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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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The like example is to be noted in the Romans, for when Pontius Pilate had certified Tiberius Caesar 1of the doings of Christ▪ of his Miracles, Resurrection, and ⟨p. 2⟩Ascension, and how he was received of many as God, he did believe, and willed the Senate that Christ might be adored as God, but they refused, because he was consecrated before the Senate of Ro••e had so decreed and approved him, so obeying the Law of Man more then of God: they refused him, and contented themselves with the Emperor, and as they preferred the Emperor and rejected Christ, God justly stirred their Emperors against them, that the Senators were almost all devoured by them, and the City it self horribly afflicted three hundred years, for at last the same Tiberius was a sharp Tyrant to them, who spared not his own Mother and Nephews, and of his Princes and Councillors, he left but two or three alive: Many were condemned with their Wives and Children, Maids also first deflowered, then put to death. Pilate, 2under when Christ was crucified, was deprived by him, and banished to Lyons,3 and there slew himself, and Agrippa 4by him was cast into Prison. In the seventeenth of his reign Christ suffered.
The like example is to be noted in the Romains, for when Pontius Pilate had cer•ified Tyberius Caesar 1of the doings of Christ▪ of his Myracles, Resurrection, and ⟨p. 2⟩Ascention, and how he was receiued of many as God, he did beléeue, and willed the Senate that Christ might bee adored as God, but they refused, because he was consecrated before the Senate of Roe had so decréed and approoued him, so obeying the Law of Man more then of God: they refused him, and contented themselues with the Emperour, and as they preferred the Emperour and reiected Christ, God iustly stirred their Emperours against them, that the Senators were almost all deuoured by them, and the Citty it selfe horribly afflicted thrée hundred yeares, for at last the same Tyberius was a sharpe Tyrant to them, who spared not his owne Mother and Nephewes, and of his Princes and Councellors, he left but two or thrée aliue: Many were condemned with their Wiues and Children, Maides also first defloured, then put to death. Pilate,