A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ...
Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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Englands Priviledges.

The first Christian King that ever was in the world was Lucius King of the Britans that built Pe∣ter's Church in Cornhill London: The first Chri∣stian Emperour that was in the world was Constan∣tine the Great born in England of Helena an English woman. The first King that shook off subjection to Antichrist, was our King Henry the eighth: And the first Christian King that ever wrote that the Pope was Antichrist was our King James.