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A07225	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.; Actes and monuments	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Mason, Thomas, 1580-1619?	1615 (1615)	STC 17622; ESTC S114403	588,758	444

haue it because the high Bishop Christ had triumphed there Antioch would needs haue it alledging that Peter the Apostle there had kept his Sea and was neuer at Rome as it may appeare by the booke called quod Petrus nunquam Romae fuit Hee of Rome not regarding the saying of Saint Gregory that he should be Antichrist that would be vniuersall ouer Bishops by deceits gifts and force obtained to bee called the chiefe Bishop the greatest the highest vniuersall most blessed most holy and lawfull successor of Peter and Christ. The Fryers of Dominick and Francis d ee chiefely apply themselues to sorcery and witchcraft and thereby learne euill diuellish Arts A man may reade that Siluester the second one of them got to be Pope by the help of the Diuell vpon condition that after his death he should be his and in our dayes Paul the third called Pope Farnese hath not left his like in Astrology and diuination it is certainly said that he beleeued that the soule was mortall so did Pope Lewes and Cardinall Chitty A Gentleman of Uenice and his wife were in doubt vpon a case of conscience The woman confessed her selfe in the Church of the Chittines and opened the matter praying to bee resolued The Frier did it as well as hee could and then hee opened the whole matter to Cardinall Chitty as it is their old vse to doe hee commanding him to bee secret and finding the resolution of the case in the Cannon Law the morrow the Gentleman came vnto Chitty and opening the matter hee commanded him to hold his peace and tooke him by the hand and put it into the booke in the place which hee before had marked for that purpose Then he bad him tell his tale when he had ended he said look there where your hand is The Gentleman read there and found that which he sought then forthwith hee fell downe and worshipped him as it had been another Christ which knew all secrets Pasquine saith hee knoweth ten thousand such trickes by them Saint Ioyce is patron of fruitfulnes of Children she hath a Church in France the Flemings goe vnto her to haue Children and speede of their purpose for whilst they be on their voyage she vseth the Priests and Friers as instruments with their wiues The Pope in policie sends flattering Courtiers to Francis King of 〈◊〉 to flatter him in all his actions to remember him of that Title of Most Chr●●●ian King which his Progenitors receiued of the Pope and that therefore hee sh●uld defend the Dignitie of them that gaue him so goodly a Title and to exhort him that he should not fa●le to persecute the Lutherans and that he should fail to Dancing and Banquetting and to serue Venus and to Hunting rather then to sauour Learning as it seemed he would doe In the Popes Policie it was decreed That of all the chiefe Houses in Italie or elsewhere there should one euer be a Cardinall to keepe them in deuotion of the Church of Rome which they began to forsake for the Gospell but aboue all things there should be six or foure at the least of the Uenetians Cardinals because a ●umber of those Senators be wittie and of profound iudgement least they should slip their heads from the Pope It was decreed by the Pope concerning Spaine That the Inquisitors should not be seuere with the Marraines who denyed the Diuinitie of Christ but that they should be most cruell against the Lutherans who denie the Diuinitie of the Pope They haue made Peace with the Turke that they may the better maintaine Warre against the Gospell and to keepe the Christian Princes in Warres and Businesse that they may not seeke for a Generall Councell for Reformation There is not one man condemned by the Uenetians but he is adiudged by fortie Iudges and the offendor may alledge for himselfe the best he can yet they suffer a Legate onely to condemne whom he list for the Gospell and the person accused cannot come vnto his Purgation Cardinall Fernese made the liuely Picture of his Sister ouer his Chamber dore shee was Pope Alexander Borgias his Concubine and by her honourable meanes shee made her said brother Cardinall and after to be made Pope Her Image goeth currant for the Picture of our Ladie and the Pictures of our Ladie be made thereby By the Papists Tradition the Soule for euerie deadly sinne is to abide seuen yeares in Purgatorie Moses ordained many Sacrifices for the sinnes of the liuing but none for them in Purgatorie he chideth for weeping