Sabrow is also cheering for the Lutheran pastors and saying they truly acted in the spirits of Luther's "Here I am, I can do no other". Given they didn't get any public praise for standing up to FW in this regard (or in the Wilhelmine matter, and no one but Hans Heinrich - we hope - read the letter where Hans Herrmann is near explicitly called a martyr), and given that we only know this because their letters written immediately after the events in question survived, not because some writer claimed they did decades later , I think it's save to say that yes, that's what they did, and they deserve the applause.