To Herr Johann Pommer, Bishop in Wittenberg, Legate to Luebeck.
Grace and peace in Christ! We wish for you, my dear Pommer, as a returnee, as soon as possible after the delivery ( childbirth) of your wife ( for whom I pray that it will be blessed)and that it will be peaceful.We have sufficiently served the Luebeckers mainly by your absence from here which is becoming difficult for us because I am overloaded and often ill; thus I have been negligent about the church-treasury and they long for their pastor. "I cannot wait." The world is the world and the devil is their god.You know that in your church in Brauschwieig a Zwinglian devil has been sent. Now has come to this wolf's church one known as Campanus. I do not know whether God is rebuking the unthankfulnees of this city or whether He is testing our patience through this extremity.You can by sending of letters there or on the trip here remind the Senate. I fear that this spark will be for many a fire-storm. But Christ has One Who to Him says (Psalm 110,1); "Sit on my right" and (Ps.2,7): "You are my Son." If they are lying, we would Campen and his God pray, Amen, that is, it will not happen. To me, the LOrd of my Kaethe has gifted a Martin, and we will be well-off, if the farmers who have become rich in this year would in all their evilness would grant us an increase in the cost of living (caristiam, as one says) to show their thankfulness for the Gospel by which they have been freed from so many evils. The world might go to the ground who has refused to be saved,Amen. Greet your Eva and Sarah in my name and that of my wife and all of ours. On the Friday after Elisabeth (24 Nov.)1531. Your Martin Luther.
NOTE: A son born,Martin, to Kaethe and Martin in month of ML's birth.
Johann Wulf of Campen is one of the culprits come to trouble Braunschweig.
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