thought it a thing fitting to dedicate the same to your Highnesses,
Graces, Honours and Worships, etc., as special favourers,
protectors, and defenders of the Doctrines which God, through
Luther, hath cleared again, to the end that by diligent reading
therein, you may be president, and give good examples to others, to
your subjects, citizens, etc., diligently to love, to read, to
affect the same, and to make good use thereof, as being fragments
that fell from Luther's Table, and therewith may help to still, to
slake, and to satisfy the spiritual hunger and thirst of the soul.
For these most profitable Discourses of Luther, containing such high
spiritual things, we should in nowise suffer to be lost, but
worthily esteem thereof, whereout all manner of learning, joy, and
comfort may be had and received.
DR. AURIFABER, in his Preface to the Book.

Given at Eisleben, July 7th, 1569.



CAPTAIN HENRY BELL'S NARRATIVE:



OR,

RELATION OF THE MIRACULOUS PRESERVING OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER'S BOOK,
ENTITLED "COLLOQUIA MENSALIA," OR, "HIS DIVINE DISCOURSES AT HIS
TABLE," HELD WITH DIVERS LEARNED MEN AND PIOUS DIVINES; SUCH AS WERE
PHILIP MELANCTHON, CASPARUS CRUCIGER, JUSTUS JONAS, PAULUS EBERUS,
VITUS DIETERICUS, JOANNES BUGENHAGEN, JOANNES FORSTERUS, AND OTHERS: