The New Foxe's Book of MartyrsWould 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 |
Contents
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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 |
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