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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
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After the Arch-bishop sent for Luther to his Chamber, and told him for the most part that at all times holy Scriptures have engendered errors, and went about to overthrow this proposition that the Catholic Church is the communion of Saints, presuming of cockle to make wheat, and of bodily excrements to compact members; Martin Luther and one Jerome Schu•ffe his companion reproved their follies.
After the Arch-bishop sent for Luther to his Chamber, and tould him for the most part that at all times holy Scriptures haue ingendred errors, and went about to ouerthrow this proposition that the Catholike Church is the communion of Saints, presuming of cockle to make wheate, and of bodily excrements to compact members; Martin Luther and one Ierome Schu•ffe his companion reproued their follies.
He was oftentimes assailed to reform the censure of his books unto the Emperor and Empire, or to the General Council, which he was content to do, so they would judge them according to the word of God, otherwise not, alleging the words of the Prophet, trust you not in Princes, nor in the children of men wherein is no health, also, cursed be he that trusteth in men: and when news came he should return home, he said, even as it hath pleased God so it is come to pass, the name of the Lord be blessed, and said, he thanked the Emperor and Princes that they had given him gracious audience and granted him safe conduct to come and return, and said he desired in his heart they were reformed according to the sacred word of God, and said, he was content to suffer any thing in himself for the Emperor, but only the word of God he would constantly confess unto the latter end: About a year after this, Luther dyed, when he had lived almost three score and three years, and had been Doctor three and thirty years, he said at his death, O heavenly, eternal and merciful Father, thou hast manifested in me thy dear Son Christ, I have taught and known him. I love him as my life, health, and redemption, whom the wicked persecuted, maligned, and injured, draw my soul to thee, and sa•d thrice, I commend my spirit into thy hands, thou hast redeemed me, God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son that all that believe in him should have eternal life, and so he dyed, whose death was much lamented: