A07225:691
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.
The Vice-chancellor of Oxford, with the whole congregation of the Masters, made a public testimony of the learning and good life of John Wycliffe, that his conditions throughout his whole life were sincere and commendable, whose honest manners and conditions, profoundness of learning, and most redolent renown and fame, we desire the more earnestly to be notified to all the faithful, for that we understand his maturity and ripeness of conversation, his diligent labours to tend to the praise of God, the help and safeguard of others, and the profit of the Church, there was never note or spot of suspicion raised of him, in answering, reading, preaching, and determining: he behaved himself laudably, and as a stout and valiant Champion of the Faith, vanquishing by the force of Scripture, all such who by wilful beggary blasphemed Christs Religion, neither was he convict of heresy or burned by our prelates after his burial: God forbid our Prelates should condemn a man of such honesty, for an heretic, who amongst all the rest of our University had written in Logic, Philosophy, Divinity, Morality, and the Speculative art without p•are: In witness whereof we seal this testimonial with our common Seal 5. October 1406.
The Uice-chancellor of Oxford, with the whole congregation of the Maisters, made a publike testimonie of the learning and good life of Iohn Wickliffe, that his conditions throughout his whole life were sincere and commendable, whose honest manners and conditions, profoundnes of learning, and most redol•nt renowne and fame, we desire the more earnestly to be notified to all the faithfull, for that wee vnderstand his maturitie and ripenes of conuersation, his diligent labours to tend to the praise of God, the help and safegard of others, and the profit of the Church, there was neuer note or spot of suspition raised of him, in answering, reading, preaching, and determining: he behaued himselfe laudably, and as a stout and valiant Champion of the Faith, vanquishing by the force of Scripture, all such who by wilfu•l beggery blasphemed Christs Religion, neither was he con•ict of heresie or burned by our prelates after his buriall: God forbid our Prelates should condemne a man of such honesty, for an heretick, who amongst all the rest of our Uniuersitie had written in Logick, Philosophy, Diuinity, Morality, and the Speculatiue arte without p•are: In witnes whereof we seale this testimonial with our common Seale 5. October 1406.