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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.
Thorpe. I think they are wise concerning this world, I did think by their former doings, that they had earnest of the wisdom of God, and deserved ••ckie grace of him, to have saved themselves and many others, if they had continued faithful, and in their bu••e f••itfull sowing of Gods word: but woe worth false covetousness, evil counsel, and tyranny, by which they, and many be led blindly to an evil end.
Thorpe. I thinke they are wise concerning this world, I did thinke by their former doings, that they had earnest of the wisdome of God, and deserued ••ckie grace of him, to haue saued themselues and many others, if they had continued faithfull, and in their bu••e f••itfull sowing of Gods word: but woe worth false couetousnesse, euill councell, and t•ranny, by which they, and many be led blindly to an euill end.
Bishop. Which are those holy and wise men, of whom thou hast taken thine information?
Thorpe. Sir, master John Wycliffe, holden of •ull many the greatest Clarke then living •us•ing rule an• innocent in his living great men communed oft with him▪ they so loved his learning, that they wrote it, and b•sly enforced themselves to ollow it; and his learning is yet holden most agreeable to the learning of Christ and his Apostles, and master John Ayston taught and wrote accordingly, and used himself right perfectly to his lives end. And sometimes Phillip Rampington Nichols Hereford, David Gotray of Paking, and John Purvey, and many other, which were holden right wise and prudent, taught and writ busily his foresaid learning: with al these men I was right homely, and communed with them, but of all other, I hose to ollow Wycliffe himself, as the most wise and godly man that I heard of, or know. Some of these I heart them whilst they sate in Christs chair, but after the works they now do, I will not do, by Gods elpe, for they fain would hide and contrary the trueth, which before they taught plainly and truly, and some of them have confessed they do it because they are constrained by pain, to leave the truth; so they blaspheme God rather then suffer a little, though Christ shed his heart blood for us.