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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. As holy Church suffereth Images to •ee painted, and showed, it sufficeth to them that are members of holy Church, but thou art […] member cut off from holy Church, thou favourest not the ordinances thereof. Thou speakest against Pilgrimage, and that pilgrimages to Canterbury, Beverley, Carlington, Walsingham, are accursed, and foolish spending their goods in wast.
Bishop. As holy Church suffereth Images to •ee painted, and shewed, it suffiseth to th•m that are members of holy Church, but thou art 〈…〉 member cut off from holy Church, thou fauourest not the ordinances thereof. Thou speakest against Pilgrimage, and that pilgrimages to Canterbury, •euerley, Carlington, Walsingham, are accursed, and f••lish spending their goods in wast.
Thorpe. There be true travellers, travel all their life, with all their endeavour to please God, that they may attain to the heavenly Kingdom: but I say now as I said at Shrewsbury, I have Preached often in other places, and will do as long as I live God willing; They that travel their bodies, and spend their money to s•eke, or visit the bones of Images of this Saint, or that, such pilgrimage is neither, praiseable, or thankful to God, nor to any Saint of God; since such pilgrimages, almost all▪ despise God, and his commandments, and upon Saints they waste blamefully Gods goods, in such vain Pilgrimages, sometimes upon vicious Hostices, which they should do works of mercy withal upon the poor and needy, they offer their go•ds to rich Priests, which have more then they need, many of them borrow other mens goods, and never pay them, and sometimes they steal them. And they have with them Singers, that can sing wanton Songs, and some will have Bag-pipes, so that every Town where they come, with their noise of singing, piping, angling of Canterbury Bells, and the barking of dogs, they make more noise then if the king came thither, with all his Clarions and Minstrels, and if they be a month in pilgrimage, they will be half a year after, wranglers, tale-bearers, and liars.