BOOK of by John Foxe

Edited by William Byron Forbush

[Note that this edition, edited by William Byron Forbush, has had material deleted and other material added compared to the original.]

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 —

About the book and the author
Chapter 1 -- History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero
Chapter 2 -- The Ten Primitive Persecutions
Chapter 3 -- Persecutions of the Christians in Persia
Chapter 4 -- Papal Persecutions
Chapter 5 -- An Account of the Inquisition
Chapter 6 -- An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy
Chapter 7 -- An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe
Chapter 8 -- An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy
Chapter 9 -- An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
Chapter 10 -- General Persecutions in Germany
Chapter 11 -- An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
Chapter 12 -- The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
Chapter 13 -- An Account of the Life of John Calvin
Chapter 14 -- Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I
Chapter 15 -- An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII
Chapter 16 -- Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
Chapter 17 -- Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641
Chapter 18 -- The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers
Chapter 19 -- An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
Chapter 20 -- An Account of the Life of John Wesley
Chapter 21 -- Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820
Chapter 22 -- The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions