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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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She wrote a letter to her father to comfort him, and to show how joyful she was to die, and she wrote another letter to one Master Harding, who was late Chaplain to her Father, and fell from the truth of Gods word, and rebuked him, that he put his hand to the plow• and looked back, and lost the comfortable promises that Christ maketh to them that forsake themselves to follow him, thou did•st seem to be a lively member of Christ, but now an imp of the Devil, once tho beautiful Temple of God, now the filthy kennel of Satan, once the unspotten spouse of Christ, now the unshamefast Param•••re of Antichrist, once my faithful brother, now an Apostate, once a flout Christian soldier, now a cowardly runaway: thou seed of Satan and not of Judah, the Devil, the world, and desire of life, hath made thee of a Christian an Infidel, thou hast taught others to be strong, and thy self dost shamefully shrink, thou hast taught others not to t•cale, and thy self hast committed most heinous sacrilege, and robbest Christ of his right members and of thine own body and soul, thou chosest rather to live miserably with shame in the world, then to die gloriously to •aygne with Christ, in wh•m in death is life, how darest thou refuse the true God, and worship the invention of man, the golden Calf, the Whore of Babylon, the Romish Religion, the abominable Idol, the most wicked Mass, wilt thou tear again the precious body of our Saviour with thy fleshly teeth, and she exhorted him that the •ft falling of th•se Heavenly showers might pierce his stony heart, and the two edged word of Gods word sear asunder the sinews of worldly respects that thou mayst once again forsake thy self and embrace Christ.
She wrote a letter to her father to comfort him, and to shew how ioyfull shee was to die, and she wrote another letter to one Master Harding, who was late Chaplaine to her Father, and fell from the truth of Gods word, and rebuked him, that hee put his hand to the plow• and looked backe, and lost the comfortable promises that Christ maketh to them that forsake themsel•es to follow him, thou didst séeme to bee a liuely member of Christ, but now an impe of the Diuell, once tho beautifull Temple of God, now the filthy kennell of Sathan, once the vnspotten spouse of Christ, now the vnshamefast Paramre of Antichrist, once my faithfull brother, now an Apostata, once a floute Christian souldier, now a cowardly runaway: thou séede of Sathan and not of Iuda, the Diuell, the world, and desire of life, hath made thée of a Christian an Infidell, thou hast taught others to be strog, and thy selfe dost shamefully shrinke, thou hast taught others not to tcale, and thy selfe hast committed most haynous sacriledge, and robbest Christ of his right members and of thine own body and soule, thou chosest rather to liue miserably with shame in the world, then to die gloriously to aygne with Christ, in whm in death is life, how darest thou refuse the true God, and worship the inuention of man, the goulden Calfe, the Whore of Babilon, the Romish Religion, the abominable Idoll, the most wicked Masse, wilt thou teare againe the pretios body of our Sauiour with thy fleshly teeth, and she exhorted him that the ft falling of thse Heauenly showers might pearce his stony heart, and the two edged word of Gods word seare asunder the sinnewes of wordly respects that thou mayst once againe forsake thy selfe and imbrace Christ.