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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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To which the Fry•r answered: I would Master Bilney that you would search the first Origen of the Rogation days, which were ordained by Pope Gregory, with Fastings, Prayers, and holy Processions against the Pestilence, by the infection of the air, in which time of Procession an Image like our Lady, Painted by S. Luke, went before them: About which Image Angels did sing Regina coeli letare: To the which the Pope joined, Ora pro nobis Domine, &c. Therefore being the Angels did honour the Image of the Virgin: And Pope Gregory with all the Clergy did pray to her: It appeareth manifestly we ought to pray to Saints, that they may say like for us, which the Disciples said in the Gospel, serve them, and send them away, because they cry after us.
To which the Fry•r answered: I would Maister Bilney that you would search the first Origen of the Rogation daies, which were ordained by Pope Gregory, with Fastings, Prayers, and holy Processions against the Pestilence, by the infe•tion of the ayre, in which time of Procession an Image like our Lady, Painted by S. Luke, went before them: About which Image Angels did sing Regina coeli letare: To the which the Pope ioined, Ora pro nobis Domine, &c. Therefore beeing the Angels did honour the Image of the Uirgine: And Pope Gregory with all the Clergy did pray to her: It appeareth mani•estly we ought to pray to Saints, that they may say like for vs, which the Disciples said in the Gospell, serue them, and send them away, because they cry after vs.
Secondly, he proveth the Pope to be Antichrist, in that he exalteth himself above all that is called God. For the Pope imposeth but a small punishment upon them that break any of the •en Commandments; But he that shall violate the popes constitutions, he is guilty of death. What is this but the Pope to sit and to reign in the Temple of God, that is, mans conscience as God, and the popish miracles are not of God, but illusions of Satan; who as the Scriptures witness, have been loosed this five hundred years; As it is written, that Satan should be loosed after a thousand years; and they are illusions, because they make them put their Faith in our Lady and other Saints, and not in God alone.