[386] Magis invidiâ et vindictæ libidine quam zelo pietatis. (Historia Johnnis Cochlœi de actis et scriptis Martini Lutheri. _Parisus_, 1565, p. 27, verso. Cochlœus was all his life one of Luther's greatest enemies. We will soon see him appear.) [387] Vehementibus suis orationibus parum promovit. (Ibid.) [Sidenote: ALEANDER AWAKENS ROME.] Some pointed out to him that the papal bull had condemned Luther only conditionally; others did not altogether conceal the joy which they felt at seeing Roman pride humbled. The ministers of the emperor, on the one hand, and the ecclesiastical electors, on the other, affected great coldness--the former to make the pope more sensible how necessary it was for him to league with their master, the latter in order to induce him to pay better for their favour. A conviction of Luther's innocence prevailed in the assembly, and Aleander could not restrain his indignation. But the coldness of the Diet did not try the patience of the legate so much as the coldness of Rome. Rome, which had so long refused to take a serious view of the quarrel of the drunk German, had no idea that a bull of the sovereign pontiff could prove insufficient to make him humble and submissive. She had accordingly resumed her wonted security,[388] no longer sending either bull or purses of money. But how was it possible without money to succeed in such a business?[389] Rome must be awakened, and Aleander gives the alarm. Writing to the Cardinal de Medicis, he says, "Germany is detaching herself from Rome, and the princes are detaching themselves from the pope. A few delays more--a few more attempts at compromise and the matter is past hope. Money! money! or Germany is lost."[390] [388] Negligens quædam securitas Romam pervaserat. (Pallavicini, i, p. 94.) [389] Nec pecunia ad varios pro eadem sumptus. (Ibid.) [390] "Periculum denique amittendæ Germaniæ ex parcimonia monetæ cujusdam." (Ibid.) In fine, the danger of losing Germany from niggardliness in withholding a sum of money. At this cry Rome awakes: the servants of the papacy, laying aside their torpor, hastily forge their dreaded thunder at the Vatican. The pope issues a new bull;[391] and the excommunication with which till then the heretical doctor had been merely threatened, is in distinct terms pronounced against him and all his adherents. Rome herself, breaking the last thread which still attached him to her church, gave Luther greater freedom, and thereby greater power. Thundered at by the pope, he, with new affection, took refuge in Christ. Driven from the external temple, he felt more strongly that he was himself a temple inhabited by God. [391] Decet Romanum Pontificem, etc. (Roman. Bullarium.) [Sidenote: EXCOMMUNICATION BY THE POPE. COMMUNION WITH CHRIST.]