[742]. ‘Nachdem aber Dr. Martinus bey uns zu Torgau auch gewest, so haben wir Ihm solches ungefährlich vermeldet.’ This declaration of the elector incontestably proves the fact of Luther’s journey to Torgau with this object. The time cannot be fixed, but the elector speaks of it in a paper addressed to Bruck on the 19th of August. Corp. Ref. ii. p. 908.
[743]. Seckendorf, Historie des Lutherthums, p. 1497.
[744]. Ibid. p. 1498.
[745]. Luther to Jonas, 1 Sept. 1535. Ep. iv. p. 628.
[746]. Corpus Reformat. ii. p. 909. Seckendorf, Historie des Lutherthums, p. 1458.
[747]. ‘Ego suspectos cœpi habere istos legatos tuos.’—Lutheri Ep. iv. p. 627.
[748]. ‘Invenirent loca in quibus viverent.’—Ibid.
[749]. ‘Wir viel mehr fördern wollten dasz fremde nationes zu dem Evangelio gebracht wurden.’—Corpus Reform. ii. p. 911.
[750]. ‘Propter hæc verba nolui proficisci.’—Corpus Ref. ii. p. 911, in note. The italics in the text indicate the lines underscored by Melancthon.
[751]. The passage is found in Bruck’s copy (Weimar Archives), but not in Melancthon’s.