county. Christine passed away in March 1552, dying during the stillbirth of her unborn son. Juliana went on to marry historian Matthew Dresser in 1566. She died childless in 1598, but before her death, she and Matthias raised the children of her sister Judith, who orphaned her children. Their final living daughter, Magdalene, married Zacharias Praetorius on 21 Aug 1559 and died in Eisleben in 1560. Erasmus Sarcerius Family Tree Personal views Sarcerius was an advocate of chastity. In 1554, he wrote: "We Germans nowadays can boast but little of the virtue of chastity, and that little [virtue] is disappearing so fast that we can hardly speak of it any more. The number who still love it are so small... Debauchery prevails without fear and without shame." He also spoke out against the innapropriate use of Church funds that he witnessed in the city of Mansfeld, speaking on the under-the-table lending of money, unjustified project funding, and contributing to lavish lifestyles, rather than using tithes for their intended purpose. In 1555, he said, "The great Lords seek to appropriate to themselves the feudal rights and dues of the clergy and allow their officials and justices to take forcible action. The revenues of the Church are spent in making roads and bridges and giving banquets, and are lent from hand to hand without hypothecary security." After Julius von Pflung commanded that Lutheran theologians at the Colloquy of Worms denounce Zwinglians, Osiandrists, Adiaphorists, and Synergists, Sarcerius got into a dispute with Melanchtohon, who did not want to denounce any religious sect before further debate. Unlike Calvinists at the time, Sarcerius took a staunch position against predestination, and believed that the Scriptures refuted any theological claims of predestination. Sarcerius famously said, "Also here unto pertain such places as do promise a universal grace, whereby a man’s conscience ought to lift itself up against such assaults as his reason makes of predestination, as this universal promise. 'God wills all men to be saved', 'God wills not the death of the sinner, but that he turn and do repentance', and 'Come unto me,', said Christ, 'all ye that labor & are laden, and I shall refresh you.' Surely it is an extreme madness a man to vex his mind with unremunerative questions concerning predestination, whereas he may comfort himself with the promise of grace... to desire & receive mercy offered by the Gospel, to endure