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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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Tewxbery, A man should do good works for the love of God only, and for no hope of reward higher or lower in heaven, for if he should it were presumption, & being asked whether faith only justifieth: he said if he should desire heaven by works ⟨p. 180⟩he were greatly to blame, for works follow Faith, and Christ redeemed us by his death: the devil holdeth our hearts so hard that it is impossible for us to consent to Gods Law: and that the Law of God suffereth no merits, nor any man to be Justified in the sight of God: and that the Law of God commandeth things impossible; and as the good tree bringeth forth good fruit: so there is no Law to him that believeth and is justified by faith, and all good works must be done without respect of any profit thereby, for they deserve no reward of God, and that the Devil is not east out by the merits of fasting and prayer.
TEwxbery, A man should doe good works for the loue of God onely, and for no hope of reward higher or lower in heauen, for if he should it were presumption, & being asked whether faith only iustifieth: he said if he should desire heauen by works ⟨p. 180⟩hee were greatly to blame, for workes followe Faith, and Christ redéemed vs by his death: the diuell holdeth our hearts so hard that it is impossible for vs to consent to Gods Law: and that the Law of God suffereth no merits, nor any man to bee Iustified in the sight of God: and that the Law of God commandeth things impossible; and as the good tree bringeth forth good fruit: so there is no Law to him that beleeueth and is iustified by faith, and all good workes must be done without respect of any profit thereby, for they deserue no reward of God, and that the Diuel is not east out by the merits of fasting and prayer.
Item, We cannot love God, except we see first his love and kindness to us: whilst we are under the Law, we see nothing but •inne and damnation, and the wrath of God, and cannot but hate him as a tyrant, and flee from him as Cain, and that we are damned by Nature as a Toad, and a Serpent are so by Nature.