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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 HISTORY OF THOMAS BECKET Arch-bishop of Canterbury.
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She prophesieth likewise of Fryers; There shall rise a senseless, proud, greedy people, without Faith, and subtle, which shall eat the s••nes of the people, pretending in Order of certain devout persons, under the dissimuled cloak of beggars, pr•ferring themselves before others in feigned devotion, in puffed up knowledge, and pretended holiness, walking without […], and the •ea•e of God, finding out many new mischiefs, strong and sturdy. Of wise men, and Christs faithful that Order shall be accursed; they shall cease from labour, and study for quietness, rather taking on them the Order of flatterers then beggars, they shall study altogether how to resist the Preachers of the trueth, and kill them with the mighty. The Devil shall root four vices in them, Flattery, Envy, Hypocrisy, and Backbiting: that by flattery, they may ha•e bountiful gifts; that by Hypocrisy they may please men, and by Backbiting, dispraise others, and extol themselves, for the praise of men, and seducing of the simple. And in example of Martyrs, having no devotion, shall preach instantly. They shall speak evil of Princes, and withdraw the Sacraments from Pastors, rere•uing the alms of the poor, weak, and needy; and conveying themselves into a multitude of people, being familiar with women, teaching them how to deceive their husbands, and friends, and convey away their goods by stealth, and give it them, and say that they would pray for them; so that they cover other m•ns faults curiously, and forg•t their own utterly. They shall take away things fr•m Pirates, thieves, Church-pillars, from Usurers, Heretics, and Apostates, Adulterers, lecherous women, b•ud•, from the mighty, perjured Merchants, false Judges, Soldiers, Tyrants, Princee living against the Law; and they shall follow the Devil, and sweetness of sin, delicateness of life and […] to their eternal damnation, all men shall see this, yet shall they daily become more indurate and wicked.
She prophes•eth likewise of Fryers; There shall rise a sencelesse, proud, greedy people, without Faith, and subtile, which shall eate the snes of the people, pretending in Order of certaine deuout persons, vnder the dissimuled cloake of beggers, prferring themselues before others in fayned deuotion, in puffed vp knowledge, and pretened holinesse, walking without , and the eae of God, finding out many new mischiefes, strong and sturdy. Of wise men, and Christes faithfull that Order shall bee accursed; they shall cease from labour, and studie for quietnesse, rather taking on them the Order of flatterers then beggers, they shall study altogether how to resist the Preachers of the trueth, and kill them with the mightie. The Deuill shall roote foure vices in them, Flattery, Enui, Hypocrisie, and Backbiting: that by flattery, they may hae boutifull gifts; that by Hypocricie they may please men, and by Backiting, dispraise others, and extoll themselues, for the praise of men, and sducing of the simple. And in example of Martyres, hauing no deuotion, shall preach instantly. They shall speake euill of Princes, and withdraw the Sacraments from Pastors, rereuing the almes of the poore, weake, and néedy; and conueying themselues into a multitude of people, being familier with women, teaching them how to deceiue their husbands, and friends, and conuey away their goods by stealth, and giue it them, and say that they wuld pray for them; so that they couer other mns faults curiously, and forgt their owne vtterly. They shall take away things frm Pirates, théeues, Church-pillers, from Usurers, Hereticks, and Apostates, Adulterers, lecherous women, bud, from the mightie, priured Marchants, false Iudges, Soldiers, Tyrants, Princee liuing against the Law; and they shall follow the Deuill, and swéetnesse of sinne, deicatenesse of life and to their eternall damnation, all men shall sée this, yet shall they daily become more indurate and wicked.