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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 4 › ¶The Sentence of the Councell of Brixia against Hildebrand.
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¶The Sentence of the Council of Brixia against Hildebrand.
¶The Sentence of the Councell of Brixia against Hildebrand.
Because it in known this Bishop, not elected of God, but intruded himself by fraud and money, subverted Ecclesiastical order, disturbed the government of the Empire, menacing death of body and soul unto our peaceable king, set up a perjured king, making discords amongst friends and brethren, Divorcements amongst the married: (for he took away the marriage of Priests, as Henricus Mutius witnesseth) therefore we here in the name of God congregated, do proceed in Canonical Judgement against Hildebrand, a man most wicked, preaching Sacrilege and burning, maintaining perjury, and murders, calling in question the Catholic Faith of the body and blo•d of Christ, following of Divinations and dreams, a manifest Nigromancer, a Sorcerer, infected with a Pith•nical spirit. We adjudge him to be deposed, and expelled, and unless he depart upon the hearing hereof, to be pe•pstually condemned. This be•ing sent to Rome, they elected Guibertus Archbishop of Ravenna, which was deposed by Hildebrand as aforesaid, in his place, and named him Clement the 3. And because Hildebrand would not give over his hold, the Emperor with an Army came to Rome to depose him: and Hildebrand sending to the Countess Mathilda, before mentioned, required her, in remission of all her sins, to withstand the Emperor, and so she did; but the Emperor besieged the City all the Lent, and after Easter got it, and coming into the Temple of Saint Peter, placed Clement in his Papacy Hildebrand ed into Adans Tower, where being besieged, he sent for Robert Guischardus a Norman, who with his Army, when the Emperor was gone, burst in at one of the gates of the Cy, spoiled it, and delivered Hildebrand, and carried him to Campania, where not long after he dyed in exile. In the mean time, whilst the Emperor was at Rome, the Abbot of Cluniake, and the people of Rome, exhorted Hildebrand to Crown Henry Emperor at Lateran, and they would ause the Emperor to depart with his Arm to whom he answered, he would, so the Emperor would submit himself, ask pardon, amend, and promise obedience. The Emperor not agreeing to the conditions, departed, and took the new Pope with him.