Cardinal Cajetan found himself buffaloed by Luther’s confidence. But Luther’s confidence was no act. He had little doubt there really was a God who should be feared and to whose authority he and everyone should submit. To that God—and to truth and plain reason—Luther would listen. But unless Cajetan and the rest of them pointed to that God through his Scriptures and plainly showed Luther his error, he was quite immovable. Along these lines between Luther’s position