for the dead It is deuised onely to deceiue the people with Trentals and Quarentals and other foolish Inuentions full of Couetousnesse The Scripture biddeth vs remember the poore that be aliue the Papists bidde vs bring hither for the Soules of your dead Friends and Parents with crie Miseremini These Priests and Religious are the Prophets Sa●ke neuer full and Solomons Horse-leaches and the fire that neuer saith hoa if thou shouldst giue them the world they will not be satisfied The places of Scripture that they ground Purgatorie vpon are the fift of Mathew Agree with thine Aduersarie by the way least thou be cast into Prison c. And in the 18. of Mathew Hee that owed thee tenne thousand Talents was deliuered vnto Prison c. And in the 12. of Mathew The sinne against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen in this World nor in the World to come And in the 1. Cor. 13. Stubble and trash builded vpon Christ shall be tryed by Fire And 2. Machab. 12. Macabeus offered two thousand drammes of Siluer for the dead which bought Beasts which were sacrificed And Reuelation 14. 21. Those that follow the Lambe are without spot and no vncleane thing shall enter into heauen Therefore we must be purged with Purgatorie before we can come there Thomas Aquine confessed hee could not finde Purgatorie in the Scriptures yet hee would haue it beleeued The Doctrine of Purgatorie is the greatest Blasphemie that is vnto Christ. Boniface the ● eight made a Decree That euery worldly creature should be subiect vnto the Pope vpon paine of Damnation Pope Alexander Borgias lay with his naturall Daughter Lucrece with whom also Duke Valentine his brother lay The Friers lay with the Nunnes and with lay-Lay-sisters and taught them to murder yong Babes least they should be discouered or teacheth them how they shall not conceiue with child or to destroy it in her body Some of them make Women to poyson their Husbands some of them haue giuen meate to a whole household to make them to sleepe that he might not be seene to goe to the good wife and thereby hath killed them all One faineth our Ladie doth Miracles to get Offerings another persecuteth the Truth because he would be a Bishop Another false knaue in Confession caused a woman to giuen him her money in keeping and then denyed it They sit toting in the bosome of simple yong maids which come vnto them to shrieue

him buried in Christian buriall at length by perswasion of his kinred he was buried in Christian buriall Ater the death of Sythericus King of Northumberland King Adelstone seazed that Prouince into his hands and put out his sonne Alanus who fled into Scotland maried the daughter of Constantine King of Scots by whose stirring gathered a company of Danes Scots and others and entred the North of Humber with a strong Nauie of 615. shippes King Adelstone and his people ioyned in fight with them at a place called Binford where fighting with them from morning till night after a terrible slaughter on both sides the like hath not béene seene in England King Adelstone had the victorie fiue vnder kings were slaine in that battell with Constantine King of Scots and twelue Dukes with the most part of the strangers that were there Then King Adelstone subdued the Brittaines and forced them to grant to him yearely tribute 20. lib. of gold 300 lib. of ●iluer 2500. heads of neate with a certaine number of hawkes and dogs King Adelstone caused his guiltlesse brother Edwine through sinister suggestion of his Cup-bearer to be set in an old rotten bote in the broad sea onely with one Esquire with him without any tackling where the tender Prince dismai●e with the ●age o● Windes and Flouds weary of his life cast himselfe into the Sea the Esquire shif●ed for himselfe and recouered the body of his maister and brought it to Sandich were it was buried The reason the King the more doubled of his brother was because he was by his mother of a base bloud and begotten before wedlocke for King Edward his Father comming into his Nurses house was rauished with the beautie of one Edwina a beautifull maide begat that night of her King Adelstone and afterward married her after the King was stricken with great repentance for the death of his brother by the space of seauen yeares at length the Cup-bearer his accuser bearing the Cuppe vnto the King stumbled with one foote and recouering himselfe with the other saying Thus one brother helpeth another These words so moued the king that forthwith he commaunded the false accuser of his brother to bee had out to execution and he builded two Monasteries of Middleton and Michlenes for his brothers