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…

After these Monks, followed Monks of the middle Age, who increased both in number and Superstition, from their dens in Wildernesses, the approached to great towns, where they had solemn Monasteries, founded by Kings, Queens, Kings Daughters, and rich Consuls, for the remedy of their Souls remission, and the redemption of their sins, the good of their Fathers pos•erities, of their Country, and the Honour of our Lady, and lightly it was for some murder, or great sin.

After these Monks, followed Monkes of the middle Age, who increased both in number and Superstition, from their dennes in Wildernesses, the approched to great townes, where they had solemn• Monasteries, founded by Kings, Queenes, Kings Daughters, and rich Consuls, for the remedie of their Soules remission, and the redemption of their sinnes, the good of their Fathers pos•erities, of their Country, and the Honour of our Lady, and lightly it was for some murder, or great sinne.

In which monasteries they abounded in wealth and riches, and did swim in Superstition and Pharisaical hypocrisy, being yoked, in all their doings, to certain observations, in watching, in sleeping, in rising, in praying, in walking, in talking, in looking, in tasting, in touching, in gestures, and in their Vestures; and the number of their Sects were diverse: some, after Basilius rule, went in w•ite• some, after Benedict's rule, went in black: some, after Hieromes rule, their white cloth girt with leather girdles: some Gregorians, copper coloured: some Grey monks; some ware a coat of male upon their hare bodies, with a black cloak thereupon: some had white rochets upon a black cote: some cloak, coal, and cap, all blew: some Charter monks, wearing heir-cloth next their body: some Flagellants, went in long linen shirts with an open place in the back, where they beat themselves with scourges on the bare shin every day, before the people, till the blood ran down, saying, it was revealed by an Angel, that in scourging themselves so, within thirty days and twelve hours they should be made so pure from sin as they were when they first received baptism: some Jesuits, with a white girdle, and a russet coal, with enumerable more Orders; they were so subject to servile rules, that no part of Christian liberty remained amongst them, and so drowned in Superstition, that they lost Christs religion, and the sense of mn.