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LETTER XXIX.^[1]

 

TO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS.

 

[He mentions what happened to him in the audience, which was accorded him four days before the eclipse of the sun.^[2]]

 

The Lord, to-day, gave me a firm and intrepid heart. Two articles were struck out, and I am in hope that a greater number will be treated in like manner. They were all crying out, like the Jews against Jesus. They have not yet come to the principal count, viz., to the avowal that all the incriminated articles are found in my writings. You committed an error in judgment in presenting the treatise against an unknown adversary. Do not shew, with the treatise on the Church, anything besides that against Stanislaus and Paletz.

It is well that they had desired my book to be given back to them; for some persons cried out loudly to have it burned, particularly Michael de Causis, whom I myself heard. I never thought that I had, in that multitude of priests, only the brother, and a Polish doctor whom

 

1. Hist. et Monum. Johann. Huss, Epist. xxxvi.
2. This is an error of Luther’s; the first audience was given the day before the eclipse, on June 6.

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