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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.
Besides there was a Council kept in Tol•se about 355. years agone▪ and all against these Waldenses, they also were condemned in another Council at Rome before that.
Besides there was a Counsell kept in Tol•se about 355. yeares agone▪ and all against these Waldenses, they also were condemned in another Counsell at Rome before that.
What persecutions they had in France by three Archbishops, appeareth by their writings: who is such a stranger, that knoweth not the condemnation of the Waldenses, done so many years agone, so famous, so public, followed upon with so great labour, expenses and travel; and sealed with so many of their deaths; so solemnly being condemned, and openly punished, wher• by we may know persecution to be no new thing in the church of Christ, when Antichrist three hundred years agone did rage against the Waldenses.
What persecutions they had in France by three Archbishops, appeareth by their writings: who is such a stranger, that knoweth not the condemnation of the Waldenses, done so many yeeres agone, so famous, so publique, followed vpon with so great labour, expences and trauell; and sealed with so many of their deaths; so solemnely being condemned, and openly punished, wher• by we may know persecution to be no new thing in the church of Christ, when Antichrist three hundred yéeres agone did rage against the Waldenses.
But there was never more trouble then was against them of late, in the year 545. in France by the French King, which followeth in this book, when we come to the year wherein it was done, where it shall be set forth more at large. In which persecution is declared, that in one town Cabria by Miverias were slain eight hundred persons at once, not respecting women, children, nor any age: and forty women, most of them great with child, were thrust into a Barn, the windows kept with pikes were fired and consumed: besides in a Cave not far from Mussin, were five and twenty persons fired and destroyed the same time; the same tyrant at Merindolum, seeing all the rest were fled away, finding one young man, caused him to be tied to an Olive tree, and destroyed with torments most cruel: the foresaid Reynerius speaketh of a Glover, one of them in the town of Cheron, that in his time was brought to execution.