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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.
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.
The aforesaid Gratianus, 1master of Decrees, and Petrus Lumbardus, at this time did much maintain proud Prelacy; after whom followed two, as evil or worse▪ Franciscus and Dominicus, maintaining as much blind hypocrisy. I• pleased God to raise up the Waldenses against their Doctrine of Pride and hypocrisy. Thus we never see any great corruption in the Church, but s•me spark of the true light of the Gospel by Gods providence, doth remain, howsoever their aduersari•• […] them, yet by the Judicial ••aying their Articles, thou shalt find that they maintained nothing else, but the same doctrine wh••h we now defend; yet I suppose the Papist did gather them, and wrest them otherwise then they were meant, as they did them of Wycliffe and H•s.
The aforesaid Gratianus, 1master of Decrees, and Petrus Lumbardus, at this time did much maintaine proud Prelacie; after whom followed two, as euill or worse▪ Franciscus and Dominicus, maintaining as much blinde hypocrisie. I• pleased God to raise vp the Waldenses against their Doctrine of Pride and hypocrisie. Thus we neuer see any great corrup•i•n in the Churc•, but s•me sparke of the true ligh• of the Gospell by Gods prouidence, doth remaine, howsoeuer their aduersari•• 〈…〉 them, yet by the Iudiciall ••aying their Articles, thou shalt finde that they maintained nothing else, but the same doctrine whh we now defend; yet I suppose the Papist did gather thm, and wrest them otherwie then they were ment, as they did them of Wiclife and Hs.