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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.
Bishop. Lo• sirs, this is the business of this losel, and such other, to pi•ke sharp Sentences out of the Scripture, and Doctors, to maintain their […]. Thou desirest the Psalter I took from thee, but thou shalt ne•er ha•e it, nor none other book, until I know thy heart and tongue accord to be governed by holy Church.
Bishop. Lo• sirs, this is the businesse of this losell, and such other, to pi•ke sharpe Sentences out of the Scripture, and Doctors, to maintaine their 〈…〉. Thou desirest the Psalter I tooke from thée, but thou shalt ne•er ha•e it, nor none other booke, vntill I know thy heart and tongue ac•ord to be gouerned by holy Church.
Thorpe. My will is, and ever shall be, to be governed by holy Church. And he asked me what holy Church was; Christ and his Saints are holy Church, though every one in charity be the Church, yet it hath two parts, the first part hath overcome wretchedness, and reigneth in joy with Christ, the other is in earth fighting day and night against the temptations of the Fiend, forsaking the glory of the world, and the •usts of the flesh, and which only are the pilgrims of Christ, wandering towards Heaven by steadfast faith, grounded hope, and perfect charity; these will not be let from their purpose by any Doctors discording from the Scripture, nor by the floods of tribulations, nor the wind of pri•e, or menacing of any creature: for they are fast grounded upon the stone Christ, hearing his word, loving and practising it with all their wits.