To Nicolas Hausmann letter 20 - Martin Luther

TO NICOLAS HAUSMANN

About the Sacramentarians (Zwinglians). January 21, 1531.

Honored in the Lord, grace and peace! It is hardly necessary for me to write, as Jonas, a living epistle, is starting for you. From him you can hear what is taking place here and elsewhere. The Sacramentarians are most anxious to communicate with us, and are conceding some things and adopting a milder tone. We shall pray that the harmony may be complete. Pommer is working diligently, but Satan buffets him through a maiden who is possessed. Jonas, this Demosthenes, will enlarge upon all this with his usual eloquence. I wonder that Bernard is not back. Write him to return immediately, for the living of Sebastian-Rotteritz is waiting for him. It is near Leisling, and I think will suit him. If not, I shall seek something else. Tell him he will not eat me into the poorhouse in three or four weeks; so manage this for me. We are reissuing the German Psalter because of the enemy’s aspersions. Christ, who has begun the work, will finish it, to His honor and our salvation. My wife and household greet you respectfully.

Yours obediently,MARTIN LUTHER . (Walch, 5:21. 1377.)