wealth and health, and afterwards to lay himself open to the highest
danger and unthankfulness of the wicked world? Therefore he saith,
"It is very needful that thou lovest me."

The Pope and Turk, said Luther, have thoroughly revenged our cause,
and have done to the world a great deal of right, as by scourging
experience they have thoroughly been taught, for so the world will
have it. Upright and true servants of God they will not endure,
nay, they murder them, therefore they must have such fellows, yea,
and moreover, they must maintain and hold them in great honour and
esteem, and yet nevertheless must by them be cursed and deceived.


The World must have stern and fierce Rulers.

The world, said Luther, cannot be without such stern Governors, by
whom they must be ruled. King Ferdinand, with his Popish tyranny,
is even a fine liquorish bit for the world; therefore said God,
through the Prophet Samuel, to his people of Israel that prayed for
a King, He would give them a King, but this shall be his rule: "He
will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots,
and to be his horsemen, and will take your daughters to be cooks,"
etc. As Ferdinand, the Prince Elector of Saxony, returned home from
the election of the Emperor Charles at Cologne, he asked me how I
liked the news, that they had elected Charles, King of Spain, to be
Roman Emperor. I answered him and said, "The ravens must have a
kite."


The World's highest Wisdom.