Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . inst Luthers advice, who preferred to riskFerdinands election to the danger of having Johndeposed to make room for Duke George as alliance was formed by the evangelicals, March29, 1531, in The Schmalkald League, combiningall the Lutheran princes and states, with the fourcities that had presented the Tetrapolitan Confesssion at Augsburg, into a strong military confedera-tion. The League was strengthened by an alliancewith the Catholic Dukes of Bavaria, who werehostile to Ferdinands election. Treaties wer
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . inst Luthers advice, who preferred to riskFerdinands election to the danger of having Johndeposed to make room for Duke George as alliance was formed by the evangelicals, March29, 1531, in The Schmalkald League, combiningall the Lutheran princes and states, with the fourcities that had presented the Tetrapolitan Confesssion at Augsburg, into a strong military confedera-tion. The League was strengthened by an alliancewith the Catholic Dukes of Bavaria, who werehostile to Ferdinands election. Treaties weremade the following year with Denmark and France,while Englands silent approval was by the growing importance of theLeague, and never relieved from the threatenedinvasion of the Turks, the Peace of Nuremberg was conceded by the Emperor, guaranteeing, untilthe convening of a diet or general council, religiousliberty to the confederates, upon the stipulation thatthey would allow no innovations beyond those ad-mitted in the Augsburg Confession and the |PROXIMV5A-SV:iLUO-fERDNAV3 Z JIEX-ROAIANORVM - 5IC-T VXIT- ORA-J2ENA5AET • 5\AE • XXT^ • XXXI ^ l\J fell If FERDINAND I. FROM AN fiWOftJVNG ev BEHAM. 1535] The Schmalkald League 305 During the progress of these poHtical negotiations,Luther in several publications exposed the errorsthat the Diet of Augsburg had promulgated, andmade a strong appeal to the people against thewar that his enemies were contemplating. Whenattacked by an anonymous writer, who misrepre-sented him as inciting to insurrection, he repelledthe charge in his book Against the Assassin at Dres-den,^ Luther may or may not have known that hisantagonist was none other than Duke George. Atany rate, he had thus another difficulty with theDuke to settle, who, according to his custom, laidhis grievances before the Elector. Radicalism oncemore claimed attention, in his book, written in 1532,Against the Sneaks a7id Hedge Preachers
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