I think the condition of our age, in which evils are so much greater than their remedies, is to be deplored. For we can neither bear the evils nor apply remedies when wc see these men rather captured by dreams and madness than moved by sound reasons. From our Aleander, who is, I think, joined to you by the same studies and mutual kindnesses, I have always heard of you what he would wish to be said of himself. . . . In dissuading Luther and the Germans from writing you did a worthy deed. . . . Lest you should think that I had done nothing I have written two orations against Luther, of which one is gentle,* the other, composed after his last books, is more severe; not that I wish to condemn so much the man as the cause, that the state and religion may be saved. I am sending them to you. . . .
440. SPALATIN TO THE ELECTOR FREDERIC OF SAXONY. Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte, ii. 125. Booking, ii. 806.
(Worms, April 7-9, 1521.)
Most gracious Lord. Yesterday a Strassburg printer showed me a letter from Hutten written at Ebemburg, in this tenor:
"Greet Spalatin from me and say that I will write him all that he wants to know. Also that an embassy to Luther has been offered me, or rather pressed on me, and that I have good hope. ..." The said printer informed me that Hutten would stand like a wall. Also that the Emperor's confessor is entirely won over, but Hutten doesn't trust him much. Yes- terday the imperial legation returned from the Ebemburg.
��441. MARTIN BUCER TO (SPALATIN?).
Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte, ii. 124. Bocking, ii. 806.
(Ebernburg, April 7-9, 1521.)
Salute Peter, to whom I will write to-morrow. To-morrow
again we discuss Luther's cause, as we did yesterday with
Glapion and Paul von Armstorf.* I am not able to send the
iThis was true. A notice and some extracts from the oration in Qeoiea: Beitrage, iii. 4.
'An Austrian noble, once in Maximilian's senrice, transferred to the Nether- lands 151 1, at the battle of Guinegate 15 13, employed in Tarious diplonatic services. When Charles came to Germany in 1520 Armstorf was made his body- fturd. He met his death probably on December i, 1521, in battle acaintt the
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