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