Sir. We are endeavoring to bring together at some suitable place Luther and Melanchthon and some of those who hold your view of the sacrament, so that if a merciful and almighty God grants us His favor, they may come to some Scriptural agreement about that doctrine and live in harmony, as be- comes Christians. For at this diet the papists were unable to assign any other reason for clinging to their perverse life and customs except to say that we who profess the entire and clear Word of God do not agree among ourselves on the doctrines of our religion. If this were not the case it would be easy to remedy matters so that these childish things could quickly be changed. We therefore ask you to help us all you can to bring together some of your party and some of the Lutherans at the said time and place, in order that, as I said above, we may be led to some agreement about these matters, which shall be based on a firm foundation and be worthy of Christians. We shall gratefully remember your offices in this behalf.
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse.
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827. LUTHER TO WENZEL LINK AT NUREMBERG. Enders, vii, 92. (Wittenberg), May 6, 1529.
Grace and peace in Christ. The clock' you sent me has come, my dear Wenzel, and, perhaps, it is weary from the journey, or unused to its new home ; at all events it is resting for a little while, but it will probably take up its course again presently. I thank you; poor man that I am, I have nothing to give you in return. I think you have already got the books we published lately, but they are of such a kind that they do not deserve the name of a present. They are old things gotten out in new form. The Lord has added to my family a little daughter, Magdalena ; ' the mother is well and had an easy confinement.
Another diet * has come to an end, but with scarcely any re-
^This was Luther's second Nuremberg clock. Cf, su^a, no. 756.
- Who died September 20, 1542. There is a sweet {Minting of her at the Lttther
House in Wittenberg. See Conversations with Luther, ed. Smith and GAlUnger, pp. 47*.
• The Diet of Spires.
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