Meanwhile Spalatin himself began to be troubled and afraid. Surrounded at Worms by the enemies of the Reformation, he heard them saying that no respect should be paid to the safe-conduct of a heretic. He became alarmed for his friend; and at the moment when the latter was approaching the town a messenger presented himself and said to him on the part of the chaplain, "Don't enter Worms!" This from his best friend, the Elector's confidant, Spalatin himself! Luther unmoved, turns his eye on the messenger, and replies, "Go and tell your master, that were there as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the roofs, I would enter."[491] Never, perhaps, was Luther so grand. The envoy returned to Worms with his extraordinary message. "I was then intrepid," said Luther a few days before his death, "I feared nothing; God can give man such boldness; I know not if at present I would have as much liberty and joy."--"When the cause is good," adds his disciple Mathesius, "the heart expands, giving courage and energy to evangelists and soldiers."[492] [491] Wenn so viel Teufel zu Worms wären, als Ziegel auf den Dächern, noch wollt Ich hinein! (L. Opp. (L.) xvii, p. 587.) [492] So wächst das Herz im Leibe ... (Math. p. 24.) CHAP. VIII. Entry into Worms--Chant for the Dead--Council held by Charles V--Capito and the Temporisers--Concourse around Luther--Citation--Hütten to Luther--Proceeds to the Diet--Saying of Freundsberg--Imposing Assembly--The Chancellor's Address--Luther's Reply--His Wisdom--Saying of Charles V--Alarm--Triumph--Luther's Firmness--Insults from the Spaniards--Council--Luther's Trouble and Prayer--Might of the Reformation--Luther's Oath to Scripture--The Court of the Diet--Luther's Address--Three kinds of Writings--He demands Proof of his Error--Solemn Warnings--He repeats his Address in Latin--Here I am: I can't do otherwise--The "weakness" of God--New Attempt. At length, on the morning of the 16th April, Luther perceived the walls of the ancient city. All were looking for him, and there was only one thought in Worms. The young noblemen, Bernard of Hirschfeld and Albert of Lindenau, with six cavaliers, and other gentlemen in the suite of the princes, to the number of a hundred, if we may believe Pallavicini, unable to restrain their impatience, galloped to meet him, and surrounded him in order to escort him at the moment of his entry. He approached. Before him pranced the imperial herald decked in all the insignia of his office. Next came Luther in his humble carriage. Jonas followed on horseback surrounded by the cavaliers. A large crowd was waiting in front of the gates. It was near mid-day when he passed those walls which so many persons had foretold him he should never leave. It was the dinner hour, but the moment when the sentinel stationed in the cathedral steeple tolled the signal, every body ran into the street to see the monk. Thus was Luther in Worms.