Many feel assured, that if your Eminence were better acquainted with our cause and views, you would not approve of these violent counsels.

For no other reason do we incur greater hostility in Germany, than because we defend the doctrines of the Romish [Note 12] Church with the utmost steadfastness.
This fidelity, if the Lord will, we will show to the Romish Church _until our last breath_.

There is indeed some _small_ difference in usages, which seems to be unfavorable to union.

But the ecclesiastical laws themselves declare, that the unity of the church may continue even amid such diversity of customs." [Note 13] Is it possible that any impartial man, after reading this letter can suppose the circumstances of this diet to have been favorable to a free and full expression of the points of dissent, between the Protestants and Papists, even at that day?
During the entire six weeks that Melancthon was at Augsburg, before the arrival of the Emperor, his mind was in this agitated and alarmed condition.

According to his own account he continued daily to make changes in the Confession, _after_ it had been submitted to Luther.