The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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Bridge Logos Foundation, 2001 - Religion - 480 pages
Would you suffer persecution, poverty, and prison for Christ?

Would you endure cruel tortures that take your mind and body to the brink of death and beyond?

Would you watch your children suffering for their faith and urge them to remain faithful to Christ?

Would you endure inhuman tortures and "hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering" (Hebrews 10:23)?

Would you stand boldly and without shame and confess Christ as your Lord, to your own and to your family's peril?

Two thousand years of martyrs

For nearly two-thousand years, courageous men and women have been tortured and killed because of their confessions of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs tells their stories. Stories of heroic courage and overcoming faith. Stories of love of God and Christ. Stories of the amazing grace of God that enabled men, women, and children to endure persecutions and often horrible deaths.

Foxe's last revision in 1570

Foxe's last revision of his Book of Martyrs was in 1570. In the 18th century others added to his book. But Christians have continued to be persecuted and martyred every year since then. More Christians were martyred in this century alone than in all the past centuries combined.

The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs tells their stories from A.D. 37 to 1997 in modern English, and includes new historical data that clarifies and harmonizes people, places, and times.

The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs is the most up-to-date version of Foxe's book ever published. It is essential reading for the study of Christian persecution in Foxe's day and in ours

 

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Contents

THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYRS
1
THE BEGINNING OF GENERAL PERSECUTIONS AGAINST THE CHURCH AD 54304
9
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT EMPEROR OF ROME AD 306337
35
PERSECUTIONS DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS OF GENERAL PEACE ABOUT AD 320AD 1079
43
PAPAL PERSECUTIONS AND THE INQUISITION 12081834
51
WORK AND PERSECUTION OF JOHN WYCLIFFE ABOUT 13771384
61
PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HUSS 1415
73
PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM OF JEROME OF PRAGUE 1416
79
THE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW DAY MASSACRE 1572
255
THE NEXT THREE CENTURIES
267
PERSECUTION OF ANNE HUTCHINSON MARY DYER MARGARET WILSON MADAME JEANNE GUYON AND MIGUEL DE MOLINOS
269
PERSECUTION OF DONALD CARGILL JOHN BUNYAN GEORGE FOX WILLIAM CAREY AND ROBERT THOMAS
301
MODERN MARTYRS
311
THE PAST CENTURY
313
MARTYRS IN THIS CENTURY
369
WORD CHANGES AND DEFINITIONS
387

PERSECUTIONS IN ENGLAND 14011541
85
PERSECUTIONS IN SCOTLAND 15271558
97
THE MARTYRDOM OF WILLIAM TYNDALE 1536 JOHN FRITH AND ANDREW HEWET 1533
109
WORK AND PERSECUTION OF MARTIN LUTHER 15171546
125
THE MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HOOPER BISHOP OF WORCHESTER 1555
143
THE MARTYRDOM OF DR ROWLAND TAYLOR PARISH CLERGYMAN 1555
163
THE MARTYRDOM OF BISHOP RIDLEY AND BISHOP LATIMER 1555
179
THE MARTYRDOM OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER 1556
215
THE FIRES OF SMITHFIELD 14101556
239
Disputation of Dr Martin Luther Concerning Penitence and Indulgences
401
KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND FROM 1327 TO 1603
413
Colleges of Cambridge University Founded from 1284 to 1596
415
Colleges of Oxford University Founded from 1249 to 1571
416
Roman Catholic Popes from 1000 to 1600
417
APPENDIX F
421
INDEX
427
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About the author (2001)

John Foxe (1516-1587), born at Boston, Lincolnshire, England, was a devout and scholarly boy. He attended Brasenose College, Oxford and then Magdalen College where he held a fellowship for seven years. While a student, Foxe became known for his scholarly wisdom and piety and could have led a quiet and successful life; becoming aware of certain spiritual truths, however, Foxe embraced Protestantism. In 1545, he resigned his fellowship at the university and become a tutor for the Lucy family of Warwickshire. Shortly thereafter, he married Agnes Randall of Conventry. John Foxe worked for the Reformation, writing tracts and beginning his famous history of the persecutions and martyrdoms in England from John Wycliffe through the early 1500s. When staunch Roman Catholic Queen Mary took the throne in 1553, Foxe and his family fled England for the continent in fear for their lives. There he continued working on his manuscript, which was eventually published in 1563 as The Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days. Foxe continued laboring on his work until his death in 1587.

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