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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thus endeth the tragical History of John Hus, and Jerome of Prague faithfully collected by a Bohemian, being a present beholder of the same: John Hus being a Minister at Bethlehem, had a vision by night, that he had pictured in his Church of Bethlehem, pictures of Christ and his Apostles: and the Pope and his Cardinals came and defaced them, and that a while after other Painters renewed the said pictures, much more fairer then before: and that there was so many Painters that they gloried against the Pope and his Cardinals, bidding them put them out if they could, which with all their power they were not able to do: this vision he thus expoundeth, applying the pictures to the preaching of Christ and his Apostles, which though the Pope and Cardinals should extinguish in him, yet the time would come that Doctrine should be renewed by other preachers, so plenteously that the Pope with all his power should not be able to prevail against it: whereunto the prophecy of the said Hus, a little before his death, and printed in the Bohemian come called Moneta Hu•sa, having this superscription, Centum revolutis annis Deo respondebitis & mihi, this was Anno 1415. if we count from this year unto the year one thousand five hundred and sixteen: in which year Martin Luther first began to write against the Pope, we shall find the number of an hundred years fully complete.
Thus endeth the tragicall Historie of Iohn Hus, and Ierome of Prage faithfully collected by a Bohemian, being a present beholder of the same: Iohn Hus beeing a Minister at Bethelem, had a vision by night, that he had pictured in his Church of Bethelem, pictures of Christ and his Apostles: and the Pope and his Cardinals came and defaced them, and that a while after other Painters renued the said pictures, much more fairer then before: and that there was so many Painters that they gloried against the Pope and his Cardinals, bidding them put them out if they could, which with all their power they were not able to doe: this vision he thus expoundeth, applying the pictures to the preaching of Christ and his Apostles, which though the Pope and Cardinals should extinguish in him, yet the time would come that Doctrine should be renued by other preachers, so plentiously that the Pope with all his power should not be able to preuaile against it: wherevnto the prophesie of the said Hus, a little before his death, and printed in the Bohemian come called Moneta Hu•sa, hauing this superscription, Centum reuolutis annis Deo respondebitis & mihi, this was Anno 1415. if wee count from this yeare vnto the yeare one thousand fiue hundred and sixtéene: in which yéere Martine Luther first began to write against the Pope, wee shall finde the number of an hundred yéeres fully complete.