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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
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4 None can give any temporal Dominion or gift, but as the Minister of God; the Apostle saith Jesus Christ was a Minister, let not his Vicar then which should be a servant of servants be ashamed to use the ministry of the Church, for his pride of secular Dominion, with his worldly stile, seemeth blasphemy, and the advancement of Antichrist: especially, where they repute the Scriptures as cockle, and the determination of all controversies of Scripture in themselves.
4 None can giue any temporall Dominion or gift, but as the Minister of God; the Apostle saith Iesus Christ was a Minister, let not his Uicar then which should be a seruant of seruants be ashamed to vse the ministerie of the Church, for his pride of seculer Dominion, with his worldly stile, seemeth blasphemie, and the aduancement of Antichrist: especially, where they repute the Scriptures as cockle, and the determination of all controuersies of Scripture in themselues.
5 As sure as God is: the Temporal Lords may lawfully and meritoriously take away the riches from the Church, when they do offend: yet I say, that it is not lawful to do it by the authority of the Church, and for lack of some spiritual governor, and in case when the Ecclesiastical Minister, being strayed from the Catholic faith, is to be corrected and punished.
5 As sure as God is: the Temporall Lords may lawfully and meritoriously take away the riches from the Church, when they doe offend: yet I say, that it is not lawfull to doe it by the authoritie of the Church, and for lacke of some spirituall gouernour, and in case when the Ecclesiasticall Minister, being strayed from the Catholique faith, is to be corected and punished.
6 The Vicar of Christ is not able by his Bulls, of himself, not by the consent of his college, to make a man the more able, or disable a man, that ought to proceed of God, but he only in the Name of God, to notify to the Church whom God hath enabled, else he is as presumptuous as Lucifer, for in the