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

the will of One whom he saw guiding the
movement through intricacies where his own
counsels would have utterly wrecked it. And in
what lay his courage? In this: in his profound faith
in One whose arm he saw shielding Protestantism
in the midst of dangers where, but for this
protection, both the Reformer and the cause would
have speedily perished.
In these events Luther beheld the footprints of
One whom an ancient Hebrew sage styles
"wonderful in counsel, excellent in working."
The emperor and his suite, a numerous and
brilliant one, arrived at Innspruck in the beginning
of May. He halted at this romantic little town that
he might make himself more closely acquainted
with the state of Germany, and decide upon the line
of tactics to be adopted. The atmosphere on this
side of the Alps differed sensibly from the fervid
air which he had just left on the south of them. All
he saw and heard where he now was told him that
Lutheranism was strongly entrenched in the
Fatherland, and that he should need to put forth all
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