“Once the new Church was put under the power of the State it could not be altered, but Luther never pretended that the churches which he had established were ordered after the pattern of the Scriptures. While Melanchthon spoke of the Protestant Princes as “chief members of the Church”, Luther called them “makeshift Bishops” and frequently expressed his regret for the lost liberty of the Christian man and independence of the Christian congregations that had once been his aim.”