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Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…
Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful soldiers that the Devil either by his grand captains the emperors, or by his most dearly beloved sons and heirs the popes, have most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poisoned doctrines wherewith that great read dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his traitorous practises and designs, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, and our most religious Sovereign Lord King James. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and divers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by George Eld and Ralph Blower, 1615
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There were besides these 100.1 grievances, complained upon to the Popes Legates, in the reign of the Emperor Charles the fifth, out of which we have but touched certain which we thought to be most effectual.
There were besides these 100.1 grieuances, complained vpon to the Popes Legats, in the raign of the Emperor Charles the fift, out of which we haue but touched certaine which we thought to be most effectuall.
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First, that many things are commanded and forbidden by mens Constitutions, contrary to the commandment of God, as innumerable lets of Matrimony, and the use of meats forbidden, which are created for mans use, & are indifferently to be received with thanks-giving: by which Constitutions, men are brought into bondage, until by Money they obtain dispensations, so that Money maketh that lawful to the rich, which is prohibited to the poor, by which snares of mens Laws, great sums of Money are gathered out of Germany, and it breeds private offences of the poor, when they see themselves entangled in these snares, only because they have not the thorns of the Gospel, for so Christ often calleth riches.
First, that many things are commaunded and forbidden by mens Constitutions, contrary to the commandement of God, as innumerable lets of Matrimony, and the vse of meats forbidden, which are created for mans vse, & are indifferently to be receiued with thanks-giuing: by which Constitutions, men are brought into bondage, vntill by Money they obtaine dispensations, so that Money maketh that lawfull to the rich, which is prohibited to the poore, by which snares of mens Lawes, great summes of Money are gathered out of Germany, and it bréeds priuate offences of the poore, when they see themselues intangled in these snares, onely because they haue not the thornes of the Gospell, for so Christ often calleth riches.