Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

And if there cannot yet be agreement between us regarding these things (with our sins thus pressing upon us), we have learned, and we wish, and we are able, according to the precept of Paul, to tolerate kindly and fraternally those who disagree with us. For Gregory the Great says excellently, from that same Paul: He who does not care to preserve peace refuses to bear the fruit of the spirit. For whoever desires to be an heir of the heavenly Father should guard the peace. And would that, Osiander, through you, we might finally see and experience that sweetest and most desired time, concerning which Luke writes in Acts: The churches had peace, and were built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord and the consolation of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied Acts 9.

For blessed, indeed most blessed, Osiander, are the εἰρηνοποιοὶ peacemakers, as our Lord Jesus Christ says Matt. 5. Those, however, are they who are not only themselves of a most prompt mind to accept pious peace (whom Bernard calls the Peaceful), but who also, by any means possible, reconcile and foster peace and concord between others. Of which kind or number those people know themselves in no way to be (whatever you may simulate or dissimulate here) who have read those virulent former Antisturmiana writings of yours published against us, and your savage condemnations of us. And so, keep your finery for the people; I know you from within and to the skin. But remember this, Dearest, what Jerome writes about John, Bishop of Jerusalem (who, while he was actually spreading the gravest errors in the Church of God, was nonetheless offering peace to the Churches in words): It is nothing great to pretend peace with the voice, and to destroy the work of peace; to sound concord with words, but to demand servitude in reality. We also want peace, and we not only want it, but we also ask for it: but the peace of Christ.