32. CHRISTOPHER SCHEURL TO LUTHER. Enders^ i. 92. Nuremberg, April i, 1517.
Honored Sir: — I told my friend, John Eck,* about your virtue, which makes him desirous of knowing you. He does not write, but sends you the book of his disputation.^ I doubt not that you will answer him and discharge my obliga- tion, as you think it base to be conquered in love or over- come in kindness. Please write him cordially, for I think him worthy of your friendship. The reverend father* speaks of you often and hopes you are well. I desire to commend myself to your prayers. Beckmann will explain what the Emperor* is doing. Farewell.
Dr. C. S.
33^ LUTHER TO SPALATIN. Enders, I 94. Wittenberg^ April 3, 1517.
Good men have told me, excellent Sir, that you were the trustee for the estate of the late Dr. Renter,* to distribute clothing to the poor. I have, therefore, been requested to ask you for something for this youth Wolfgang,* whom we are maintaining here from charity ; he is an honest and promising boy. . . .
34. LUTHER TO SPALATIN. Enders, i. 95. (Wittenberg, April 9, 1SI7.)
Greeting. I thank you, dear Spalatin, for your splendid inclination towards me. For I look at the mind only, which is to be preferred to all gifts. You ask me to tell you what you ought to read these days; I advise Augustine on the grace of the New Testament to Honoratus, in which he also
«C/. snpra, no. ag.
- Di»puitio Joan. Eekii Theologi Viennat Pannoniat habita, Augslmrg Feb-
mary x> 1517- On taking intereBt.
"Stanpitx.
- Tlua refers to the endeavors of Maximilian to get his grandson Charles elected
long of the Romans.
- Kilian Renter of MellersUdt, M. A. of Cologne, matriculated at Wittenberg
150$. died X516.
^Wolfgang Sieberger of Munich, matriculated isiSt in 1517 was taken into the Black Cloister where he became a sort of a senrant After all the monks had left but Lather, he remained as his faithful servant for many years. See Kroker: ColAorMM von Bora (Leipzig, 1906), p. 186.
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