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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
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About this time was a Sermon written, whether by Wycliffe or Thorpe, or any other, it is uncertain, it is mentioned to be in the year 1388.
About this time was a Sermon written, whether by Wickliffe or Thorpe, or any other, it is vncertaine, it is mentioned to be in the yeare 1388.
Christ likeneth the Kingdom of Heaven to a Householder, that went in the morning to hire Work-men into his Vineyard; so did he about the third hour, the sixth hour, and the ninth, and the eleventh, and as he found men standing idle, He said to them; Why stand you beer un-occupied, go into my Vineyard, and that which is duty I shall give you, and when the day was ended, he called his Steward, and bad him give every man a penny. This Householder is Christ, head of the Church on Earth, which calleth in divers ages; as in the time of Nature he called by inspiration Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and divers others. In the time of the old Law, Moses, David, Esau, Jeremiah, with the Prophets: In the time of Grace, the Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, and Virgins, some in youth, some in middle age, some in the latter days: it is to labour in his Vineyard, which is his Church, as there be divers Officers in trimming of the maternal Vine, no less needful in the Church be these three Officers, Priest-hood, Knight-hood, and Labourers. The Priests must cut away the branches of sin with the Sword of Gods Word: the Knights must maintain Gods Word: the Teachers thereof, and the Land from wrongs and Enemies: the Labourers must by their sore sweat, get sustenance for themselves and others, if Priests want, the people for want of Gods Word all will grow wild in vices, and dye ghostly, and were not men to rule people, Thieves and Enemies would so increase, that none could live in peace, and were it not for Labourers, Priests and Knights must be Artificers, Plough-men, and Heard-men, or else die for want of sustenance: as the great Clarke Avicenna saith, every unreasonable Beast, if he have that which belongs to Nature, can live of himself alone. But if there were but one man in the World, if he had all the goods in the World, yet for default he would dye, or his life worse then if he were not, because that which is prepared for mans sustenance must be altered, or else it accordeth not with him; therefore he saith, it is very needful to have men of divers trades and callings.