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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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First they made their protestation, that notwithstanding their answers, it should not be taken thereby that they would acknowledge any authority of the Pope, but that they answered as subjects to the king and Queen: to the first point they did confess that in the sacrament, by spirit and grace, is the very body and blood of Christ, because that every man receiving bodily the bread and wine in the Sacrament, spiritually receive the body and blood of Christ, and thereby is partaker of the merits of his passion, but they denied the natural body and blood of Christ to be really in the outward sacrament.
First they made their protestation, that notwithstanding their answers, it should not be taken thereby that they would acknowledge any authority of the Pope, but that they answered as subiects to the king and Queene: to the first point they did confesse that in the sacrament, by spirit and grace, is the very body and bloud of Christ, because that euery man receiuing bodily the bread and wine in the Sacrament, spiritually receiue the body and bloud of Christ, and thereby is partaker of the merits of his passion, but they denied the naturall body and bloud of Christ to be really in the outward sacrament.
The second question was, whether after consecration of the sacrament of the Altar there did remain any substance of bread and wine: to that they answered, there was such a change in the bread and wine, as no man but God can make, being the bread had that dignity to exhibit Christs body, yet the bread is still bread, and the ⟨p. 303⟩wine still wine, for the change is not in the nature but in the dignity, because that which was common bread hath the dignity to exhibit Christs body, for now it is an holy bread sanctified by Gods word.
The second question was, whether after consecration of the sacrament of the Altar there did remain any substance of bread and wine: to that they answered, there was such a change in the bread and wine, as no man but God can make, being the bread had that dignity to exhibit Christs body, yet the bread is still bread, and the