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Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant / Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

John Foxe

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 669 pages

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a historical account of Christian persecution, focusing on Protestant martyrs from early Christianity through later periods. Compiled and expanded from John Foxe's original work, it recounts lives, sufferings, and deaths of those persecuted for their faith. It offers a window into the religious conflicts and the convictions that shaped Protestant history.

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FOX'S
BOOK OF MARTYRS
OR
A HISTORY OF THE
LIVES, SUFFERINGS, AND TRIUMPHANT DEATHS
OF THE
PRIMITIVE PROTESTANT MARTYRS
FROM THE
INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY
TO THE
LATEST PERIODS OF PAGAN, POPISH, AND
INFIDEL
PERSECUTIONS
EMBRACING, TOGETHER WITH THE USUAL SUBJECTS
CONTAINED
IN SIMILAR WORKS
The recent persecutions in the cantons of
Switzerland; and the
persecutions of the Methodist and Baptist
Missionaries in the
West India Islands; and the narrative of the
conversion,
capture, long imprisonment, and cruel
sufferings
of Asaad Shidiak, a native of Palestine.
LIKEWISE
A SKETCH OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
AS CONNECTED WITH PERSECUTION
COMPILED FROM FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS, AND
OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES

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Contents

  1. FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
  2. PRIMITIVE PROTESTANT MARTYRS
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. BOOK OF MARTYRS
  6. CHAPTER I.
  7. CHAPTER II.
  8. CHAPTER III.
  9. CHAPTER IV.
  10. CHAPTER V.
  11. CHAPTER VI.
  12. CHAPTER VII.
  13. CHAPTER VIII.
  14. CHAPTER IX.
  15. CHAPTER X.
  16. CHAPTER XI.
  17. CHAPTER XII.
  18. CHAPTER XII.
  19. CHAPTER XIV.
  20. CHAPTER XV.
  21. CHAPTER XVI.
  22. CHAPTER XVII.
  23. CHAPTER XVIII.
  24. CHAPTER IX.
  25. CHAPTER XX.
  26. CHAPTER XXI.
  27. CHAPTER XXII.
  28. CHAPTER XXIII.
  29. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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