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FOXS BOOK OF MARTYRS- A HISTORY OF THE LIVES, SUFFERINGS AND TRIUMPHANT
DEATHS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN AND THE PROTESTANT MARTYRS Edited by
WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH. Originally published in 1926. FOXS BOOK OF
MARTYRS: When one recollects that until the appearance of the Pilgrims
Progress the common people had almost no other reading matter except the
Bible and Foxs Book of Martyrs, we can understand the deep impression
that this book produced and how it served to mold the national
character. Those who could read for themselves learned the full details
of all the atrocities performed on the Protes tant reformers the
illiterate could see the rude illustrations of the various instruments
of torture, the rack, the gridiron, the boiling oil, and then the holy
ones breathing out their souls amid the flames. Take a people just
awakening to a new intellectual and religious life let several
generations of them, from childhood to old age, pore over such a book,
and its stories become traditions as individual and almost as potent as
songs and customs on a nations life DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, The Puritan in
Holland, England, and America. c If we divest the book of its accidental
character of feud between churches, it yet stands, in the first years of
Elizabeths reign, a mon ument that marks the growing strength of a
desire for spiritual freedom, defiance of those forms that seek to
stifle conscience and fetter thought HENRY MORLEY, English Writers.
After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced
early-Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our own 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. JAMES MILLER DODDS, English Prose. Contents
include: SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR ix-xiv CHAPTER PAGE I HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN
MARTYRS TO THE FIRST GENERAL PERSECUTION UNDER NERO The Glorious Company
of the Apostles .... 1-II THE TEN PRIMITIVE PERSECUTIONS Nero Burns
Christians in the Imperial Gardens Ignatius, The Wheat of Christ
Polycarp Re fuses to Deny Christ The Beheading of Justin, Martyr
Christians in the Catacombs Origen Suffers by Fire Saint Lawrences Bed
of Iron Sebastian is Pierced with Arrows 5 III PERSECUTIONS OF THE
CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA The Emperor Constantine Protests The Fury of Julian
the Apostate The Goths and Vandals The Last Roman Triumph The Noble
Gothic Prince The Sacrificing of Boniface Bishop Alphege Defends
Canterbury 33 IV PAPAL PERSECUTIONS Persecutions of the Brave Waldenses
The Pope Wars against the Albigenses The Massacres of Saint Bartholomew
Sufferings after the Revoca tion of the Edict of Nantes Martyrdom of
John Galas 43 V AN ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION The Fierce Zeal of Dominic
The Hounds of the Lord A Typical Inquisitory The Cruel Handling of
Nicholas Burton Some Private Enormities of the Inquisition The
Persecution of Dr. JEgidio The Tormenting of Dr. Gardiner The Sufferings
of William Lithgow The Story of Galileo Summary of the Inquisition ...
60 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE VI AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN ITALY
UNDER THE PAPACY The Courageous End of Arnold of Brescia Hounding of
Calabrian Peasants Extermina tions at St. Xist Persecutions in the
Valleys of Piedmont Remarkable Individuals who were Martyred The
Piedmontese War Persecutions of Michael de Molinos of the Quiet Life
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