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

Protestantism came to reinstate the Divine
government over the world. It did so by placing the
authority of Scripture above the chair of the Pope,
and lifting the crown of Christ above the throne of
the emperor.
So grand a restoration could not be evolved in a
day, or even in a century. But the Protest of 1529
had all this in it. The stable basis, the majestic
order, the ever-expanding greatness and power of
Protestant States lay all enfolded in its three mighty
principles–Conscience, the Scriptures, the Spirit–
each in its order and subordination. This simple
Protest contained all, as the acorn contains the oak,
or as the morning contains the noonday.
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