To Nicolas Hausmann letter 5 - Martin Luther

TO NICOLAS HAUSMANN

In July, Melanchthon, Myconius, and Menius of Erfurt, with three lawyers, began church visitation in

Thuringia.

July 13, To the esteemed Nicolas Hausmann of Zwickau.

Grace and peace! The church visitation has begun in earnest. Eight days ago Herr Hieronymus and

Magister Philip set off. May the Lord guide them. Amen.

Rome has been devastated in the most merciless manner. Christ has so overruled it that the Emperor, who, because of the Pope, persecuted Luther, should now be obliged to overthrow the Pope on

Luther’s account. So all things have been made subservient to the welfare of God’s people against the adversary. I have no other news. My Kathie and my Hans greet you. Farewell in the Lord. I have had

a terrible attack of giddiness, so that I can neither read nor write. MARTIN LUTHER .