FOX's BOOK of MARTYRS
Edited by William Byron Forbush
This is a book that will
never die -- one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most
complete form, it brings to life the days when "a noble army, men and boys, the
matron and the maid," "climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and
pain."
"After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant
sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time it is still a living force.
It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a
storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification."
Contents
About the book and the
author
Chapter
I -- History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under
Nero
Chapter
II -- The Ten Primitive Persecutions
Chapter III --
Persecutions of the Christians in Persia
Chapter IV -- Papal
Persecutions
Chapter V -- An
Account of the Inquisition
Chapter VI -- An
Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy
Chapter VII -- An
Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe
Chapter VIII -- An
Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy
Chapter IX -- An
Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
Chapter X -- General
Persecutions in Germany
Chapter XI -- An
Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
Chapter XII -- The
Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
Chapter XIII -- An
Account of the Life of John Calvin
Chapter XIV -- Prior
to the Reign of Queen Mary I
Chapter XV -- An
Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII
Chapter XVI --
Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
Chapter XVII -- Rise
and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the
Barbarous Massacre of 1641
Chapter XVIII -- The
Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers
Chapter XIX -- An
Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
Chapter XX -- An
Account of the Life of John Wesley
Chapter XXI --
Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years
1814 and 1820
Chapter XXII -- The
Beginnings of American Foreign Missions
