From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

July, to forbid the printing of Luther's books; to
permit no married priests to live in their territories;
to recall the youth of their dominions who were
studying at Wittenberg; to tolerate no change in the
mass or public worship; and, in fine, to put into
execution the Edict of Worms against Luther. They
concluded, in short, to wage a war of extermination
against the new faith.
As a set-off against these stern measures, they
promised a few very mild reforms. The
ecclesiastical imposts were to be lightened, and the
Church festivals made somewhat less numerous.
And, not able apparently to see that they were
falling into the error which they condemned in the
proposed Diet at Spires, they proceeded to enact a
standard of orthodoxy, consisting of the first four
Latin Fathers–Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and
Gregory–whose opinions were to be the rule
according to which all preachers were to interpret
Scripture. Such was the Ratisbon Reformation, as it
came afterwards to be called.
The publication of the legate's project was
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