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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
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Smith. As the Church of Corinth was manifest to God and Paul, so is this Church in England, else you could not persecute it as you do. I being conveyed into the Garden, Doctor Dee, being one of the Bishops Chaplains, came to me, and after much ado about his God, I compelled him to say that it must needs enter into the belly and so fall out •nto the draught: then he said, What derogation was it to Christ, when the Jews spit in his face? and I answered, If the Jews his enemies did but spit in his face, and we being his friends throw him in the draught, which of us have deserved the greater damnation?
Smith. As the Church of Corinth was manifest to God and Paule, so is this Church in England, else you could not persecute it as you do. I being conuayed into the Garden, Doctor Dee, being one of the Bishops Chaplaines, came to me, and after much adoe about his God, I compelled him to say that it must needs enter into the belly and so fall out •nto the draught: then hee said, What derogation was it to Christ, when the Iewes spit in his face? and I answered, If the Iewes his enemies did but spit in his face, and wee being his friends throw him in the draught, which of vs haue deserued the greater damnation?
Doctor. Then he would have Christs humanity incomprehensible, bringing to serve his turn which way Christ came amongst his Disciples the doors being close shut.
Doctor. Then he would haue Christs humanitie incomprehensible, bringing to serue his turne which way Christ came amongst his Disciples the doores being close shut.
Smith. I have as much to prove that the doors opened at his coming as you have to prove that he came through the doors: for God that opened the prison doors for his Disciples, was able to do the like for Christ; but that maketh not for your purpose, for they saw, heard, and felt him, and so cannot you do in your sacrament. Then I was called for before Bonner, and my Lord Mayor was with him, and my articles were read, then said Bonner: