_Now the accidental occasion wherein_, etc.] This is graphically described by _Thuanus_ in his History: but because his words are too large for this purpose, I shall give it you somewhat more briefly, according to the relation of the Author of the History of the Council of _Trent_. The occasion was the necessity of Pope _Leo_ the Tenth, who by his profusion had so exhausted the Treasure of the _Church_, that he was constrained to have recourse to the publishing of Indulgencies to raise monies: some of which he had destined to his own Treasury, and other part to his Allyes, and particularly to his Sister he gave all the money that should be raised in _Saxony_; and she, that she might make the best profit of the donation, commits it to one _Aremboldus_, a Bishop to appoint Treasurers for these Indulgences. Now the custome was, that whensoever these Indulgences were sent into _Saxony_, they were to be divulged by the Fryars _Eremites_ (of which Order _Luther_ then was), but _Aremboldus_ his Agents thinking with themselves, that the Fryars _Eremites_ were so well acquainted with the trade, that if the business should be left to them, they should neither be able to give so good an account of their Negotiation, nor yet get so much themselves by it as they might do in case the business were committed to another Order; they thereupon recommend it to (and the business is undertaken by) the _Dominican_ Fryars, who performed it so ill, that the scandal arising both from thence, and from the ill lives of those that set them on work, stirred up _Luther_ to write against the abuses of these Indulgences; which was all he did at first; but then, not long after, being provoked by some Sermons and small Discourses that had been published against what he had written, he rips up the _business_ from the beginning, and publishes xcv _Theses_ against it at _Wittenberg_. Against these _Tekel_ a _Dominican_ writes; then _Luther_ adds an explication to his. _Eckius_ and _Prierius_ Dominicans, thereupon take the controversie against him: and now _Luther_ begins to be hot; and because his adversaries could not found the matter of Indulgences upon other Foundations then the _Popes_ power and infallibility, that begets a disputation betwixt them concerning the Popes power, which _Luther_ insists upon as inferiour to that of a _general Council_; and so by degrees he came on to oppose the Popish Doctrine of _Remission of sins_, _Penances_, and _Purgatory_; and by reason of Cardinal _Cajetans_ imprudent management of the conference he had with him, it came to pass that he rejected the whole body of Popish doctrine. So that by this we may see what was the accidental occasion wherein, the slender means whereby, and the abject condition of the person by whom, the work of Reformation of Religion was set on foot. _Sect. 3. Pag. 8._