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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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Anto. The Church of Christ is universal dispersed through the whole world, the great house of GOD good and evil mingled together: Goats & Sheep, Corn and Chaff; it is the net which gathereth all kind of Fishes: it cannot err, for CHRIST JESUS hath promised it his good Spirit, to lead it in all truth, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it, he will be with it to the end of the world: What it shall bind or lose in earth shall be ratified in Heaven, it is the truth: Augustine saith, I believe the Gospel, because the Church biddeth me believe it: this Church alloweth the Mass, therefore it must be followed.
Anto. The Church of Christ is vniuersall dispersed through the whole world, the great house of GOD good and euill mingled together: Goates & Shéepe, Corne and Chaffe; it is the net which gathereth all kinde of Fishes: it cannot erre, for CHRIST IESVS hath promised it his good Spirit, to leade it in all truth, and the gates of Hell shall not preuaile against it, he will be with it to the end of the world: What it shall binde or lose in earth shall bee ratified in Heauen, it is the truth: Augustine saith, I beleeue the Gospell, because the Church biddeth me beleeue it: this Church alloweth the Masse, therefore it must be followed.
RidI. The Church is taken three manner of ways in the Scripture: sometime for the whole multitude of the professors of Christ, but as every one is not a Jew which is a Jew outwardly: nor all that be of Israel, are counted the seed: So every one that is a Christian outwardly is not so indeed: For he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his. The Church that Christ Jesus is head of stands only of living Stones: Christians in heart and truth, and not in word only: The multitude of the good are the true Church, the multitude of the evil is the malignant Church, and Synagogue of Satan: These be the three takings of the Church: and though there be seldom mention in Scriptures in this interpretation, y•t in the greatest assemblies of the world, this Church hath borne the greatest swing. But▪ if any will affirm, that universality doth so appertain unto the church,