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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
Book 11 › The fifth Examination.Book 11 › The fift Examination.
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.
Coven. What meaneth this word Catholic?
Couen. What meaneth this word Catholick?
Phil. The Catholic Faith or Catholic Church is not that which is most universal or of men received, whereby you d•e infer your Faith to hang upon the multitude, which is not so: We judge (saith S. Augustine) the Catholic Faith, of that which hath been, is, and shall be: so that if you can prove your Catholic Church and Faith, hath been taught from the beginning, and is, and shall be, then may you count your selves Catholics, otherwise not: Catholic in Greek is compounded of • which signifieth according and [Greek or Hebrew], a sum, or principle, or whole, so that Catholic Church or Faith, is as much to say as the first, hole, sound, & chiefest faith.
Phil. The Catholick Faith or Catholick Church is not that which is most vniuersall or of men receiued, wherby you d•e infer your Faith to hang vpon the multitude, which is not so: We iudge (saith S. Augustine) the Catholick Faith, of that which hath been, is, and shall be: so that if you can proue your Catholick Church and Faith, hath been taught from the beginning, and is, and shall be, then may you count your selues Catholicks, otherwise not: Catholick in Gréeke is compounded of • which signifieth according and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a summe, or principle, or whole, so that Catholick Church or Faith, is as much to say as the first, hole, sound, & chéefest faith.
Boner. Do you think the Catholic Church hath erred, until within these few years some have swerved from the same.