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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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20 The Ecclesiastical obedience, as the Priests and Monks have devised, it hath no authority in the Scripture. Answer. I confess it, there be three obediences, the Spiritual, Secular, and Ecclesiastical: the Spiritual, which is only according to the ordinances of God▪ in which Christ and his Apostles lived, and all Christians ought to live in: the Secular obedience, is due according to civill ordinance: the Ecclesiastical obedience is such as the Priests have invented, without any express authority of Scripture.
20 The Ecclesiasticall obedience, as the Priests and Monkes haue deuised, it hath no authority in the Scripture. Answer. I confesse it, there be three obediences, the Spirituall, Secular, and Ecclesiasticall: the Spirituall, which is onely according to the ordinances of God▪ in which Christ and his Apostles liued, and all Christians ought to liue in: the Secular obedience, is due according to ciuill ordinance: the Ecclesiasticall obedience is such as the Priests haue inuented, without any expresse authority of Scripture.
21 He that is excommunicate of the Pope, and appealeth unto Christ, the curses of the Pope cannot annoy him. Answer. I acknowledge not this, but I did make complaint in my Book, that they had done me, and such as favoured me, great wrong, and they would not hear me in the Popes Court: and after the death of one Pope, I appealed to his successors, and it profited not, and to appeals to the Council, it were to long; therefore at la•• I appealed to the head of the Church Christ Jesus. Then said a Cardinal, wilt thou presume above Saint Paul, who appealed to the Emperor, and not to Jesus, and they mocked him: the tenor of his appeal, was nothing but an earnest Prayer to Christ, to be his refuge and help when all kel•es failed, and that he did appeal before God, for his grief, from the wicked sentence and excommunication determined by the Bishops, Scribes, and Pharisees, as John Chrysostom did twice from the Council of the Bishops; And Andrew Bishop of Prague, and Robert Bishop of Lincoln, appealed unto Christ, who is not defiled with cruelty, nor corrupted with gifts, nor deceived by false witnesses.