A07225:1976
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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This Supper is sorely abused, it is given in one kind, where Christ gave it in both: it is made a private Mass, where Christ made it a Communion: He gave it to all his Apostles in the name of the whole Church, & not to one alone: Christ ordained it for a remembrance of his everlasting sacrifice upon the Cross once for all; and not again to be a daily sacrifice both for them that are alive, and them that are dead: And Saint Paul saith, where there is no remission of sins, there is no more sacrifice for sin: and in that it is worshipped, where as nothing is to be worshipped that is made with hands: and in that it is given in an unknown tongue whereby the people are ignorant of the right use thereof: besides this it is hanged up and shut in a Box, many times so long that worms breedeth in it, and so it putrefieth, they that abuse it bring up the slander thereof and not we.
This Supper is sorely abused, it is giuen in one kinde, where Christ gaue it in both: it is made a priuate Masse, where Christ made it a Communion: He gaue it to all his Apostles in the name of the whole Church, & not to one alone: Christ ordained it for a remembrance of his euerlasting sacrifice vpon the Crosse once for all; and not againe to bee a dayly sacrifice both for them that are aliue, and them that are dead: And Saint Paul saith, where there is no remission of sinnes, there is no more sacrifice for sinne: and in that it is worshipped, where as nothing is to be worshipped that is made with hands: and in that it is giuen in an vnknowne tongue whereby the people are ignor•nt of the right vse thereof: besides this it is hanged vp and shut in a Boxe, many times so long that wormes breedeth in it, and so it putrifieth, they that abuse it bring vp the slander thereof and not we.
12 Concerning Christs words, This is my body, the mind of Christ must be searched out by other Scriptures: for the Apostle saith no Scripture hath any private interpretation, and the Scriptures are full of such figurative speeches: as the Cup is the New Testament, the Rock is Christ: whosoever (saith Christ) receiveth ⟨p. 263⟩