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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.
It appeareth in a certain Libel of Inquisition that upon their kne•s with great reverence they used to pray, every morning, and every evening, and that they used to say grace before meat and after: and after meat to edify one another with some instruction.
It appeareth in a certaine Libell of Inquisition that vpon their kne•s with great reuerence they vsed to pray, euery morning, and euery euening, and that they vsed to say grace before meate and after: and after meate to edifie one another with some instruction.
They were so diligent and painful in teaching that Reynerius an old Inquisitor against them writeth, that one of them to bring another unto the faith, in the night, and in winter swam over the River Ibis to come to him, to teach him, and they were so perfect in the Scripture, that he heard an unlettered man that could say the book of Job word by word without book, with others which had the New Testament perfectly by hart.
They were so diligent and painefull in teaching that Reynerius an old Inquisitor against them writeth, that one of them to bring another vnto the faith, in the night, and in winter swamme ouer the Riuer Ibis to come to him, to teach him, and they were so perfect in the Scripture, that he heard an vnlettered man that could say the booke of Iob word by word without booke, with others which had the New Testament perfectly by hart.
He writeth moreover, that none durst stop them for the number of their favourers: saying, I have often been at their examination, and there were numbered forty Churches of their opinions, in s•much that in one parish of Cammah were ten open schools of them, and when he had spoken what he could against them, he is driven to confess that they both live justly before men, and believe all things wel of God, and hold all the Articles contained in the Creed; only they blaspheme the Church of Rome and hate it.