Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by Foxe, John

• ISBN13: 9780882708751
• ISBN10: 0882708759
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Bridge Logos Fndtn

Summary

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. This updated edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs, contains stories of persecution up to 2001. 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Foreword	xv
Section I - The First Sixteen Centuries
The First Christian Martyrs	3	(8)
The beginning of General Persecutions Against the Church (A.D.54-304)	11	(28)
Constantine the Great (Emperor of Rome: A.D.306-337)	39	(8)
Persecutions During the Thousand Years of General Peace (About A.D. 320-A.D. 1079)	47	(8)
Papal Persecutions and the Inquisition (1208-1834)	55	(12)
Work and Persecution of John Wycliffe (About 1377-1384)	67	(12)
Persecution and Martyrdom of John Huss (1415)	79	(8)
Persecution and Martyrdom of Jerome of Prague (1416)	87	(6)
Persecutions in England (1401-1541)	93	(14)
Persecutions in Scotland (1527-1558)	107	(14)
The Martyrdom of William Tyndale (1536), John Frith, and Andrew Hewet (1533)	121	(18)
Work and Persecution of Martin Luther (1517-1546)	139	(18)
The Martyrdom of John Hooper, Bishop of Worchester (1555)	157	(22)
The Martyrdom of Dr. Rowland Taylor, Parish Clergyman (1555)	179	(16)
The Martyrdom of Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer (1555)	195	(24)
The Maryrdom of Archbishop Cranmer (1556)	219	(24)
The Fires of Smithfield (1410-1556)	243	(16)
The Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre (1572)	259	(16)
Section II - The Next Three Centuries
Persecution of Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Margaret Wilson, Madame Jeanne Guyon, and Miguel de Molinos	275	(34)
Persecution of Donald Cargill, John Bunyan George Fox, William Carey, and Robert Thomas	309	(14)
Section III - Modern Martyrs
Martyrs Today - The Past Century	323	(56)
Martyrs Today - This Century	379	(18)
Appendix A: Word Changes and Definitions	397	(12)
Appendix B: Disputation of Dr. Martin Luther Concerning Penitence and Indulgences	409	(8)
Appendix C: Kings and Queens of England from 1327 to 1603	417	(2)
Appendix D: Colleges of Cambridge University Founded from 1284 to 1596	419	(2)
Colleges of Oxford University Founded from 1249 to 1571	420	(1)
Appendix E: Roman Catholic Popes from 1000-1600	421	(4)
Appendix F: Organizations	425	(6)
Index	431