Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ing. If, heretofore, we had to keep silent and behumbled, now, when throughout the whole world ourSaviour is made sport of, shall we, I ask, not contend forHim ? Shall we not, for His sake, offer our necks ? MyFather, the danger is greater than many believe. Herethe Gospel begins to have its application : Whosoevershall confess Me before men, him will I confess also be-fore My Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shalldeny Me before men, him will I also deny before MyFather which is in heaven. * How deeply Lu
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ing. If, heretofore, we had to keep silent and behumbled, now, when throughout the whole world ourSaviour is made sport of, shall we, I ask, not contend forHim ? Shall we not, for His sake, offer our necks ? MyFather, the danger is greater than many believe. Herethe Gospel begins to have its application : Whosoevershall confess Me before men, him will I confess also be-fore My Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shalldeny Me before men, him will I also deny before MyFather which is in heaven. * How deeply Luther felt this alienation of hisspiritual father, may be judged from an incidentalremark in a letter of October 3, 1519: * Last nightI had a dream concerning you. I thought that youwere leaving me, and that I was most bitterly weep-ing; but I was pacified when you said that youwould return. ^ A book, published by Staupitz, in1525, on T/ie True Christian Faith, shows how farapart, since their external separation, the two friendshad drifted. > De Wette, 1: 536 sqq.^/^., MEDAL COMMEMORATING LUTHER AT WORMS. CHAPTER VIII THE DIET OF WORMS NEVER was political diplomacy more active thanin the negotiations for the execution of thebull. In the autumn of 1520, the young Emperor—the object of the conflicting hopes of all the par-ticipants in the great struggle—had come to Ger-many, to be crowned at the grave of Charlemagneat Aix-la-Chapelle, and to hold his first Imperialdiet. The German knights, under Hutten andSickingen, were chafing to carry out their visionaryprojects, in support of his authority as an independ-ent German Emperor, and were sanguine as to theearly realisation of their extravagant took pains to impress him with the importanceand feasibility of their schemes, and the extent ofthe revolt against the papal authority. The Papacy,on the other hand, had selected as its representativestwo accomplished diplomats, both Italians, Carrac-cioli and A
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