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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.
The Townes of Zurick and Bern being at contention with the Townes of the Cantons, stopped all the Straits that there could no victuals pass unto them; wherefore they provided a power to come against them of Bern and Zurick, and fought a great conflict with them: in which fight Swinglius, being Minister of Zurick, was slain, and after his dead corps taken by his enemies and burned: when his body was burned to ashes, his heart was found in the midst of the fire whole, which could not be without the great miracle of God. The like happened after to Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Townes of Zurick and Berne being at contention with the Townes of the Cantons, stopped all the Straits that there could no victuals passe vnto them; wherefore they prouided a power to come against them of Berne and Zurick, and fought a great conflict with them: in which fight Swinglius, being Minister of Zurick, was slain, and after his dead corps taken by his enemies and burned: when his body was burned to ashes, his heart was found in the midst of the fire whole, which could not be without the great miracle of God. The like happened after to Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury.
In this year the King held a Parliament at Westminster: divers Articles were put up against the Clergy touching their excesses and extortions, and there was provided for pluralities and non-residents, and for buying and selling of pardons. This so displeased the Clergy, that they called the commons heretics and schismatics: and the Lords put a book of articles against the Cardinal, that he procured the Legate without the Kings consent, whereby he took away the right of all Bishops, that in all writings to Rome and other Princes he wrote Ego & Rex meus, that he slandered the Church of England to be brought into a reprobate sense, sending to Rome to be Legate, to reform the Church, and carried the great Seal with him to Flanders, and that without the kings consent he sent commission to conclude a league between the King and the Duke of Florence, and that having the French pocks, he presumed to come and to breathe on the King, and that he had caused the Cardinals Hat to ⟨p. 172⟩