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

"Is it safe to trust ourselves in a walled city
with the emperor?" asked some of the more timid
Protestants. They thought that the emperor was
drawing all the Lutherans into his net; and, once
entrapped, that he would offer them all up in one
great holocaust to Clement, from whose presence,
the anointing oil still fresh upon him, the emperor
had just come. Charles, to do him justice, was too
humane and too magnanimous to think of such a
thing. The venom which in after years vented itself
in universal exterminations, had not yet been
engendered, unless in solitary bosoms such as
Campeggio's. The leaders of the Protestants
refused to entertain the unworthy suspicion. The
aged John, Elector of Saxony, set the example of
courage, being the first to arrive on the scene. The
last to arrive were the Roman Catholic princes,
Duke George of Saxony, Duke William of Bavaria,
and the Elector Joachim of Brandenburg. They had
this excuse, however, that before repairing to
Augsburg they had gone to pay their respects to the
emperor at Innspruck, and to encourage him to
persevere in his resolution of putting down the
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