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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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Further these things were deposed against him, that he should preach at Ipswich, Christ is our Mediator betwixt us and the Father, why then should we seek to any Saint for remedy, and to make petition to Saints is great injury and blasphemy to Christ: and that man is so imperfect of himself, that he cannot merit by his own deeds, that it was great injury unto our Saviour Christ, to teach that to b• ⟨p. 177⟩buried in Saint Francis Coll, should remit four parts of penance: what is then left to Christ which taketh away the sins of the world: This I will justify to be great blasphemy.
Further these things were deposed against him, that he should preach at Ipswich, Christ is our Meadiator betwixt vs and the Father, why then should wee séeke to any Saint for remedy, and to make petition to Saints is great iniury and blasphemie to Christ: and that man is so imperfect of himselfe, that hee cannot merit by his owne deedes, that it was great iniury vnto our Sauiour Christ, to teach that to b• ⟨p. 177⟩buried in Saint Francis Coull, should remit foure parts of penance: what is then left to Christ which taketh away the sinnes of the world: This I will iustifie to bee great blasphemie.
And that it was great folly to go• in pilgrimage, and that preachers in times past have been Antichrists, and now it hath pleased God somewhat to show their errors; and that the miracles done in Walsingham, Canterbury, and Ipswich were done by the Devil by the sufferance of God, to blind the people: and that the pope hath not the Keys that Peter had, except he follow Peter in living, and that it was deposed against him, that he was twice pulled out of the Pulpit by the Fryers in the Diocese of Norwich: And that he exhorted the people to put away their Gods of Silver and Gold, and leave offering unto them, because it hath often been known, that those things offered, have after been given to Whores of the Stews: And that Jews and Saracens would have becme Christians long ago, had it not bin for the Idolatry of the Christians, in offering Candles, Wax and money to stocks and stones.