Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

Osiander is rather your enemy of salvation while he tries to lead you away from the Gospel and the doctrine that you already hold to be most certain from the word of God. Furthermore, as for the peace of the French Churches with the German Churches of God, who is the Christian, I do not say who is so devoid of all Christian mind, but who is so alienated from all humanity, that he does not himself desire it above all things, and beg for it from God, the Best and Greatest, with all the vows and tears of his soul? To me, indeed, this sentiment of Augustine has always seemed golden: The good of peace is so great that even in earthly and mortal things nothing is usually heard that is more pleasing, nothing is desired more longingly, and finally, nothing is found that is better. I would call him a beast, and indeed a savage monster, a most cruel ἀλάστορα avenger/fiend of the human race, a public enemy of his own country, a most hostile persecutor of the Church of God, who either does not want or hates peace between the Churches of God; and especially between the French and the Germans, since there is the same origin for these peoples, a most ancient kinship, and even the highest consensus in other matters, and always the highest benevolence among themselves, and many benefits of the German people toward ours also exist. What such ties of friendship exhort both Churches to enter into that sweetest peace, or rather to preserve what was entered into and confirmed long ago, is sufficient in itself. Who is this, then, who so falsely divines that enmities, that hatred, that wars exist or are being prepared between pious Frenchmen and Germans? We have certainly never believed this before, as you know, Brothers, nor do we persuade ourselves of it even now. For even if there are some controversies between us regarding matters of no small moment, we have decided to treat them with Christian moderation of spirit, and not to break the peace on that account.