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

true and obedient son," said the courtier Brentz;
"but pray, my lord, do not, for the mother, forget
either the father or the son." "It is not the cure, but
the physician who prescribes it, that I dislike," said
the Archbishop of Salzburg, who had been
peculiarly bitter against the Reformers. "I would
oblige the laity with the cup, and the priests with
wives, and all with a little more liberty as regards
meats, nor am I opposed to some reformation of
the mass; but that it should be a monk, a poor
Augustine, who presumes to reform us all, is what I
cannot get over." "Nor I," responded another
bishop, "that a little town should teach all the
world; and that the ancient and orthodox waters of
Rome should be forsaken for the heretical and
paltry stream that Wittenberg sends forth, is not to
be thought of." It was the old objection, "Can any
good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Of the men now assembling around Charles,
some blamed themselves as well as the Lutherans.
The Bishop of Salzburg, whom we have just
mentioned as more than ordinarily hostile to the
Reformation, was by no means blind to the
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