The adjacent apartments, and the court-yard of the palace, were all filled with an eager crowd.

The chancellor read the creed in a voice so clear and loud that the whole multitude could hear.

The emperor was very uneasy, and at the close of the reading, which occupied two hours, took both the Latin and the German copies, and requested that the confession should not be published without his consent.

Luther and Melancthon drew up this celebrated document.

Melancthon was an exceedingly mild and amiable man, and such a lover of peace that he would perhaps do a little violence to his own conscience in the attempt to conciliate those from whom he was constrained to differ.