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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.
WALTER MILL.
VVALTER MILL.
Amongst the rest of the Martyrs of Scotland the constancy of Walter Mill, is not to be passed in silence, out of whose Ashes sprang thousands of his opinion▪ who chose rather to dye, then to be any longer over-trodden with the cru••l, beastly, and ignorant Bishops, Abbots, Monks, and Fryers: and scone after his Martyrdom, the Congregation began to debate true Religion against the Papists.
AMongst the rest of the Martirs of Scotland the constancy of Walter Mill, is not to be passed in silence, out of whose Ashes sprang thousands of his opinion▪ who chose rather to dye, then to bee any longer ouer-trodden with the cru••l, beastly, and ignorant Byshops, Abbots, Monkes, and Fryers: and scone after his Martyrdome, the Congregation began to debate true Religion against the Papists.
He climbing up into a Pulpit to be examined before the Bishops, they seeing him so weak, partly by age, and partly travel, and evil entreatment, that he could not climb up without help: they thought they should not have heard him, but when he spake he made the Church sound with great stoutness, that the Christians rejoiced, and the Adversaries were ashamed: At first he kneeling, praying long, and was commanded to rise and answer his Articles, calling him Sir Walter Mill, He said, he ought to obey God more then Men, and where