FOXE's BOOK of MARTYRS

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"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
•             The First Persecution, Under Nero, AD 67
•             The Second Persecution, Under Domitian, AD 81
•             The Third Persecution, Under Trajan, AD 108
•             The Fourth Persecution, Under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, AD 162
•             The Fifth Persecution, Commencing with Severus, AD 192
•             The Sixth Persecution, Under Maximus, AD 235
•             The Seventh Persecution, Under Decius, AD 249
•             The Eighth Persecution, Under Valerian, AD 257
•             The Ninth Persecution, Under Aurelian, AD 274
•             The Tenth Persecution, Under Diocletian, AD 303
• 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