In Germany from the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms - James Aitken Wylie

From the general eulogium pronounced on the
writings of Luther, Glapio excepted one work–the
Babylonish Captivity. That work was not worthy of
Luther, he maintained. He found in it neither his
style nor his learning.
Luther must disavow it. As for the rest of his
works, he would propose that they should be
submitted to a select body of intelligent and
impartial men, that Luther should explain some
things and apologise for others; and then the Pope,
in the plenitude of his power and benignity, would
reinstate him. Thus the breach would be healed,
and the affair happily ended. Such was the little
artifice with which the wise heads at the court of
Charles hoped to accomplish so great things. They
only showed how little able they were to gauge the
man whom they wished to entrap, or to fathom the
movement which they sought to arrest. Pontanus
looked on while they were spreading the net, with a
mild contempt; and Luther listened to the plot,
when it was told him, with feelings of derision.
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