Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe

Publisher:

Thomas Nelson

, 2000

ISBN: 9781418512446

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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is a record of the Protestant martyrs, beginning with Stephen and ending during the reign of Queen Mary. Foxe was an educated martyrologist and was, himself, on the run from persecution for a period of his life. This collection of stories is an inspirational volume of the power of faith.

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Offers accounts of the lives of various Protestant martyrs
Provides a brief biography of John Foxe
Includes a timeline of John Foxe’s life

The First Persecutions
The Ten Primitive Persecutions
An Account of the Inquisition
An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe
An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
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 Scotland During the Reign of King Henry the Eighth
Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
An Account of the Life of John Wesley
An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
The Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom of John Huss, Who Was Burnt at Constance in Germany
Account of the Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom of Jerome of Prague, Who Was Burnt at Constance in Germany for Maintaining the Doctrine of Wickliffe
Containing Interesting Particulars of the Persecution of Protestants in Different Foreign Countries
The Life and Martyrdom of John Hooper, Bishop of Worchester and Gloucester
The Life and Martyrdom of Dr. Rowland Taylor
The Life and Martyrdom of John Bradford, Who Together with John Leaf Was Burned in Smithfield
History and Martyrdom of Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer
An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
The Life, State and Martyrdom of the Reverend Pastor and Prelate, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Containing Farther Accounts of the Persecutions in Various Parts
Anecdotes and Sayings of the Martyrs

Top Highlights

“Timothy was the celebrated disciple of St. Paul, and bishop of Ephesus, where he zealously governed the Church until a.d. 97. At this period, as the pagans were about to celebrate a feast called Catagogion, Timothy, meeting the procession, severely reproved them for their ridiculous idolatry, which so exasperated the people that they fell upon him with their clubs, and beat him in so dreadful a manner that he expired of the bruises two days later.” (source)

“When Wickliffe recovered, he set about a most important work, the translation of the Bible into English.” (source)

“Dionysius, the Areopagite, was an Athenian by birth, and educated in all the useful and ornamental literature of Greece. He then travelled to Egypt to study astronomy, and made very particular observations on the great and supernatural eclipse, which happened at the time of our Savior’s crucifixion.” (source)

“Mr. Latimer to say: ‘Be of good cheer, Ridley; and play the man. We shall this day, by God’s grace, light up such a candle in England, as I trust, will never be put out.’” (source)

“related to Christ himself; for his mother Salome was cousin to the Virgin Mary.” (source)

John Foxe (1516–1587) was an English historian and martyrologist. In 1531, he joined the Reformers and acted as tutor to the children of the recently beheaded Earl of Surrey. He was educated at Brasnose College, Oxford, in 1532 and became a probationer fellow of Magdalen College in 1538. In 1545, Foxe resigned his fellowship at the University because of Protestant beliefs and became a tutor for the Lucy family in Warwickshire. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Nicholas Ridley in 1550 and became the first to preach Protestantism at Reigate in 1551. In 1553, when Mary I becomes Queen of England, he flees to the Continent and then returns to England in 1559. He was ordained by Grindal, bishop of London, as an Anglican priest in 1560. Foxe died at the age of 71 and was interred at St. Giles, Cripplegate, in 1587.