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

character, was not understood. All who would enter
the proposed league must be of one mind on the
tenet of consubstantiation. They must not only be
Protestant, but Lutheran.
The deputies from Strasburg and Ulm resisted
this sectarian policy. "We cannot sign these
articles," said they, "but are willing to unite with
our brethren in a defensive league." The Landgrave
of Hesse strongly argued that difference of opinion
respecting the manner of Christ's presence in the
Sacrament did not touch the foundations of
Christianity, or endanger the salvation of the soul,
and ought not to divide the Church of God; much
less ought that difference to be made a ground of
exclusion from such a league as was now proposed
to be formed. But the Dukes of Saxony and
Luneburg, who were strongly under Luther's
influence, would hear of no confederation but with
those who were ready to take the religious test.
Ulm and Strasburg withdrew. The conference
broke up, having first resolved that such as held
Lutheran views, and only such, should meet at
Nuremberg in the January following, to concert
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