An instruction and response by Doctor Johann Fabri to the frenzied and furious publication of Martin Luther's concerning the recantation that Luther himself offered to the Most Serene King of England.

To the serene and noble Prince and Lord, Lord George, Duke of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen, I, Doctor Johann Fabri, wish and pray from God our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ grace and peace, and after this life everlasting glory.

Gracious Prince and Lord, a little while ago His Royal Majesty of Hungary and Bohemia, my gracious Lord and King, ordered me among others to go to His Royal Majesty of England. Having crossed the sea out of England again, I got back to this region in twelve days, which was in the next month, April; then I went to Olmutz in Moravia, and after that reached Breslau in Silesia on the first of May. There I found the two quires that Luther had published concerning the King of England's letter. No sooner had I read this work than I realised it was full to the brim with fury, venom, disgrace, falsehood, and blasphemy. I could not have been more astonished at finding that Luther had once again become more maniacal than any Orestes. One really can note and gather from this that the hand of God has indeed struck him, and that the finger of God is without doubt at work here; as also that the Lord God has cast down this arrogant proud Lucifer from the height of his throne, and that the Son of God, in whom is the entire treasure of wisdom, this wisdom, according to the prophecy, has flung down and finally now already seen this Satan fall like lightning from heaven. It is as clear as daylight that God has taken away from him all wisdom and reason and grace of the Gospel. For as Micah wrote in his third chapter, ‘He has given you darkness for sight’: and that is, of course, for this reason, that he withstands the proud, and grants and vouchsafes grace only to the humble.