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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.
First, he was Schoolmaster to one Master Welsh, and for translating certain religious books into English, and for arguing with a certain Priest that often used to his Masters house, and confounding divers points of their religion by the word of God, he was pursued & glad to go out of the Realm into Germany, and there translated the Bible into English, & compiled divers other books, & s•nt them into England; whereby the door and light unto the Scriptures was daily more and more opened, which before was many years closed in darkness: from thence he went to A•twarp, and had his abiding there, and was lodged about a year in the house of one Thomas Poynets an English man, which kept a house of English Merchants: then came thither one Henry Philips, having a servant waiting on him. M. Tyndale became acquainted with him, and had great confidence in him, and had him often to dinner and supper with him, and got him a lodging in M. Poynets house.
FIrst, he was Schoolemaster to one Master Welch, and for translating certain religious books into English, and for arguing with a certain Priest that often vsed to his Masters house, and confounding diuers points of their religion by the word of God, he was pursued & glad to go out of the Realme into Germany, and there translated the Bible into English, & compiled diuers other books, & s•nt them into England; wherby the dore and light vnto the Scriptures was daily more and more opened, which before was many years closed in darknesse: from thence he went to A•twarp, and had his abiding there, and was lodged about a yeare in the house of one Thomas Poynets an English man, which kept a house of English Merchants: then came thither one Henry Philips, hauing a seruant waiting on him. M. Tindall became acquainted with him, and had great confidence in him, and had him often to dinner and supper with him, and got him a lodging in M. Poynets house.
At length Philips w•nt to the high Court of Brussels to betray M. Tyndale and procured to bring from thence with him the Procurator general, with other Officers, which was not done with small charges, from whom soever it came. After, Philips returning, would have M. Tyndale to dine with him: then he desired M. Tyndale to lend him forty shillings, which he did: he told Philips he could not die with him, for he was bid forth to dinner, and he should go with him. And going forth to dnner, Philips having appointed the officers in the way, he gave them a sign that this was he they should apprehend: then they took him and brought him to the Procurator general who sent him to the Castle of Filford, and the Procurator general went to Poynets house, and sent away all that was there of M. Tindals.