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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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Anon the King sent for the Lord Cobham, and secretly admonished him to submit himself to his mother the holy Church: he answered, I am ready to obey to you most worthy Prince, for I know you an appointed minister of God, but touching the Pope and spirituality, I owe them neither suit nor service, for I know by the Scripture he is great Antichrist, the son of perdition, the adversary of God, the abomination standing in the Holy Place: when the King heard this he would talk no more with him, and when the Archbishop resorted to him again, he gau• him full authority to cite him, examine him and punish him: then the Arch-bishop sent his chief summoner to his house with citation, when he came thither he durst not enter ⟨p. 132⟩his gates without licence, but returned without doing his message: then the Archbishop got one John Butler, door keeper of the Kings Privy Chamber, to go with his Summoner, who went to the Lord Cobham, showing him it was the Kings pleasure that he should obey the said citation: he answered, that in no case he would consent to those most devilish practises of the Priests: after he sent another citation to be hanged upon the Cathedral Church door of Rochester, and because he appeared not, excommunicated him: and when he heard that he derided his proceedings, he threatened the secular power with curses and interdictions if they did not assist him, against that seditious Apostate, Schismatic, and Heretic, troubler of a public peace, enemy of the Realm, and adversary of holy Church: then he writ a Christian profession of his Faith, and signed & sealed it: wherein he answered four of the chiefest article• that the Archbishop laid against him: then he took a copy thereof and went to the King, it agreed in all points with the Apostles Creed: and moreover that Christ is the only head of the Church, and that all that have been, or shall be saved, are members of his holy Church, & that it is severed into three estates: Priesthood, Knight-hood, and Commons: and that it is Gods will that one should aid and not destroy the other: the priests, secluded from all worldliness, should conform their lives unto the example of Christ and his Apostles, evermore occupied in teaching and preaching the Scriptures purely;
Anon the King sent for the Lord Cobham, and secretly admonished him to submit himselfe to his mother the holy Church: he answered, I am ready to obey to you most worthy Prince, for I know you an appointed minister of God, but touching the Pope and spiritualtie, I owe them neither sute nor seruice, for I knowe by the Scripture he is great Antichrist, the sonne of perdition, the aduersary of God, the abhomination standing in the Holy Place: when the King heard this he would talk no more with him, and when the Archbishop resorted to him againe, he gau him full authoritie to cite him, examine him and punish him: then the Arch-bishop sent his chiefe somner to his house with citation, when he came thither he durst not enter