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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Sunday before Christmas day, in his Sermon he delivered his Cards as aforesaid, making the heart the chief Card, inviting all men to serve the Lord with inward heart and true affection, and not with outward ceremonies, that in the service of the heart consisteth true religion, and not in the outward deeds of the letter, or in the glistering show of mens traditions, of pardons, pilgrimages, ceremonies, vows, devotions, voluntary works, and works of supererogation, foundations, oblations, the Popes supremacy: you may see two Sermons of his to this effect in the book at large.
The Sonday before Christmas day, in his Sermon he deliuered his Cards as aforesaid, making the heart the chiefe Carde, inuiting all men to serue the Lord with inward heart and true affection, and not with outward ceremonies, that in the seruic• of the heart consisteth true religion, and not in the outward deeds of the letter, or in the glistering shew of mens traditions, of pardons, pilgrimages, ceremonies, vowes, deuotions, voluntarie workes, and works of supererogation, foundations, oblations, the Popes supremacie: you may sée two Sermons of his to this effect in the booke at large.
Doctor Bucknam about the same time of Christmas, to deface Master Latimer, brought forth his Christmas Dice, casting to his audience Cinque and Quater, whereby to prove that it were not expedient that the Scriptures should be in English, lest the vulgar people by the occasion thereof should be brought to leave their vocation, or to run into some inconvenience; as the Ploughman, when he hears that, No man laying his hand unto the Plough and looking back, is meet for the Kingdom of heaven, might perhaps cease from his Plough: likewise the Baker, when he heareth that a little leaven corrupteth a whole lump of dough, may perchance leave our bread unleavened, and so our bodies shall be unseasoned: and when the simple man heareth, If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee, may make himself blind, and so fill the world full of beggars. These, with other moe, he brought to the number of five: yet Master Latimer, notwithstanding all his adversaries (which were man•) together with Master Bilney, continued in Cambridge a certain space: they used much to confer and to walk together in the fields: the place of their conference was long time after called by the name of Heretics hill.