During these years he violently dissociated himself from the extreme radicals and thus lost the support of the proletariat.

In the second place the growing definiteness and narrowness of his dogmatism and his failure to show hospitality to science and philosophy alienated a number of intellectuals.

Third, a great schism weakened the Protestant church.
But these losses were counterbalanced by two gains.

The first was the increasing discipline and coherence of the new churches; the second was their gradual but rapid attainment of the support of the middle and governing classes in many German states.
[Sidenote: The Radicals] Luther's struggle with radicalism had begun within a year after his stand at Worms.

He had always been consistently opposed to mob violence, even when he might have profited by it.