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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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Where you ask,1 whether all things necessary to salvation are in Scripture; S. Chrysostom saith he would have a true preacher of Gods law not to swerve therefrom, ⟨p. 189⟩neither on the right hand nor the left: for he that should thereunto add or withdraw, should enterprise to be wiser then God.
Where you aske,1 whether all things necessary to saluation are in Scripture; S. Chrysostome saith he would haue a true preacher of Gods law not to swerue therefrom, ⟨p. 189⟩neither on the right hand nor the left: for hee that should thereunto adde or withdraw, should enterprise to be wiser then God.
- 1In opere imperf.
And Saint Cyprian in his Epistle ad Cicilium fratrem, teacheth how we ought to hear Christ only, not regarding traditions of men, like as he doth in divers other places. And this agreeth well with Scripture, which is called the word of salvation, the administration of righteousness, the word of truth, the rod of direction, our spiritual food, the spiritual sword that we ought to fight withal against all temptations and assaults of our ghostly enemies, the seed of God, the kingdom of heaven, the keys of the same, the power of God, the light of the world, the law of God, his wisdom and Testament: every one of which words will give sufficient matter of argument, that following the same doctrine only shall have sufficient safe conduct to come unto the inheritance promised, though no other way or mea•s were annexed unto the same. In the hundred and eighteen Psalm, David saith, The word of God is true and his way verity; every man is vanity and lying: and Christ saith, Every one that heareth my words and doth them, is like one that buildeth his house upon a sure foundation; and that there is none other foundation by S. Paul: and he would have us follow one doctrine of Christ to a unity of faith, that we may be perfect men; not carried about with every wind of doctrine, brought up by the slights and wiliness of men that study to deceive us.