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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.
In this year Solymanus the Turkish Emperor passed th•rough Hungary, with ⟨p. 171⟩an Army of fourteen thousand fighting men, and came into Austria, where he exercised extreme cruelty; some he bereft of sight, some he rent and mangled in pieces, cutting off their noses, ears, hands, arms and privy members, deflowering Virgins, cutting off women's paps, openings their wombs with child and burning the young babes: then he besieged Vienna, and assayed to undermine it, and the walls being overthrown, he assaulted it desperately; and seeing the Soldiers within defend the breach valiantly a month, he brake up the siege, and returned with great dishonour.
In this yeare Solymanus the Turkish Emperour passed th•rough Hungarie, with ⟨p. 171⟩an Armie of fourtéene thousand fighting men, and came into Austrich, where he exercised extreame crueltie; some he bereft of sight, some he rent and mangled in pieces, cutting off their noses, eares, handes, armes and priuie members, deflouring Uirgins, cutting off womens paps, openings their wombes with childe and burning the yong babes: then he besieged Uienna, and assayed to vndermine it, and the wals being ou•rthrowne, he assaulted it desperatly; and seeing the Souldiers within desend the breach valiantly a month, he brake vp the siege, and returned with great dishonor.
The Emperor came to Strasbourg,1 and commanded the Protestants to be present at Mass which they refused to do: and he called the Prince Elector of Saxony to bear the Sword before him at the Mass; and the Divines resolved, because he was sent for, to bear the Sword and not to hear Mass: therefore he might there present himself. There was an Assembly holden, and divers Decrees made against the Protestants; and Faber and Eckius forged confutations against them, with divers other troubles.