Chapter Ii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER II THE TEN PRIMITIVE PERSECUTIONS THE FIRST PERSECUTION, UNDER NERO, A.D. 67 The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. This monarch reigned for the space of five years, with...
Chapter Vii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER VII AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND PERSECUTIONS OF JOHN WICKLIFFE It will not be inappropriate to devote a few pages of this work to a brief detail of the lives of some of those men who first stepped forward, regardless of the bigoted power...
Chapter Xiv : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XIV AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, PRIOR TO THE REIGN OF QUEEN MARY I Gildas, the most ancient British writer extant, who lived about the time that the Saxons left the island of Great Britain, has drawn a most...
Chapter Xii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XII The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, WILLIAM TYNDALE We have now to enter into the story of the good martyr of God, William Tyndale; which William Tyndale, as he was a special organ of the Lord appointed...
Chapter Iii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER III PERSECUTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's...
Chapter Xviii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XVIII THE RISE, PROGRESS, PERSECUTIONS, AND SUFFERINGS OF THE QUAKERS In treating of these people in a historical manner, we are obliged to have recourse to much tenderness. That they differ from the generality of Protestants in some...
Chapter Xvii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XVII RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE PROTESTANT RELIGION IN IRELAND; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BARBAROUS MASSACRE OF 1641 The gloom of popery had overshadowed Ireland from its first establishment there until the reign of Henry VIII when the rays...
Chapter Xv : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XV AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN SCOTLAND DURING THE REIGN OF KING HENRY VIII Like as there was no place, either of Germany, Italy, or France, wherein there were not some branches sprung out of that most fruitful root of Luther; so...
Chapter I : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS CHAPTER I HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS TO THE FIRST GENERAL PERSECUTIONS UNDER NERO Christ our Savior, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, hearing the confession of Simon Peter, who, first of all other, openly acknowledged Him to be...
Chapter Viii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER VIII AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN BOHEMIA UNDER THE PAPACY The Roman pontiffs having usurped a power over several churches were particularly severe on the Bohemians, which occasioned them to send two ministers and four lay-brothers...
Chapter Xxii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XXII THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN MISSIONS Samuel J. Mills, when a student in Williams College, gathered about him a group of fellow students, all feeling the burden of the great heathen world. One day in 1806 four of them, overtaken...
Chapter Xiii : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XIII AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF JOHN CALVIN This reformer was born at Noyon in Picardy, July 10, 1509. He was instructed in grammar, learning at Paris under Maturinus Corderius, and studied philosophy in the College of Montaign under...
Chapter Vi : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER VI AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN ITALY, UNDER THE PAPACY We shall now enter on an account of the persecutions in Italy, a country which has been, and still is, * 1. The center of popery. * 2. The seat of the pontiff. * 3. The source...
Chapter Xx : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XX AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF JOHN WESLEY John Wesley was born on the seventeenth of June, 1703, in Epworth rectory, England, the fifteenth of nineteen children of Charles and Suzanna Wesley. The father of Wesley was a preacher, and Wesley's...
Chapter Xvi : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XVI PERSECUTIONS IN ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN MARY The premature death of that celebrated young monarch, Edward VI, occasioned the most extraordinary and wonderful occurrences, which had ever existed from the times of our blessed...
Chapter X : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER X GENERAL PERSECUTIONS IN GERMANY The general persecutions in Germany were principally occasioned by the doctrines and ministry of Martin Luther. Indeed, the pope was so terrified at the success of that courageous reformer, that he...
Chapter Xi : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XI AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS The light of the Gospel having successfully spread over the Netherlands, the pope instigated the emperor to commence a persecution against the Protestants; when many thousand fell martyrs...
Chapter V : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER V AN ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION When the reformed religion began to diffuse the Gospel light throughout Europe, Pope Innocent III entertained great fear for the Romish Church. He accordingly instituted a number of inquisitors, or persons...
Chapter Xxi : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XXI PERSECUTIONS OF THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, DURING THE YEARS 1814 AND 1820 The persecution in this Protestant part of France continued with very little intermission from the revocation of the edict of Nantes, by Louis...
Chapter Xix : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER XIX AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND PERSECUTIONS OF JOHN BUNYAN This great Puritan was born the same year that the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. His home was Elstow, near Bedford, in England. His father was a tinker and he was brought up...
Chapter Ix : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER IX AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND PERSECUTIONS OF MARTIN LUTHER This illustrious German divine and reformer of the Church was the son of John Luther and Margaret Ziegler, and born at Isleben, a town of Saxony, in the county of Mansfield...
Chapter Iv : * "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", by John Foxe, [1848], CHAPTER IV PAPAL PERSECUTIONS Thus far our history of persecution has been confined principally to the pagan world. We come now to a period when persecution, under the guise of Christianity, committed more enormities than ever disgraced the annals...
