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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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Touching your demands, whether men forbidden to preach as suspected of Heresy ought to cease from preaching, Christ and his Apostles were counted heretics, and the Apostles were forbidden oftentimes of the High Priest and others to preach any more, and were imprisoned and scourged for it, yet they would not leave preaching, but told them to their faces they must obey God which bad them preach, rather then men which forbade them; yea, the Angel delivering them out of prison, bad them go preach again. This is for our instruction, doubt not, for such practice is showed in all ages, so you may see when men be wrongfully infamed of heresy, and so prohibited by Bishops to preach the Word of God: they ought not to stop for any mans commandment.
Touching your demands, whether men forbidden to preach as suspected of Heresi• ought to cease from preaching, Christ and his Apostles were counted heretickes, and the Apostles were forbidden oftentimes of the High Priest and others to preach any more, and were imprisoned and scourged for it, yet they would not leaue preaching, but told them to their faces they must obey God which bad them preach, rather then men which forbad them; yea, the Angel deliuering them out of prison, bad them go preach againe. This is for our instruction, doubt not, for such practice is shewed in all ages, so you may sée when men bée wrongfully infamed of heresie, and so prohibited by Bishops to preach the Word of God: they ought not to stop for any mans commandement.
Touching your question of having the Bible in English, in England. In my opinion, I say it was not well done to inhibit it: and worse, that the Bishops have not sithence amended it if they could, that the people might have it to use virtuously. And I will add one reason, the Scripture is the food and sustenance of mans soul, as it appeareth by many places of the Scripture, as other meat is the food of the body: then if he be an unkind Father that keepeth away the bodily meat the space of a week or a month from his Children, it should seem that our Bishops be no gentle Pastors or Fathers, that keep away the food of mens souls from them, both months, years, and ages, especially when others offer the same.