Luther: We Germans are now the...shame of all the countries

I've been working through obscure Luther quotes from a Roman Catholic apologist. Here's another:

"We Germans are now the...shame of all the countries" (in Denifle, ibid., 22 Luther quote from Werke, Erlangen edition, 8, 295).

He uses this as an example of "The Agony of Luther" over "the State of Early Protestantism."

Documentation
He cites Heinrich Denifle's Luther and Lutherdom, So off we go:

"We Germans are now the laughing-stock and the shame of all the countries, they hold us as shameful, nasty swine."(Er. 8, 295)" The same one that said this regrets to have been born a German, to have written and spoken German, and longs to fly from there, that he may not witness God's judgment breaking over Germany." (Erl. 20, 43)

Why the Catholic apologist cited this quote as he did (i.e., leaving out particular words), is anyone's guess. The point though he appears to be making is that Germans=Protestants, and their behavior was so immoral, that the rest of the world looked on them as shameful. Of course, without a context, this quote means... whatever the Catholic apologist wants it to mean. Denifle doesn't do much better.

This comment is from "Sermon on Soberness and Moderation against Gluttony and Drunkenness, 1 Peter 4:7-11, May 18, 1539." I found it because Ewald Plass cites the same German volume as Denifle in Volume One of What Luther Says (p.534). The sermon can be found in LW 51: 289-299.

Context
The title of the sermon says it all. Luther preached a powerful sermon against drunkenness and gluttony. Luther begins the sermon by addressing the popular caricature of his day: the Germans were known as drunkards. Luther states:

This gluttony and swilling is inundating us like an ocean and among the Spaniards, Italians, and English it is reprehended. We are the laughingstock of all other countries, who look upon us as filthy pigs; and not only upon private persons, but upon nobles and princes also, as if that were the reason why they bear the coat of arms. We would not forbid this; it is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish. This is not a human way of living, not to say Christian, but rather a pig’s life. [LW 51:292].


Luther then goes on to preach moderation with food and drink. Is Luther agonizing over the state of early Protestantism? No. He's preaching a sermon to his fellow German people on a very common topic.