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

an assembly, and that when he saw that a Council
could be held with profit to Christendom he would
ask the Pope to summon one; that, meanwhile, till a
General Council should meet, it was their duty to
acquiesce in the ecclesiastical settlement which had
been made at Worms; that at that Diet all the
matters which they proposed to bring again into
discussion at Spires had been determined, and that
to meet to discuss them over again was to unsettle
them. In fine, he reminded them of the Edict of
Worms against Luther, and called on them to put it
in execution. He forbade the meeting of the Diet at
Spires, under penalty of high treason and ban of the
Empire. The princes eventually submitted, and thus
the projected Diet, which had excited so great
hopes on the one side and so great alarm on the
other, never met.
The issue of the affair was that the unity of
Germany was broken. From this hour, there were a
Catholic Diet and a Protestant Diet in the Empire–
a Catholic Germany and a Protestant Germany.
The rent was made by Campeggio, and what he did
was endorsed and completed by Charles V. The
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