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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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I said in my second principle, that it was to be known before what Judge we must reckon: the Judge is God himself that seeth all our deeds and thoughts, and every mans deeds, and the secrets of their hearts shall be opened to all the world: as Saint John saith, the dead men, great and small, stood about the Throne, and books were opened, and the Book of Life was opened, and the dead were judged according to their deed written in that Book: this Book is mens consciences, that now are closed, but then shall be open to all men: the Book of Life is Christs Gospel, which is now hid from the damned, through their own malice: in the first book is written all that is done, in the second all that should be done: therefore look in the Book of the Conscience whilst thou art here, if thou findest any thing contrary to Christs example and Doctrine, scrape it out with the knife of repentance, and write it better.
I said in my second principle, that it was to be knowne before what Iudge wee must reckon: the Iudge is God himselfe that seeth all our deeds and thoughts, and euery mans deeds, and the secrets of their hearts shall be opened to all the world: as Saint Iohn saith, the dead men, great and small, stood about the Throne, and bookes were opened, and the Booke of Life was opened, and the dead were iudged according to their deed written in that Booke: this Booke is mens consciences, that now are closed, but then shall be open to all men: the Booke of Life is Christs Gospel, which is now hid from the damned, through their owne malice: in the first book is written all that is done, in the second all that should be done: therefore look in the Booke of the Conscience whilest thou art heere, if thou findest any thing contrarie to Christs example and Doctrine, scrape it out with the knife of repentance, and write it better.
I said it were good to know what reward the good shall have, and what reward the wicked shall have: it is written, Christ shall come with the same body that was crucified, all that shall be saved shall cleave to him, and be ravished, meeting him in the air, they that shall be damned lying upon the earth. Then Christ shall ask account of deeds of mercy, reproving false Christians for leaving them undone, rehearsing the pains that his true servants have suffered: then the wicked with the