On the 26th of June, the day after the public presentation of the Confession, he again addresses Luther: “We live here in the most lamentable anxiety and incessant tears.  To this a new source of consternation has been added today, after we had read the letter of Vitus (Dietrich, Luther’s friend,) in which he states that you are so much offended at us, that you are unwilling even to read our letters.  My father, I will not increase my sufferings by words, but I merely beg you to consider, where and in what danger we are, where we can have nothing to tranquilize us except your consolations.  Streams of sophists and monks collect here daily, to inflame the hatred of the emperor against us.  But the friends, if we could formerly number them amongst our (party,) are no longer with us.  Alone and despised, we are here contending against endless dangers.  Our Vindication (the Confession) has been presented to the emperor, and I herewith send it to you for perusal. (If it had not been altered after Luther had seen and approved it, it would have been superfluous to send him another copy.) In my judgment, it is strong enough; for you will here perceive the monks depicted sufficiently.  Now, it appears to me, that before our enemies reply, we must determine, what we will yield to them in reference to the ‘eucharist in both kinds,’ what touching matrimony (celibacy of priests,) and what in regard to ‘CLOSET MASSES.’  In [sic] appears they are determined in no case to yield the last two.” [Note 4]

In a letter to Camerarius, [Note 5] he thus describes his condition:  “My spirit is filled with lamentable anxiety, not for the sake of our cause, but on account of the indifference of our associates.  Be not concerned about me, for I commit myself to God.  But something remarkable disturbs us, which I can only tell you personally.” [Note 6]

To Luther, he writers [sic] on the 27th of June, “I cannot describe how deeply I was distressed, on reading in the letter of Vitus, (or Dietrich, a favorite of Luther, who remained with him at Coburg, as his associate,) that you are irreconciliably [sic] offended, because I do not write with sufficient frequency.”  “The condition of our affairs here is still such, that we spend the greater part of our time in tears.  We have written very often, as we can prove.”  From this and other passages in Melancthon’s letters, as well as from his complaints, that he could not induce [Note 7] the Protestant princes to send messengers regularly to Luther, Niemeyer regards it as evident, that Luther’s displeasure arose in part from the fact, that the princes felt disposed, at this important juncture, to act without either his knowledge, counsel, or co-operation, probably under the impression, that, they could more easily effect a reconciliation, if the intrepid, firm and hated Luther were kept out of view.