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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.
Fausta, Juliana, Anisia, Justina, Lucia, Agatha, and Thecla, with all holy Virgins, suffered in the tenth Persecution. gaius succeeded Xistus B. of Rome: Marcellinus, Marcellus, Eusebius were Bishops afterward, and then Miltiades, which was the last Bishop of Rome that was martyred: These all were Martyrs. Sapores King of Persia put to death, Acyndivus, Pegasius, Anempodistus, Epidephorus, Simeon ⟨p. 18⟩Arch-bishop of Seleu•ia, Ctesiphon B. in Persia, with other religious men. 128.
Fausta, Iuliana, Anisia, Iustina, Lucia, Agatha, and Tecla, with all holy Uirgines, suffered in the tenth Persecution. •aius succéeded Xistus B. of Rome: Marcellinus, Marcellus, Eusebius were Byshops afterward, and then Miltiades, which was the last Bishop of Rome that was martyred: These all were Martyrs. Sapores King of Persia put to death, Acyndiuus, Pegasius, Anempodistus, Epidephorus, Simeon ⟨p. 18⟩Arch-byshop of Seleu•ia, C•esiphon B. in Persia, with other religious men. 128.
Simon, chief Bishop of Persia, was accused by the Magicians, as he was leading to Prison: V••hazares, who was the Kings School-master, and had fallen from Christianity, who sitting at the Kings Gate, rose up and reverenced him, but Simeon rebuked him with sharp words, which made him put on mourning weeds, sit weeping at the gate; saying, what hope have I of God when my familiar friend Simeon disdaineth me, which being known to the King, and he confessing himself a Christian, the King commanded he should be beheaded: He desired of the King to certify that he died for nothing but Christianity, which he obtained; Simeon being in prison, and hearing of it, rejoiced, and the next day suffered with an 100. more.