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Fox's Book of Martyrs
Edited by William Byron Forbush (1926), with additions
John Foxe · 1516–1587
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History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero
About this book
For four centuries, after the Bible itself, few books so shaped Protestant hearts as John Foxe's record of those who died rather than deny Christ. Here are the apostles and the ten persecutions under the Roman emperors, the Waldenses and the Inquisition, Huss and Jerome of Prague, William Tyndale, and the men and women burned under Queen Mary — Rogers, Hooper, Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer among them — told with passion and tenderness. This is William Byron Forbush's 1926 edition, which abridges Foxe and adds chapters he never wrote: the lives of Wickliffe, Luther, Calvin, Bunyan and Wesley, the Irish massacre of 1641, the Quakers, the French Protestants of 1814–1820 and the beginnings of American foreign missions. It describes torture and execution plainly, as the history it is.
Christ our Savior, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, hearing the confession of Simon Peter, who, first of all other, openly acknowledged Him to be the Son of God, and perceiving the secret hand of His Father therein, called him (alluding to his name) a rock, upon which rock He would build His Church so strong that the gates of hell should not prevail against…
Contents
- 1 History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero 9 min
- 2 The Ten Primitive Persecutions 65 min
- 3 Persecutions of the Christians in Persia 24 min
- 4 Papal Persecutions 41 min
- 5 An Account of the Inquisition 66 min
- 6 An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy 115 min
- 7 An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe 11 min
- 8 An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy 47 min
- 9 An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther 18 min
- 10 General Persecutions in Germany 14 min
- 11 An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands 10 min
- 12 The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale 21 min
- 13 An Account of the Life of John Calvin 9 min
- 14 An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland, Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I 19 min
- 15 An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII 21 min
- 16 Under Queen Mary: Lady Jane Grey, John Rogers, Lawrence Saunders and John Hooper 26 min
- 17 Under Queen Mary: Rowland Taylor, Robert Farrar, Rawlins White and Others 30 min
- 18 Under Queen Mary: John Bradford, Bishops Ridley and Latimer, and John Philpot 30 min
- 19 Under Queen Mary: Archbishop Cranmer 27 min
- 20 Under Queen Mary: Julius Palmer, Joan Waste, Joyce Lewes and Others 32 min
- 21 Under Queen Mary: Cicely Ormes, John Rough, Cuthbert Symson and Roger Holland 26 min
- 22 Under Queen Mary: Mrs. Prest and Others 25 min
- 23 Under Queen Mary: Dr. Sands, the Princess Elizabeth, and God's Judgments 34 min
- 24 Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641 40 min
- 25 The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers 30 min
- 26 An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan 5 min
- 27 An Account of the Life of John Wesley 6 min
- 28 Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820 41 min
- 29 The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions 53 min
Public domain. Source text from the original edition.
Jacob van Ruisdael, “Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond” (1650–55). The Art Institute of Chicago, CC0.