This is a book that will never die -- one of the great English classics.
. . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days
when "a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid," "climbed the
steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain."
"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
Chapter
I -- History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions
Under Nero
Chapter
II -- The Ten Primitive Persecutions
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