seen before. He also received from him three books which Dynamus had bought at the market of Antwerp, viz., Melanchthon on the Epistle to the Romans * and on the Gospel
^This letter, placed in the Letters and Papers after December, 1528, was cer- tainly written before Wolsey's disgrace, October 9, 1529, and presumably after the arrival of Campeggio in England, October 7, 1528.
'On Dynamus or Dynamis vide ante, no. 799.
- Nicholas de Lyra is meant, the most valued of all medieval commentators on
the Bible.
- Ad Librum M. AmbrosH Catharini . . . Responsio M, Lutheri, cum exposita
visione Daniel VIII de Antichristo. 1521. Weimar, vii, 704ff.
- Annotationes in Bpistolam PauU ad Ronumos nnam ei ad CorintfUos dtuu,
Strassburg, 1523.
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