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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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Stephanus the 3. succeeded Paul, he condemned the seventh Council of Constantinople for Heretical, because the worshipping of Images was condemned there: he advanced the veneration of Images, commanding them, most Ethnically, to be incensed. In this time Charles the great reigned▪ by whom the Pope caused D•siderius, the Lombard, King to be deposed.
Stephanus the 3. succéeded Paul, he cōdemned the seauenth Councel of Constantinople for Hereticall, because the worshipping of Images was condemned there: he aduanced the veneration of Images, commanding them, most Ethnically, to be incenced. In this time Charles the great raigned▪ by whom the Pope caused D•siderius, the Lumbard, King to be deposed.
Pope Adrianus the 1. succeeded him, he added more then all the other to the veneration of Images, writing a Book for the adoration and utility of them▪ commanding them to be taken for Lay-mens Calendars. As Pope Paul before him, made much of Petronel, Peters daughter, so this Adrian clothed the body of Peter all in silver, and covered the Altar of S. Paul, with a pall of gold. He confirmed, by revelation, the Order of S. Gregory's Mass, before the order of S. Ambrose his Mass: in this manner, both the Mass books were said upon the Altar of S. Peter, and the Church door shut and sealed by many Bishops, who continued in prayers all night, that the Lord would show by some evident sign which of these Services he would have used; and in the morning they found Gregory's Mass book plucked in pieces, and scattered about the Church, and Ambrose his book lay open in the same place where it was laid; Pop• Adrian expounded it, that as the leaves of Gregory's book were scattered all over the Church, so should Gregory's book be used throughout the world, and that Ambrose his Service should only be used in his own Church, where he was Bishop, so Gregory's Mass had only the place, and hath to this day.