Art.

 1 Pre|       Inasmuch as Your Imperial Majesty has summoned a Diet of the
 2 Pre|         the Diet, Your Imperial Majesty caused to be proposed to
 3 Pre|      was given to Your Imperial Majesty, after due deliberation,
 4 Pre|      obedience to Your Imperial Majesty's wishes, we offer, in this
 5 Pre|       here before Your Imperial Majesty, our most clement Lord are
 6 Pre|      the tenor of Your Imperial Majesty's edict, and everything
 7 Pre|   manner in which Your Imperial Majesty has wisely held that it
 8 Pre|           as also Your Imperial Majesty and, next, the other Electors
 9 Pre|       associates.~Your Imperial Majesty also, not only once but
10 Pre|   publicly proclaimed that Your Majesty, in dealing with this matter
11 Pre|      which were alleged in Your Majesty's name, was not willing
12 Pre|         anything, but that Your Majesty would diligently use Your
13 Pre|       would diligently use Your Majesty's office with the Roman
14 Pre|     Spires. There Your Imperial Majesty, through His Highness Ferdinand,
15 Pre|   submitted: that Your Imperial Majesty had taken notice of; and
16 Pre|          the resolution of Your Majesty's Representative in the
17 Pre|          and that your Imperial Majesty also judged it to be expedient
18 Pre|          and that Your Imperial Majesty did not doubt the Roman
19 Pre|  adjusted between Your Imperial Majesty and the Roman Pontiff were
20 Pre|         therefore Your Imperial Majesty himself signified that he
21 Pre|     together with your Imperial Majesty such General Council, to
22 Pre|      here, before Your Imperial Majesty we make the offer in all
23 Pre| Imperial Diets held during Your Majesty's reign, on the part of
24 Pre|      same time to Your Imperial Majesty, we have, even before this,
25 Pre|   appeal, both to Your Imperial Majesty and to a Council, we still
26 21 |         pray that Your Imperial Majesty would graciously hear both
27 21 |        Nor should Your Imperial Majesty believe those who, in order
28 21 |      discord. For Your Imperial Majesty will undoubtedly find that
29 29 |      the edict of Your Imperial Majesty, in order to exhibit our
30 29 |      Scriptures. ~Your Imperial Majesty's~faithful subjects: ~John,