The answer of two nuns in the Katherine Convent of Augsburg to Bernhart Rem and afterwards his answer to this.
Isaiah 33
God is our law giver.
Job 8
The hope of a hypocrite melts away.
My brother Bernhart,
You have wished us the correct understanding of Jesus Christ. We
thank you for that. We hope we have the correct understanding of
God. God will fortify us because we praise and favor him.You have
sent us two letters, which I am returning to you. We regard you as
one of the false prophets that Jesus warned us against in the Holy
Gospels when he said "Guard yourselves against prophets who come
in the form of a sheep and are ravening wolves." Therefore you have
also come with many good words and wanted to lead us astray and
make us despondent. You should not think that we are so foolish that
we place our hope in the convent and in our own works. Rather we
place our hope in God. He is the true lord and rewarder of all things.
Him do we serve more willingly in the convent than in the world,
with the grace and help of God. You do not have to worry at all about
our bodies and souls. You do not have to go to heaven or hell for us.
God the Almighty will judge all of us at the Last Judgment, according
to his justice. We all know that for certain. Therefore think about
yourself, that you will become and be a good Christian and that you
keep to your station in life rightly and that you do not swear by God's
name and by his bitter martyrs. I know that you certainly can do this,
and not eat meat on Friday or Saturday. These things are not the
teachings ofJesus Christ. You will pull a splinter out of our eye, while
you yourself have a large log in yours. I certainly know that you have
said that your daughter and I are to you more as if we were in a
brothel' than in a convent. You should shame yourself in your heart
to think [such a thing] to say nothing of saying this. Whoever hears
this from you cannot think very well of you. There we certainly see
the brotherly love that you have for us. And that you allowed [the
letter] from us to be printed!l The printer certainly does not think
very well of you, even if he asked you with good words, "Don't you
have anything else to be printed about the religious [orders], what
they are doing and how they are?" You should have given [up] the
money through God's will. Why didn't you have [things written] by
you and others like you printed? But I certainly know-that you and
those like you always do the right thing, and that the religious [orders]
delivered enough to you. No one is sorry for this. There will still
come a time when you will suffer. We will gladly suffer for God's sake
with the help of God. He has also suffered greatly for our sake. God
forgive you for everything. That is our angry message, [that] the bitter
suffering of Jesus Christ press in your heart. It would be better for
you ifyou mulled this over. You are a good fellow and happy. I wanted
to answer your letter more fully, but I will commend you to God the
Lord. You have shocked us because you actually wanted to come to
us. If you don't come in kinship, stay out. Ifyou want to straighten us
out, then we don't want your [message] at all. You may not send us
such things any more. We will not accept them. We also [already]
have many good books.