A07225:2002
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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GEORGE MARSH.
This Marsh was an earnest letter forth of true Religion, to the defacement of Antichrists doctrine,1 in the parish of Dean, and elsewhere in Lancashire, and he most faithfully acknowledged the same in Queen Mary's time, whereupon he was apprehended and kept in straight prison within the Bishop of Chesters house four months, not permitting him to have comfort of his friends, but the Porter was charged to mark them that asked for him, and to take their names and deliver them to the Bishop: shortly after he came thither, the Bishop sent for him, and communed with him a long time in his Hall alone, and could find no fault ⟨p. 267⟩with him, but that he allowed not transubstantiation, nor the abuse of the Mass, nor that the Lay people should receive under one kind: with which points the Bishop went about to persuade him, but all was in vain, then he sent him to Prison again. Afterward divers were sent unto him, to persuade him to submit himself unto the Church of Rome, and to acknowledge the Pope to be the ha•d thereof, and to interpret the Scriptures no otherwise then that Church doth.
THis Marsh was an earnest letter forth of true Religion, to the defacement of Antichrists doctrine,1 in the parish of Deane, and elswhere in Lancas•ire, and he most faithfully acknowledged the same in Quéene Maries time, whereupon he was apprehended and kept in straight prison within the Bishoppe of Chesters house foure moneths, not permitting him to haue comfort of his frinds, but the Porter was charged to marke them that asked for him, and to take their names and deliuer them to the Bishop: shortly after he came thither, the Bishop sent for him, and communed with him a long time in his Hall alone, and could find no fault