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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.
They were ignorant of all judgement that did fat with their possessions these belly-beasts, all they which do endow such filthy sinks with their revenues, they follow the steps of Jezebel, for what do they daily but bleat and bow before their Images, burning Incense, and falling flat before the altars, as the Prophets of Baal did, and if Daniel and Elijah were Heretics, when they would destroy the Priests of Baal, so am I: We do but desire, that their riches wickedly bestowed upon them, might be taken from them, but Elijah was more rigorous, for he cast the Prophets of Baal into the brook Kidron.
They were ignorant of all iudgement that did fat with their possessions these belly-beasts, all they which do indow such filthy sinkes with their reuenues, they follow the steps of Iezabell, for what do they daily but bleat and bow before their Images, burning Incense, aud falling flat before the altars, as the Prophets of Baall did, and if Daniell and Elias were Hereticks, when they would destroy the Priests of Baall, so am I: We do but desire, that their riches wickedly bestowed vpon them, might be taken from them, but Elias was more rigorous, for he cast the Prophets of Baall into the brooke Kidron.
The Pope cannot make laws according to his own mind and will, and say they are spiritual, and pertain to the soul, and are necessary to eternal life: for the word of God giveth them no such authority, in the 23. of Joshua, Thou shalt not swerve from my law to the right hand, nor to the left: And in the 12. of Deuteronomy, Thou shalt neither add to, nor take from my Commandments: Therefore in the second of Malachi; The Priest shall maintain wisdom, and the law shall they require at his hands. And where he speaketh of hearing them, he putteth this condition, that they answer according to the Law of the Lord, then these are covenant-breakers, that bind the consciences of men with new laws: And in the 33. of Ezekiel, Thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and declare it unto my people, So he could not speak any thing of himself, and God by Jeremiah, calleth it Chaff, whatsoever doth not proceed from himself: The Prophets speak nothing but the words of God, therefore they so often used these words; The word of the Lord, the burden of the Lord, the vision of the Lord, thus saith the Lord: The Apostles must not teach their own devises, but that which God commanded them. Paul in the second to the Colossians, denieth he hath any dominion over their Faith, though their Apostle. And in the nth to the Romans, Faith cometh by hearing the word of God, and not by hearing the dreams of the Pope: & Christ himself saith for our example, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me; to teach Ministers what to do: The power of the Church is not such, that it may teach new Doctrines, frame new Articles of Faith, and new laws, but is subject to the word of the Lord included in the same.