Report on Whether Secular Authority Should Suppress the Writings of Enthusiasts (1556) - Page 24

...to be commended; I do not pay much heed to such slanders. I hope that I have written with such modesty that I wish to be detrimental to no one, but rather to be helpful only to the Divine truth. But if some should interpret and explain this in the most bitter way, I must commend it to God. If I achieve anything by this, I will joyfully praise it with thanksgiving before our Lord God; but if it should not bring such fruit and benefit, I will comfort myself in this: that one day the hour will come when all blasphemy and untruth, especially against the Holy Sacrament, must cease, etc.

The kind, merciful God, who has all power in His hand and gives understanding and wisdom to all authorities, rule, protect, and maintain Your Wisdoms Your Wisdoms: 'E. W.' or 'Eure Weisheiten', a traditional formal title used when addressing a city council or magistrate to the honor of His Divine name and the benefit and piety of this city, Amen.

And I ask that Your Wisdoms would, as you have begun, also faithfully perform your service henceforth, and hold faithfully to this teaching and the Sacraments, as they have been presented and distributed here for 32 years according to Prophetic and Apostolic Scripture. And especially, to take good and diligent notice of the Sacramentarians Sacramentarians: 'Sacramentirer', a polemical term used by Lutherans for those who denied the Real Presence of Christ’s body and blood in the bread and wine, viewing them only as symbols. For it is so very important to the dear Lord Christ regarding the Sacrament that, although He was surrounded by treachery and all kinds of pain and tribulation, He nevertheless instituted it precisely at the time of His suffering with many earnest gestures, words, and commands. And all the world should rightly [attend] to this institution of His with diligence and earnestness...