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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
To the reader: THE EPISTLE UNTO THE RBADER.To the reader: THE EPISTLE VNTO THE RBADER.
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.
In 2. Pet. 2. 14. Their eyes are full of adultery, and they cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. This Book will show thee how inspeakeably wicked they are, according to this prophecy: they are spiritually called Sodom, because in that case they exceed in wickedness the Sodomites. These and many other wicked conditions of theirs, are plentifully prophesied of in the Scriptures; and thou shalt see the true performances of the prophecies in this book, wch wicked conditions shall plainly show the Pope to be Antichrist.
In 2. Pet. 2. 14. Their eyes are full of adultery, and they cannot cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules. This Booke will shew thee how inspeakeably wicked they are, according to this prophecie: they are spiritually called Sodom, because in that case they exceede in wickednesse the Sodomites. These and many other wicked conditions of theirs, are plentifully prophecied of in the Scriptures; and thou shalt see the true performances of the prophecies in this book, wch wicked conditions shall plainly shew the Pope to be Antichrist.
Touching the height of Antichrists Kingdom, Revel. 17. 3. the Church of Antichrist is said to sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full ⟨image 5⟩of names of blasphemy, which is the Pope, who is a bloody beast to Gods children, & takes all Gods names blasphemously to himself: and vers. 4. he & his Church are arrayed with purple & scarlet, and decked with gold, precious stones & pearls; and how gloriously the Pope and his Church hath bin set forth, & how rich they have bin, according to this prophecy, this book will show thee. In 2. Thess. 2. 14 He sitteth as God in the Temple of God, and exalteth himself above all that is called God. C. Caesar Caligula the Emperor, which used to sit in the Temples of the Idols, to be honoured as God, & caused his picture to be set up to be worshipped in all Temples, and in the Temple of Jerusalem, yet was he not such an abominable Idol as the Pope maketh himself to be: he is the Gaoler of Purgatory, and thither comes (as he saith) all the souls of Christians, except some few, to whom for building some religious houses, and for being otherwise a special maintainer of his kingdom: he giveth a special prerogative, immediately to go to heaven: these souls his prisoners he punisheth how, and as long as he list, and at his pleasure he throweth any of them into hell, or sendeth any of them into heaven. Of the revenues of this Gaole hath all the Popes riches, honour, & superiority above Emperors, and Kings proceeded: he hath taken from Christ the honour of pardoning sins to himself: God made man of clay, but the Pope and all his shavelings can daily make God of a piece of bread. In these, and many other respects (as this book will teach thee) doth the Pope exalt himself as God, according to this prophecy; and he exalts himself above all kings, which are called Gods, and at his pleasure with excommunications can cast them out of heaven and out of their kingdoms, as himself saith: he hath trod upon Emperors, & made them kiss his feet, hold his stirrups, and lead his horse. He made the Emperor Hen. 4. his wife and his child to wait three days and three nights bare-foot in winter at his gates, to sue to him for his favour, and gave away his Empire in the mean time. This prophecy of Antichrists exaltation above Princes, is verified in none but the Pope.