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

Stork unfolded gradually the whole of that
revelation which he had received from the angel,
but which he had deemed it imprudent to divulge
all at once. The "new Gospel," when fully put
before men, was found to involve the overthrow of
all established authority and order in Church and
State; men were to be guided by an inward light, of
which the new prophets were the medium. They
foretold that in a few years the present order of
things would be brought to an end, and the reign of
the saints would begin. Stork was to be the
monarch of the new kingdom. Attacking
Protestantism from apparently opposite poles, there
was nevertheless a point in which the Romanists
and the Zwickau fanatics met–namely, the rejection
of Divine revelation, and the subjection of the
conscience to human reason–the reason of Adrian
VI., the son of the Utrecht mechanic, on the one
side, and the reason of Nicholas Stork, the Zwickau
weaver, on the other.
These men found disciples in Wittenberg. The
enthusiasm of Carlstadt was heated still more;
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