§.III: From Worms to the Augsburg Diet of 1530 Spanheim takes the Controversiae we now treat
§. III. That clash brought imperial summons: in 1521 Charles V called Luther to Worms under safe-conduct and demanded a retractation.
Luther would not recant without first hearing his errors proved from Holy Scripture — and he held that line without wavering.
Meanwhile Frederick the Wise, Duke and Elector of Saxony, together with some other Romano-German estates, had drawn nearer to Luther's teaching. The same Emperor then set the Augsburg Diet for July 1530; Luther waited out the danger at Coburg, as Sleidan tells in Book VII.
From that Diet the blessed Spanheim, in his Elenchus, takes the title for certain chief Controversies with the so-called Augsburg-Confession theologians — the very Controversies we are to treat here.
Here the Hexades Prooemium ends; Annotatio I on the Augsburg Confession and its theologians follows.
Latin
§. III.
Ea propter Caesaris hujus Auctoritate, initiò quidem Lutherus, Wormatiam, Anno 1521. fide publicâ evocatus est, ut palinodiam cantaret; at postremò, cùm citra praeviam errorum suorum ab adversariis, ex Scripturis Sacris, factam demonstrationem, Lutherus se recantaturum constantissimè abnuisset, Saxoniae quoque Dux & Elector, Divus Fridericus, cum aliis nonnullis Imperii Romano-Germanici Statibus, Doctrinae Lutheri propiùs accessisset, ab eodem Caesare Comitia Augustana ista ipsâ indicta, ac Anno 1530. Mense Julio (Luthero intereà Coburgi, ob periculi metum, commorante, uti refert Sleidanus Lib. VII.) celebrata sunt, à quibus Auctori nostro B. Spanhemio, in Elencho suo, praecipuae quaedam Controversiae cum Augustanae Confessionis, ut vocantur, Theologis, i.e. Controversiae a nobis pertractandae, inscribuntur.