admonition to the Crown-Prince to repent and submit.
Chaplain Muller, with his wholesome cooling-powders, with his
ghostly counsels, and considerations of temporal and eternal
nature,--we saw how he prospered almost beyond hope. Even on
Predestination, and the real nature of Election by Free Grace, all
is coming right, or come, reports Muller. The Chaplain's Reports,
Friedrich Wilhelm's grimly mollified Responses on the same:
they are written, and in confused form have been printed;
but shall be spared the English reader. And Grumkow has been out
at Custrin, preaching to the same purport from other texts:
Grumkow, with the thought ever present to him, "What if Friedrich
Wilhelm should die?" is naturally an eloquent preacher. Enough, it
has been settled (perhaps before the day of Katte's death, or at
the latest three days after it, as we can see), That if the Prince
will, and can with free conscience, take an Oath ("no mental
reservation," mark you!) of contrite repentance, of perfect
prostrate submission, and purpose of future entire obedience and
conformity to the paternal mind in all things, "GNADENWAHL"
included,--the paternal mind may possibly relax his durance a
little, and put him gradually on proof again. [King's Letter to
Muller, 8th November (Forster, i. 379).]

Towards which issue, as Chaplain Muller reports, the Crown-Prince
is visibly gravitating, with all his weight and will. The very
GNADENWAHL is settled; the young soul (truly a lover of Truth,
your Majesty) taps on his ceiling, my floor being overhead, before
the winter sun rises, as a signal that I must come down to him;
so eager to have error and darkness purged away. Believes himself,
as I believe him, ready to undertake that Oath; desires, however,
to see it first, that he may maturely study every clause of it.--