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

courage of the Lutherans; they trembled when they
thought what the consequences must be, and they
resolved to counteract the effects of the Lutheran
sermons by preaching a purer orthodoxy. To this
there could be no possible objection on the part of
the Protestants. The suffragan and chaplain of the
bishop mounted the pulpit, but only to discover
when there that they had not learned how to
preach. They vociferated at their utmost pitch; but
the audience soon got tired of the noise, and
remarking, with a significant shrug, that "these
predicants were blockheads," retreated, leaving
them to listen to the echoes of their own voice in
their empty cathedrals.
When the elector set out for Augsburg, his
cavaliers, in their scarlet cloaks, were not his only
attendants. He invited, as we have seen, Luther,
Melanchthon, and Jonas to accompany him to the
Diet. On these would devolve the chief task of
preparing the weapons with which the princes were
to do battle, and directing the actual combatants
how to deal the blow. On the journey, however, it
occurred to the elector that over Luther there still
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