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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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5 No degree of dignity, nor election of man, nor any sensible sign can make a man a member of the Church. Answer. I say Predestination maketh us members of the Church, and prepareth for us grace here, and glory in the world to come; and not degree of dignity, nor the election of a man, nor sensible sign: for Judas, though Christ elected him an Apostle, and gave him Temporal Graces, and that he was so reputed of men, yet was he a Woolf in a sheeps-skin, as Saint Augustine saith.
5 No degree of dignitie, nor election of man, nor any sensible signe can make a man a member of the Church. Answere. I say Predestination maketh vs members of the Church, and prepareth for vs grace heere, and glory in the world to come; and not degree of dignitie, nor the election of a man, nor sensible signe: for Iudas, though Christ elected him an Apostle, and gaue him Temporall Graces, and that he was so reputed of men, yet was he a Woolfe in a sheeps-skin, as Saint Augustine saith.
6 A Reprobate man is never no member of the Church. Answer. It is in my Book with sufficient long probation of the Psalm 26. and the 5. Ephes. and by Saint Bernards saying; the Church of Christ is more plainly his body, then the body that was crucified: the Church is the flower of the Lord in which is corn and chaff: the Elect and Reprobate.
6 A Reprobate man is neuer no member of the Church. Answere. It is in my Booke with sufficient long probation of the Psalme 26. and the 5. Ephes. and by Saint Bernards saying; the Church of Christ is more plainely his body, then the body that was crucified: the Church is the flower of the Lord in which is corne and chaffe: the Elect and Reprobate.