My dear Herr Chancellor! Honorable and highly-celebrated, dear devout-one! I hold that the proposed plan of the the Council of Mainz should not be dismissed. Thus it is easy from the previous dealing to advise what one might yield or not. And whether one might endeavor to make peace and our part postpone it might well be considered, according to the proverb: night-peace(Nachtfrist) year-peace (Jahrfrist),the day comes,counsel comes etc. Mart. Luther
NOTES: This is thought be written at the end of July 1531. No date or place given. The proverb is: Nachtfrist Jahrfrist, kommt Tag, kommt Rath u. A free ML letter to anyone who can expound this. Or should "Frist" be respite. Maybe we should contact Senator Bill Frist of Tennesee. How about resting over the matter overnight and going by the counsel or solution that comes in the morning. The matter evidently is how to respond to the Emperor's Edict following Augsburg. Brueck is the equivalent of the secretary of state to Elector Johann.? I'll check with Advisor at Luther Index who has the original in the Weimar Edition.
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