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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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3 The scurf must be taken away from pilgrimage before it be good, to wit superstition, Idolatry, false faith, and trust in the Image, debts must be paid, restitutions made, wife and children provided for, duty to our poor neighbours discharged, and when it is at best, before it be vowed it need not be done, for God commandeth it not.
3 The scurfe must be taken away from pilgrimage before it be good, to wit superstition, Idolatrie, false faith, and trust in the Image, debts must be paide, restitutions made, wife and children prouided for, duety to our poore neighbours discharged, and when it is at best, be•fore it be vowed it néed not be done, for God commandeth it not.
4 I said the Ave maria was a greeting which the Angel brought from God to the Uir• in Mary, but I said it was not a prayer, as the Pater noster, which our Saviour Christ made, and bade us say for a prayer, not adding that we should say ten or twenty Ave Mariaes with it.
4 I said the Aue maria was a greeting which the Angel brought from God to the Uir• in Marie, but I said it was not a prayer, as the Pater noster, which our Sauior Christ made, and bade vs say for a prayer, not adding that we should say ten or twenty Aue Mariaes with it.
5 The torment of hell is not a material fire, no more then it is a material stinging of a worm or snake, but a metaphor signifying the pain, torment, anguish, grief, misery, sorrow, and heaviness inexplicable and intolerable, whose nature and condition none can tell.