Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe

Publisher:

Thomas Nelson

, 2000

Overview

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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Key Features

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

Contents

• 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)

Product Details

• Title: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
• Author: John Foxe
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Print Publication Date: 2000
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian martyrs › Biography; Persecution › History; Church history; Christian martyrs › Great Britain--Biography; Persecution › Great Britain--History; Great Britain › Church
• ISBNs: 9781418512446, 9780785242628, 9780785242635, 1418512443, 0785242627, 0785242635
• Resource ID: LLS:60.0.1
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:37:55Z

About John Foxe

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.