To John Lange letter 9 - Martin Luther

TO JOHN LANGE

Luther promises to bring Melanchthon on a visit. Melanchthon nearly died at Weimar on the way to

Hagenau, and was restored mainly through Luther’s presence and prayers. July 2, 1540.

Grace and peace! Now then look for us, dear Lange, either on Sunday or Monday. For it has been arranged that we should sup at Erfurt, if God will. Philip comes with us. We travel straight to Hagenau to see perhaps for the last time that terrible Behemoth with which I have had to deal, more or less, for twenty years, and over which He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, which they cannot understand till the awful conclusion of the Psalm is fulfilled in them. “They shall perish when His wrath is kindled but a little,” because they do not pay homage to the Son. Amen. So let it be!

They deserved what they have got. Farewell, and pray for us. Philip is rather low after his severe illness. He was almost dead. Through a miracle of God he now lives.

Farewell. MARTIN LUTHER . (Schutze.)

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