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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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Master Jerome of Prague grievously lamenting the false reproach of the glorious Kingdom of Bohemia,1 and the manifold injuries of John Hus, of his own accord came to Constance: and seeing John Hus was denied to be heard, and that he himself was laid wait for, he departed a mile off that night, and writ unto the King of Hungary and the Council earnestly, for safe conduct to come and go, and he would answer before the Council to every one that could lay any thing against him: The said King denied him safe conduct: the Lords of Bohemia moved the deputies of the four Nations of the Council therein, who answered, they would give him a safe conduct to come, but not to depart: he hearing hereof writ certain intimations, and caused them to be set upon the gates of the City, and of the Churches and Monasteries, and of the houses of the Cardinals, and other Nobles & Prelates to this effect: To the most Noble Prince Sigismund, by Gods grace King of Romans, and Hungary always Augustus &c. Jerome of Prague, Master of Art of the Universities of Paris, Cologne, Heidelberg, and Prague, do notify to all men I am ready to come to Constance, openly to declare to the whole Council, the purity of my true Faith: wherefore if there be any slanderers, which will object any error or heresy, let them come openly before me in the presence of the Council, and I will be ready to answer for mine own innocency, and declare the sincerity of my true faith▪ and if I shall be found culpable to suffer such punishment as shall be meet: wherefore I desire a safe conduct, that all the world may know, that if I have any violence or imprisonment offered me, this general Council doth not proceeds according to equity: or if they put me back from this profound Justice, being com• hither freely of mine own accord; the which thing I suppose to be far banished from so sacred a Council of wise men, when yet he could not obtain a safe conduct, the Nobles and Knights, specially of Bohemia, gave him their Letters, Patents under their Seals, witnessing the premisses: with the which Letters, the said Master Jerome returning to Bohem, but by the conspiracy of his enemies, he was taken in the Dukedom of Horrissaw, and sent again by the Duke to the Council:
Maister Ierome of Prage greeuously lamenting the false repro•h of the glorious Kingdome of Boheme,