ABSTRACT
Philip Melanchthon was heartened about the prospects for evangelical unity, but still angry with Westphal over his‘devils martyrs’ jibe, because ‘men like Latimer should never suffer such a slander’. A pupil of Melanchthon’s, Paul van Enzen, then dedicated his work on Genesis, which Philip had encouraged him to publish, to Queen Elizabeth. Anglican genius perhaps, but have seen Melanchthon confessing Christ’s presence in the sacrament without wanting to get bogged down in the sort of fruitless disputes that seemed to fascinate other more argumentative divines. Then Christopher Mont, Elizabeth’s emissary to Germany, presumably acting on Elizabeth’s instructions and with her consent, even advised the German Lutherans to send an embassy to England to establish the mutual friendship and agreement. Christopher Mont sent a ‘lately published letter’ of Melanchthon’s to Cecil, a letter ‘which as it will please all lovers of peace, so will it displease the Capernaites’.
