Chemical Works

and to destroy [them]. O you wicked alchemist! Even if you had devoured all the monks, root and branch original: "mit ihren Röcken und Söcken," literally "with their robes and socks," a German idiom meaning entirely or completely., destroyed all the monasteries, and devastated many lands with your godless soldiers; do you then imagine that you would sit at the head of the table in the Kingdom of Heaven with Peter and Paul, and be in great favor with GOD?

In my opinion, you are very much mistaken, for you do not consider how many poor people, how many widows and orphans you would create, who would cry out "Murder!" original: "ceter morduo," a variation of the archaic German legal cry "Zeter und Mordio," used to raise an alarm or protest a great injustice., "Alas and woe!", and call for vengeance and punishment upon you. But because GOD hears and sees your intentoriginal: "intent"; the inner motivation or purpose behind an action or the moral "direction" of one's soul., He will not let you live to see the end, even if your work has already begun correctly.

For the most noble, transcendent gift of God is not granted to you for the purpose of waging an unchristian, godless, and destructive war. Instead, if you wish to apply it correctly, you will find everywhere many poor widows and orphans, as well as other poor people, who on account of their old age [cannot use] their

Catchword: "hands"