He gathered another army in his hereditary States of Austria.

His brother Ferdinand, as King of Hungary and Bohemia, raised a large army in each of those dominions.

The King of France mustered his legions, and boasted of the condign punishment to which he would consign the heretics.

The pope issued a decree offering the entire pardon of all sins to those who should engage in this holy war for the extirpation of the doctrines of the reformers.
The Protestants were for a moment in consternation in view of the gatherings of so portentous a storm.

The emperor, by false professions and affected clemency, had so deceived them that they were quite unprepared for so formidable an attack.