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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 the marriage of Priests, it is against the word of God, & against Justice to forbid Priests to marry in the 13. to the Hebrews, The band of marriage is undefiled and honourable amongst all men: And in the 1. Cor. 7. chap. For avoiding of whoredom, let every men have his own wife: and in that they say, this is meant of others, and not of Ministers: That is disproved by the 1. Tim. 3. Chapt. Bishops and Deacons ought to be the husbands of one wife. And what can be more spoken against them herein, then in the fourth Chapter of the said Epistle; In the latter days shall come deceivers, and wicked spirits, which shall forbid to marry; they excuse themselves, that this was fulfilled in the heretics called Tatians, which did condemn matrimony, but we do only forbid Church-men to marry, but this, notwithstanding this prophecy of the holy Ghost, redoundeth upon them. They interpret S. Pauls saying, that a Bishop shall have but one Wife: That a Bishop ought not to be chosen that hath married the second Wife; but this interpretation appeareth to be false: in that he presently declareth what manner of women Bishops wives ought to be. S. Paul reckoneth matrimony amongst the principal virtues of a Priest, and these men call it in the Canons, the polluting of the fl•sh: God instituted matrimony, Christ sanctified it with his presence, and the turning water into wine, and would have it the Image of his love to the Church. They allege the Levitical Priests, which as often as they came to minister, were bound to be apart from their wives, & being our sacraments be more excellent then theirs, and daily used, it would be very uncomely that they should be handled by married men. The Priests of the old Law were forbidden all outward uncleanness of the fl•sh when they ministered, to signify the holiness of Christ whom they did prefigure, but our holiness consisteth of the inward cleanness of the spirit: and S. Paul is witness, that the Apostles did both keep their wives, & carry them about with them.
Touching the marriage of Priests, it is against the word of God, & against Iustice to forbid Priests to marry in the 13. to the Hebrewes, The band of marriage is vndefiled and honorable amongst all men: And in the 1. Cor. 7