When news of Ernst's attempted blockades reached Müntzer in September, he was swift to react. He regardeda these manoeuvres as an attack on God and preached against the count from the pulpit. On 22 September, he wrote a singular letter to the Mansfeld castle at Heldrungen:

The electoral official and town council of Allstedt have shown me your letter, according to which I am supposed to have called you 'a heretical scoundrel' and 'a curse upon the people'. This is quite true, for I am well aware - indeed, it is common knowledge- that you have strictly forbidden your people with a public proclamation from attending my her etical services and sermons. To this I have said - and I willa denounce you before all Christian people - that you have had the insolence to ban the holy gospel, and if (God forbid) you persist in such raging and insane bans, then from today onwards, for as long as my blood still pulses in my veins, In will name you on paper a deranged madman

— Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer by Andrew Drummond (28%)