Fox's Book Of Martyrs

by Fox, Stanford, Forbush

Synopsis: This is a book that will never die--one of the great Christian classics. Written with passion and tenderness, it tells the dramatic, true stories of men, women, and children who, in the face of indescribable persecution, gave their lives for the sake of Christ. Covering the broad sweep of church history from the early church to the beginning of American foreign missions in the early 1800s, Fox's Book of Martyrs continues to inspire and strengthen countless Christians with a vision of faith that, both in life and in death, commits itself utterly to the Lord of Life.

Presented here in its most complete form, this book brings to life days when "a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid . . . climbed the steep ascent of heaven amid peril, toil, and pain."

Note:The original Book of Martyrs was published in 1593.  Since that time, the editors of this edition have added other stories of "latter-day martyrs" from the 17th to the 19th century. 370 pages, paperback. Contents:

• Sketch of the Author
• History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecution Under Nero
• The Ten Primitive Persecutions
• Persecutions of the Christians in Persia
• Papal Persecutions
• An Account of the Inquisition
• An Account of the Persecutions in Italy Under the Papacy
• An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wycliffe
• An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy
• An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
• General Persecutions in Germany
• An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
• The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
• An Account of the Life of John Calvin
• An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland, Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I
• An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of Henry VIII
• Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
• Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; With an Account of the Barbarous Massacres of 1641
• The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers
• An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
• An Account of the Life of John Wesley
• Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820
• The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions

370 pages. Paperback.