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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.
[…] a Christian woman, whose husband they had killed to satisfy the filthy desire of the Emperor, she killed her self rather then she would so do.
〈…〉 a Christian woman, whose husband they had killed to satisfie the filthy desire of the Emperour, shee killed her selfe rather then she would so doe.
He banished a Noble woman of Rome, because she gave her goods to the Church.
He banished a Noble woman of Rome, because she gaue her goods to the Church.
The people of Rome, wearied with the villainy of Maxentius, ••quired ayd• Constantine, he gathered an Army in France and Britain, and being in […], looking up to Heaven about the going down of the Sun, he saw a brightness like across, with ⟨p. 16⟩Stars of equal bigness, with this inscription, In hoc vince. Eusebius Pamphilus reporteth he heard Constantine often affirm it; In the […], Christ appeared unto him with the sign of the same Cross, b••ding •im make the figure thereof and carry it before him in his wars, and he should hau• victory; whereupon he […] towards Max•ntius, who not being able to sustain Constantine's •orce, and […] •o the Ctie, was overthrown of his horse in the flood, and owned, and so ended th last Persecution, he gave liberty, by Proclamation, to Christians o profess their Religion: Diocletian heaing hereof, dyed for sorrow some say he poisoned […].