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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
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.
One Henry Crompe a Cistercian Monk, which after was accused of Heresy, now was suspended by the said Commissary, for calling the Heretics Lollards: he complained to the Archbishop, who sent for the Commissary and Proctors in the Kings and Councels name, where he received a new commandment to punish the Wickliffes: then Philip Repington, and Nickolas Harford, being privily warned by the Vice-chancellor: they fled to the Duke of Lancaster, but they were apprehended and sent by him to the Archbishop: Wycliffe was exiled, and after returned again to his parish of Lutterworth where he died: the providence of God is to be noted in this man and many other whom the Lord preserved in such rages of1 enemies from all their hands until his old age, whom the Lord will keep nothing can hurt.
One Henry Crompe a Cistertian Monke, which after was accused of Heresie, now was suspended by the said Commissarie, for calling the Heretickes Lolards: he complained to the Archbishop, who sent for the Commissarie and Proctors in the Kings and Councels name, where he receiued a new commandement to punish the Wickliffes: then Philip Repington, and Nickolas Harford, beeing priuily warned by the Uice-chancellor: they fled to the Duke of Lancaster, but they were apprehended and sent by him to the Archbishop: Wickliffe was exiled, and after returned againe to his parish of Lutterworth where he died: the prouidence of God is to be noted in this man and many other whom the Lord pr•serued in such rages of1 enemies from all their hands vntilll his old age, whom the Lord will keepe nothing can hurt.
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All his books were condemned and forbidden to be read by the Council of Constance, and by the Decree thereof forty years after his death, by the commandment of the Bishop, his bones were digged up and burned, & the ashes poured into the River: he had written divers works, which in the year 1410. were burned at Oxford: the Abbot of Shrewsbury being Commissary, & sent to oversee the matter, his books were likewise burned in Bohemia by the Archb of Prague, he burned 200. of his books, richly adorned with bosses of Gold, and rich coverings.