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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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The History of the most valiant and worthy Martyr of Christ, Sr John Old-Castle, Knight, Lord Cobham.
The History of the most valiant and worthy Martyr of Christ, Sr Iohn Old-Castle, Knight, Lord Cobham.
After the true servant of Christ John Wycliffe six and twenty years most valiantly had battled with the great Antichrist of Europe, and his disguised hosts of anointed hypocrites, to restore the Church again to the purity of the Gospel, and was departed hence in Christ Anno 1387. he left a number of godly Disciples, against whom Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury was as fierce as ever Pharaoh, Antiochus, Herod, and Caiaphas, and having called a Council about the matter, they concluded it was not possible for them to make whole Christs coat, without seam (meaning thereby their patched Popish Synagogue) unless certain great men were wrought out of the way which were chief maintainers of the Disciples of Wycliffe: amongst whom the Lord Cobham was complained of for a mighty maintainer of suspected preachers in London, Rochester, Hereford, that he not only sent them thither, but maintained them with force and arms, and that he believed otherwise of the Sacrament of the Altar, of penance, of pilgrimages, of Image worshipping, and of Ecclesiastical power then the Church of Rome taught, and it was concluded that process should go against him, but first they would know the Kings mind: whereupon the Archbishop with his Bishops, and a great part of the Clergy went to the King, and grievously complained against the Lord Cobham: the king desired them, in respect of his Noble stock, they should favourably deal with him, and that if it were possible they should reduce him to the unity of the Church without rigour, and promised he would seriously common the matter with him.