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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.
Theodorus was sent into England by Vitellianus Pope, and diverse other Monks with him, to set up Latin Service in England and Mas•es, Ceremonies, Litanies, and other Romish ware, he was made Archbishop of Canterbury, and began to play the Rex in placing and displacing Bishops at his pleasure. He held a Provincial Council at Therford, the contents thereof were the uniformity of keeping Easter, that no Bishop should intermeddle in another's Diocese, that Monasteries should be free from Jurisdiction o• Bishops, that Monks should keep the obedience they first promised, and not go from one Monastery unto another without leave of the Abbot, that none of the Clergy should be received in another Diocese without Letters Commendatory of his Bishop, that foreign Bishops and Clergy men should be content with the hospitality offered them, and not meddle in any Bishops Jurisdiction without his permission, that once a year a Provincial Synod should be kept, that no Bishop should prefer himself before another, but according to his time of consecration, that as the people increased, so the number of Bishops should be augmented.
Theodorus was sent into England by Vitellianus Pope, and diuerse other Monks with him, to set vp Latine Seruice in England and Mas•es, Cerimonies, Letanies, and other Romish ware, he was made Archbishop of Canterbury, and began to play the Rex in placing and displacing Bishops at his pleasure. He held a Prouinciall Counsell at Therford, the contents thereof were the vniformitie of keeping Easter, that no Bishop should intermeddle in anothers Di•cesse, that Monasteries should be free from Iurisdiction o• Bishops, that Monks should keepe the obedience they first promised, and not goe from one Monastery vnto another without leaue of the Abbot, that none of the Clergy should be receiued in another Diocesse without Letters Commendatory of his Bishop, that foraine Bishops and Clergy men should be content with the hospitality offered them, and not meddle in any Bishops Iurisdiction without his permission, that once a yeare a Prouinciall Sinod should be kept, that no Bishop should preferre himselfe before another, but according to his time of consecration, that as the people increased, so the number of Bishops should be augmented.