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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.
Notwithstanding, the statute to Mortmain, they do daily get into their hands ⟨p. 173⟩more lands: the Kingdom of the blood-suckers is like to prevail above your Kingdom; for to them is given daily out of you Kingdom, and that which is once given them, never cometh from them again. What Kingdom can endure, that •uer giveth and receiveth nothing again? All their colour for their gathering these things into their hands, is, that they pray for us, to deliver our souls out of Purgatory: without whose prayers, and especially the Popes pardon, we could never be delivered thence: but the truth is, there is no Purgatory, but it is a thing invented by the covetousness of the spirituality. And if there were a Purgatory, if the Pope can deliver them there with money, he can deliver them without; and if he can deliver one, he can deliver all, and so destroy Purgatory, and then is he a cruel tyrant, without all charity, if he keep them in prison and pain until men will give him money. They will not let the New Testament go abroad in the mother tongue, lest their cloaked hypocrisy, and that their cruelty, uncleanness, and unmercifulness be sieve, and that they seek not Christs honour but their own, that remission of sins are not given for the Popes pardon, but for Christ by true faith in him. And except your Majesty suffer their hypocrisy to be disclosed, the people will think you take away their liberty from them, to buy their souls out of Purgatory by giving to the spirituality, as their predecessors have done: therefore let their hypocrisy be uttered, and that shall be more speedful in this matter, then all the laws that possibly can be made.
Notwithstanding, the statute to Mortmayne, they doe daily get into their hands ⟨p. 173⟩more lands: the Kingdome of the bloud-suckers is like to preuaile aboue your Kingdome; for to them is giuen daily out of you Kingdome, and that which is once giuen them, neuer commeth from them againe. What Kingdome can indure, that •uer giueth and receiueth nothing again? All their colour for their gathering these things into their hands, is, that they pray for vs, to deliuer our soules out of Purgatorie: without whose prayers, and especially the Popes pardon, we could neuer be deliuered thence: but the truth is, there is no Purgatorie, but it is a thing inuented by the couetousnesse of the spiritualtie. And if there were a Purgatorie, if the Pope can deliuer them there with money, he can deliuer them without; and if hee can deliuer one, he can deliuer all, and so destroy Purgatorie, and then is he a cruell tyrant, without all charitie, if he keepe them in prison and paine vntill men will giue him money. They will not let the New Testament goe abroad in the mother tongue, lest their cloaked hypocrisie, and that their cruelty, vncleanenesse, and vnmercifulnesse be seeue, and that they seeke not Christs honour but their own, that remission of sins are not giuen for the Popes pardon, but for Christ by true faith in him. And except your Maiestie suffer their hypocrisie to be disclosed, the people will think you take away their liberty from them, to buy their soules out of Purgatorie by giuing to the spiritualtie, as their predecessors haue done: therefore let their hypocrisie be vttered, and that shall be more speedfull in this matter, then all the lawes that possibly can be made.