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...so that in this entire writing he has not called you brothers in any place. But he calls you dearest, namely, because Christian charity commands that Christians should love both Turks and Jews and any other people, even unbelievers, as themselves, whom nevertheless they can by no means acknowledge as brothers. Thus he loves you and names you dearest, as if he were writing to Jews, Turks, and unbelievers. For what could be more open, Osiander, even you yourself could not write, since you deny that you take pleasure in our miseries for the reason that you do not approve of swords and fires being prepared against those who are even convicted of horrible heresies. Therefore, you understand, dearest brothers, with whom you are compared by him: namely, with those who are guilty of horrible heresies. You see why he says he does not rejoice in your sufferings, since he does not approve of the punishments even of the Manichaeans, or the Servetians, or the Arians, whom he writes and declaims everywhere that you resemble. And so, when a certain Sylvanus, a most foul heretic of the number of Tritheists, was apprehended at Heidelberg and put to a capital punishment by that most illustrious and most mild Prince Frederick III, Jacob Andreae (who is the head of this faction of Ubiquitarians) complained publicly in a speech at Leipzig about this most just sentence, as if it were the height of the Prince’s cruelty. Indeed, brothers, such is the cruel charity of these men toward you and their commiseration for your sufferings, that when they recently anathematized all of us and our Churches in a certain new formula of new discord, and were therefore admonished by some Illustrious German Princes and many good German men to remove it, because in this way they were sharpening the swords of the Papists against our Churches, they responded ridiculously, and even cruelly, and joked that they were only the cause of our sufferings by accident.