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

Chapter 16
Conference at Marburg
THE camp had been pitched, the Protestant flag
displayed, and the campaign was about to open. No
one then living suspected how long and wasting the
conflict would be–the synods that would deliberate,
the tomes that would be written, the stakes that
would blaze, and the fields on which, alas! the dead
would be piled up in ghastly heaps, before that
liberty which the protesters had written up on their
flag should be secured as the heritage of
Christendom. But one thing was obvious to all, and
that was the necessity to the Reformers of union
among themselves.
Especially did this necessity appeal to Philip,
Landgrave of Hesse. This young prince was the
most chivalrous of all the knightly adherents of
Protestantism. His activity knew no pause. Day and
night it was his thought how to strengthen the
Protestant front. Unite, fall into one army, and
march as a united phalanx against the foe, was the
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