A07225:1977
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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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⟩a Child in my Name receiveth me; which sentence must not be understood after the Letter, as the Capernaites did which taught that Christs body should have been eaten with their teeth; when he spake of the eating thereof, to whom Christ said, the Spirit quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, for my words are spirit and life: so we see Christs words must be understood spiritually, and not literally: he that cometh to this worthy supper must not prepare his jaw but his heart: neither tooth nor belly, but believe, saith Saint Augustine, and thou hast eaten it: so we must bring with us a Spiritual hunger, and examine our selves whether our Conscience do testify that we do truly believe in Christ according to the Scriptures, whereof if we be truly certified, being new borne from our old conversation, in heart, mind, will and deed, then may we boldly with this marriage garment of Faith come to the feast.
12 Concerning Christs words, This is my body, the minde of Christ must bee searched out by other Scriptures: for the Apostle saith no Scripture hath any priuate interpretation, and the Scriptures are full of such figuratiue speeches: as the Cup is the New Testament, the Rocke is Christ: whosoeuer (saith Christ) receiueth ⟨p. 263⟩a Child in my Name receiueth me; which sentence must not be vnderstood after the Letter, as the Capernaites did which taught that Christs body should haue been eaten with their teeth; when he spake of the eating thereof, to whom Christ said, the Spirit quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, for my words are spirit and life: so we see Christs words must be vnderstood spiritually, and not literally: hee that commeth to this worthy supper must not prepare his iaw but his heart: neither tooth nor belly, but beleeue, saith Saint Augustine, and thou hast eaten it: so wee must bring with vs a Spirituall hunger, and examine our selues whether our Conscience doe testifie that we doe truely beleeue in Christ according to the Scriptures, whereof if we be truely certified, beeing new borne from our old conuersation, in heart, minde, will and deed, then may we boldly with this mariage garment of Faith come to the feast.