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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.
They being accused slanderously by one Doctor Augustine, unto the Bohemian King, gave up their confession, with an Apology of their Faith.
They being accused slaunderously by one Doctor Augustine, vnto the Bohemian King, gaue vp their confession, with an Apology of their Faith.
They held Thomas Aquinas author of Purgatory. Concerning the Supper of the Lord, their Faith was, it was to be eaten, and not to be showed, and worshipped. That it was for a memorial and not for a Sacrifice, to serve for the present, not to be reserved; to be received at the table, not to be carried out of doors, according to the use of the primitive Church, when they used to communicate sitting: this they proved by Chronicles, • and by Origen upon the third of Moses. Doctor Austin asked them, whether it were not the same Christ in the Sacrament which is in heaven, else how can it be said, there is but one Faith, and one Christ; then, why he should not be worshipped in the Sacrament as well as in Heaven. They answered to this effect; that the same Christ that is in Heaven is in the Sacrament, but after diverse manners, in Heaven he is corporally, locally, with the full proportion and quantity of the same body wherewith he ascended, and to be seen in the Sacrament, he is but sacramentally to be remembered, not to be seen; our bodies receive the sign, our spirit the thing signified.
They held Thomas Aquinas author of Purgatory. Concerning the Supper of the Lord, their Faith was, it was to be eaten, and not to be shewed, and worshipped. That it was for a memorial and not for a Sacrifice, to serue for the present, not to be reserued; to be receiued at the table, not to be caried out of doores, according to the vse of the primitiue Church, when they vsed to communicate sitting: this they proued by Cronicles, • and by Origen vpon the third of Moses. Doctor Austin asked them, whether it were not the same Christ in the Sacrament which is in heauen, else how can it be said, there is but one Faith, and one Christ; then, why he should not bee worshipped in the Sacrament as well as in Heauen. They answered to this effect; that the same Christ that is in Heauen is in the Sacrament, but after diuerse manners, in Heauen he is corporally, locally, with the full proportion and quantitie of the same body wherewith hee ascended, and to be séene in the Sacrament, he is but sacramentally to be remembred, not to bee séene; our bodies receiue the signe, our spirit the thing signified.