A07225:1819
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.
If they will write, we will answer by writing, and prove by the word of God and most ancient Fathers, this our faith & every piece thereof, and we are ready to seal it with our lives: First we confess & belé•ue all the Canonical books of the ⟨p. 245⟩Old Testament and the New, to be truth written by the Spirit, and to be the Judge of all Controversies of Religion: and we believe the Catholic Church is the Spouse and beloved Wife of Christ, and to embrace the doctrine of these books in all matters of Religion, and therefore to be heard accordingly, and those that will not hear her, are Heretics and Schismatics, according to the saying: He that will not hear the Church, let him be an Heretic; and we believe the Symbols of the Creed of the Apostles, and of the Councils of Nice, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, and of Toletum, before the four hundred fifty four year, and the Symbols of Athanasius, Ireneus, Tertullian, and of Damasus, which was in the year three hundred seventy six. We believe that Justification cometh only from the mercy of GOD through Christ, and it is had of none of discretion but by Faith: which Faith is a certain persuasion wrought by the Holy Ghost, and as it lighteneth the mind, so it suppleth the heart, to submit it self to the will of God.
If they will write, we will answere by writing, and proue by the word of God and most ancient Fathers, this our faith & euery péece thereof, and we are ready to seale it with our liues: First we confesse & belé•ue all the Canonicall bookes of the ⟨p. 245⟩Old Te••ament and the New, to bee truth written by the Spirit, and to bee the Iudge of all Controuersies of Religion: and we beléeue the Catholike Church is the Spouse and beloued Wife of Christ, and to imbrace the doctrine of these bookes in all matters of Religion, and therefore to bee heard accordingly, and those that will not heare her, are Heretickes and Schismaticks, according to the saying: He that will not heare the Church, let him be an Hereticke; and wee beléeue the Symbols of the Créede of the Apostles, and of the Councels of Nice, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, and of Toletum, before the foure hundred fifty foure yeare, and the Symbols of Athanasius, Ireneus, Tertullian, and of Damasus, which was in the yeare thrée hundred seauenty sixe. We beléeue that Iustification commeth onely from the mercy of GOD through Christ, and it is had of none of discretion but by Faith: which Faith is a certaine perswasion wrought by the Holy Ghost, and as it lightneth the mind, so it suppleth the heart, to submit it selfe to the will of God.