Alliance between Charles and Clement VII—Omens—Hostility of the Papists—
Arbitrary Proposition of Charles—Resolutions of the Diet—The Reformation in Danger—Decision of the Princes—Violence of Ferdinand—The Schism completed CHAPTER 6
The Protest—Principles of the Protest—Supremacy of the Gospel—Christian Union—Ferdinand rejects the Protest—Attempt at Conciliation—Exultation of the Papists—Evangelical Appeal—Christian Unity a Reality—Dangers of the 4
History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century Protestants—The Protestants leave Spires—The Princes, the true Reformers—
Germany and Reform