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We have all turned aside in our ways, nor was there, for a long time, any who did right,--no, not one.
This confession rather strengthened the reform party, than otherwise, making its demands seem justified; and all that the Diet did towards the settlement of the religious question was to demand that a council, with representation of the laity, should be called in a German city.

A long list of grievances against the church was again drawn up and laid before the emperor.
The same Diet took up other matters.

The need for reform and the impotence of the Council of Regency had both been demonstrated by the Sickingen affair.