And Pope Paul V.had likewise ordained a jubilee for true believers at almost the same time.
The Elector did not mince matters in his proclamation from any regard to the feelings of his late guests.

He called on all Protestants to rejoice, "because the light of the Holy Gospel had now shone brightly in the electoral dominions for a hundred years, the Omnipotent keeping it burning notwithstanding the raging and roaring of the hellish enemy and all his scaly servants." The doctors of divinity were still more emphatic in their phraseology.
They called on all professors and teachers of the true Evangelical churches, not only in Germany but throughout Christendom, to keep the great jubilee.

They did this in terms not calculated certainly to smother the flames of religious and party hatred, even if it had been possible at that moment to suppress the fire.

"The great God of Heaven," they said, "had caused the undertaking of His holy instrument Mr.Doctor Martin Luther to prosper.

Through His unspeakable mercy he has driven away the Papal darkness and caused the sun of righteousness once more to beam upon the world.