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

ehold the pulpit set up in the Diet itself, and great
princes becoming preachers of the Gospel.
The Popish members were dismayed and
confounded when they reflected on what had been
done. The Diet had been summoned to overthrow
the Reformation; instead of this it had established
it. In the wake of this Confession came other two,
the one written by Bucer, and signed by four cities
which in the matter of the Lord's Supper leaned to
the Zwinglian rather than to the Lutheran view–
Strasbourg, Constance, Memmingen, and Lindau;
hence its name, the Tetrapolitan Confession; and
the other presented in the name of Zwingli, and
containing a statement of his individual views.
Thus the movement, instead of shrinking into
narrower dimensions, or hiding itself from view,
was coming boldly out in the presence of its
opponents, and the feeble hope which the
Romanists founded upon the circumstance that
there were three representations, or "a schism in
the schism," as they termed it, vanished when these
several documents were examined, and it was seen
that there was substantial agreement among them;
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