Soule Whereby it appeareth what was the speciall cause of building of Monasteries to wit for releasing of sinnes for them departed and them aliue which is contrarie to the grace and veritie of Christs Gospell He deuised diuers good and wholsome lawes as well of the state Ecclesiasticall as Seculer which thou maist see in the booke at large whereby it is to bee vnderstoode that the vsurped power of the Bishop of Rome did not then extend or derogate from the authoritie of Christian Princes but that euery one in ●is owne Dominion had the doing of all causes whether they were spirituall or temporall he raigned 16. yeares and because he had no Issue his brother Edmond succéeded him This Edmond expelled the Danes Scots Normanes and all forraine enemies out of the Land and recouered such Cities as were in their hands from them then the King set his minde to building of Monasteries and furnishing of Churches with possessions in his time Monks were dispersed out of the Monastery of Esham and Canons substituted in their place At the first Religious houses were replenished with Priests and Canons which were Clergie men after Monkes succéeded they professed Chastitie that is to 〈◊〉 vnmaried for so they defined Chastitie in those blinde daies the Priests and Canons liued more frée from Monkish rules and obseruations were common●y marie● and in their life came néerer to seculer Christians so there was great enmitie betweene them one ●uer sought to expell the other Thus Monkes first beganne about the time of this King Edmond when straitnes of life with superstition was had in veneration which men either to haue publike fame with men or merit of God gaue themselues to leade a strict life There was a Monastery in Fraunce called Floriake of the rule of Benedict from whence came our English Monkes for after they were professed there returning into England they daily congregated men to their profession and for their outward holinesse and straite life we●e in great admiration not onely with the rude sort but with Kings and Princes who founded them Houses maintained their rules and inlarged them with possessions After King Edmund had raigned 6. yeares and a halfe he was slaine and buried at Glastenbury leauing bebing him two children Edwine and Edgar but because they were vnder age Edred brother to King Edmund gouerned as Protector nine yeares with great moderation and fidelity to the young children Edwine eldest sonne of King Edmond was crowned at Kingstone the day of his Coronation he forsooke his Nobles and went into a Chamber to a woman whom he inordinately had retained Dunstone Abot of G●astenbury followed the King into the Chamber and brought him out by the hand and accused him to Odo Archbishop causing him to be separated from her company for which ●act Odo suspended the king out of the Church The king being displeased banished Dunstone who went into Flanders where hée was in the Monastery of A●andus about that time the order of Benedict Monkes or blacke Monkes beganne to multiply in England so that Priests and Canons were put out in many places and Monkes put in their 〈◊〉 but King Edwine for the displeasure he bare to Dunstone so vexed all the Order of the said Monkes that in Malmesbury Glastenbury and other places he thrust out the Monks and set seculer Priests in their steed Edwine being hated of his Subiects for his misdemeaners was remoued from his kingly honour and his brother Edgar receiued in his stéede yet one raigned ouer all on the one side of the Th●mes and the other on the other side of the Thames but Edwine after hee had raigned 4. yeares dyed leauing no Heire wherefore all fell to Edgar Edgar at the age of 16 yeares began to raigne but was not crowned vntill 14. yeares after He sent for Dunstone home againe whom Edwin had exiled he was made Bishop of Woster and after of London and not long after of Canterbury By his intre●tie to the King Oswoldus was made Bishop of Woster and by his meanes also Ethelwaldus Abbot of Abendon was made Bishoppe of Winchester By the meanes of these thrée Bishoppes the multitnde of Monkes began first to swarme in this Realme of England By the meanes of them King Edgar builded 40. Monasteries and by the instigation of them King Edgar in diuerse great houses and Cathedrall Churches where Prebends and Priests were before displaced them and set in Monkes and many seculer Priests being put to their choyce whether they would change their habit or leaue their roomes departed out of their houses After Oswaldus was made Archbishop of Yorke and then they had their minde and when he by no perswasion could make